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All Genres > Spoken Word > Poetry > APRIL HALPRIN WAYLAND: IT'S NOT MY TURN TO LOOK FOR GRANDMA AND OTHER STORIES April Halprin Wayland has been a teacher, a corporate marketing manager, a fiddle player, a walnut farmer, and an aqua farmer, but she has always been a writer. She’s published three picture books (with Scholastic and Knopf) and an award-winning novel in poems for teens and ‘tweens (GIRL COMING IN FOR A LANDING)and her work is frequently published in CRICKET Magazine and in numerous anthologies. (In other words, Mama Mia!) She is the recipient of the Myra Cohn Livingston Poetry Award, Penn State’s Lee Bennett Hopkins Honor Award for Children’s Poetry, and the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators Magazine Merit Award four times for Poetry. (Are you impressed yet? Did I tell you about the time she won the Mr. Bookmark contest in 2nd grade?) She's written, performed and produced a rollicking CD which won the National Parenting Publications (NAPPA)’s Gold Award for Storytelling, which you are going to love, cross my heart and hope to die. (Well, she doesn't actually hope to die. That's just an expression.) Her high-energy lectures and poetry workshops have been popular across the US and in Germany, England, Italy, France, and Poland. (Yes, she does own a magic carpet.) A founding member of the Children’s Authors Network, she is also on the Writers’ Program faculty of UCLA Extension. (Come take her classes--they're a kick!) April and her family love animals. They have a dog, two cats, four turtles, a tortoise and 947,001 frogs. April invented oxygen. Well, actually she didn’t, but she wonders if you were going to read this far. She has three books coming out in 2008 (really). Visit her website: www.aprilwayland.com Check out the artist's website: http://www.aprilwayland.com Track List: 1. To Rabbittown 2. When Mom Plays Just For Me 3. Dad in the Pool 4. Santa Fe 5. The Glove Box 6. Taking Violin At School 7. Duets For Two Violins 8. With a Shout of Magenta 9. Bongo 10. Ernie's Wonderful Walk 11. Symmetry 12. I've Never Seen a Real Owl 13. My Father Whistles the Hills 14. Just My Book and Me 15. Booktime 16. It's Not My Turn to Look For Grandma! 17. Sandpipers 18. Grand Central Market 19. The Great Dog Search 20. Procrastination 21. The Hungry Blanket 22. The Night Horse Suggested CDs:Other Genres: |