Category Archives: Bloggathon

Congratulations to the 2010 Children’s Choice Book Award Winners

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The results are in. The Children’s Choice Book Awards  for 2010: www.bookweekonline.com Kindergarten through Second Grade- “Lulu the Big Little Chick” by Paulette Bogan. (Bogan Flats Campground is only 3 miles from my house in Marble, Colorado, and is a very beautiful spot to camp!) And in the 3rd and 4th Grade category, the winner is “Lunchlady and the Cyborg Substitute” by Jarrett J Krosoczka.  The Children’s Choice Book Award is the result of schoolchildren voting for their favorite books from a list of finalists.  Congratulations to Paulette and Jarrett! It’s an honor to have schoolchildren across the nation choose your book as the best in the country!

9 Year Old After Dinner Speaker

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My 9 year old son is sitting next to me reading “The Speaker’s Desk Book”. It has “5000 Sparkling Epigrams” and “1187 Anecdotes” in addition to “Jewels of Thought…Oft-quoted Masterpieces of all time…” The reason he’s reading it is because he loves to read.  His mother and I have read to him since he was far too young to know what we were saying.  Now, instead of watching TV or playing video games, or texting his buddies, or surfing the net, he reads. And he DOES get to visit far away places and times and people and use his imagination, and build his vocabulary and become a more mature person.  Who knows? With resources like “The Speakers Desk Book” he may very well become a sought after speaker, or an eloquent statesman. Celebrate National Children’s Book Week ( www.bookweekonline.com )  by reading to your little ones. 

Spring Snowstorm

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Last night it snowed 6 inches, here at Chalet Begly in Marble, Colorado. Being on the south facing slope, the snow has pretty much melted already. What are you doing right now? Hopefully sleeping peacefully if you are living here in the States.  I get people visiting this website 24 hours a day, from around the world.  I’m well into my Jerry Begly Bloggathon 2010. In particular, I’m celebrating National Children’s Book Week ( www.bookweekonline.com )  until the 16th of May. If you haven’t had a good laugh today, pick up a copy of my children’s book “Dad, the Tooth Fairy Didn’t Come!” ( www.jerrybegly.com/tooth ). I guarantee that you will see yourself somewhere in the book. We’re having lots of fun with it, and you will too!

Come to the Caves

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Yesterday, I got goosebumps when I discovered something. I just published my book “Dad the Tooth Fairy Didn’t Come!” in February of this year. Then this summer I got hired as a tour guide at the Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park (www.glenwoodcaverns.com, come on one of my killer caver tours) leading people through Fairy Caves, here in Colorado.  In our tours, we even show the people the dancing fairy on the wall. Then yesterday, I was reading through our tour guide book about the Fairy Caves. I discovered that Charles W. Darrow formed the Fairy Caves Company on September 16, 1895.  September 16 is my BIRTHDAY! I had cold chills running up and down my spine. And I wasn’t even standing out in the snowstorm that was taking place at the time.

Making Memories with Books

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Here’s a dumb story I heard today:  A kid asked his dad if the dad could teach him how to fish.  So the dad went out and bought the boy a fishing video game. I hope you, the reader, aren’t that kind of parent.  Your kids will be grown and out of the house before you know it. As a co-worker once told me about raising children: “The days go too slow, and the years go too fast.”  Put down some memories that your children and grandchildren can reach back into when you’re gone. Reading to a child is one of the easiest and most memorable ways to do that. You can celebrate National Children’s Book Week www.bookweekonline.com by going to the library and getting some fun or interesting stuff to read. Or you can order my book “Dad the Tooth Fairy Didn’t Come!” at www.jerrybegly.com/tooth.