In This Issue
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| Take a Look at Our Exciting New Website Traitor Dachshund, publisher of A Dachshund's Wish, has launched a wonderful new website www.traitordachshund.com, with animation and videos of Paws and his pals. Take a look and share it with your friends. The animated home page introduces Paws, the playful dachshund puppy, and many of the friends he meets during his adventures as he dreams of becoming a boy. You'll also be able to read an excerpt from the book, hear the author discuss it and find suggestions for children's activities. |
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| A Dachshund's Wish Available at Amazon.com |
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A Dachshund's Wish is available at
Amazon.com, which may offer the book at a discount from its suggested retail price of $25.99. This cheerful story of a dachshund puppy makes a great gift for children. You can download the poster or bookmark
free from our
website.
Wholesale and professional discounts are available to retailers, teachers and librarians. For information, go to www.createspace.com/contact. |
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Charming Videos Bring Paws and His Friends to Life |
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One is designed for parents, grandparents and caregivers to share with children. It features Sadie the raccoon introducing all of the other animal friends Paws meets and learns from in A Dachshund's Wish. The other is an adaptation designed for teachers to use in their classrooms to encourage children to enjoy reading and expand their world through books.
You can also listen to an
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author Joe Tavano. |
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A Paws Bookmark Encourages Reading
As your children start to read longer books or as you read
longer books to them, a happy bookmark featuring the
puppy Paws can help keep your place. The easy-to-make bookmark can be downloaded free from www.traitordachshund.com. Simply cut out the front and back sections and glue them together. There's a spot to personalize the bookmark with a child's name. If you'd like a sturdier version, you can print the bookmark on card stock or glue a popsicle stick between the two sections. |
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Brighten a Classroom or Child's Room with a Dachshund Poster |
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A colorful, 8.5 x 11 or 8.5 x 14-inch poster featuring the cover of A Dachshund's Wish and encouraging children to read can be downloaded free from the website. It's perfect for an elementary school classroom but will also liven up a child's bedroom or playroom. If you happen to be a dachshund owner, this poster will be particularly suited to your children. |
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| Children's Activities for the Home or Classroom Traitor Dachshund has been supporting teachers to help children learn, not only by reading A Dachshund's Wish, but by using fun activities and lesson plans that draw from the book. We continue to offer both activities for home use and lesson plans for classroom use as free downloads on www.traitordachshund.com. These activities were developed with the help of experienced elementary school teachers. Go to our website and take a look. You'll find puzzles, word searches, math problems and suggestions to help children write their own stories. |
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A Few Minutes with Author Joe Tavano Joe Tavano lives in New York City and has visited schools to talk about A Dachshund's Wish. Joe also does readings for children at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx. "Nurses read most of the story, and then I pop in to read the last chapter as a surprise," Joe said. "It's one of the best things I do." We asked Joe some quick questions. What have you been working on lately? I create television programming and recently finished a series for Nickelodeon called Kindergarten Here I Come. This Nickelodeon series follows the ups and downs and learnings of a group of kindergarteners from their first day when they are nervous and unsure of what they're going to be doing in the classroom through the last day, when they are very close friends and don't want their kindergarten experience to end. The series ends with a big graduation and the classmates moving on to first grade. Are you working on any other children's projects? Yes, I have another work in progress with Traitor Dachshund. I'm sure this year will be very productive. How has the publication of A Dachshund's Wish influenced your life? A Dachshund's Wish has opened up so many wonderful lives to me, most especially the children whom I've been privileged to meet along the way. I'm looking forward to sharing the story of Paws with even more kids this year. |