For Educators & Schools
I've written many books that are perfect for educators and schools. I've worked with HeadStart programs in California and Colorado. Within my Sally's Books section you will find over 100 books covering the following categories:
Why Teachers Choose These Books
Teachers love these books because they are language appropriate, educationally based, and just plain fun!
The Happy Healthy Children's Book Series
With the current emphasis on childhood fitness, I have created a series of books to address many aspects of fitness. The Happy Healthy Children's Series touches on exercise, body care, food, making good choices, kindness and helping others, and food allergies. Click here to learn more about this series.
Upon moving to Colorado in 2018, I met with the director of the Head Start program in Denver. She reviewed my books then asked me to create a specific book for her use. She wanted a book to help children transition from preschool/Head Start programs to kindergarten. She had definite points that she wanted addressed. Thus, I created a charming book titled Welcome to Kindergarten. It is offered now in four versions (Caucasian, Multicultural, Spanish, Bilingual) to cover the diversity of children attending many early education programs.
Recently, the same director asked me to create a very simple book to encourage children to be "nice." The book is titled: It's Easy to be Nice. It is a multicultural book that touches on being helpful, sharing, playing fair, keeping feet and hands to oneself, saying 'thank you,' speaking kindly, following rules, and making friends. It is all in rhyme, like many of my books, and has been a great addition to many classrooms.
I have worked with the majority of the Head Start programs in the San Diego area to provide books for their classrooms and libraries. I have also worked on other non-profit projects to provide specific books for the underprivileged children in Central California. If you or your organization/foundation are working to improve the lives of young children and would like to make use of these books, please contact me directly.
Sally talks art, illustrations, and books with Mindy Hall's classroom in Escondido, Ca.
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In 2017 I met with Mayor Tate of Anaheim, who created a culture of kindness in that city, including the entire business community and the school system. From that meeting, I wrote and illustrated this book, The Monkeys Who Tried Kindness, to honor the elementary school children of Anaheim who had completed over 1 million acts of kindness in one year.
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Visiting with the children of Oak Creek Elementary School
in Colorado Springs, I shared my books and picked up
some good ideas for books in the future. Fun for everyone.
The school has a motto of "Attitude is Everything", which
opened the door to chat about my book Positive Pete.
His motto is: "I'm as perfect as I can can be. Nothing can
upset me. No. No, not me!"
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Harper Kids!
I oftentimes work with Tim and Peanut Harper of Harper Kids. The Harper Kids program is based on John Wooden's Pyramid of Success. This program encourages children to be their personal best and is added to a classroom curriculum with the help of teachers and principals.
Even with on-line teaching, children are able to participate in various interviews with successful people whom the Harpers brings to the events. With me, an on-line class is able to see and hear me read from one of my children's books, ask questions about creating books, and join in a drawing session that I offer. It's all fun... and it's all free to the kids, teachers, and schools. For more information, contact: harperkids.com.
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