Author, Twyla Sue McConnell, is a retired educator with over 20 years’ experience as a teacher, elementary guidance counselor, and media specialist. During that time, she worked ceaselessly to instill positive self-esteem and self-confidence in her kindergarten, first and second grade students. Mrs. McConnell believes that children need to feel and know they are wonderful, even if someone says hurtful or mean things to them. She wrote My Wonderful Bear and Me: Teaching Children How to Handle Negative Feelings to help children overcome negative feelings and affirm that they are worthy and valuable simply because they have been created! Mrs. McConnell lives in South Florida with her husband and her dog.
Many have heard of the Old Spanish Trail, but have misleading ideas of its use and course. Robert Hurst takes the reader on a 465 mile journey through the eyes of early Spaniards and others across the marshes, swamps, rivers, natural bridges, and highlands of Florida from St. Augustine to Pensacola.
Somewhere on the border between reality and fantasy lies the land of “What Ifs.” A little boy wakes from a busy dream to discover something has changed in his safe, familiar bedroom. A horn that looks exactly like the ones in the pattern of his bedspread is lying on the rug beside his bed. “What if,” he thinks, the cotton soldiers on his bedspread came alive and left it behind? A child’s fantasy. Or is it?
