Books with author Sharon Crain

In a bowl full of colourful jelly beans, one jelly bean stands out-for all the wrong reasons. He is the mean jelly bean, and he spends his days tormenting and pushing the other jelly beans away. "You are a really mean jelly bean!" the other jelly beans say. But he just keeps on bullying.One day, the mean jelly bean looks around and finds no one left to push around. He's all alone in the candy bowl. What's a mean jelly bean to do? Can the kindness of the other jelly beans rub off on him?Sharon Curtain, mother of two, wrote The Really Mean Jelly Bean for her sons when they first attended school to help explain bullying, friendship, and learning to be happy.

Cougar Cub Tales: Lost and Alone, written and illustrated by Sharon Cramer is the first book in the Cougar Cub Tales Series and the prestigious winner of the Mom s Choice Award for best picture book. Lost and Alone, is about two sibling cougar cubs who live alone after losing their mother. The cubs are at odds one day, as siblings will be, and they decide to go their separate ways. The adventure becomes lonely and the cubs discover that the single most important thing is to find one another. Unusual circumstances come into play as the cubs are wonderfully reunited, never again to be separated. The story deals with the everyday childhood issues of friend or sibling rivalry and spats and conflict resolution. It communicates to a child in a wonderful, nonsensical rhyme, and the eighteen watercolors are an exquisite representation of this timeless story. See also the second book in the series, Cougar Cub Tales: I'm Just Like You and look for soon to be released, Cougar Cub Tales: The Sneezy Wheezy Day.

Brother Cougar Cub is ill. With the help of sister, they seek the advice of their well intentioned forest friends. The Grizzly Old Bear tells him, The reason you re warm is you have too much hair. Best if you trim it as short as you dare. But, could it be that SISTER finally discovers the best remedy? The Sneezy Wheezy Day is a wonderful tale that will delight and challenge your child, but it is the paintings that will capture you and your young readers! Make sure to have your child search for the small, hidden creature on each page!

As young teacher, Ellie Stryker and her mare, Maggie, go for a gallop along the beaches of Dune City located at the tail end of the Outer Banks, they come upon a horrifying sight: a body has washed in with the tide, tumbling in the surf at their very feet. As Ellie tries to regain control of her terrified horse, two fishermen come to her rescue. All three get a good look at the body and it's like no other they've ever seen. Ellie and the fishermen, Dakota Johnson and Matt Greene, try to discover the origin of the strange creature. But a hurricane is targeting Dune City, and with the corrupt police chief who's in cahoots with a deranged scientist thwarting their efforts, it's a tough go. Encountering evil on the barrier island, Ellie also meets new friends and perhaps a new love. The earth moves in more ways than one in SHIFTING SANDS.