The Story Connection

Synopsis: A dozen or so read-aloud tales with accompanying activities and vocabulary builders. Use on weekends, at the cottage or anywhere you have six to twelve year olds needing a balance of entertainment and intellectual challenge.

Status: Working with an illustrator towards self-publishing.

Excerpt:

So in the morning, it turned out that they WERE selling the house after all. They could have at least asked her advice! Well, there's one good thing, thought Lindy Lou. We can be messy again until we move. The past two months had been awful. You would just get your doll clothes all out and the phone would ring. Mom would be all calm on the phone but as soon as she got off she would practically go into hysterics.

"somebody's coming to see the house in a half hour!" she'd scream. "For Pete's sake get that dirty laundry off the floor! Is the bathroom clean? Lindy Lou, I hope you have a place to put all those doll clothes!"

You'd think the Queen was coming through. Lindy Lou could see it in her mind. "Good afternoon, Your Majesty. I"m sorry we can't look in this room today, but our daughter has it just full of doll clothes. Perhaps you'd like to see our clean bathroom instead?"

Activities

Cut out three real estate ads from the newspaper. For each one, ask a question you would want answered before moving there.

Write a real estate ad for your own house. Make it sound good in as few words as possible. Take a photograph of your house to go with the ad you wrote.

Make a tiny book of wallpaper samples, 3 inches tall by four inches wide.