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What is the book about?
Geckos everywhere, having fun! Number one is the cool gecko with the blue shades. Gecko number six does push-ups and number four sleeps through it all. The book's rhyming text helps children anticipate the next number and teaches little ones to count from one to ten.
What age child is the book for?
Babies through age 5 will enjoy Counting Little Geckos. It is a board book with sturdy pages. The text is fun to read aloud and the rhyme aids beginning readers.
What comments have you heard about your book?
". . . it's a gem. Charming art and text," Juanita
From a review by Amy C. Moreno: Charline Profiri's "rolicking counting rhyme" and Sherry Rogers "distinctive illustration style of bright, joyful images" are "A winning combination."
"My grandson loves your book. We read it at least once a day." Virginia
"It was a funny book!" Child
"I liked the gecko with sunglasses . . . he was cool!" Child
To read Barnes and Noble's 5 Star reviews, click here.
". . . it's a gem. Charming art and text," Juanita
From a review by Amy C. Moreno: Charline Profiri's "rolicking counting rhyme" and Sherry Rogers "distinctive illustration style of bright, joyful images" are "A winning combination."
"My grandson loves your book. We read it at least once a day." Virginia
"It was a funny book!" Child
"I liked the gecko with sunglasses . . . he was cool!" Child
To read Barnes and Noble's 5 Star reviews, click here.
What does the book cost and where can I buy it?
Counting Little Geckos (ISBN 1891795147) retails for $6.95. The book may be purchased at many Southwest resort, hotel and tourist attraction gift shops; book and toy stores; directly from the publisher, The RGU Group, via their toll-free number: 1-800-266-5265 or from a source listed here.
What inspired Counting Little Geckos?
One cloudy spring day, I smelled rain and glanced out the window. Little lizards frolicked in the drizzle. I had trouble counting them. They were well camouflaged, but their movements gave them away. I grabbed my favorite writing tools, a yellow pad and black uni-ball ink pen, and wrote the first draft. Poetic license turned the lizards into geckos--so much more fun to say.
Did you revise your first draft?
Yes, the rhyme was revised numerous times before The RGU Group offered a contract. Editor, Linda Zuckerman, and my friend, Sharon Landeen, helped me improve the meter of the verses one more time before the final draft was ready to be illustrated.
Did you illustrate the book?
No, I did not illustrate the book. My drawing is limited to stick figures. The publisher found Counting Little Geckos talented illustrator, Sherry Rogers.
When I wrote the text, I never imagined a gecko wearing sunglasses, or riding a rocking horse! Sherry's illustrations add so much detail to the book.
For example: Geckos two through nine have a corresponding number of freckles on each side of their noses, the sunglass wearing gecko keeps trying to wake the sleeping gecko and each gecko has a unique skin pattern.
One cloudy spring day, I smelled rain and glanced out the window. Little lizards frolicked in the drizzle. I had trouble counting them. They were well camouflaged, but their movements gave them away. I grabbed my favorite writing tools, a yellow pad and black uni-ball ink pen, and wrote the first draft. Poetic license turned the lizards into geckos--so much more fun to say.
Did you revise your first draft?
Yes, the rhyme was revised numerous times before The RGU Group offered a contract. Editor, Linda Zuckerman, and my friend, Sharon Landeen, helped me improve the meter of the verses one more time before the final draft was ready to be illustrated.
Did you illustrate the book?
No, I did not illustrate the book. My drawing is limited to stick figures. The publisher found Counting Little Geckos talented illustrator, Sherry Rogers.
When I wrote the text, I never imagined a gecko wearing sunglasses, or riding a rocking horse! Sherry's illustrations add so much detail to the book.
For example: Geckos two through nine have a corresponding number of freckles on each side of their noses, the sunglass wearing gecko keeps trying to wake the sleeping gecko and each gecko has a unique skin pattern.
Why did you write about geckos?
I've loved watching lizards since I moved to the beautiful Tucson desert. Authors are told, "Write what you know," so I've written about geckos, horned lizards, collared lizards and whiptails. Watching lizards do push-ups makes me laugh. I've never seen one with bulging biceps, but it's not because they don't work out!
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