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Zoom In On Zombies
64 pages, Hardcover
Published November 21, 2024
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Kari-Lynn Winters
38 books33 followersKari-Lynn Winters is an award-winning picture book author, playwright, and scholar who enjoys being in the classroom in any of these capacities. She holds a position at Brock University as a full professor of drama-in-education, dance-in-education, and literacy. Her graduate work, which was completed at the University of British Columbia, focused on combining the arts with reading and writing.
When Kari-Lynn began to write children’s picture book manuscripts and submit them to publishers about 22 years ago, people often shook their heads, advising her to write novels instead.
“It is so difficult to get picture books published in these times,” they said.
But Kari-Lynn persisted, continuing to collect, read, research, and write picture books. Her persistence paid off. Today, 31 books (picturebooks, poetry, non-fiction) that Kari-Lynn wrote have been accepted for publication. In addition, she has had academic chapters and articles about multimodality and student literacy published by Heinemann and in The Reading Teacher.
Kari-Lynn says the best thing about writing for children is that she can share silly ideas in funny and interactive ways and that she can talk to children about their own experiences as young authors.
When Kari-Lynn began to write children’s picture book manuscripts and submit them to publishers about 22 years ago, people often shook their heads, advising her to write novels instead.
“It is so difficult to get picture books published in these times,” they said.
But Kari-Lynn persisted, continuing to collect, read, research, and write picture books. Her persistence paid off. Today, 31 books (picturebooks, poetry, non-fiction) that Kari-Lynn wrote have been accepted for publication. In addition, she has had academic chapters and articles about multimodality and student literacy published by Heinemann and in The Reading Teacher.
Kari-Lynn says the best thing about writing for children is that she can share silly ideas in funny and interactive ways and that she can talk to children about their own experiences as young authors.
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March 4, 2025 This is a most interesting book that while taking on the topic of zombies, it is not totally about the walking dead per se. What makes the book work so well and is geared toward younger children, are the fount of facts noted here, about nature and many such creatures.
It has so many different sections and categories about the uniqueness of nature and how many insects and the like cope in the wild. It looks at smelly creatures such as skunks, polecats, and stink bugs with their rancid smelling liquids that keep other predators at bay.
Other creatures such as the praying mantis, snails, deer, moose, guinea worms, weasels and others are given their due here. The book has so many sections and chapters such as Zombies Among Us, Zombified, Survival of the Fittest, Brain Dead, Dirty Rotters, and many more. Give readers a nature lesson that is both serious and quite amusing.
These Zombies are one-of-a-kind, in a book that offer a “zomusing” time.
It has so many different sections and categories about the uniqueness of nature and how many insects and the like cope in the wild. It looks at smelly creatures such as skunks, polecats, and stink bugs with their rancid smelling liquids that keep other predators at bay.
Other creatures such as the praying mantis, snails, deer, moose, guinea worms, weasels and others are given their due here. The book has so many sections and chapters such as Zombies Among Us, Zombified, Survival of the Fittest, Brain Dead, Dirty Rotters, and many more. Give readers a nature lesson that is both serious and quite amusing.
These Zombies are one-of-a-kind, in a book that offer a “zomusing” time.
November 24, 2024
Kids will eat it up!
April 20, 2025
Informative and clever... children will love this approach to some very interesting science!
November 7, 2025
sowm interesting parallels that make the idea of zombies more palatable?
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