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As an educator and writer, I write mostly for very young children.

SOMETHING NEW!

‘Spunky The Little Squawker’ is one of eighteen stories of mine that will appear in a series over the next year. There is a science spark in each story. The collection is called "One Story a Day for Science." The stories are for all young readers and especially children learning English as an additional language.

*Image courtesy of DC Canada Education*

Sneak Peek

My Books

My other published stories are all different – magic goes kaput, fairytale characters take a bath, animals get our help, a magic carpet from long ago gets passed to the next generation , and more…

Books

Sturdy Baby – Sturdy Book

A sturdy baby sitting up needs a sturdy book to ‘read’, maybe chew, and even drool on. Board books are just right for this. Keep cuddling and read together. Touch the pictures. Turn the pages. Talk together. Sing the words. If there’s a rhyme, that’s even better. Looking, listening, singing, talking. On the road to reading. Here baby is reading ‘Little You’ by Richard

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Toddler Reading

By the time your baby is two, if you have been reading for even 15 minutes a day, your child will have logged an amazing number of hours with books and reading. And what have they learned? The foundations of our language, that’s what. An understanding of how books work, the left to right progression of the print, lots of vocabulary, a repertoire of

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The ABBC of Learning to Read

It all starts with A Baby, a Book and a Cuddle. That is all you need to get your baby started on the road to reading. Cuddle that baby, recite nursery rhymes and sing familiar songs. Baby will learn the rhythm of the language. As the months pass, get out that book of nursery rhymes. If you are buying a new book of rhymes,

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