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About the Author-Karen Sue Wiesner (Cody Knows)
About the Author-Karen Sue Wiesner (Making Good Choices
Series)
About the Author-Linda Derkez
About the
Illustrator-Robert Lee Beers About the
Illustrator-Candace J. Hardy
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Karen was one of two authors inducted into the Children's
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CODY KNOWS
written by Karen Sue Wiesner with Linda Derkez
illustrated by Candace
Hardy
ISBN: 192074147X (electronic)
Children's Picture Book
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CODY KNOWS follows the imagination and adventures of a single day in the life of an Indiana Jones-wanna-be toddler.
About the Author
Karen Sue Wiesner is the children's book pen name of
Karen Wiesner. When asked
why this award-winning, multi-genre author ventured into children's books,
Karen says, "For the
reason I
think most authors write children's stories: My son Cody is an avid lover
of books, like his
parents. I wrote this book for him when he was just a baby, wanting to
immoralize what a unique,
special child he is. Cody looks at the world in an unusual way that I hope
will captivate others as
much as it has my husband and I. Candy's illustrations really bring out the
single-day-of-adventure
we go through living with our son."
For more details about Karen's work, visit: http://www.angelfire.com/stars4/kswiesner/index.html#bio
About the Author
Linda Derkez has always enjoyed writing, especially journaling. The mother of three, she began writing children's stories that would reinforce lessons or values she wanted her children to learn. Linda is the author of two previously published children’s books, including: Caleb’s Missing Whisper & Other Stories and Chip’s Sharing Day. Linda also co-authored Cody Knows with award-winning author (and sister) Karen Wiesner. Linda also enjoys writing children's stories with her husband and her brother-in-law, David Fielding, who illustrated One Large Peanut Butter Sandwich To Go.
Visit Linda's website at http://www.angelfire.com/stars4/kswiesner/linda.html.
About the Illustrator
Candace Hardy lives in Northwest Ohio with her husband, three "nearly grown" children, a dalmation named Katy, two rabbits, and a pigeon (with whom she shares her studio). Although she has studied oil and pastels privately (more years ago than she cares to mention), she currently renders digitally and in colored pencil.
She taught elementary education, hearing impaired children, and later home-schooled her own children, leaving writing and illustrating to be kept "on a back burner". She is excited to now be illustrating for Writers Exchange E-publishing.
Samples of her work may be viewed at http://www.geocities.com/candy_gram47/index.html . Visit Candy's CODY KNOWS page.
Taking Care of Your Things,
Book 2 of the Making Good Choices Series
written by Karen Sue Wiesner
illustrated by Robert Lee Beers
ISBN: 1876962453 (electronic)
Children's Interactive Nonfiction
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Taking Responsibility Builds
Trust,
Book 1 of the Making Good Choices Series
written by Karen Sue Wiesner
illustrated by Robert Lee Beers
ISBN: 1-876962-38-0 (electronic)
Children's Interactive Nonfiction
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Meet Reb Raccoon and the Making Good
Choice Series Kids
The Making Good
Choices Series is an
interactive set of stories and illustrations designed to help parents and
kids understand each other
and to work together toward making good decisions.
For Parents: The Making Good Choices Series is designed
specifically for
preschoolers up to elementary school-aged children. Kids this age are
facing some of the first hard
choices they'll make. Sometimes it's not easy for them to understand what
parents want and why
they want it. In the stories that follow, the kids will make choices on
their own, either good or
not so good, and learn about important concepts that will set the groundwork
for the rest of their
lives. The language throughout is in a simple-to-grasp tone. The stories
are interactive in two
ways:
1) The stories are designed to allow you and your child to
interact together.
Reading the stories, you'll think of many similar incidents you and your
child have faced. Share
those situations and try to get your child to decide whether they made good
choices and how to do so
in the future.
2) Within each story, you'll see highlighted words and
graphics. In the
electronic version of this story, these words are "hot linked." By clicking
on these, you can jump
to another place for further exploring and fun.
For Kids: Being a kid is hard, isn't it? So many things to
do and see, and Mom and
Dad always saying "No" when you want a "Yes." Sometimes it's not easy to
understand your parents.
But when you make good choices, you'll start to understand them a little
more each time. That's
what the Making Good Choices Series is all about. The stories in this book
will help you make sense
of why your parents say "No", why they say "Yes" and how you can hear more
"Yes" from them more
often.
Following each story, kids, you'll get a chance to decide
if the character in the
story made good choices. In the electronic version, click on either "Yes"
or "No" and find out if
you made the best choice.
You'll also find special, fun things tucked into the
stories:
Plant a seed:
Kids, when you see this picture in the electronic book,
click on it and we'll plant
a special seed of understanding.
Gold star:
Kids, when you see Reb's Gold Star, click on it in the
electronic book and we'll do
something extra fun!
(Caleb, Juliette, Anthony, Gabby, Clint, Brent, Jessie, Jacques and
Cody):
About the Author
Karen Sue Wiesner is the children's book pen name of Karen Wiesner. When asked why this award-winning, multi-genre author ventured into children's books, Karen says, "For the reason I think most authors write children's stories: My son Cody is an avid lover of books, like his parents. I wrote this series for him. I liked the idea of combining the 'choose your own adventure' format I used to love as a kid with making it fun for kids to make good choices in the situations they face every day. These stories will also help young children learn to use a computer on their own, given its interactive qualities. Robert's fun, visually appealing illustrations really make the books come to life."
For more details about Karen's work, visit: http://www.angelfire.com/stars4/kswiesner/index.html#bio
Robert Beers http://www.readerseden.com/illustrators.php?illustratorid=8 grew up in the Pacific Northwest. In fact, many of the landscapes he describes in his fantasy THE PROMISED ONES can be found there. He attended Humboldt State University as an art student and for a number of years maintained an active studio in Eureka California, a small port city in the heart of the redwoods.
Robert and his wife and currently live in the Southwest where he works as a computer graphics expert. In his spare time he plays guitar, paints and, of course, writes. Some of Robert's other Writers Exchange E-publishing artwork includes: SU LING'S KITE by Joann Rohr (illustrated picture book), THE LEGEND OF LEJUBE ROGUE by Patricia Lucas White (western), HOTLINE TO HEAVEN by Darrell Bain (romance).
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