New Childrens Book Inspired by Teachers Experience with Symbolic Play
Summary
“When we are very young, we are constantly absorbing the world around us - and in Symbolic Play we get to put into all of that into practice and explore what it’s like to be an adult, or a car, or an airplane...” says Michelle.Often when you go to a publisher as an author, they put you with an illustrator of their choosing, it can be someone you never even meet or communicate with.” Michelle says that it was difficult to form their own company “Actually writing the book took about 3 days.Thankfully my husband has experience in the prepress and tech sectors, but even so this is a lot of work.” There are perks to doing it all – “We got to work with our friend Beverly Sage on the illustrations, she’s in Children’s television at a major network in LA.Thankfully my husband has experience in the prepress and tech sectors, but even so this is a lot of work.”There are perks to doing it all – “We got to work with our friend Beverly Sage on the illustrations, she’s in Children’s television at a major network in LA.A prominent educational professional told Michelle that she saw something she had never seen before, the children days later were still playing “Guess who I am.” “I have never seen a book have that kind of lasting effect days later,” she said.Michelle is already hard at work on her second book, tentatively titled “Remember When” – it’s about self esteem and overcoming adversity.Ben Not a Puppy is now available in every independent bookstore in San Francisco, nationally in every Barnes and Noble, and online at Amazon.com, Bennotapuppy.com, and Barnesandnoble.com.About the AuthorRecently featured in a front-page article in the Noe Valley Voice, upcoming author Michelle Diaz Cannon has worked with children in and out of preschools for most of her life, and believes in never giving up your inner child.