Hens in a Hurry is both a counting book to help young children learn to count numbers from one to twenty, and a sweet preschool picture book (great for ages 2 to 8) about a flock of hens who fill every day with fun and action-packed adventures. There are numbers and hens to count everywhere. This fully illustrated hen counting picture book also includes a bonus draw and tell story, where the hen picture book story is repeated in the form of a drawing story, a lively and time-honored storytelling technique which is very easy to use and requires no special materials or experience. Clear instructions and a traceable drawing are included, as well, to help novices use the draw and tell story with ease. In the draw and tell story, as the Hens in a Hurry counting story is retold, certain elements are sketched onto a single sheet of paper, while children look on. These simple elements build up on the drawing until, by the time the story ends, a composite picture of a hen has emerged, much to the children's delight. This form of draw and tell storytelling is great for parents, teachers, babysitters and children's librarians. Author Barbara Freedman-De Vito has been creating and using Draw and Tell stories for many years in her work as a children's librarian, freelance storyteller, teacher, and workshop leader. You can find her many draw and tell story collections under the series title of Draw Me a Story, plus find more of her original picture books, all available on Amazon. Please do an AMAZON SEARCH for " Barbara Freedman-De Vito " to find all of Barbara's collections of Draw and Tell stories, plus her other books for children. Please go to: http: //www.babybirdproductions.com/picturebooks.html to see sample interior pages from Barbara's picture books.
About the Author: Barbara Freedman-De Vito has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, certification as an art teacher and as an English teacher, and a Master's degree in Library Science from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She has spent many years as a children's librarian in the U.S.A., as a free-lance storyteller and puppeteer in the U.S. and in Europe, and as a teacher and as a workshop leader on the arts of storytelling, puppetry and prop design. She also writes and illustrates her own children's stories and draw and tell stories and creates art prints, plus fun clothing and gift items decorated with her artwork, all available on her website: Baby Bird Productions http: //www.babybirdproductions.com