Award-winning Author Karen Wiesner announces the release of her first children's book.

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(PRWEB) January 26, 2003

MAKING GOOD CHOICES SERIES: BOOK 1 TAKING RESPONSIBILITY BUILDS TRUST

AUTHOR: KAREN SUE WIESNER

ILLUSTRATOR: ROBERT LEE BEERS

Book page: http://www.writers-exchange.com/epublishing/karen-book1.htm

The Making Good Choices Series is an interactive set of stories and illustrations designed to help parents and kids understand each other and to

work together toward making good decisions.

For Parents: The Making Good Choices Series is designed specifically for preschoolers and elementary school-aged children. Kids this age are facing some of the first hard choices they’ll make. Sometimes it’s not easy for them to understand what parents want and why they want it. In the stories, the kids will make choices on their own, either good or not so good, and learn about important concepts that will set the groundwork for the rest of their lives.

Interactively designed hot links allow children to jump from one place to another place within the stories as they make decisions on their own and discover consequences. Special features allow for further exploring and fun.

The language throughout is in a simple-to-grasp tone. The stories are interactive in two ways:

1) The stories are designed to allow you and your child to interact together. Reading the stories, you’ll think of many similar incidents you

and your child have faced. Share those situations and try to get your child to decide whether they made good choices and how to do so in the future.

2) Within each story, you’ll see highlighted words and graphics. In the electronic version of this story, these words are “hot linked.” By clicking on these, you can jump to another place for further exploring and fun. In the print version, you can flip to the back of the book and discover more in the special sections.

GENRE: CHILDREN’S INTERACTIVE PICTURE BOOK

PRICE: $ 4.95

FORMAT: pdf, html, CD (print edition coming soon)

RELEASE DATE: 17 January 2003

Reviews:

“I read this adorable colorful non-fiction children’s book in a matter of a few minutes. It is a lovely tool to help even the youngest children take responsibility for what they do. It also shows them what the right choice and what the wrong choice would be.

“Incorporated within this small book are incentives for children to read to the end and to see what the right choice or the wrong choice would be.

“I believe Karen Sue Wiesner has come up with a great tool to help not only youngsters but also their parents to make the right choices not only with their actions but with parenting skills as well. I look forward to more books in this fine educational series.”

~Reviewed by Kathy Boswell for The Best Reviews http://thebestreviews.com

“As a child I often got in trouble for making poor choices. Often, it was because I didn’t know how to do things differently before I found myself in those situations. As an adult raising my own child, I often had difficulty teaching the concepts of trust and responsibility in a way my child could grasp.

“With “Making Good Choices Series: Book 1, Taking Responsibility Builds Trust”, Karen Sue Wiesner solves both those problems with her fun and

creative book. Within its pages short active stories of both poor choices and good choices, allow the reader to gain understanding of these difficult concepts by experiencing them through the characters.

“The interactive nature of this book allows parents and child to work together to experience various outcomes based on different choices. The

realistic colorful graphics created by Robert Lee Beers highlight the realism of the settings and situations children find themselves in every

day.

“This is a must read book. I only wish it had been available when I was a child, or the parent of a young child. I highly recommend it.”

~Reviewed by Mrs. Mouse, author of “I Can Grow!”, http://www.MrsMouseHouse.com

“Making Good Choices is filled opportunities to encourage conversations with your children. Wiesner has drawn on her experience as mother to

make common lectures into fun. Being able to choose yes or no to questions an only delight a child. Even a child who will constantly choose the right answer will benefit in the understanding of others when going back to chose the wrong answer. This series can only be a win win for children and their parents. The bright graphics by Robert Lee Beers grab attention and excellently portray Wiesner’s written words.”

~children’s book author Diana Lesire Brandmeyer http://www.dianabrandmeyer.com

“Karen Wiesner, an expert in the field of electronic publishing, makes excellent use of this medium in her first children’s book, TAKING RESPONSIBILITY BUILDS TRUST. The interactive format and clever illustrations by Robert Beers are a winning combination.

“Examples used are situations a child often encounters, so he/she will find them useful in their lives. Planting “seeds of understanding” and receiving “Reb’s Gold Stars” are clever reinforcement features that add to the fun and learning.

“I look forward to future books in the “Making Good Choices” series. As a children’s author and

former elementary school teacher, I highly recommend this interactive book by Ms. Wiesner and Mr. Beers.”

