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Karen Ehrhardt

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Born

in Los Angeles, The United States

Genre

Children's Books

Influences

my mother, Dorothy Mae Williams

Member Since

November 2008

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https://www.goodreads.com/karen_ehrhardt

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Karen Ehrhardt doesn’t play an instrument and can’t sing a lick. But she’s probably listening to music right now at her home in the California redwoods, with her husband, their bouncing baby boy, and their dog.

Karen does assemblies for Preschool, and Kindergarten through 6th grade. Karen does writing workshops with students in grades 3-6. Karen is available to travel to schools throughout California and the U.S. Please contact Connecting Authors for specific dates (866-528-9269 - www.connectingauthors.com).

Karen's most recent mention in Publisher's Weekly :
"Jazzed About Reading - Every student at Martin Luther King, Jr. Elementary School in Oakland, Calif...received an early holiday present a few weeks ago: a signed copy of This Jazz Man ...more

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Karen Ehrhardt's Blog: THIS JAZZY BOOK

FREE FAMILY DAY at SFMOMA

Karen Ehrhardt performs an interactive reading of THIS JAZZ MAN (12:30 - 1pm), as part of Family Day and a nonstop, 24-hour live art variety show in the SFMOMA's Rooftop Pavilion featuring 48 artists, filmmakers, musicians, performers, and writers.

SFMOMA Family Day: 11am–4pm, features inventive hands-on gallery activities for children ages 4 to 12.

FREE - BRING THE KIDS!

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Published on May 30, 2013 16:40 • Tags: art, family, free, live-performance, museum, music

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This Jazz Man

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Pioneer Urbanites: A Social and Cultural History of Black San Francisco

by Douglas Henry Daniels

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Karen’s Quotes

“I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: comma, misattributed-gustave-flaubert, proofreading

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“Writing is easy. You only need to stare at a blank piece of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.”
― Gene Fowler

tags: humor-writing-craft

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“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

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“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
― Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It

tags: travel

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“I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.”
― Mark Twain