Tag: Kids

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My Fantastic Summer Finds 2013 (Not as $$$$ as The O List!)

1) Yonanas -The banana ice cream maker: great way to get your kids to eat fruit, no sugar added! I like bananas and blueberries the best, but it’s all so good, and so easy to make.
2) Growing Gladioli and Hibiscus plants and using them to decorate the patio table. I also use white sand dollars and sea shells as a table ‘runner’ along with flower petals, but that’s just my style – you can use natural elements your own way, be creative and have fun.
3) Dollar store wooden jewellery boxes & other boxes – $2 – paint them with your kids!
4) Letting your hair dry in the sun using a natural curl enhancer like Aveda BE CURLY.
5) The poetry of Don Coles. This Canadian should be a cultural icon like Cohen. Re-eading “How We All Swiftly,” and I’m still getting goosebumps.
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Heather Reading “Trick or Treat?” (Kids Poem)

Trick or Treat?

Listen to Heather read this poem here

In the fall, I start to plan
the disguise of all disguises.
I plot and prepare
for an evening of surprises.

I practice stirring a witch’s pot;
I wear scars like Frankenstein’s.
I cackle and I screech
like an owl up in the pines.

I can be what I want;
mysterious and unseen.
Oh, what should I be
for this year’s Halloween?

I could be a pirate,
if I only had a patch.
Or perhaps a fire-eater,
if I only had a match.

I could be a fortune teller,
but I’d need a crystal ball.
I could be Humpty Dumpty,
but who would be my wall?

Perhaps I’ll be a butterfly,
with blue-speckled wings.
Perhaps a court jester;
my dog could be the King.

No, I must be different—
and scary—a surprise.
So no one else can tell it’s me,
except by my two eyes.

Yes, I’ll be what I want;
mysterious and unseen.

But what will YOU be
For this year’s Halloween?

copyright Heather Grace Stewart 2012

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The Groovy Granny: Reviews!

Thanks to Kim Larocque and her beautiful blog Muse in the Valley for her fantastic review of and back-story to The Groovy Granny ebook!

Review of The Groovy Granny

More reviews of this book are listed here: Reviews of Heather’s Poetry

(All reviews are posted on that page, but reviews for Carry On Dancing aren’t posted yet. I have been so busy touring with that book I haven’t had time yet to post reviews. You can however check out all customer reviews on Amazon here: Reviews of Carry On Dancing)

On bad days, do you feel like a monkey has messed your hair? Or perhaps
a lion is rummaging through your closet, telling you what to wear? Illustration
copyright Kayla Stewart, The Groovy Granny, Graceful Publications 2012.

Thanks again for reading & sharing my poetry.

Best wishes,
Heather

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Our Dream Realized: The Groovy Granny EBook

My daughter Kayla and I realized a dream a little over a year ago by publishing our book of illustrated children’s poems, The Groovy Granny. You’ve shown such great support by buying autographed copies (something that just tickled Kayla!) and inviting us to your schools.

Guess what? It’s now a Groovy ebook for just $2.99 on Kindle, iBooks, Kobo, Nook Books and more!

Check it out on Kindle Kindle here

and iBooks here (You’ll have to switch to your own country’s store in iTunes but the book is available in many countries on iBooks)

Kobo here

If you don’t have an ereader, that’s okay, most of these have a FREE app that lets you read right on your computer desktop or laptop!

Here’s the link to the blog post I wrote when copies of The Groovy Granny arrived. It explains how The Groovy Granny came to be, and will also give you links to buy copies of The Groovy Granny in paperback or hardcover if you’re interested. (We also sign and ship copies on request).

Thanks for reading and reviewing The Groovy Granny!

The Groovy Granny Has Arrived! (or: What I Didn't See Coming).

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Summer Vacation.