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Another Sommer-Time Story™ Educators' Endorsements |
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***All Books Accepted by Accelerated Readerâ*** Accelerated Readerâ is an extremely popular reading program that helps school children get excited and challenged about books. This program is used in over 45,000 schools. A library journal publisher said that receiving their endorsement was like getting the “Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval.” It is a major accomplishment for a publisher to receive this endorsement for their books. ***All Books Accepted by Reading Is Fundamentalâ*** Reading Is Fundamentalâ (RIF) is the nation’s largest children’s and family literacy organization. RIF, with an expected 360,000 community volunteers of parents, teachers, librarians, and others, will provide books and literacy resources to over 5 million children and their families. “I felt compelled to write to
thank you for the excellent quality and substance of your books.
My children will love them.
I appreciate the excellent website where I downloaded various coloring pictures
and associated pages to go along with each individual book.” ***All Books In Data Base of Character Education Partnership***Character Education Partnership (CEP) is a nonpartisan coalition of over 100 organizations, such as NEA, AFT, National Association of Elementary School Principals, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, and National PTA. CEP is dedicated to the idea that character and education are natural partners in helping children become ethical, responsible adults. ***All Books Accepted by Scholastic Reading Counts®***Scholastic Reading Counts® is a reading motivation and management software program to entice students to read independently. It simplifies teaching, motivates reading, and provides flexibility for students. Scholastic Reading Counts® is a subsidiary of Scholastic, the leading publisher and distributor of children's books in the English language Gumdrop Books Gumdrop Books, a major international distributor of top educational library books, has ordered over 16,000 copies of Another Sommer-Time Story series. Gumdrop Books sells books worldwide in 62 countries to public libraries and to public and private schools. They have since reordered books. Postkid.com Postkid is a total education solutions provider for the K-12 school market they have ordered 36,000 copies of the Another Sommer-Time Story series. Schools and teachers, parents and students are linked via Postkid's web-based platform. This platform consolidates an extranet that is integrated to school websites with communication tools, a school management system, teaching and learning tools as well as a resource library. It is currently used by more than half of schools in Singapore. Postkid takes a proactive and integrated approach towards education by bundling content, products and services. Individual Educators
“Thank you for your collection of books.
They will be an integral part of my counseling curriculum here at Magnolia
I.S.D.
The topics are so perfect for large or small classroom discussions…I
appreciate you for making my job so much easier!”
"I thought these books were wonderful!
I used them with my kindergarten class and they led to discussion afterward.
Lessons are taught in each book that are clear.
The stories are similar to classic fairy-tales.
Children like them because they are colorful and they could relate to the
stories."
"We are writing to tell you that we read three of your fabulous books.
We read, Can You Help Me Find My Smile?,
No Longer a Dilly Dally, and Tied Up In Knots.
We thought the characters in the story were great, and we loved looking
at the pictures. When we draw
pictures, we try to add a lot of detail just like real authors.
Even though the stories are long, we listened better than we ever had!
Thanks for writing such great stories that teach us a real lesson about
life."
"They are beautiful, and I really like them.
They are very enticing for the children." (She had a “read-in” for her fourth-grade
class. She said that when the
children read the Another Sommer-Time story books through, they would pass them
around.)
"We are really impressed with the books.
They communicate a very good message, teaching morals and right and wrong,
without preaching. I have three
children of my own and they sat and listened intently as I read the stories to
them.
At school we even had a one-year-old mesmerized by the story being read."
"We now have the finest set of children’s reading books available that have ever
been written. Written by a former
New York high school teacher and outstanding author, Carl Sommer, our children
can now learn the nation’s cultural Christian ethics that give them a
standard
to live by. Written for use in all
public school children’s classrooms, these books will inspire and ground all
children in what is right.
"These are interesting, creative, and character building stories for young
readers, each having a timely moral value and delightful illustrations." "Carl
Sommer’s book[s] are in our bookshelf’s “read again” section.
His universe includes the universals; his lessons lighten hearts and
engage minds. I will using his
texts to instruct college students, and I read them at night to my toddlers."
"We cannot say enough good things about these books. We really appreciate the message being conveyed and children
love them! We want more books!" |