We are excited to announce that the all-ages adventure book, The Tall Tales of Talbot Toluca – Quest For The Ore Crystals, is the recipient of a 2014 Moonbeam Children’s Award. The kickstarter funded project combines the fun visual style of comics with interactive puzzles and games, resulting in an all out adventure for all ages. Now available for purchase via our online shop and also on Amazon.com
Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards Results
“Celebrating Youthful Curiosity, Discovery and Learning through Books and Learning”
Jenkins Group is proud to announce the winners of the 2014 Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards. Launched in 2007, the awards are intended to bring increased recognition to exemplary children’s books and their creators, and to celebrate children’s books and life-long reading. Congratulations to all the winners!
This year’s Moonbeam Awards medal ceremony will be held in conjunction with the 5th annual Traverse City Children’s Book Festival, on Saturday, November 8, 2014.
Listed below are the Moonbeam Spirit Award winners, followed by the seventh annual 2014 Moonbeam Awards results, listed by category, and Ebook category winners.
Creating books that inspire our children to read, to learn, and to dream is an extremely important task, and these awards were conceived to reward those efforts. Each year’s entries are judged by expert panels of youth educators, librarians, booksellers, and book reviewers of all ages. Award recipients receive gold, silver and bronze medals and stickers depicting a mother and child reading and silhouetted by a full moon.
Congratulations to all the winners!
http://www.independentpublisher.com/article.php?page=1862
A new take on the old-school activity of paper dolls, this imaginative and fanciful book will enchant your child for hours on end.
Click here to read my full review.
Candy Construction
written by Sharon Bowers
Storey Publishing, 2010
cookbook
Candy Construction’s author, Sharon Bowers, producer at the Food Network and food writer, gives us fun ways to build things like race cars, helicopters, pirate ships, castles, board games, aliens, Easter chicks, Christmas trees and more.
Preview Candy Construction here.
Click here for the photo and recipe to Nutter Butter Turkeys.
Aren’t the photographs are enticing? So are the recipes! Use this book for birthday parties, winter doldrums, or holiday treats.
Today on the Bounding for Books Blog Tour my guest is illustrator and book publisher, Joy Delgado! This book was published by J.O.Y Publishing's Laughing Zebra - Children's Books.
Shari: You have such wonderful ideas for going beyond reading. Tell me about the game you are working on.
Joy: I’m in the process of creating a bilingual board game for 1-3 graders. I’ve taken my V Zoo that’s in the back of “Zooprise Party / Fiesta Zoorpresa” and am using that for the board. I plan on having three different types of cards. They will be Animal Trivia, Act (the child will act out the animal behavior on the card) and Who Am I? (Clues the child will have to figure out which animal has all the traits listed) All the answers to Animal Trivia and Who Am I? will be included in the game in a fun way.
I still have a lot of work to do, but so far I’ve gotten great feed back. When it gets to the serious testing stage, I have a number of schools in Puerto Rico and hopefully will add some schools across the US, to test it.
All the animals at the V Zoo are sworn to secrecy. However, last week I think it was Mori that mentioned it over at the “Zooprise Party / Fiesta Zoorpresa” blog when Zebee was announcing “Zebee’s Summer Zoo Camp.” It’s a virtual summer camp. Your readers can check it out over at the ZPFZ blog.
Shari: Your daughter, Rebekha wrote “Zooprise Party/Fiesta Zoorpresa” and you are the illustrator. Have you always been an artist?
Joy: Heavens no! I did want to be a fashion designer when I was in college, even got my degree in Home Economics with an emphasis in fashion merchandizing and design. However, this was my first attempt at it professionally. I do “paint with fabric” by incorporating machine and hand stitching, appliqué and more. I started creating these about 8 years now.
Shari: What prompted you to illustrate this book yourself?
Joy: I wanted the challenge. It’s something I’ve thought about for several years and wanted to see if I could teach my old brain new tricks. It’s been lots of fun.
Shari: Your illustrations are delightful! Did it take you long to illustrate the book?
Joy: Thank you Shari. My first challenge was teaching myself how to draw on the computer. “Zooprise Party/Fiesta Zoorpresa” is computer generated. I joke and tell friends that if someone asked me to draw Mori or Lito I couldn’t because I did it all on the computer. I’m drawing more now and am able to draw and paint on canvas better than I could when this project started.
Shari: You also published this book. Is this the first book your company has published?
Joy: Actually, I started my company, J.O.Y. Publishing to self publish Bible studies. The first one debuted in 2004, “Miracles of the Gospels” and the second one, “Parables of the Gospels” is almost done. I plan to add more divisions in the future, like craft books and maybe travel books.
Shari: Do you publish other writers?
Thanks Shari for hosting me today. This has been a fun tour.
Joy Delgado
Illustrator and publisher of bilingual children’s books
http://goingbeyondreading.blogspot.com/
It is my pleasure! You have so many ideas for inspiring children I know my readers will be glad to meet you.
Shari
Thank you Shari. It sure keeps me busy but it drives my hubby nuts. He's always telling me I am doing too many things. I tell him God made women multi-taskers.
Joy Delgado
Illustrator and publisher of bilingual children’s books
http://goingbeyondreading.blogspot.com/
Great post! Joy - I can't believe you taught yourself how to illustrate on the computer! I can barely draw a simple lady bug on here without it looking shakey.
It took and still takes practice and patience, but it's sooo much fun!
Joy Delgado
Illustrator and publisher of bilingual children’s books
http://goingbeyondreading.blogspot.com/
Shari, Joy is amazing, right! AND, I can brag that Zebee and I are old friends( smirk!) so there!!
Great fun, mate!
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Try my "RATTKESNAKE JAM" - rhyming fun with Gran, Pa, and the rattlers Pa catches.
Thanks Margot. Zebee says hi and wants to know if you'regoing to participate in 'his' zoo camp? Check it out over at http://www.laughing-zebra-children-books.com/zoocamp.html
It's gonna be lots of fun!
Joy Delgado
Illustrator and publisher of bilingual children’s books
http://goingbeyondreading.blogspot.com/