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StoryMakers SPECIAL REPORT: DRAGONS ARE REAL!




StoryMakers host Rocco Staino has BREAKING NEWS: author, publisher, and multicultural children’s book champion Valarie Budayr has revealed dragons are real! As a child visiting Sweden she was introduced to a dragon by her grandmother. Valarie confirms there are dragons all over the world, so keep a look-out! Watch this special report where she shares interesting facts about dragons including their reading habits, intelligence, and love of riddles.

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ABOUT ‘DRAGONS ARE REAL’

DRAGONS ARE REAL - Valarie Budayr

Dragons Are Real
Written by Valarie Budayr, illustrated by Michael Welpy
Published by Audrey Press

What if I told you that all of the fairy tales, myths and legends that have been told about dragons over the years are WRONG? What if I told you that Dragons are indeed REAL and that they are different than you’ve ever imagined?Did you know that Dragons are the master of disguises? Did you know that they love sugar and sweets (at unacceptable levels) and will do anything for treats? Award winning author Valarie Budayr brings us this fairly true story based on her childhood friendship with a REAL live Dragon.

ABOUT VALARIE BUDAYR

Amazon and iTunes best-selling author and founder of Audrey Press, Valarie Budayr is a play and reading advocate whose mission is to inspire children, families, and communities to experience and create a world together through books while having fun. She is passionate about making children’s books come alive on her website Jump into a Book so that kids of all ages can experience the stories in new and exciting ways. Author of The Fox Diaries: The Year the Foxes Came to our Garden and The Ultimate Guide To Charlie and The Chocolate Factory and A Year in the Secret Garden, Valarie is passionate about making kid’s books come alive and encouraging families to pull books off of shelves and stories off of pages. As co-founder of Multicultural Children’s Book Day, Valarie is also committed to raising awareness for children’s books that celebrate diversity and multicultural characters and is also working to get more of these of books into classrooms and libraries.

Read more about Valarie at her website: Jump Into a Book.

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Posted by Julie Gribble
June 30, 2016, 5:30 pm

About Julie Gribble

Julie Gribble

Julie Gribble produces works for children and the children’s literature community in both the United States and Great Britain. While a Children’s Literature Fellow at Stony Brook Southampton, she founded KidLit TV to help children’s authors and illustrators connect with their audience by using new technologies to complement and promote their work. Julie is also founder of the upcoming TeenLit TV which will feature video programs for YA fans. Julie has been nominated for two Emmy Awards and is a multi award-winning writer, screenwriter, filmmaker, and producer. Her charming picture book, Bubblegum Princess, is based on a true story about Kate Middleton and was released on the day the first royal baby, who we now know as Prince George, arrived. Copies of the book have been donated to underprivileged children in the US and to children’s hospices in the UK. NALIP BAFTAIn addition to producing KidLit TV’s original shows, Julie co-produced Who Killed Nelson Nutmeg, a feature film shot in Dorset, England with Bonnie Wright of Harry Potter fame, and DOG BOWL, a short film by Gordy Hoffman which premiered at the 2015 Raindance International Film Festival in London.  Julie sits on the Children’s Committee of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts: BAFTA-NY and is a member of the National Association of Latino Independent Producers, New York Women in Film and Television, and the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. She has presented at the Texas Library Association Annual Conference, the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, NYC School Library System Spring Institute, and the 21st Century Children’s Nonfiction Conference.

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3 Comments

Kid Lit TV Commenter patte szewczuk

That was short and sweet.
Simply perfect and it felt like I was really watching a newscast
The book looks so cute and great for kids imagination
Loved it
patte

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Kid Lit TV Commenter LovableLobo

A special report, indeed! How fun is Valarie and her book?! Could there be a new reality show on the horizon? Finding Dragons. Haha!

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