A Great Nephew and a Great Aunt, Guests-Annie Bailey and son, Connor

Posted on by Penny Parker Klostermann
Ants may rule the hill, but they don’t rule here! Art by Landon (Click to Enlarge)
Ants may rule the hill, but they don’t rule here! Art by Landon (Click to Enlarge)

Hello, Great Readers of our series! Just In case you haven’t visited before, let me tell you a little about A Great Nephew and A Great Aunt. My great nephew, Landon (a seventh-grader) and I (his great aunt) collaborate. I write a poem which he illustrates. We started this collaboration in the fall of 2014 and have had so much fun with it that we decided to invite others along. Landon and I will continue to have a new episode on the second Friday of each month. The other Fridays are filling up quickly with guests. I have created a page on my website to view all the episodes of A Great Nephew and a Great Aunt. Click HERE to visit the page and enjoy past episodes.

Today it’s my pleasure to share a creative collaboration from . . .

Annie Bailey and her son, Connor

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Connor’s Arta-camel-named-fred-illustration-connor-bailey-1-copy

Many thanks to Annie and Connor for sharing their talents with us today.

 

Meet Connor: Connor is 10 years old and lives in rural Idaho. He loves drawing, biking, video games, reading, playing the piano and spending time with his family.

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Meet Annie: Annie Bailey is a children’s writer, songwriter, wife and mom to four boys. She loves laughing, reading, playing the piano, soccer, biking and baking.  Eagle Springs Records released Annie’s first children’s album, “There Is Joy,” in 2008. Annie enjoys serving as a volunteer for the SCBWI Utah/Southern Idaho region, Snake River Writers (an Eastern Idaho writing organization) and the 2015/16 Rhyming Picture Book Award Committee.  Annie lives in rural Idaho in a renovated farmhouse complete with her very own train car.  (Which, of course, has time traveling capabilities.)  Annie is represented by Tricia Lawrence of Erin Murphy Literary Agency. Visit her website at www.anniebailey.com.

Michelle at Today’s Little Ditty has the Poetry Friday Roundup today. today. If you’d like to know more about Poetry Friday, click HERE for an explanation by Renee LaTulippe.poetry friday button

44 thoughts on “A Great Nephew and a Great Aunt, Guests-Annie Bailey and son, Connor”

  6. Very cute & fun to read aloud!! And the illustration’s adorable too. Thanks, Annie & Connor (& Penny!) And you’re a fellow EMLA, so hopefully we’ll meet in person some day soon too 🙂

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    2. Thank you Maria! I would love to meet in person. Maybe in Vermont? And congrats on the release of Coyote Moon! Emily Feinberg read it to us during an SCBWI retreat last year. Such a beautiful book!

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