I'm delighted to welcome Cheryl Carpinello to the blog today as part of the blog tour for GRANDMA'S & GRANDPA'S TALES, the exciting new children's picture book series.
Cheryl Carpinello taught high school English for 25 years. During that time, she worked with numerous students who didn’t like to read for a variety of reasons. However, she discovered that even the most reluctant readers became engaged in the classroom and in reading when she introduced units on King Arthur and the works of ancient world writers. Upon retiring, she set out to write fast-paced, action-filled stories in these setting to encourage young readers to read more. Her success with readers aged 8-16 led her to reach out to the youngest of readers and those readers just starting out. Revising stories she had written for her own children, she created Grandma/Grandpa’s Tales for ages 4-7. Her four grandchildren’s conversations created the stories in Book 3 of this series.
10 Things You Might Not Know About Grandma's & Grandpa's Tales
1. Each of these picture books take
close to year to publish. That’s about how long it takes me to refine the text,
find the images, have the artist draw those, and do the cover and the layout.
2. After doing the covers for Books
1 & 2, my cover designer was unable to do Book 3’s cover.
3. I reached out to another
designer in England whom I had used before. She was swamped, but her artistic
husband stepped up and did Book 3’s cover. He did a fantastic job, don’t you
think?
4. I wrote the stories for Book 1
almost 20 years before publishing them.
5. The Book 2 stories were written
nearly 15 years before publishing them.
6. I wrote The Not Too Stubborn Humpback Whale on the balcony of my Maui hotel
room. I couldn’t see the whales, so I decided to create a story where one
Humpback would stay around in the summer so that I could see it.
7. Ideas for the stories in Book 3
came straight from my grandkids. They are such inspirations!
8. I originally published Books 1 &
2 as Grandma’s Tales. When a
gentleman was looking at the books, he told me that he wasn’t a grandma. Two
weeks later Grandpa’s Tales was born!
9. I’ve had grown kids pick up Grandma/Grandpa’s Tales for older
grandparents with memory problems to read since the stories are short and
illustrated.
10. Many of my former students have supported my writing by buying my books for their kids.
(Series)
Grandma and Grandpa’s Tales books 1-3 encourage early readers with fun stories incorporating difference aspects of nature. Book 1, Wild Creatures In My Neighborhood and What if I Went to the Circus, explores the wildlife around neighborhoods and introduces decision-making. Book 2, Singers of Songs and The Not Too Stubborn Humpback, explores a common, but not so common insect, and lets readers see that being stubborn isn’t always good. Book 3, Vampires in the Backyard and A Fish Tale, introduces readers to an extended metaphor and lets them decide if the fish story is real.
Book Information
Release Date: Grandma’s Tales #1 (2016), Grandma’s Tales #2 (2018), Grandma’s Tales #3 (2021), Grandpa’s Tales #1 (2016), Grandpa’s Tales #2 (2018), Grandpa’s Tales #3 (2021)
Publisher: Silver Quill Publishing
Soft Cover: Grandma’s Tales #1 – 39 pages; $9.99
Grandma’s Tales #2 – 66 pages; $13.99
Grandma’s Tales #3 – 64 pages; $14.99
Grandpa’s Tales #1 – 39 pages; $9.99
Grandpa’s Tales #2 – 66 pages; $13.99
Grandpa’s Tales #3 – 64 pages; $14.99
Amazon Ma 1: https://amzn.to/3374bEX
Amazon Pa 1: https://amzn.to/3uHMKpA
Amazon Ma 2: https://amzn.to/3Jan0X5
Amazon Pa 2: https://amzn.to/34HGt2g
Amazon Ma 3: https://amzn.to/3wELnJj
Amazon Pa 3: https://amzn.to/3GyXTLJ
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