Jun 19 2009
Let’s Get Ready For A Guest Post from Mary Fetzer and SheKnows.com
I was contacted by the talented Ms. Stacey Kennenberg and asked if I would like to review her “Let’s get ready for Kindergarten” and “Let’s get ready for First grade” books. While I do not have small children I do have lots of small nieces and nephews and I love books so I gladly accepted the offer. First let me tell you a little about Ms. Stacey Kennenberg
Stacey Kannenberg, “Let’s Get Ready to Learn” Mom
Stacey Kannenberg is an author, publisher, motivator, consultant, spokesperson and MOM. As the “Get Ready to Learn Mom”, Stacey is a nationally renowned education expert and award winning author with an expertise in children’s education, and “Mom-entrepreneurship”. She is the co-author of the award winning and state approved, Let’s Get Ready series with Let’s Get Ready For Kindergarten! and Let’s Get Ready For First Grade!
Stacey is the Founder/CEO of two publishing companies: Cedar Valley Publishing and Stacey Kannenberg Unlimited, an imprint of Cedar Valley Publishing. Stacey has recently released the highly anticipated Spanish/English Bilingual Edition of Let’s Get Ready For Kindergarten!
Stacey is a media favorite with numerous television appearances along with hundreds of radio, magazine and newspaper stories to her credit from Radio Disney to Toy Tips Magazine to the Dallas Daily News. During Back to School, she was featured in 22 Parenting Magazines from Indy Parent to Houston Parent to OC Parent to Metro Parent as well as numerous television shows from FOX 6 News to Milwaukee’s Morning Blend to WEAUTV to the WB’s Daily Buzz.
Stacey is a frequent presenter at Early Learning and Head Start Conferences where she holds workshops for teachers and educators entitled: Empowering Parents 101. Stacey is a favorite presenter at schools where she helps parents, kids and teachers get ready for Kindergarten. She also presents at Book Publishing Conferences with her sessions on Book Publishing 101 & Book Marketing 101. Stacey also presents Empowering Mom 101 and Mom-entrepreneurship to mom groups, playgroups, MOPS and book clubs.
Now if that’s not enough for you to already be saying “Wow!” she is also a wonderful mother to 2 beautiful girls, wife to Micheal and a very busy lady, how she does it I don’t know.
Now on to my book review, like I said in the beginning, I was contacted by Stacey and asked to review “Let’s get ready for Kindergarten” and “Let’s get ready for First grade”. It only took me a second to decide that this would be perfect for my 2 nephews, Dylan and Wyatt, 2 little boys who happen to be brothers. Dylan just “graduated” from kindergarten and is entering first grade this fall and Wyatt “graduated” from headstart and is entering kindergarten. I called their mommy and asked if they would like to help me review some books and they said yes.
I decided to wait on reading them myself until I met with the boys. My 15 year old son Jesse wanted to help me so he tagged along. The boys were excited with Dylan far more eager than Wyatt. Jesse sat down with Wyatt and I had Dylan with me and we got started. The books are wonderfully illustrated and Dylan started immediately talking about the pictures, he loves learning. He helped me read alot of the words and really got into sounding out the letters. He enjoyed solving the problems, counting and talking about the different things that the book had to offer. Before we knew it we had spent a good hour and enjoyed every minute of it. Who knew that I have a little bit of teacher in me, I do miss this part of my kids. I miss sitting down with them and reading/learning new things. The fascination that you see in little ones eyes is so wonderful. Jesse had a good time with Wyatt also, he enjoyed working with him on his colors, counting numbers and saying the alphabet. They worked on many different things and Wyatt was smiling. laughing and enjoying every minute of it. Wyatt has a short attention span and I have to admit I wasn’t sure if he would sit still long enough to really review the book but he sat there for the hour also. There was a moment of silence once and I heard Jesse ask Wyatt if he was bored. Wyatt exclaimed “No, I’m just thinking.”
All in all, the boys, Jesse and I thoroughly enjoyed the books and highly recommend them for anyone who has or know children that are toddlers, preschool or entering kindergarten and first grade. They are very educational, wonderfully illustrated and recommended by 2 very fine boys who love to be boys but also love to learn, a 42 year Mom and a 15 year old young man.
