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You know the FRUSTRATIONS:
Colds are annoying. Flu and intestinal infections are miserable
and even scary.
Babies & the elderly are seriously sensitive, with the CDC
reporting hundreds of thousands of annual hospitalizations for
flu-related complications.
Children in daycare & preschool get sick even more times per
year (called "daycare syndrome").
When your child gets sick, often the caretaking parent gets sick
too, and then the rest of the family. Illness and its expense can
spread to grandparents, relatives, and coworkers.
You may lose income & even risk your job, by losing productive
energy or taking time off work.
Costs quickly add up for over-the-counter remedies, doctor visits,
medications, car trips, as well as the time spent to acquire those
aids.
Every doctor or hospital visit, even if paid for by insurance,
costs not only time, but is yet another exposure to even more sick
people and their germs.
Let this book SAVE YOU money:
Every time a child does NOT put his or her hand to mouth, is one
less chance to get sick.
Every illness that this book helps prevent can mean hundreds of
dollars in your pocket. Multiple illnesses prevented in a year can
literally save a family thousands.
This book not only helps prevent many of those illnesses, but it
does so in a way that delights your child.
No more need for nagging reprimands
Proven to work:
This book is the result of a day of utter exasperation. Nothing we
said kept our toddler from putting his hand into his mouth. Often
three days after venturing out of our house, he would be sick. He
would pass it on to me, and soon my husband would be sick too. If
our son stayed home, we all stayed well---but who wants to be so
limited? In a moment of inspiration, my husband made up an early
version of these stories which held our tyke 's attention, and had
him giggling with glee. After telling these stories a few times,
all we had to do was to say gently, "A little bird flew over"
whenever we saw our toddler 's hand moving toward his mouth. His
hand would immediately go down, and he would smile. Before long the
hand-in-mouth habit was "gone." In the process our son was
"cheerful and cooperative."
Professional Praise:
"I would like to recommend "A Bird Flew Over." As a nurse, I can
say it is important to educate our children on health situations.
This book creates an awareness that children need. I am happy that
this book is available in a bright, fun, and adventurous way to
actually make it "fun" to learn about public health hazards."
---Rochelle Forrest, RN, MSM, Founder of Createhealthnaturally.com
For ages 0-8
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Summary:
Famed detective, Victor Lightning, solves one crime mystery after
another, with wild and humorous action involving quick reflexes and
a ready tranquilizer gun-always landing the perpetrator safely in
police custody.
Advance Praises:
"I really like how Victor Lightening keeps tranquilizing people.
All the characters say super funny things. It's so cool that no
matter what place Victor is, he can find a clue. I think kids who
like detective stories would like this book."
-Isaac, age 8
"Look out Raymond Chandler. There's a new kid on the block and
he actually is a kid. Philip Marlowe meet Victor Lightning, and for
readers of noir crime novel adventures meet the boundless energy of
young author Erik McShirley.
"Erik's tales of Victor Lightning is an angular, rock-um sock-um
tumble down an old-school private eye rabbit hole all delivered
from the wild prespective of a new-school child. Talk about a fresh
slant on a shop worn genre. The beauty of it all is that you never
for a moment forget that it's from the prespective of a young mind
churning out gum-shoe exploits. With that firmly in mind there is
much to enjoy in Erik's take on things. His spare style gets to the
point in a hurry with loads of action usually ending with the bad
guy behind bars.
"Erik's tales start at night in the midst of some pivotal action.
Not much warm-up: you're thrust directly into the flames. These
stories have something of a common rhythm and format in how
suspects are introduced, almost as if his stories are meant to be
the foundation for a TV crime series script. But the use of
language is unlike anything I have read before and there are loads
of surprises. The word "BANG," however, does get used quite a bit.
Perhaps that's the word that might sum up best what Erik McShirley
has delivered at such a young age - a lot of BANG for your reading
buck I can't wait to see where both Victor Lightning and Erik wind
up over the next few years. Check him out now so you can say you
knew him when. Apparently this young author's career has started
with a BANG "
-Dan Manas, Filmmaker, BestLightProductions.com
"I think children and adults would like this book because it has
comedy and is good clean reading. I love that Victor Lightning is
smart and in any situation he can find the solution to the
predicament. I think it's great how Erik was able to give each
thief his own personality. It's a great story."
-Abby, age 11
"Erik provides an entertaining and exciting story about a
detective who values justice and safety for even the criminals he
captures by not using a lethal weapon. Victor Lightning is a
likeable character who always gets 'his man' and rights the wrong
that occurred in each chapter. I enjoyed the humorous remarks of
all the characters and the exclamations pronounced with every
defining moment, such as the discovery of a clue or the unmasking
of the villain.
"The detective adventures of Victor Lightning are right on target
for a Dick Tracy style storyline. Erik is able to capture the
reader's imagination and guides you through 'seeing' what it is you
are reading. A remarkable children's book written by a child, for
readers of any age to enjoy "
-Kira Turner, Preschool Teacher
"My friend Erik Mcshirley is a young author with a grasp of life
and understanding that he is able to transfer to the written word.
I look forward to more of his writing in the future."
-Tug Hawkins, Pharmacist
DOES YOUR CHILD crave your attention, when you have other things
you need to get done? DO YOU NEED a hands-free game that's so
simple you don't have to think about it, but still holds your
child's attention for long periods of time?DO YOU WANT your child
to have a head start on avoiding some real-world problems and
dangers?IS YOUR CHILD interested in fifire fifighting, policing,
ambulance driving, or rescuing people?DO YOU WANT to expand your
child's sense of service to others, and his or her confifidence to
be heroic?DO YOU NEED to play with your child, WHILE you THINK
about and DO other things?. . . If you answered "YES" to any of
these, then this book is coming to YOUR RESCUE Whether you are a
parent, grandparent, baby-sitter, older sibling, or caregiver, this
book can save YOU time and energy, while satisfying and engaging
your little hero-in-the-making.A great help for groups too --
parties, sleep-overs, day-care centers, etc.LARGE INTERIOR TEXT for
easy reading.Use at home, around town, or on vacation.Sirens.
Speed. Authority. Saving the day. Mastering the problem.. .
.Entertain AND positively influence your child.Recommended for use
with children 3 to 6 years old.
These sixty nuggets range in size from token pebbles (just four
lines long), to a 523 line poetic story of one days adventure with
a camera and a sister. Like polished journal entries, these
compositions are snippets of joy, heartache, contemplation, nature,
faith, fun, work, triumph and growth---all from the heart and mind
of a teenaged girl laboring to consciously choose the bricks of her
internal foundation on which to mature. Noname (no-NAY-me) wrote
all of these poems between the ages of 9 and 19, while traveling
the United States with her family---on a shoestring and a prayer.
Now 35 with a family of her own, and settled in the middle of the
country, she has edited and illustrated this volume, hoping it will
comfort, help, and encourage other teenagers with their own
struggles on their roads to adulthood. "Awesome Great flow, good
detail, great everything My] favorite--'Sunset at a Creek.' Great
that there are religious poems. Overall--perfect " ---Gracie Brown,
16 "Filled to bursting with the whims, fancies, and worries of a
young woman, this is the most genuinely human collection of poems I
have read. A teenage girl lives minute by minute, seeing the same
world in a completely different light with each moment. This book
speaks to that in a very delicate way. It is a comfort to know that
whether you are traveling the country in the 70s and 80s or trying
to keep up in a suburban high school, our problems and joys are all
the same. This collection is an elegant, encouraging read."
---Sophie Cameron, 15
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