The Adventures of Tilda Pinkerton
is for the smart reader – the precocious child and the clever adult
Middle Grade Fantasy for grades 5 and up
What if the thing you’re most insecure about is what saved the world?
The most embarrassing secret Tilda Pinkerton, the magical hat maker, keeps hidden from the children she teaches – is her most miraculous gift.
The Adventures of Tilda Pinkerton is a story of inter-galactic crisis with bionic bugs on a mission to capture the great Tilda Pinkerton and destroy her magical hats before she can spread her Light across the galaxy
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Written in a wonderfully lyrical way that will appeal to fans of Dr. Seuss, Star Trek, Matilda Wormwood, and Harry Potter with every character’s name being a verbal play on their personalities. Quinn, for example, is Quinn Quisquilious, who works with rubbish to create new things. Belinda Balletomania is just that – obsessed with ballet. And of course Aaron Arachnophobia is the spider desperately afraid of himself.
Where to buy: Amazon, Barnes & Noble
About the
Author:
Angela is an author, actor, and public speaker. She has been writing
since she was eight years old. Her first novel was adapted into the movie
Tumbleweeds. Angela won a regional Emmy award for her portrayal of SafeSide
Superchick in The Safe Side video series created by Baby Einstein’s Julie
Clark. After living in Los Angeles for over a decade, Angela left the big city
for a one-light country town to marry her first love and fulfill her dream of
writing books in a barn house.
Her Tilda Pinkerton books can be traced back to her childhood fear of
dictionaries! Angela was a big believer in the “if I can’t spell it, how can I
find it in the dictionary to learn how to spell it” school of thought. In
fact, she was so frustrated by the uselessness of dictionaries that she
destroyed several during her childhood. She eventually got over her fear of
dictionaries (OK, she still hates them. But she learned to hide her antagonism
for word books), and began writing. Her Tilda books contain a plethora (Go
ahead, look it up. At least you know how to spell it!) of wacky words and
definitions to expand the vocabulary of readers in a fun way. No dictionaries involved!
Just Thought You Should Know:
Angela has incorporated the character Tilda Pinkertion into an entire
line of book projects, each geared toward a different age group in order to
help kids, teachers and parents enjoy learning and reading more.
Author's Websites:
www.tildapinkerton.com
Reading for the Whole
Family
Reading
is such a valuable and fun activity for a family that reading a book together
is as bonding as sharing dinner together every night.
Even
though I'm an artist with a super whacky side, I am still very old school - I
value traditional things like family dinners. They make me happy.
I
interviewed a 100-year-old woman once and I asked her what her main advice
would be to this generation. She said no one was talking anymore in the family.
They were all watching TV instead of reading and they weren't sharing meal
together.
She
said her advice would be to have a sit down meal with your family once a day -
it would cure a lot. I'd like to add a book to that list and turn the TV off
for a change.
How
about discussing a book over a meal? Our family discusses books and
politics over dinner together every night. The politics get boring and
frustrating for me, but the books never get old.
What Can You Read as a Family?
You're
certainly not sharing 50 Shades of Grey with all age groups (I
am apparently the only person who has not read that book). And you're not
getting my husband to read Twilight. I don't know about yours,
but mine tossed it aside after page one while he rolled his eyes. Meanwhile,
that's all our twelve-year-old friends want to read. (We don't have kids yet,
we borrow others!)
Harry
Potter is one that fits the bill for an all-age-range read. But we've all read
that already, right?
I
asked the same question about what to read and I ended up writing a book for
all of us as my answer - The Adventures of Tilda Pinkerton.
The Adventures of Tilda
Pinkerton is a story of inter-galactic crisis with bionic bugs on a mission to capture the great Tilda
Pinkerton and destroy her magical hats before she can spread her Light across the galaxy.
It is written in a lyrical way to
appeal to fans of Dr. Seuss, Star Trek, Matilda Wormwood, and Harry Potter and a vocabulary builder
and tongue twister with every character’s name being
a verbal play on their personalities. Quinn, for example, is Quinn
Quisquilious, who works
with rubbish to create new things. Belinda Balletomania is
just that – obsessed with ballet. And
of course Aaron Arachnophobia is the spider desperately afraid
of himself.
My
father in-law loved the science fiction aspect and the bionic bugs. My husband
loved the fantasy with walking trees you can ride. My mother loved the
spiritual lessons. My mother-in-law loved the hats and was inspired to initiate
a book reading at the library with a hat-making event! Our neighbor's little
girl (5) gets a kick out of the big words and how silly some of them sound.
Another neighbor's little girl (10) loves how Tilda Pinkerton makes hats.
There's
something in it for everyone just like Tilda Pinkerton has a hat for everyone
too!
What
I love is that the younger ones tend to have an easier time with the big words
than the adults do. But ask a kid about dinosaurs and you’ll see the same thing
– they probably know a lot more than you do!
What Can a Family Discuss About a Book Together?
Listening
to how everyone in the family visualized the book is very fun. One little girl
insisted that she loved Tilda Pinkerton because of her long red hair. Nowhere
in the book does it say Tilda has red hair - but she sure does inspire
imagination!
My
father-in-law loved Tilda Pinkerton’s people – the Star Jumpers and Light
Throwers.
Upon
discussing Tilda over our dinner table, we got onto one of my favorite topics -
Space - and started talking about nebulas and stars and just what might be
beyond our own galaxy.
There
really is a Sombrero Galaxy! Who knows, Tilda Pinkerton just may be making hats
right now. It's up for you and your family to discuss.
If
you happen to have a telescope (we do and it's fun!) Set your properly aligned
telescope to Right Ascension: 12h 39m 59.4s and Declination: -11°
37’ 23”.
From
Earth, Tilda Pinkerton's homeland will look like a small smudge in the
sky. If you see any sparkles - discuss them with your family!
And try to pronounce all the characters names too and connect
them with what they do.
Happy Reading – no matter what age you are.
Twitter - https://twitter.com/angelashelton
Angela’s Book Blog - http://magicalhatshop.com/
Sneak Peek at the Smart Board Website - http://magichatshop.com/
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It look like there are some awesome illustrations in this book. I would enjoy having it. I may even share it with my kids. :)
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