In celebration of National Picture Book Month and Veteran’s Day:

Give a Military Family a Free Book

11 Ways to Ruin a Photograph book

THE STORY: “11 Ways to Ruin a Photograph”

When her father goes soldiering for a year, a girl decides that without Dad at home, it’s not a family photo album. Though her beloved Nanny is in charge of the album that year, the girl makes sure that photographs of her never turn out well. Photos are blurred, wind blows hair in her face. April rains bring umbrellas to hide behind. Halloween means a mask. This poignant, yet funny family story, expresses a child’s anger and grief for a Dad whose work takes him away for long periods of time. It’s a tribute to the sacrifices made by military families and to those who care for children when a family needs support.

THIS STORY IS A WINNER!

READ THE BOOK!

Darcy Pattison’s story, “11 Ways to Ruin a Photograph” is the winning children’s story. It is a free download at www.takepart.com/thehelp, or download it here (pdf download).

You can also order it for your:

• Kindle
• Nook
• paperback, coming soon

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Read more at www.11WaystoRuinaPhotograph.
PLEASE pass this along to anyone who might know a military family or to anyone in the military that you know.

Goodreads Book Giveaway

Wisdom, the Midway Albatross

by Darcy Pattison

Giveaway ends March 11, 2012.

See the giveaway details at Goodreads.

Enter to win

Revision Notes will be on Spring Break for the next two weeks, with maybe one or two posts in there. In this post, I’m just catching up on some personal things.

Successful Lesson Plans for Picture Books

Lesson Plans for Darcy Pattison’s picture books are available as a free pdf download. Included are over 100 activities for language arts, math, social studies, and art. To date, there have been 873 downloads! Happy reading!

Oliver K. Woodman on Flickr

The Journey of Oliver K. Woodman is coming out in paperback in May. To help celebrate, I’m asking friends to help me launch a Flickr site for Oliver. Why Flickr? Because they have an interactive map! Oliver is often used in schools to teach geography and the map is a perfect tool for that.

Here’s how you can help me out:

• Please download the Lesson Plans above and make an Oliver (and his friend Imogene, if you have time).
• Take a digital photograph of yourself with Oliver. If you can include in the photo something unique about your area, that would be great. Terrie from Florida took her picture at the beach. Karen from Arizona took her picture in front of a huge cactus (Thanks, y’all!)
• Join the Oliver K. Woodman Flickr group at http://www.flickr.com/groups/oliverkwoodman/.
• Upload the picture and geo tag it. The easiest way to do that is to simply drag and drop the photo onto the map. MAP should be one of the navigation options at the top.

Thanks, friends! I owe you one.

Goodreads Book Giveaway

Wisdom, the Midway Albatross

by Darcy Pattison

Giveaway ends March 11, 2012.

See the giveaway details at Goodreads.

Enter to win