Rhonda Paglia, Children's Author

Monday, June 20, 2016

Summer Reading Fun for Kids

Children's Author,
Rhonda Paglia,
"Grammy Pags"
Read to your kids!!

Hi Everyone - Here's a short list of links to help keep kids on track with their summer reading.

From Scholastic Books: includes age appropriate book lists, printables, certificates of achievement and more. http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/collection/keep-kids-reading-all-summer-long

From Reading Rocket: includes age appropriagte (0 - 12) reading lists, but audio and download lists. http://www.readingrockets.org/books/summer

Amazon: Editor's Picks - Summer Reading for Kids
(ages 0 - 12): https://www.amazon.com/b?node=9039580011

Okay, one more: This is a GREAT list of books from Pintrest. Very cool!! https://www.pinterest.com/growingbbb/theres-a-book-about-that/

Finally, this is a really cool page with just Summer Reading Charts for Kids. I like these options the best! http://tinyurl.com/hoky7l9

READING GIVES YOU ROOTS! Have Fun!!

Love from Grammy Pags Stories for Kids: http://www.rhondapagliaauthor.com/

WestPA Book Festival

Thursday, June 9, 2016

A Journey Through Scotland!!

A Journey Through Scotland ~ Lowlands & Highlands includes sights, sounds, tastes, cultures, and history of Scotland, with a wee bit of Scottish humor throughout the pages.

To give you a little flavor of the book, here are a few random pictures you will find in the book. I hope you enjoy it!!

70 full color pages
6" x 9"
Reference book for travelers and students

Slàinte mhath! - To your health!

Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Gnomes on Guard in the Garden + Kidlit Fun!!

Hi Everyone!

Grammy Pags LOVES gnomes! Here are just a few of her Gnomes-on-Guard-in-the-Garden! They love watching over her plants and flowers. These little gnomes come to say "Hi" and they hope you are having a GREAT day!

If you like gnomes and gardens, then you just might enjoy Grammy Pags' garden story, Book #1 - "Three Little Gnomes and a Boy Named Orion."

Three Little Gnomes and a Boy Named Orion.

Recipient of a 2015 "Inkspoke Select Book Award."

Here's a fun little video trailer for Three Little Gnomes and a Boy Named Orion

and a peek into their beautiful garden!

We hope you enjoyed your visit!

Three Little Gnomes and a Boy Named Orion is 40 full color pages, written by Rhonda Paglia (Grammy Pags), illustrated by Ratna Kusuma Halim, and edited by Jo Spring. For kids 3 - 8.

Story Synopsis: Three little gnomes live, work, and play in Grammy's beautiful garden. They have a happy life until one day they discover that they have no names! They are so sad . . . and confused. Find out how these adorable gnomes solve this GREAT - BIG - PROBLEM . . . and make a new best friend. An easy / beginner reader and bedtime story for kids.

To order from Amazon - Kindle or Softcover

Signed copies may be ordered at: Grammy Pags Stories for Kids

ANNOUNCING:
"Three Little Gnomes and the One-Bite Mystery"
Release date: August 17, 2016!

Available for Kindle
Pre-release price: $1.99

Three Little Gnomes and the One-Bite Mystery - for Kindle

Thank you!! Have a wonderful day!!

Love, Grammy Pags and the Gang

Wednesday, May 11, 2016

A Journey Through Scotland - Lowlands & Highlands Now Available

Now available from Amazon:

For Kindle
Paperback

70 full color pages
Lots of photographs
Interesting and unusual facts
Places to go and things to do
Food, music, history, and more
Educational travel guide for kids and adults

Here's a little trailer preview:

And a peek inside the book: Preview pages of "A Journey Through Scotland ~ Lowlands & Highlands"

And some special music and toe-tapping fun at Farmer MacGregor's Farm! His family is directly related to the infamous Rob Roy MacGregor and the highlanders met in this very room! Rob Roy was the Robin Hood of his time during the Jacobite Rebellion.

A Journey Through Scotland: Lowlands & Highlands - is available now!
Paperback: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1532854315
For Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/Journey-Through-Scotland-Highlands-Lowland-ebook/dp/B01FBJHKPW?ie=UTF8&*Version*=1&*entries*=0

Thank you!

For more stories by "Grammy Pags" ~ check out her website at: Grammy Pags Stories for Kids

Monday, May 2, 2016

A Journey through Scotland's Lowlands & Highlands

By Rhonda Paglia

Photographs by:

Rhonda & Tony Paglia

NOW AVAILABLE for Kindle:
A Journey Through Scotland: Lowlands & Highlands

My husband and I were so fortunate to travel to Scotland this past September. It was a wonderful trip, full of fun, sites, tastes, music, and history. We loved every minute! Even the weather cooperated! Most of our travel days were sunny and beautiful!

This trip was even more special for me because I was returning to the land of my Scottish ancestors.

My grandmother, Laura Findlay Thompson, was 100% Scottish. Although she was born in the United States, her father and mother, my great grandparents, Marion and George Findlay, emigrated from Scotland to the US. My great grandfather worked in the Pennsylvania coal mines until he retired. The family never returned to Scotland, and my grandmother only knew of Scotland through pictures, stories, songs, and letters. For me to visit Scotland has always been a dream, and now that dream has been fulfilled.

Our Findlay family was part of the Farquharson Clan. I've included the family crest and used the tartan plaid as background on some of the pages.

Scotlands castles, pipers, border collie demonstration,
parades, feasts, Braveheart, the "Mourning Bridge,"
and so much more!

So, if you like to travel, then journey along with us as we tour the beautiful Lowlands and Highlands of Scotland! I hope you enjoy these few preview pictures and pages! Coming soon!

And as Grandma used to say:

"Lang may yer lum reek!"

~Long many your chimney smoke

~ Live long and be well!

Monday, April 25, 2016

FREE #kidlit for Kindle: Three Little Gnomes - LAST DAY

Three Little Gnomes and a Boy Named Orion

by Rhonda Paglia

(A Grammy Pags Story)

Illustrated by Ratna Kusuma Halim

Recipient of 2015 Inkspoke Select Book Award

Three Little Gnomes ~FREE for KINDLE April 25 - 29

Link for Free kindle version

Reviews are GREATLY appreciated! Thank you!!

INSPOKE AWARD: Review: "There are things that sometimes only the wee ones can see and I suspect often this is the case with gnomes and fairy folk. Gnomes, as author Rhonda Paglia tells us, are afraid of Big People. So, one day, when three little gnomes suddenly come upon an existential problem (apparently they do not have names) and needed help, it is not Grammy and Papa (the owners of the garden where they lived) that they approach but a little boy named Orion who sometimes visited and played there. And naming gnomes apparently is something that an imaginative, kind-hearted little boy can do very well! The tale is delightful, an absolute charm, and it provides a glimpse not only into that wider, magical world that children can see (and often we cannot) but of the important work and magic that they do as they play. The illustrations in the book of the gnomes, garden friends and Orion are darling and elicit the pure wonder of Grammy and Papa's garden and the secret world that lies beyond the bend of a leaf. Kudos to the author and illustrator for their ability to see what Orion sees and for being able to share that with us so beautifully. It's a book that is a pure pleasure to read." ~ Inkspokes

Three Little Gnomes ~FREE for KINDLE April 25 - 29

Book #2 - this fall: Three Little Gnomes and the Garden Thief

by Rhonda Paglia and Illustrated by Ratna Kusuma Halim! Here's a little peek.