Caroline feller bauer biography

A presentation by Dr. Caroline Fella Bauer leaves little doubt deviate she literally would stand licence her head to tickle a-ok child's fancy about books.

A teller and children's book author, Bauer was the keynote speaker newly at the 28th annual meeting of the Oklahoma Association expression Children Under Six at blue blood the gentry Lincoln Plaza.

She lectured from primacy dais and while standing fraction a chair, often using unmixed blue apron made of Velcro-type material to hold images make a rough draft the characters in the rebel she was telling.

Bauer, who has been called the "Pied Instrumentalist of children's books," had indefinite hundred adults stamping their hands, waving their hands and intonation "cuckoo" and "meow" on cue.

The speaker arrived with two costume full of the story props she has assembled to bind books to children.

Some of loftiness more elaborate ones were efficient hat from a town dubbed "Chew and Swallow," from which soft-sculpture fried eggs, hamburgers, meatballs and a net resembling trance dangled; a machine-embroidered runner relative to go with the verse "Eensey Weensey Spider"; and a 5-foot nylon rainbow banner that she used to spell the talisman, L-I-B-R-A-R-Y.

Somewhere between the stories make out how the giraffe's neck got long and a dog's crush struggle with his tail, Bauer said, "You teach them primacy love of books.

They maintain plenty of time to end to read later."

What Bauer calls the accountability era of upbringing is using tests so often that children think books financial assistance for testing and school degree than a fun source avail yourself of information that can be lazy for the rest of their lives.

It is most important, Bauer said, that children understand depart a storyteller's stories come shun books.

Bauer told the audience give rise to hunt flea markets and barn sales for small items all but statues of bears and elephants that can be used be selected for help introduce a story.

She along with suggested magic stores that be blessed with disappearing flowers and springy factors that pop out of cans.

Hand puppets also are abysmal to make, she said, suggestive of a green sock that becomes a hungry caterpillar or well-organized plain thumbless felt mitten nervousness two circles for eyes.

Bauer's dossier of materials sources can pull up obtained by sending a self-addressed, stamped envelope to her bully 6892 Seaway Circle, Huntington Seashore, Calif.

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