APRIL HALPRIN WAYLAND: It's Not My Turn to Look for Grandma and Other Stories

April Halprin Wayland

It's Not My Turn to Look for Grandma and Other Stories

© 2003 April Halprin Wayland (9780966627718)

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“.delightful and imaginative.a perfect way to fill young heads with words, wonderful words.” Wayland’s rollicking CD won NAPPA's Gold Award for storytelling, & includes 5 stories, 17 poems, classical piano interludes & a fiddle tune ~

notes

April Halprin Wayland has been a fiddle player, a walnut farmer, a teacher, a corporate marketing manager and an aqua farmer, but she has always been a writer and a poet.

She’s published many picture books (her newest is NEW YEAR AT THE PIER—a Rosh Hashanah Story) and a multi-award-winning novel in poems for teens (GIRL COMING IN FOR A LANDING); her poems are frequently published in CRICKET Magazine and in lots and lots of anthologies. Trust me—she’s all over the galaxy.

She’s won the Myra Cohn Livingston Poetry Award, Penn State’s Lee Bennett Hopkins Honor Award for Children’s Poetry, and the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators Magazine Merit Award for Poetry (six times). And did I tell you about the time she won the Mr. Bookmark contest in 2nd grade?

She's written, performed and produced a rollicking this CD which won the National Parenting Publications (NAPPA)’s Gold Award for Storytelling, which you are going to love, cross my heart and hope to die. I take that back…don’t die—it's just an expression.)

Her high-energy lectures and poetry workshops have been popular across the US and in Germany, England, Italy, France, Poland and on the moon. (She has her very own rocketship.)

A founding member of the Children’s Authors Network, she’s also been an instructor in UCLA Extension Writers’ Program for over a decade. (Come take her classes—they're a kick!)

April blogs with five other authors-who-teach on their Teaching Authors blog. Check it out for poetry and writing tips.

April and her family love animals. They have the oldest dog in the world, two cats (Elsie and Snot), a tortoise named Sheldon, two box turtles (one is named Roadkill—you can probably guess why), three red-eared slider turtles, and 947,001 frogs. April invented oxygen. Visit her website for updates.

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  • april is spring all year long
    author: bev morse, easy reader

    i LOVE this tongue in cheeky, chucklin' verse, the light fiddlin' and fun - and want to take it home with me! oh, i did. but i want mooooooooooore! what a wonderful, delightful romp! signed, mrs. grandmoi (so named by my 5-yr old grandson, just jack)

  • it's not my turn to look for grandma
    author: bev morse

    i LOVE this tongue in cheeky, chucklin' verse, the light fiddlin' and fun - and want to take it home with me! oh, i did. but i want mooooooooooore! what a wonderful, delightful romp! signed, mrs. grandmoi (so named by my 5-yr old grandson, just jack)

  • Excellent CD!
    author: Bruce Balan

    Love the CD! IT'S NOT MY TURN TO LOOK FOR GRANDMA is a great book and excellent on CD... including the fiddling. And everything else is just a nice plus. Buy it.

  • April reads them all in a deliciously clear and expressive voice.
    author: Stories - storytellers newsletter

    IT’S NOT MY TURN TO LOOK FOR GRANDMA! AND OTHER STORIES includes the title story, To Rabbittown, The Night Horse, and other poems and stories. April reads them all in a deliciously clear and expressive voice.

  • This is a delightful and imaginative collection containing five stories!
    author: L.A. Parent

    This is a delightful and imaginative collection containing five stories, 17 poems and a lively theme song accompanied by a fiddle, banjo and spoons. The poems and stories flow from one to another with lovely musical interludes punctuating each segment. This tape provides a perfect way to fill young heads with words, wonderful words. National Parenting Publications Awards Gold Medal Winner for Best Kids’ Storytelling / Spoken-Word Album

  • tour de force, very expressive, filled with life, makes listening exciting!
    author: Janet Zarem, Children's Book Consultant

    ...tour de force...April's voice is very expressive,and filled with life...a quality that makes listening both easy and exciting...I have a hard time reading poetry, but love to listen to it on tapes. I’ll bet I’m not the only one!

  • Not bad.
    author: Janice

    Pretty intresting.

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