I’m happy to present this guest post by Callie Raab:

Years ago I wrote a children’s song about fantastical creatures having a race that included the lyric, “Some had eyes on their fingers and toes, a horn on their chin, or a tail on their nose.” They were such fun to draw that when I set about writing stories to help my dyslexic godson learn to read, I thought, “Why not create a whole world of bizarre flora and fauna?” Perhaps at the back of my mind were the fabulous critters that had piqued my childhood imagination in “If I Ran the Zoo” and other Dr. Seuss books.

Dr. Seuss’s early readers, like “The Cat in the Hat,” provide practice with the letter sounds and simple words. As an educator as well as an author and illustrator, I thought, “Why not pick up where he left off and write whimsical stories that expand a child’s vocabulary by introducing all the common letter combinations (ea, igh, and tion, for example)?

And that’s how I came to create the story collection “The Adventures of Jix.“

To date I’ve written over 80 children’s stories: 37 of them about the plucky, pint-sized monster Jix, as well as 43 fairy tales in my middle reader “The Poof! Academy,” 10 of them about a little school for witches who are forever up to magical mischief.

“The Poof Academy 1” is now available on Amazon, along with the ebook of the first volume of “The Adventures of Jix” (the next 3 volumes to follow soon)

Click on callie@eagerreaderpress.com to see my creations.