StoryMakers with Holly Peppe SOPHIE AND THE SWANS
Join Rocco for a chat with Holly Peppe author of SOPHIE AND THE SWANS on StoryMakers. This beautiful picture book explores the relationship between a girl and a pair of wild swans she befriends and the decisions she makes to protect them from a bully. Watch to learn more about these majestic birds, some new vocabulary words, and some strategies for dealing with kids who are behaving in an unkind way.
Kids! If you were Sophie, what would you name the pair of swans? Leave your ideas in the comments below!
ABOUT THE BOOK
2024 Family Choice Award Winner
2024 Purple Dragonfly Award tied First Place Charity/Making a Difference category
A portion of proceeds for the book will be donated to anti-bullying advocates
Sophie is a little girl who lives beside a lake and makes friends with a pair of swans who visit her every day. One day, when a bully starts to torment the swans, Sophie rushes to defend them not by attacking the bully, but by showing him kindness when he gets into trouble on the lake.
About Holly Peppe
Holly Peppe is a writer, editor, and PR and Global Media Strategist who promotes causes, individuals and non-profits in the U.S. and abroad through profile development, branding and media outreach. As Chief Writer and U.N. liaison for the nonprofit medical group ORBIS International, she directed public awareness campaigns about blindness in the U.S., Canada, Cuba, Nicaragua, Romania, Bulgaria, India and China.
Peppe spent her former life in academia, teaching poetry and writing and directing the English department at the American College of Rome. En route to a doctorate in literature, she edited the Penguin Classics and Harper’s editions of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s poems—she now serves as the poet’s Literary Executor. Peppe’s own poetry, essays, translations and articles appear in various books and publications.
In 2012, she published two books for young adults with Scholastic. In 2013, after working closely with Eve Branson for the better part of a decade, editing 900 pages of her diaries, Peppe published Mum’s the Word, a memoir about Eve’s life that includes her role as mother to Richard Branson, one of the world’s most colorful entrepreneurs.
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