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Janet Had a Booth at the Reading Rocks in Rockford Festival on June 7, 2014

Moon_thumbnailOn Saturday June 7 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., I sold and autographed my books at the Reading Rocks in Rockford Festival. I brought my award-winning book for children about bullying, How the Moon Regained Her Shape (Arbordale), and my poetry books Traffic Stop (Finishing Line Press), Folk Concert: Changing Times (Anaphora Literary Press), and Exodus (WordTech Editions). This festival is free fun for the whole family across the street from Krause Memorial Library in downtown Rockford, 140 E. Bridge St., Rockford, Michigan 49341.

Because the Rockford Public Schools awarded books and certificates to students who had improved in reading or had read many books, lots of families with children came to the festival this year. There were also people dressed as Clifford, Word Girl, and other cartoon characters to entertain the children. I had fun talking with parents and young people, and I sold many copies of How the Moon Regained Her Shape at this book fair.

Although it has often rained at the Reading Rocks in Rockford Festival in the past, the weather was wonderful this year: it was sunny and 80 degrees F. I plan to come again in 2015.

 

Originally posted on June 14, 2014

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Janet Ruth Heller

I am the past president of the Michigan College English Association. I have a Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from the University of Chicago. I have published four poetry books: Nature's Olympics (Wipf and Stock, 2021), Exodus (WordTech Communications, 2014), Folk Concert: Changing Times (Anaphora Literary Press, 2012) and Traffic Stop (Finishing Line Press, 2011). My scholarly book, Coleridge, Lamb, Hazlitt, and the Reader of Drama, was published in 1990 by the University of Missouri Press. My fiction picture book about bullying for children, How the Moon Regained Her Shape (Arbordale, 2006; 7th edn. 2022), has won four national awards. My play The Cell Phone won fourth place in a national contest and was performed twice at the Fenton Village Players One-Act Play Festival on June 24-25, 2011 in Fenton, Michigan. Triton College produced another play, Pledging, as part of its Tritonysia Play Festival in May 2017. Choeofpleirn Press published Pledging in Rushing Through the Dark (2022).