~BOOKS BY LYNDA S. BURCH~
If your child loves trains, this is a great TRAIN BOOK! Picture your child's own name on the cover and every spread. Send us personal pictures of your kids to insert in the book to personalize it even more. You can personalize a 40 page E-book with 20 colorful train photos, pictographs, graphics, picture seek & find and more! By including names of friends, relatives, and pets the books becomes a treasure for your child to enjoy.
E-mail us photos of your kids playing with their trains or train visits and we will put them in their personal books. Each book is unique for your child. If you do not have photos we can still make a book with your child's name. If you only have one picture (example: a school head shot) we can still incorporate it in many pictures. Pictures may be sent after scanning and in digitized formats (JPEG, TIFF only. Maximum sizes 4x6 inches 300 resolution.)
This Personal E-Book comes in a fun Flip format for your computer. It comes on a CD ready for installing on your computers. Or you may purchase a DOWNLOAD.
THE NEW ALPHABET SONG BY LYNDA S. BURCH
The New Alphabet SongBook is a fun and easy to learn picture songbook featuring original music, great pictures of fun animals and kids activities, some sign language signs, and alphabetic hidden clue items children can find to match to the alphabet letters. Combine learning with the new alphabet song! (40 pages)
WICKY WACKY THINGS THAT GO! TRAINS 1
Wicky Wackys are a series of musical e-books, by Lynda S. Burch, about devices that make us GO! The Wicky Wacky series has 30 books with machines that get us moving and grooving! If your kids like trains, planes, boats, cars and such- you’ll find plenty of musical action! Each book also has a SEEK & FIND section to interact with kids! Each book has 12 beautiful landscape musical double e-pages to delight young and old!
*TRAINS 1 shares train action with Amtrak passenger trains, freighters, old and clunky trains!
WHETHER OR NOT FALL BY LYNDA S. BURCH
Fall is a beautiful time of year to share with kids. Make sure to make it fun for them. Weather or Not! FALL Musical E-Picture Book will teach them to relate the seasons to the weather and what to expect. Sing with them and share the photos of fall. Answer the questions with them - Where do the leaves come from? What time of year is when pumpkins and farmers tractors are bringing in the harvest? What yellow face lights the night? And always remember in the fun verse to WATCH FOR MONKEYS!
WEATHER OR NOT SPRING BY LYNDA S. BURCH
Teach and have fun at the same time! Little ones love music, so park them in your lap and share the fun of learning and thinking with preschool age and toddlers. The Weather or Not! SPRING Musical E-Picture Book Series teaches the season in a new way through music, lyrics and real time photos. They will learn the answers to how do clouds move in the sky? What makes water splash on top of me? What makes grass green and flowers grow? Don't forget the fun verse with your child's name in it! And please remember to STAY AWAY FROM MONKEYS!!!
WEATHER OR NOT! SUMMER BY LYNDA S. BURCH
Lynda has created a brand spanking new genre of children's books. She writes and illustrates or photographs dozens of children's musical e-picture books (soon to be published). They are an avenue for families and educators to play on the computer with children. Each book teaches, explores and challenges the children to think in such a playful and fun manner that children eagerly learn and grasp the concepts. Every book (unless it is part of a series) has its own original music and lyrics to tell a story through words, pictures and music.
Parents, grandparents, siblings, teachers and day care workers can share with preschool and primary children the fun and learning activities through music, pictures and song. The musical ebooks can be used as entertainment for school, families, lullabies, learning, safety, and just good old knee slappin' fun!
Her kids' books share real time photography credits with an award winning photojournalist from southern California, MarySue Roberts.
WEATHER OR NOT! WINTER BY LYNDA S. BURCH
Winter is a time to find indoor fun with your children. Entertaining them can be a learning activity combined with the pleasure of song. Weather or Not! WINTER, part of Musical E-Picture Book Series teaches preschool and primary age children to think and relate the weather to the seasons of the year by song and answer the questions- Where do the icicles go? Where do snowflakes come from? And the most exciting what do groundhog/ prairie dogs see? Sing and have fun with the last verse but be sure to BEWARE OF MONKEYS!
ZOOM ZOOM ZOOM COME COUNT WITH ME! BY LYNDA S. BURCH
Teach a toddler or preschooler to count with the musical interaction of this ZOOM book with clap, snap, meows and more. Using action & fun pictures and colorful numbers to teach. 32 beautiful e-pages of musical interaction & fun! Seek & Find page too!
~BOOKS BY MARGOT FINKE~
PURCHASE any of her books HERE
Margot Finke’s 6 book rhyming series of fun, educational picture books, tells kids about animals in
Picture Book Titles are as follows:
“Kangaroo Clues” – “Never Say BOO to a Frilly” and other rhymes – “Don’t Eat Platypus Stew” and other Aussie rhymes – “Mama Grizzly Bear” – “Prairie Dog’s Play Day” and other rhymes – and “Humdinger Hummers”
If you would like Margot to visit your school, go to her School Visits page. Her website also offers a Manuscript Critique service, and lots of help for children’s writers.
