Books with author Dorothy Hardin

Verses and Poems and Stories to Tell is rich with delightful tales and rhymes to keep children engaged for hours and during chores, walks, and play. For parents and teachers this offers a treasury of ideas and story-lines to carry through many days and bedtime rituals with children! With a deep compassion for a child’s need to hear beautiful words and inspiring stories that give a new excitement to ordinary daily routines or things in nature, the author provides glimpses into how to turn the daily routines of life into fun!

Children:Join Zander on his friendship journey at Spring Creek Elementary School. Meet his fun classmates, Emmy Lee and Kippy. Through their classroom adventures, learn how:to make friends,to share, to take turns, andto have a nice conversation. Adults:Children and their family members can share this journey together with Zander and his first friends. Professionals in education and psychology will find Zander’s Friendship Journey useful in the classroom and beyond. Designed for children from 3 to 7 years of age, this book may be especially supportive to those who are shy and/or have social anxiety. It is an entertaining journey that will engage readers of all ages.

Children: Join Zander on a new adventure at Spring Creek Elementary School. In this second book of the series, Zander and his fun friends, Emmy Lee and Kippy, return with their teachers, Mrs. Perez and Miss Rivers. A new child, named Clinton, enters the classroom midyear and mayhem follows. It's up to Zander and Miss Rivers to save the situation, with the help of some frogs and tadpoles along the way. Adults: Children and their family members will enjoy sharing this adventure together. Professionals in education and psychology will find Zander’s Frogtastic Adventure useful in the classroom and beyond. Designed for children from 3 to 7 years of age, this book may be very supportive to children who are challenged by making friends and adjusting to change, especially in a school or group setting. It is an entertaining adventure that will engage readers of all ages.

Children: Join Zander on his friendship journey at Spring Creek Elementary School. Meet his fun classmates, Emmy Lee and Kippy. Through their classroom adventures, learn how: to make friends, to share, to take turns, and to have a nice conversation. Adults: Children and their family members can share this journey together with Zander and his first friends. Professionals in education and psychology will find Zander’s Friendship Journey useful in the classroom and beyond. Designed for children from 3 to 7 years of age, this book may be especially supportive to those who are shy and/or have social anxiety. It is an entertaining journey that will engage readers of all ages.

In Zander's Armadillo Story, join Zander, Kippy, Emmy Lee, and Clinton as they learn more about the fun and frustrations of friendship. Returning to the Zander series are their Spring Creek Elementary School teachers, Miss Rivers and Mrs. Perez, and Zander's family friend, Miss Joy. By the end of the story, a family of armadillos and Bootsie, the Boston Terrier, add to the life experiences of the four children. Most of all, Zander learns that keeping a friend can sometimes be very complicated. In Zander's Armadillo Story, Dorothy E. Hardin presents sensitive themes with gentle humor and empathy for children and all of the adults in their lives.

After being orphaned at an early age and spending years in boarding schools, Dilly begins a new life in a real house in a small town, developing secret magnetic powers under the tutelage of a kindly professor, until he is kidnapped by a madman who plans to control the world with a computer.Twelve-year-old Dilloway McBean, a wealthy orphan with strange magnetic powers, puts his magnetism to work as he matches wits with the dastardly Dr. Keenwit, a computer whiz out to steal Dilly's money and seize world power