Storytime Pup – an innovative new kids’ TV show – is featuring Peter and the Whimper-Whineys today. Please check it out, and add this program to your list of ways to share books with your children!!
3 Awards for The Golden Rule
Thanks to my awesome illustrator, Kalpart, who has already added The Golden Rule’s 3rd Award Sticker to the cover…
So nice to have a Mom’s Choice Award!!!
Nice to receive this notice!
Dear Sherrill,
It gives us great pleasure to inform you that The Golden Rule has been named among the best in family-friendly media, products and services. Congratulations!
Award Details:
The Golden Rule
Children’s Picture Books
Silver
This is my 40th Award... Fun!!!
5 Awards…How A Bully Learns to Share!
I just received a fun “reminder” for a review of Gimme-Jimmy, thanks to Carolina DuFault and the 2016 Multi-Cultural Children’s Book Day event!
Have you read the review of “Gimme-Jimmy” by @CarolinaDuFault ? #ReadYourWorld You can read it here at Review of Gimme-Jimmy
“Gimme-Jimmy is the perfect book to be used during bullying prevention week at school, at home or any time you need to go over social skills/manners with children. And I mean children of all ages!
There is always one (or more than one) student in the classroom who needs help socializing with other children, or needs help learning how to be kind to others. Teaching with the example is one way to do it and this book introduces real life examples.
What I liked about this book is that the setting and characters are school related, so it is easy for children to identify themselves with the story. The ways in which the main character shows his behavior and manners are very realistic, and what happens to him as a consequence of his behaviors it is very funny indeed.
Since the book is written in rhyme and the vocabulary is easy for children, it is fun for a read aloud or per reading. The illustrations show diversity with children of different race. The family setting encourages the participation of the male role as a guidance, giving a break to the female role from the teaching duties.
Gimme-Jimmy is a very good book to keep in all classrooms libraries and at home for future reference.”
Two Awards for The Golden Rule
Three Awards for Mice & Spiders & Webs…Oh My!
Two Awards for The Golden Rule
I am so honored to share this wonderful Midwest Book Review for The Golden Rule.
“The Golden Rule” is the eighth book in the author’s series of award-winning socio-educational books for early elementary children. Written in delightful verse, with a familiar cast of rainbow characters from previous beloved stories, “The Golden Rule” takes Robert and Kait on an important quest for a mysterious golden ruler mentioned by their Mom. What they discover is amazing and life changing, in fact the Golden Rule, as they uncovered its essence, is a way of opening your life to all that it can be. For in fact, they were not to find a golden ruler, but instead the Golden Rule, which is simply stated: “Treat others the way you’d like to be treated.” The children find that this means “It’s a rule that you live by, to give and to share, a way to treat others to show that you care.” What this rule actually means in daily living is described in kid friendly terms. You might offer to share your toys or books or other reading devices with kids who don’t have them. Don’t try to steal someone else’s work, or plagiarize. When someone bullies or tries to hurt you, try to empathize instead of fighting back. But tell him it is not nice to hurt others and ask an adult for help too. The concept of sharing is expanded to the marvelous idea of “pay it forward,” something children are eager to participate with. “The Golden Rule” is delightfully creative, like the author’s other books. Also a familiar feature is the placement of embedded book covers of the author’s previous popular books, which are referred to in the Author’s Special Notes section at the end. As in previous publications, 50 % of the profits of “The Golden Rule” goes to the CureJM Foundation to help find a cure for Juvenile Myositis, an incurable children’s disease. Included in the “classroom of characters’ by the illustrator Kalpart is the little girl named Addie, from CureJM. “The Golden Rule” is a five star classic with some nice new touches. Children in early elementary classes will grow towards its strong, embracing visionary message.” …The Midwest Book Review
This review is posted in the Children’s Bookwatch section of the May Issue, on the Social Issues Shelf. The highly respected Midwest Book Review is “committed to promoting literacy, library usage, and small press publishing. The MBR publishes monthly book review magazines specifically designed for community and academic librarians, booksellers, and the general reading public.”
2nd Award for The Golden Rule
So thrilled to share the news that The Golden Rule has won another award – its 2nd Award – a NABE Pinnacle Award winner!
This is my 39th Award!!!
2016 Pinnacle Achievement Awards
Congratulations to the other winners as well…
Children’s Literary Classics Seal of Approval
Thanks so much to my young Canadian Kid Reviewers, Rania 9 and Myra 6, for the lovely review of The Golden Rule, as well as the awesome video!
Here is the Amazon Review:
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful book with rhymes
By Author Samreen Ahsan on May 3, 2016
This review is from my 9 and 6 years old girls:
We really enjoyed reading the book together. The book rhymes very nicely and the pictures are really cute. The book teaches us that we should be nice to each other and treat the way we want others to treat us. And be thankful of what you have . And don’t be greedy.
You’re an awesome author. One of our favourites. Thank you for the gift. Please keep writing wonderful books.
Love,
Rania and Myra
Video Review:
Children’s Literary Classics Seal of Approval
5.0 out of 5 stars Sherrill Cannon does it again!,
April 30, 2016
By Karen Scheuer
This review is from: The Golden Rule (Paperback)
“Sherrill Cannon does it again! What a great book! The Golden Rule, with its wonderful rhyming text, will teach children HOW to treat others they way they’d like to be treated. In the beginning, the kids were looking for a “ruler,” because that’s what they thought they heard. Then they realized it was a “RULE” they needed! Isn’t that the way of the world? We often look for THINGS to make us happy, but instead it’s not the things at all. Like Sherrill’s book says, “The rule is not something that money can buy. It’s more of a way to feel good inside.” Children, families, and teachers will enjoy this book, with its whimsical illustrations by Kalpart. It will also be fun for children to search inside this book for the covers of other books written by Sherrill Cannon. Well done!”
Thanks for this lovely review, Karen. Karen is the author of A Bug and a Wish, a great book about helping to solve the problem of bullying.
Thank you also to KJ of Kalpart, for adding the CLC Seal of Approval on the cover of The Golden Rule!
Daisy Loves The Golden Rule
There is another lovely interview and giveaway for The Golden Rule on Linda Weaver Clarke’s blog:
Click here for Giveaway: The Golden Rule Interview and Giveaway
Here’s Linda’s review: “The Golden Rule is a great reminder of how we should treat one another, for both children and adult alike. The storyline is cute, beginning with two children searching for a “golden ruler” that is said to be very valuable but then realize they misunderstood. Sherrill Cannon wrote: “It’s a rule that you live by, to give and to share, A way to treat others to show that you care.” This is a great reminder for the adult reading to a child and fun for children to listen to in rhyme.” –Author Linda Weaver Clarke
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