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Friday, June 18th, 2010
The renowned and distinguished School Library Journal LOVES my Danny the Dragon children’s book series just as much as the kids do.
A terrific review of the Danny the Dragon Meets Jimmy DVD was published in the June 2010 issue. I’m very pleased to share it with you below.
Tina Turbin
Danny the Dragon Meets Jimmy. DVD. 21 min. Imagination Publishing Group.2009, 2010 release.
PreS-Gr 3–When Jimmy and Sally visit the beach, they find a beautiful shell and take it home with them. They soon discover that it houses a dragon named Danny, wearing red tennis shoes and carrying a yellow backpack, and his navigator friend, Skipper. Danny and Skipper have dinner with Jimmy’s family and stay the night. The picture book by Tina Turbin (Imagination Pub. Group, 2008) closes with a promise that the friendly dragon will guide the children through a series of upcoming adventures. The DVD opens with a message from the author. Interpreter Carol Downing signs the entire story, standing on the right side of the screen as the pages turn. The fun cartoon illustrations by Aija Jasuna are scanned. Sound effects add to the narration, underscoring word meaning and helping children with some hearing identify sounds. Recommended especially for schools and libraries seeking to offer a greater variety of material to hearing-impaired children.
–Mary Landrum, Lexington Public Library, KY
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Monday, May 3rd, 2010
I’m really pleased and happy to share a review of my Danny the Dragon Meets Jimmy DVD in the well-known and highly-regarded publication: Booklist.
Tina Turbin
Booklist, Issue: April 15th 2010
Danny the Dragon Meets Jimmy.
Apr 2010. Victory, DVD
In this presentation of author Tina Turbin’s picture book, Carol Downing interprets the story in sign language while Janis Welch reads the text. Jimmy finds a large green shell at the beach. When the youngster lifts the shell, he hears voices coming from inside the vessel. After Jimmy takes the shell home, two creatures, Danny the Dragon and Skipper, emerge. The brightly colored illustrations depict Jimmy and his family as they serve dinner, play catch in the yard with friends, and finally settle down for the night.
Instead of utilizing animation, the film merely displays the book pages. But what sets the program apart is Downing’s signing, making the charming story accessible to both hearing and deaf children. See also ASL Tales: The Princess and the Pea (2009), featuring performance artist Pinky Aiello telling a nontraditional version of the familiar tale in American Sign Language.
— Candace Smith
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Monday, November 2nd, 2009
My Danny the Dragon series has become quite popular, so to keep up with the momentum, we’ve created a Danny the Dragon YouTube page, at which you will find a beautiful video of various images of children from our 2009 Book Tour to schools, hospitals and libraries.
I do hope you’ll visit. And when you do, if you could please take a moment to drop us a comment (and a 5-star vote!), that would be a HUGE help with increasing Danny’s popularity. Thank you!
Tina Turbin
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Saturday, October 31st, 2009
I’d like to share a lovely note of congratulations (for my award nomination in the AZ Authors Association Literary Contest and as an award-winning finalist of the National Best Books Awards of 2009) from my dear friend Carol Downing, a teacher at Blossom Montessori School for the Deaf, who also provided the sign language interpretation on the Danny the Dragon Meets Jimmy DVD (based off of my children’s book of the same name).
I just wanted to tell you that Maria has shared your fantastic news with me about your nominations to be announced in Arizona and New York!
All I can say is that when true and honest people do true and honest things from their heart – and then are recognized for the beauty it creates…all is well with the world.
From the bottom of my heart…Congratulations – to all of us here at Blossom you have already won, hands down.
Hugs , Carol D. aka “Danny’s hands”
Blossom Montessori School for the Deaf
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Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
USA Books and News is searching for the best books of 2009 as part of the 6th Annual National Best Books Awards. Under the categories of hardcover children’s picture books and paperback children’s picture books, my Danny the Dragon Meets Jimmy has been entered.
Visit our entry at the following links. Be sure to scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page, and then move upwards to find Danny located about 6 books up from the bottom!
http://www.usabooknews.com/childrensmainpage/picturebookhcfiction.html
http://www.usabooknews.com/childrensmainpage/picturebookpbfiction.html
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Danny the Dragon – A Judge’s Commentary
My children’s book Danny the Dragon Meets Jimmy was entered in the 17th Annual International Self-Published Book Awards. Below I am sharing with you a wonderful, professional judge’s commentary on the book:
“What a terrific cover illustration! Danny the Dragon is wonderfully drawn and is sure to appeal to kid readers; Skipper and Jimmy are wonderfully drawn, too. The interior illustrations are as wonderful: bold, bright, comical, full of amazing detail, quirkily fun – wonderful for the story and wonderful on their own. The story itself is delightful. What child wouldn’t be intrigued by a talking shell – that turns out to house a talking dragon? Kids will love that the mother very calmly and casually invites Danny and Skipper to stay for dinner and even agrees to let the dragon spend the night. (They’ll wish their own moms would be so accommodating.) Danny is loveable and polite (a nice, subtle lesson in manners for the kids reading this book); Jimmy and Sally’s reactions to his appearance in their household ring true (it’s also nice that they’re shown, without comment, cleaning up after themselves – a nice lesson for kid readers that is done subtly enough to not seem like a lesson). The story sets up itself for a series of future adventures. Children will enjoy reading about Danny again and again.”
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