Benefits of Blogging

A couple of months ago something leaked that made me very, extremely excited.  I heard that Jennifer Fosberry had written a new book and it was going to be released soon.  So I sent Jennifer an E-mail and begged, bribed, asked her to send me a copy.  She told me to talk to her hand, publicist and she gave me the contact information.  I crafted a letter where I begged, pleaded, bribed, asked for a copy of the new book and mentioned that I would blog about the book in return.  To my amazement, she said yes!!!

The book was delivered and boy oh boy am I smitten!

If you have young children, maybe you have seen and checked out one of her books from the library.  She is the New York Times best selling author of My  Name Is Not Isabella.  She also wrote the book, My Name Is Not Alexander.  Both books are filled with inspiring people of history and would make a great first resource for biography writing.  Do you guys remember writing biographies in school?  I really didn't like writing biographies because most of the books that I used were encyclopedias.  For those of you younger than 30 an encyclopedia is a single book from a whole large series of books that sat on a shelf in the study and gathered lots of dust.  The only time they were dusted off was when the teacher at school said we had to write a biography on some famous person in history.

Each of Jennifer Fosberry's books continue the story by giving a paragraph of more detailed and factual information on each of the people that Alexander and Isabella pretend to be.  Love It! 

Anyway, I am thrilled to announce that Jennifer Fosberry is at it again and she has written another Isabella book and this time instead of pretending to be famous women in history, Isabella pretends to travel the world and at each new destination she reveals a new career in the book Isabella Girl On the Go.(Available February 20.  You can pre-order through Amazon)

I really can't say enough about how much I love the fact that Jennifer Fosberry books are easy to read picture books that educate.  In the new book Isabella Girl On the Go ,  Isabella travels the world as she visits a lot of familiar and some unfamiliar (to me) places; Pyramids of Giza, Eiffel Tower, Great Wall of China, Chichen Itza, Big Ben, Statue of Liberty.  Again, at the end of the story Jennifer Fosberry continues the text to an informational page spread that gives more details and facts (including websites) on each of the places that Isabella pretends to visit.  These books are so filled with information that I honestly believe teachers could write an entire unit on each of the books.   I think this is a fun way to introduce new places and people and keeping the books around the classroom would make it an easy way to remember the lessons taught throughout the year.

And just so you know, you can probably go online to your local library website and click on a link which will bring you to a 'request to purchase' tab.  Once you fill everything out, the book will be purchased by the library and you'll be notified when it arrives so you can be the very first person to check the book out!  How cool is that?!  You'll probably want your own copies though.

And, I bet you could talk your school district to purchase the book too or better yet, you can purchase the book for your school library and donate it for all the kids to read.  Maybe even purchase a book for your child's classroom and your own personal collection.

***And I need to add that today Isabella is doing her very first oral book report and guess which book she wanted to do the oral book report on?  ~~Isabella: Girl On The Go~~