Saturday, October 7, 2017

Reading Five Green Speckled Frogs - Video Link

I made a video of reading my illustrated children's book, Five Green Speckled Frogs.  You can watch it on YouTube at https://youtu.be/jOxZp02zBaY
The paperback of the book is on Amazon at:
Five Green Speckled Frogs
by Debbie Barry
Link: http://a.co/gfbbu31

I'm really excited, because thius was my first video.  I just used my phone to record while I read the book, so it's not very professional, but I'm so pleased with it! 

This was my first serious effort at illustrating a book for kids, too, and I'm really proud of it.  I changed the words of the traditional Mother Goose nursery song just slightly, to match the words I sang to my sons and cousins, and I added a verse for a little cousin who discovered the concept of zero. I made up  the verse for zero when she was four, and she told me, "Not 'no more frogs,' ZERO frogs!" So, I made her a whole new verse.

I wanted the book to be educational, so I introduced each verse with a "count the frogs" page, just as I had my little cousin count my fingers before each verse.  At the end of each verse, I presented the math that had happened in that verse, so kids could start to get used to the concepts and notation of subtraction.

I made images in MS Paint for all of the illustrations, and self-published the book on CreateSpace.

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