Book Details:
Book Title: Buckaroo Buckeye: A Little Nut with Big Dreams
Author: Kristin Anderson Cetone
Illustrator: Nadia Komorova
Category: Children’s Fiction (Ages 3-7), 36 pages
Genre: Friendship, Social Skills & School Life, Bullies, Growing Up & Facts of Life
Publisher: KLAC Enterprises, LLC
Release date: September 1, 2012
Tour dates: May 21 to June 15, 2018
Content Rating: G
Book Description:
Winner of the Mom’s Choice Silver and OneBookAZ Awards!
There’s a new cowboy in town! Hit the trail with Buckaroo Buckeye, a lovable little nut who falls from his tree in Ohio, as he dodges the bumps and bullies along the way in a magical journey to find his true place in the world.
Created by Reading Specialist Kristin Cetone, Buckaroo Buckeye teaches children 4-8 to: • Learn to ignore bullies
• Improve their self-esteem
• Connect with reading
• “Dream, Believe and Achieve” no matter their size!
Your child will be inspired by Buckaroo’s determination in this touching story with unforgettable characters illustrated by Nadia Komorova. Get yours today!
Buckaroo Buckeye grew out of author Kristin Anderson Cetone’s imagination and joy of reading.
Born in Dayton, Ohio, she traveled many miles before putting down roots in the Arizona desert. Influenced by family, education, life experiences, and a desire to teach others, Mrs. Cetone discovered her purpose—just like Buckaroo Buckeye did.
Her true calling and passion is writing and helping others become successful readers. She created Buckaroo to encourage children to believe in themselves and follow their dreams while dodging the bumps and bullies along the way. Reading will help guide the way. Being a Reading Specialist, she has also created Nuts About Reading™ an informal, supplemental, online reading service. She shares her insights and suggestions to help parents strengthen their children’s reading process and become successful readers.
Her joy now is to inspire and help kids to find the Buckaroo Buckeye in themselves.
Connect with the Author: Website ~ Twitter ~ Facebook ~ Pinterest ~ Instagram
Finding Your Voice: Writing in First Person (or Third)
My stories come from my heart. The words of my stories are intended to create emotions and feelings in the reader based on my own feelings and emotions about the character. I design one main character with several lesser characters that are met along the way. My main characters speak about themselves and share events that they are experiencing. My goal is to develop a closeness with my audience and bring the reader into my experience as the writer. I feel that children connect to the character and story more through use of dialogue, so my stories use many quotation marks, allowing the reader to feel they are taking part in the character’s experiences. I have always been able to express my feelings and opinions better through writing and not verbally. First person is perfect for me to express the feelings of my characters. I must add, I have my father’s mischievous gene and twinkling eye, so I like to infuse a little humor, whether through words or the illustrations.
BUT more importantly, for children, I feel very strongly that the pictures need to support and bring the text to life. The foundation to good comprehension is visual processing. Young children have not yet developed the ability to comprehend through words alone. They need help to picture the words and the story. The more they picture, the better they remember the story and understand the writer’s message(s). Young children develop their own reading success through pictures, representing the text, up to third grade. In third grade, they switch to using only the words for meaning and comprehension, as pictures are used less. Now they must master the art of visual processing on their own…creating their own pictures in their minds for the words they read. Thus, for the older children the task becomes more challenging for the writer to illicit these visuals through their word choice.
“Success comes from a tiny ‘seed’ within each of us. This tiny seed contains our hopes and dreams and passions in life. When we receive encouragement and nourishment from family, culture, education, and life experiences, the seed will sprout and grow mighty, and rise above the bumps and bullies and setbacks along the way.
Discouraging words…discourage dreams,
Encouraging words…sprout dreams,
Parents plant the seeds.”
-Kristin Anderson Cetone
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