You are invited to Silly Sausage's birthday party!
Enjoy the excitement and fun activities as he celebrates this special day with all his friends.
Silly Sausage's Birthday is a story and activity book filled with vibrant colors and fun characters (created from nicknames for children).
This joyful book for 2 to 7-year-olds makes listening, learning, counting, and reading a playful and engaging experience.
Creative activities help children, carers and educators explore and expand on the story. Imaginative play is embraced.
Children ages 5 to 7 enjoy the story (and nicknames) while learning to read, count, and improve their thinking skills with engaging and creative activities.
Silly Sausage's Birthday has been crafted to entertain children and keep them engaged beyond the story with fun activities.
It is a story book, counting book, and activity book that is suitable for 2 to 7-year-olds.
This Second Edition adds value with fun games and activities such as coloring in, creating characters from your own nicknames, creative play and imaginative movement, questions about the story, drawing, dot-to-dot, spot the differences, and a quiz.
In response to teacher's requests the book now includes counting from 1 to 20 and has verbs clearly marked in bold italics.
Silly Sausage's Birthday can be enjoyed by children, parents, or carers at home and in early learning centers, kindergartens, preparatory school, Grade 1, or home schooling.
Children love birthdays and can relate to Silly Sausage preparing for and getting worn out on his birthday. The characters are especially funny as they are created from real nicknames for kids.
This is a genuinely fun book that young children treasure. Perfect as a birthday present for children age 2 to 7 years.
Illustrations in watercolor, pen and ink. (58 pages)
Mr. Simon is a children's writer with strong visual storytelling skills developed in film making and theater work. He has a natural talent for imagination, creativity, innovation, philosophical thinking and playful expression. He loves to explore, create and learn. With these skills, he has done many things. He has been a school teacher at public State schools and Waldorf Steiner schools. He has taught drama, clowning, and theater games to children. Simon has worked in the film and television industry in various roles including writing, directing, special effects, props making, and floor managing. He has worked with puppets, children, celebrities, lawyers and politicians. He studied and performed theatrical clowning. For fun, Simon picked olives in Italy, helped guide tourists around Greece and Turkey. He established a successful cultural tourism and community development project in Vanuatu helping remote villages. Simon currently works for a software company in a variety of roles including script/blog/ad copy writing, video production, voice-over work, editing, marketing, research, and product development. He is always writing, creating, and researching. He is looking forward to publishing and sharing more stories with you through MR SIMON BOOKS.
Kia Maddock is an artist, illustrator, Waldorf Steiner early childhood educator and mum. She loves to spend lazy days on the beach with her baby girl and go on wild outback adventures with her tween. You can find more inspiring and varied artwork by Kia in several children's books including 'The Beautiful Mare', by Dr Marc Cohen, as well as her eclectic Instagram page @dear_kia.When Kia was a young girl, her dream was to illustrate children's books. Now she is an Australian artist who loves adventure. She has funded her travels by painting murals in Thailand, Laos, India and Australia. Her artistic passions have included toy making, face painting, body art and dance.
