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I Really Want a Puppy is a Finalist for the Indie Book Award

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We just found out that I Really Want A Puppy was a finalist for the Indie Book Award. It was a group effort between these four people!

(Click on photos to enlarge and read captions.)

THE BOOK
THE WRITER, Judy
THE COMPOSER OF MUSIC, Christina
THE ARTIST, Isidro
THE AWARD

If you are wondering about why we needed musicians to publish this book, the book has a QR code on the front that sings the entire book to you. I wrote the book, Isidro Xilonzóchitl illustrated it, Christine Anfossie wrote the original  music, Becky Mcguigan rescored and rearranged the music, adding backup, guitar instrumentation and her own vocalization of the lyrics, and the Indie Book Awards rewarded us by declaring us finalists for the award. A real group effort, and I’d like to thank all those friends who made it possible. 

You can find out more about the book and buy it if you wish by going here: https://bit.ly/3SIJzZC 

The winner has already been announced. The Puppy book was one of the four other finalists.

Book Launch tomorrow, Nov. 6 in Riberas Del Pilar, Mexico

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This is the invitation to my book launch in Riberas del Pilar, Jalisco, Mexico. Both books are also available on Amazon U.S. and Amazon Mexico.

(Please note that the prices on Amazon Mexico are given in pesos, not dollars. Use Amazon Mexico only if you want the book delivered to Mexico and the Amazon U.S. for delivery elsewhere. Its price is in U.S. dollars.)

“I Really Want a Puppy” Brand New Book Hot off the Presses!!!

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Click HERE to order my newest children’s book I Really Want a Puppy that has a QR Code that sings the words of the entire book as you turn the pages to look at the photos!!

What’s a boy to do when all his friends have puppies but he doesn’t? This book’s hero finds a novel way to get around his mom’s reluctance to adopt a dog. This is the third rhymed picture book written by Judy Dykstra-Brown and beautifully illustrated by Isidro Xilonzóchitl, but this one not only tells and shows you the story, it also sings the words of the book to the reader by means of a QR code on the front cover! Drum beats indicate to nonreaders when it’s time to turn the page to see the next illustration. Younger kids love to “learn to read” by singing along with the words to the song while following the words in the book. Older kids just love the story and illustrations.

Use your cellphone to take a photo of the  QR code above on the cover to hear the entire book. (It takes you to Youtube and then you need to click to turn the sound on.)

Click HERE to see sample pages and to order.  Just $15 during an introductory period and please remember to leave your review on the site and to let me know how you like it as well.

(In Mexico, available from the author  at jubob2@hotmail.com or at Diane Pearl’s Gallery.)

Seasonal Bribery

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Seasonal Bribery

Santa’s elves are in the workshop wrapping caramel kisses
to put in the stockings of little boys and misses
whose lofty thoughts are centered on baseball gloves and dolls—
hopes whispered into Santa’s ear in numerous city malls.

But my premonition is that though your needs are captivating, 
there’s a likely chance that Santa’s been equivocating
about giving you the puppy that you’ve been asking for
every day and every night for a year or more.

I’ve heard Santa’s considering the possibility
that you might be lacking in responsibility.
Would you fill his food bowl and pick up puppy poop?
Would you train him not to raid the chicken coop?

Everything about a puppy is not cute and nice.
He might bring you baby birds or even wiggling mice!
Tear up favorite clothes you leave upon the floor,
chew up all your Barbie dolls and Teddy bears and more.

You’d have to learn to clean your room and put your things on shelves—
all the things observed by Santa and his elves.
Do your chores the first time requested by your mother.
If you can’t do your present chores, could you handle another?

It’s not too late to change your ways. Come help to dry the dishes.
Santa might be watching and decide to meet your wishes.
You have another month or two in which you could grow up
enough so you can handle caring for a pup!!!

Prompts today are caramel, workshop, premonition, lofty, responsibility, captivating.

Story Conference

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Isidro and I met at Viva Mexico to discuss illustrations for our next book. He now has three of my children’s books stacked up to illustrate. This one is entitled “I Really Want A Puppy.” It’s quite a job as he needs to come up with at least 7 different puppy characters as well as a family of six: two children, Mom, Pop and grandparents as well as friends. (Click on the first photo to enlarge photos and see captions.)

I forgot to take photos of the new colored sketches but here is one of the early prototypes,
I have to pick one for the main dog character, Isidro instructs.
Meanwhile, I had to leave to inspect something of interest on the back wall. I thought from a distance it was two mounted wall pieces,
Then Isidro had pork shank
and I had my usual chiles en nogada.