My Children's Book Recieves Story Monster's Purple Dragonfly First Place Book Award!

 

 

 

 

 

My FiveSibes™ Tale book, Getting Healthy With Harley, pictured here with its prestigious new Purple Dragonfly award seal from Story Monsters® and the beautiful medal next to my photo of my beloved inspirations, the FiveSibes, and my treasured Siberian Husky Tiffany lamp.

 

Writing and Huskies have been a huge part of my life and loves. When I first began writing my FiveSibes™ Tales children's books featuring my beloved Harley, Gibson, Wolfie, Chloe, and Bandit, I never imagined that the books would be so widely welcomed and receive such prestigious awards! Oh, how that warms my author's heart! And, here, 10 years later, I am still so honored that my Getting Healthy With Harley: Learning About Health & Fitness would be the FIRST PLACE recipient of the Story Monsters Purple Dragonfly Award in the Fitness/Exercise category! WOW! To be recognized by this amazing children's publishing company is absolutely a thrill. 

 

Me with my grandson outside of his classroom this year, with his "favorite book," my Getting Healthy With Harley!

This happens to also be my grandson's favorite book! Be still my heart. And, two years in a row, I've been a "Mystery Reader" for his elementary classes, and this was the book I read to his very enthusiatic class. I have donated a copy to each class so future classes can also enjoy it. As my young granddaughter told me, "Nanny, a really good book for children is one with the round seal on them." Now, I'm thrilled and honored to say this book has a seal! I think our Harley would be so impressed!

"The Purple Dragonfly Book Awards recognizes accomplished...published authors in the field of children's literature. Being honored with a Purple Dragonfly Book Award confers credibility upon the winner and gives published authors the recognition they deserve." ~StoryMonstersBookAwards.com

 

I think it is only fitting to share a pic of the now multi award-winning book's star - our beautiful alpha queen "Harley" posing with the book inspired by her and my FiveSibes! 

 #FiveSibes #Flashback Photo ~ Harley & Book When First Published.

 

My Getting Healthy With Harley book has previously been awarded "Best in Print" for five consecutive years by AmericanPet Magazine, as well as being named to the "Top Dog Book for Kids" list by Talent Hounds!

It's a wonderful thing to have a book recognized, and especially thrilling to be carrying on the wonderful legacy of my FiveSibes.

This tale takes the reader on a fun, rhyming adventure of when Harley tries to get the other four Huskies—Gibson, Chloe, Wolfie, and Bandit— to eat better and exercise in order to maintain a healthy lifestyle. 

There are still some limited copies of this book available, now proudly with the Purple Dragonfly award seal, on our website. (They are currently no longer available on Amazon, only on my FiveSibes.com website under the ArcticHouse Books & Gifts Shoppe tab, or you can click below to order directly through PayPal (accepts all major credit cards).

 

 

I'm also very proud to say this book is my grandson's favorite book! Oh, be still my heart! And the fun part is that when I surprised him as a class "mystery reader," he chose my book to read to his elementary class, with him helping me to turn the pages. Such a blast!

While originally when I began this series of books, it had been my dream to publish five FiveSibes™ Tales children's books, one highlighting each of my pups, unfortunately, my illustrator had suddenly dropped out of the industry unbeknownst to be, and left me in a bit of a pickle. She is unfortunately no longer is working in that field, which is why there has been a long pause between books. However, stay tuned, because I'll be once again working to fulfill this dream of mine starting with two upcoming books...one a "junior" tale, that takes the books in a different direction and hopefully will be out by the end of summer, so stay tuned! The other is a continuation of the original FiveSibes Tales that was left incomplete, but I'm working on finishing it myself and *hope* to bring to print sometime in the near future. The first FiveSibes Tale, What's Wrong With Gibson? Learning About K-9 Epilepsy sold out three times (!!!), and I do hope to one day bring that back eventually, too!

 

 

"Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. 

It should be offered as a gift." 

~ Kate DiCamillo

 

Until next time...

Dorothy 

 

Would you like to read more of my writing? While I have been writer for most of my life, this is my new blog, in its infancy stage. It's a place for me to share my love of writing and my published works (and it's in the works!) I also have another award-winning "sister" blog I have just celebrated my 14th anniversary writing ~ "FiveSibes," where I write all about my five Siberian Huskies, the Siberian Husky breed, Canine Epilepsy, fiction stories featuring Huskies, and all things K9! Come visit if you haven't already!