Congratulations to the 2010 Children’s Choice Book Award Winners

The results are in. The Children’s Choice Book Awards  for 2010: www.bookweekonline.com Kindergarten through Second Grade- “Lulu the Big Little Chick” by Paulette Bogan. (Bogan Flats Campground is only 3 miles from my house in Marble, Colorado, and is a very beautiful spot to camp!) And in the 3rd and 4th Grade category, the winner is “Lunchlady and the Cyborg Substitute” by Jarrett J Krosoczka.  The Children’s Choice Book Award is the result of schoolchildren voting for their favorite books from a list of finalists.  Congratulations to Paulette and Jarrett! It’s an honor to have schoolchildren across the nation choose your book as the best in the country!

Making Memories with Books

Here’s a dumb story I heard today:  A kid asked his dad if the dad could teach him how to fish.  So the dad went out and bought the boy a fishing video game. I hope you, the reader, aren’t that kind of parent.  Your kids will be grown and out of the house before you know it. As a co-worker once told me about raising children: “The days go too slow, and the years go too fast.”  Put down some memories that your children and grandchildren can reach back into when you’re gone. Reading to a child is one of the easiest and most memorable ways to do that. You can celebrate National Children’s Book Week www.bookweekonline.com by going to the library and getting some fun or interesting stuff to read. Or you can order my book “Dad the Tooth Fairy Didn’t Come!” at www.jerrybegly.com/tooth

Dentists

Dentists from Aspen to Rifle to Edwards, Colorado have been buying my new book entitled “Dad, the Tooth Fairy Didn’t Come!” (www.jerrybegly.com) .Why dentists? Because they can put the book in their waiting room, or give it to friends or family. One dentist told me that he was going to send the book to his son in Florida because his son is a dentist, and has a son of his own.  So dentists can now celebrate National Children’s Book Week www.bookweekonline.com with their own copies of the book.

National Children’s Book Week

It’s National Children’s Book Week, and I’m celebrating. Why? I have 7 children, and I have a children’s book that I wrote and illustrated, and it’s starting to sell and gain momentum.  Who hoo!
I’ve got copies across the U.S., in England, Brazil, Canada, and even Hong Kong.  You can find the book at www.jerrybegly.com/tooth . I’m about to order the third printing since February, 2010.