I've just published a new children's book called Anna and the Storm on amazon! It's a rhyming picture book about a musically-gifted girl named Anna who writes a piece of music on a rock in the woods near her house just for fun. When the rock is found, the music is performed for the people of Anna's small town. The music is so beautiful, the town mayor and pastor are convinced that the music is a gift from heaven. When a storm washes the music away from the face of the rock, the townspeople believe that the music was taken from them for someone's wrongdoing and try to blame a dark stranger and Anna for taking away the music. Anna must find a way to convince everyone that she wrote the music and that the stranger and she had nothing to do with causing the storm that took away her song.
This story offers parents and children an excellent opportunity to discuss such important issues as the dangers of jumping to conclusions, blaming innocent people for imagined wrongs, distrusting people we don't know just because they are strange to us and the fact that our political and religious leaders are just as fallible as everyone else and sometimes work against our best interests.
This is a long-form rhyming picture book written for children ages nine to thirteen, though younger children will enjoy the cadence of the rhymes.
I've also made a YouTube video of Anna's Tune that you can watch right now if you want to hear the music that Anna wrote in the story. The song is actually a traditional American folk song called Shenandoah which was probably written over two hundred years ago. It has lived all of those years because of its beautiful melody.
Here's the cover of Anna and the Storm:
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