Janeen Mason and I are looking forward to presenting "Beam Up to Reading with Going Around the Sun: Some Planetary Fun" this coming Friday at the Annual Florida Reading Association Conference at the Shingle Creek Resort in Orlando. We'll share how this creative book about the planets gives students a chance to further their language development as they read. Book Signing will follow the presentation so teachers have the opportunity to have their books autographed by both the author and the illustrator. See FRA website.
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Sep 24, 2009 6:55 AM EDT
Hi there! I realized that you had blog postings here and came to have a peek -- and discovered the previous post about your "Over in the Ocean" book being put together in braille ~ that is wonderful!
My son is blind, with some other disabilities, and we are studying Astronomy this year (we're homeschoolers) and he LOVES "Going Around the Sun" - we checked it out from the library and keep renewing it because he enjoys having it read to him... he pretty much has it memorized LOL .. anyway, I'm going to look for a copy to buy at the bookstore and add braille and some tactile "pictures" of the planets inside(using craft items)- because he'll love that and, well, the library wants their book back eventually LOL *grin*
I wrote a post on my own blog, on Sept 3rd, about your book and how much he loves it - you can see it here, if you like!
http://tailsgonewest.blogspot.com/2009/09/going-around-sun.html
The book is fantastic! :-)
- Anonymous