The Book Garden is the website for author and illustrator, J.D. Holiday!
The Book Garden {http:jdholiday.blogspot.com}
Home of JANOOSE THE GOOSE and the chapter book: THE GREAT SNOWBALL ESCAPADE for 6 to 9 Year Olds.
My Page here: {http://www.aboutus.org/User:J._D._Holiday}
To JD's Blog!{http://jdswritersblog.blogspot.com/}
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The Book Garden is the website for author and illustrator, J.D. Holiday.
JD's Website: The Book Garden
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English
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My next book is The Great Snowball Escapade, a chapter book for children 6 to 8 years of age. In the story,Wilhemena Brooks,’ cousin, Bud Dumphy come to live with her family. Wil, as she likes to be called, finds her pink pencil sharpener is missing after Christmas. Wil knows Bud has it! Who else would have taken it?
Bud doesn’t like girls! In fact, Bud doesn’t like anybody. Wil tries to ignore him but he pulls her friends hair, taken over games, and when Bud is in trouble he making his “you’re going to got it” face at her. After a snowstorm closes school, Wil and her friends go sled riding. Bud shows up and starts a snowball fight which lands Wil in her room for the rest of the day for fighting. When her pencil sharpener is found, Right where she left it, Wil decides she has to try harder to understand her cousin and stay out of trouble. Her mother told her to be nice to Bud and to treat him like she would like to be treated. But where will that get Wil?
I love writing. In the 6th grade I wrote my first story. I can't remember much about it only that it was a rainy afternoon and fun. Is seemed to be a one time thing.In high school I read 'To Kill a Mockingbird' a book I love. I remember thinking how I wished Tom Robinson, an innocent man, had not died and if I wrote a story like that it would end happily for my characters. Of course, along the way of learning the craft of writing it would be my characters who in their magical way lead me to how their stories should end. I've had a few short stories published in a Chapbook and a literary magazine. I've had an agent, and I've had editors interested in my stories but no published books. Today, fortunately, it is becoming easier to writer to make it happen for themselves. I write under the name J. D. Holiday. My next book is The Great Snowball Escapade, a chapter book for children 6 to 8 years of age. In the story,Wilhemena Brooks,’ cousin, Bud Dumphy come to live with her family. Wil, as she likes to be called, finds her pink pencil sharpener is missing after Christmas. Wil knows Bud has it! Who else would have taken it? Bud doesn’t like girls! In fact, Bud doesn’t like anybody. Wil tries to... More
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