HUMDINGER HUMMERS BY MARGOT FINKE
KANGAROO CLUES BY MARGOT FINKE
PRAIRIE DOG'S PLAYDAY BY MARGOT FINKE
MAMA GRIZZLY BEAR BY MARGOT FINKE
NEVER SAY "BOO" TO A FRILLY AND OTHER RHYMES BY MARGOT FINKE
~BOOKS BY MARILYN PEAKE~
THE FISHERMAN'S SON BY MARILYN PEAKE
THE FISHERMAN'S SON is a children's novel filled with fantasy, adventure and the heroic qualities of a brave, young boy. At the same time, it includes accurate and beautiful descriptions of life under the ocean, villages similar to those of real nineteenth century island villages, and cities similar to those of ancient Greece and Rome. Part of the book is based on research accounts of what may have happened to Atlantis if it once existed.
The main character is a twelve-year-old boy named Wiley O'Mara. He lives on an island far up north where it is very cold, around the beginning of the nineteenth century. The island scenery and culture in some ways resemble that of Ireland around the same time. After meeting a dolphin who allows him to swim underwater, Wiley takes part in an extraordinary adventure through which he and the dolphin accomplish an incredible rescue mission. Along the way, Wiley and his friend encounter both real and imaginary creatures - the real fish, dolphins, coral reefs and changing depths of the North Atlantic Ocean, as well as imaginary creatures in the island forest and ocean depths surrounding Wiley's home.
Review of The Fisherman's Son Trilogy by Dr. Hugh Rosen:
Anyone who enters the portal of this amazing trilogy must be prepared to confront mystery, adventure, magic, illusion, and possibility. Yet, what one might not anticipate from this comment is that although the books are shrouded in fantasy, they contain embedded within them truths that young readers can apply to their own lives, continuing on throughout adulthood...
Here is what PIERS ANTHONY had to say about The Fisherman's Son by Marilyn Peake:
Now I have read The Fisherman's Son. This is a nice children's fantasy, grounded in realism. Even the fantastic element is realistic, in that the dolphin doesn't abridge the rules just for convenience; the right introduction has to be made. It's not all right to make the excuse "I lost the cup because of a bear."
- PIERS ANTHONY, author of the Xanth series, the Incarnations of Immortality series, the Adept series, and so much more! Visit the website of PIERS ANTHONY at: http://www.hipiers.com.
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THE CITY OF THE GOLDEN SUN BY MARILYN PEAKE
The City of the Golden Sun is the sequel to the well-received children’s fantasy adventure novel, The Fisherman’s Son. In the first book, the main character, Wiley O’Mara, rescued six boys trapped in an ancient city submerged beneath the ocean. Now he and the other boys return to The City of the Golden Sun. Once there, Wiley takes a backseat to Keegan, the son of King Reginauld, and to the magnificence of the ancient city itself. Wiley and his friends immerse themselves in the daily life of the city, so that both Wiley and the reader can truly experience The City of the Golden Sun. In the third book, it will be up to Wiley and the boys to bring news of this ancient culture to the now impoverished island.
The fictional city is based on extensive research into ancient Greece and Rome, theories about a possible Atlantis, and Ireland. The City of the Golden Sun includes elements of all these places, and much more.
Review by Beverly J. Rowe for MyShelf.com:
...The City of the Golden Sun is a magnificent fantasy, coupled with exciting adventure that will keep your pre-teen reading. Peake's extensive research shows in this wonderful rendition of the Atlantis theory and it will fuel the imagination of its young readers.
This series would be great for family read-aloud time. Everyone will want to participate.
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Return of the Golden Age is the third book in The Fisherman’s Son Trilogy.
In Return of the Golden Age, Wiley O’Mara travels with six boys from the magnificent ancient city submerged beneath the ocean to his own impoverished island.
The boys, having been protected for thousands of years by a magical air bubble, must now adjust to life in a poor village at the turn of the nineteenth century. Wiley must help them to survive. He must also help the villagers to understand their heritage – that they are descendants of a rich and powerful people. This book is filled with magical beings and places, including golden rings and a mysterious cave.
Review by K.L.Nappier Author of “Voyagers” and Award Winning “Full Wolf Moon”:
As with “The Fisherman’s Son” and “The City of the Golden Sun,” this novel favors ages eight to twelve in its simple, concise reading style. But, again, there are just enough new words to expand young minds. Ms. Peake deserves a Five Star rating for creating a trilogy easy to read, that encourages healthy fantasy and a desire in young readers to learn.
TATO (A CHILDREN'S FANTASY ADVENTURE) BY KATHE GOGOLEWSKI
Children entertain a natural thirst for recognition and dream of being heroes and heroines. TATO, a fantasy/adventure for upper elementary readers, captures their imaginations by recognizing a child's desire to earn the admiration of the adults closest to him or her. The story casts Michael Tate, an inventive and willful boy, and his bossy older sister, Nicole, into a strange world filled with mirrors where they must rescue their parents from the evil power that rules the realm.
Michael's trouble begins with the passing of his grandfather and best friend, Gankum. Rebuffed by his family when he insists that Gankum now lives in his closet, he confides in his grandfather's spirit that he wants someone new to love him. When he learns the secrets for creating a baby brother by soaking a potato in a magic formula, he jumps at the chance.
He botches the formula, however, and instead of a brother, two creatures are spawned: One, soulless and desperate, kidnaps Michael’s parents. The other, Tato, part human, part potato yet irrepressibly warm and affectionate, accompanies Michael and Nicole in their quest to find and free their parents. Danger and treachery greet them every step of the way. Children will be enchanted by this tale of a young boy who acquires magical powers that get him both in and out of trouble.
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