~Betty Jo Schuler http://home.webworks2000.net/bschuler/bettyjo.html




New release ~ CAMP CHEER, an interactive pick-a-path mystery http://www.hardshell.com/newErel.asp;

BRAIN MAN and DOUBLE TROUBLE DITTO BOX http://www.writers-exchange.com/epublishing/betty.htm

“Taking Responsibility Builds Trust” by Karen Wiesner is well-suited for a classroom setting. I feel its best suited for [age] 7 and up. It teaches trust and responsibility and is interactive, and gives children the ability to make their own choices. The e-book version also can teach valuable computer skills for both child and teacher. The child need not be online to read.”

~Valerie Hardin, author for My Grandmother’s Wedding, (Eppie Finalist 2003), I’m With My Mom On

Sunday (Eppie Finalist 2001) Two Turtles (Eppie Finalist 2000) and Star Babies: A Story of Adoption

About the Author:

Karen Sue Wiesner is the children’s book pen name of Karen Wiesner. When asked why this award-winning, multi-genre author ventured into children’s books, Karen says, “For the reason I

think most authors write children’s stories: My son Cody is an avid lover of books, like his

parents. I wrote this series for him. I liked the idea of combine the ‘choose your own adventure’ format I used to love as a kid with making it fun for kids to make good choices in the situations they face every day. These stories will also help young children learn to use a computer on their own, given its interactive qualities. Robert’s fun, visually appealing illustrations really make the books come to life.”

In addition to the Making Good Choices Series, look for Karen’s other children’s books (to be

published by Writer’s Exchange Publishing):

-CODY KNOWS (coming March 2003) and CODY KNOWS II with Linda Derkez; illustrations by Candace

Hardy

-THE TREE OF LIFE (Hard Christian Questions Series for Children)

Karen Wiesner, named a “leading romance writer” by The Writer Magazine, is the award-winning author of the Gypsy Road Series, the Angelfire Trilogy, Dare to Love Series as well as the newest, Wounded Warriors Series, from Hard Shell Word Factory http://www.hardshell.com. Her fiction novels from Hard Shell have been nominated for Romantic Times’ 1999 Reviewer’s Choice Award, the Frankfurt Award and

multiple EPPIE’s. Karen’s first paranormal, SWEET DREAMS (originally published by Avid Press, LLC), which was a Reviewers’ Top Pick for 2000, received a coveted 4 ½ star Top Pick review from Romantic Times Magazine and was a finalist for the prestigious 2001 Daphne du Maurier Award. It will be re-released by Hard Shell in 2003 with a new cover painted by her husband.

Karen is also the author of annually updated ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING The Definitive Guide , a multi-award winning writer’s reference published in 2003 by Hard Shell Word Factory. In Early 2003, Hard Shell will release the award-winning compilation of Karen’s Inkspot column under the title ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING Q&A.

SOUL BLEEDS The Dark Poetry and Other Wanderings of K.S. Wiesner (Atlantic Bridge Publishing

http://www.atlanticbridge.net), Karen’s first book of poetry, finaled in the 2002 EPPIE’s.

Currently, Karen is working on the Falcon’s Bend Series, a series of mysteries, with award-winning

author Christine Spindler http://www.christinespindler.com, who hails from Auenwald, Germany. DEGREES OF SEPARATION and TEARS ON STONE, the first two books in the series, are completed. Visit Karen and Christine’s mystery website at http://www.angelfire.com/super2/spindler/efalcon1.html.




Karen has also completed the first book-NO ORDINARY LOVE-in a new mainstream action/adventure

series, the Incognito Series.

Visit Karen’s website at http://www.karenwiesner.com. Karen enthusiastically welcomes letters from her fans. Write to her at kwiesner@cuttingedge.net or

by writing to PO Box 118, Black River Falls, WI 54615. Send your snail mail address to Karen to

receive a free excerpt disk. If you would like to receive Karen’s free e-mail newsletter, Karen’s

Quill, visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KarensQuill or send a blank message to

KarensQuill-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.

About the Illustrator:

Robert Beers http://www.writers-exchange.com/epublishing/robert.htm grew up in the Pacific Northwest. In fact, many of the landscapes he describes in his fantasy THE PROMISED ONES can be found there. He attended Humboldt State University as an art student and for a number of years maintained an active studio in Eureka California, a small port city in the heart of the redwoods. Robert and his wife and currently live in the Southwest where he works as a computer graphics expert. In his spare time he plays guitar, paints and, of course, writes. Some of Robert’s other Writers Exchange E-publishing artwork includes: SU LING’S KITE by Joann Rohr (illustrated picture book), THE LEGEND OF LEJUBE ROGUE by Patricia Lucas White (western), HOTLINE TO HEAVEN by Darrell

Bain (romance). Robert also does the weekly comic strip “Life on the Rockpile”

http://www.writers-exchange.com/epublishing/comic.htm.

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