Books with title Nina, nina, star ballerina

Kids see themselves in Little People Shape Books' big, imaginative cover illustrations! This addition to the series of children's favorites will inspire very young boys and girls with thoughts about what they might like to become when they grow up. The books in this series have color-illustrated pages glued on sturdy board, and are die-cut so that when closed they take the shape of the child who appears on the front cover, decked out in an appropriate costume. Each book's story is easy for beginning readers, and is told in words pre-schoolers can understand when it is read aloud to them. When closed, these books present an attractive, layered, three-dimensional effect.

I was born in Parkersburg, West Virginia in the 1930's, being the eighth child of a family of ten children. At the early age of twelve, I loved to baby sit with children. Most of my life has been spent in West Virginia, where I married and raised four sons, six foster children and baby sat for close to a hundred children. At the time our youngest son started to school, I started to college in my early 40's, where I received an Associates Degree in Early Childhood Development. While in college, I did some writing for young children. At the age of sixty-seven, I wrote my autobiography and published it, with the help of my husband. In 2009, I was published in Reminisce Magazine. One of my dreams was to write a children's book that taught how to be a success by working hard and trusting in the Lord. As I have visited all fifty states in my lifetime, it took a lot of humor to get through the rough times and it made me a stronger person. Sharing these experiences would mean a lot. For example, we were caught in a rainstorm in the middle of the desert near Elko, Nevada. Upon reaching Elko, not a motel room was to be had anywhere. The good part of the story was the appearance of a huge double rainbow. It was like none we had ever seen. My husband and I have been married for almost fifty-four years and have four sons, as mentioned earlier, two grandsons and one granddaughter. My son, Roger, and I have painted two 24" by 36" seascapes for two of my sons and one for Roger of a mountain waterfall, which hangs in his living room. Many of my friends have asked me why I didn't start painting and writing long ago, but I just smile and say, "I didn't have the time or experience until I was well over fifty.