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Wednesday, Mar. 23, 2005 | ||
What do you think of this story? | Spring fun at Barnes & Noble this weekend features local authorOn Saturday, Barnes & Noble will be celebrating the first week of spring with an afternoon of fun in our children's department: At 11 a.m., Spot visits Children's Storytime. In 1976, Eric Hill created a story about a small puppy to read to his 2-year old son at bedtime. In 1980, Where's Spot? was published and the rest is history. Enjoy the wonderful world of Spot and take a picture with your favorite pooch during storytime. At 12:30 p.m., you can meet Carol Buckler, author of Feathered Tales From the Barnyard She spent most of her life doing volunteer work, and in her spare time, she was associate editor for a poetry newsletter and editor of Lifeline, a newsletter for the divorced. She is a certified Divorce Minister and Bereavement Minister where she worked one on one with those troubled. She did writing workshops in various places including Peewee Valley Womens Prison in Kentucky as an outsider, not an inmate. When her children were growing up, she wanted to know everything they learned in school each day, not the academic things, but the communication with other kids. They used to come home and tell her all the jokes they heard each day. There were several other young girls in their neighborhood, and they would gather in her backyard and share their jokes. She encouraged this because it allowed her children to open up to her and not be afraid to tell her anything. When she was growing up, discussions about sex were a wash your mouth out with soap experience. When she was with the other parents of neighborhood kids, the parents were always bragging that their kids knew nothing about sex (little did they know). She worked in education several years and has written a childs book Feathered Tales from the Barnyard and coauthored Three Friends and a Book. She is working on a sequel to the first and another called Rosies Café, which deals with people she worked with when she was young. At 1:30 p.m., the children's Easter hunt begins. All ages are welcome to join in the fun. Search for bags full of candy, a few containing a "note" of surprise! | |
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