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Description:

Toads shares the wonder of childhood and beauty of nature through the eyes of young children. “Where do toads go in the morn when the moon goes down and the sun grows warm?” The soft, gentle rhyme and alliteration encourages children to take time to search for the toads in the beautiful watercolor pages while wondering where the toads hide and what they are doing when they cannot be found. “Do they head for the beach?...Will they snack on mosquitos?”

Additional Information:

Eileen spent 24 years as a preschool teacher for children with disabilities. She editied the Division for Early Childhood Newsletter in Wisconsin for many years. Recently she was the editor of the Wisconsin State Autism Society Newsletter. Now retired, she is in the 5th year of writing a column on parenting young children, Bringing Up Baby. She shares her collection of close to 200 songs and fingerplays, Twinkletime: Literacy in Eary Childhood, with parents and teachers, consults and offers teaching training workshops on behalf of young children with autism, and is part of the vibrant arts group in rural Rusk County, Wisconsin.