A Dragon Valentine will Still Your Heart.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(Free-Press-Release.com) January 17, 2012 -- A Dragon Valentine is a story about two friends who get their wires crossed.

When Mia is invited to Ling’s house for a party two weeks before Valentine’s Day, she begins to dream of candy shaped hearts, wonderful treats, and lots of fun at her first big girl party.
Oh boy, she is in for a BIG SURPRISE!

Readers will enjoy seeing just how they eventually make a cross cultural connection.

This book has been in the works for over a year and is having its timely release for African American History Month, Valentine’s Day, and the emergence of the Year of the Dragon.

Written as a life-like American experience the author, Rochelle O’Neal Thorpe, hopes it will show how children are often engaged in their own worlds and can innocently engage each other in cultural understanding when they are allowed to share and make friendships outside their heritage.

Author

Rochelle O'Neal Thorpe continues to explore life through the eyes of children as shown by her catalog of works; Captain Remarkable (2004), Gabe and the Park (2006), Gabe and the Bike (2006), The Doll at the Christmas Bazaar(2008), The Tales of Teacups (2010), The Tales of Cranes, (2010)Gabe’s Nantucket Adventure: Daffodil Dogs and Cars (2010), Gabe and Storybooks (2010), Dragon Valentine (2012), Dolly’s Winter Surprise (2011), Snowman in Central Park (2011), Aisha’s Gift (2012).

Rochelle has a Master of Arts degree from Emerson College, School of Communications and a Bachelors of Business Administration from the University of Massachusetts, Isenberg School of Management. She also minored in Chinese Language and Literature. She has studied Japanese at Harvard Extension School and Showa Boston. She is conversant in Chinese, Japanese and Spanish.
She hopes all her works will be published and enjoyed by children around the world.

Early-bird editions are available tomorrow at: https://www.createspace.com/3772821

Hardcover and paperbacks public by February 1, 2012

Illustrator
This book is uniquely illustrated by Katy Loutzenhiser who co-authored and created the artwork for Solaka, the Girl with the Long Blue Toenails. Katy delivers detailed etchings with spot colors that provide a dreamlike experience that will delight young readers.

Her minimalist style of using only soft colors against a black and white pencil in is reminiscent of mid-century art popular in picture books and magazines like the New Yorker. This second published book definitely provides an impressive start for the maturing artist.

Katy works primarily with pencil, charcoal and oil paints, taking special interest in portraits and cartooning. She studied under art professors Mark Wethli, John Bisbee and James Mullen at Bowdoin College. She has also pursued training at the Art Institute of Boston, Art Institute of Chicago and at the University of Barcelona in Spain.

Publisher
Wiggles Press Books was founded in March 2009. Its objective is to provide multicultural literature for young readers created by first-time writers and illustrators. This publishing house aims to deliver storybooks for the hands of little readers that encourages an eagerness to learn and inspires the imagination.
By 2012, Wiggles Press grew its authorship from one to twenty-five new authors with a promising catalog of picture books and juvenile chapter books for Pre-K to 14 years.

Contact: Rochelle O’Neal Thorpe
(617) 497-3985

Email: mail@wigglespressbooks.com

URL: wigglespressbooks.com

Book: A Dragon Valentine (English Only)
ISBN 978-1-935706-03-8

A Dragon Valentine (Dual Language)

LCCN: 2011901172
8.5 x 11 Picture-book
Full color / 26 pages

Asian Language Books/ISBN

A Dragon Valentine 978-1935706038
Gabe and the Park (Chinese) 978- 1935706618
Gabe and the Park (Japanese) 978-1935706632
The Tales of Teacups (Chinese) 978-1935706250
The Tales of Teacups (Japanese) 978-1935706557
The Moon Creeper (Chinese) 978-1935706243

CD Audio Books available for:
Gabe and the Park (Japanese) 978-1935706632
The Tales of Teacups (Chinese) 978-1935706250
The Tales of Teacups (Japanese) 978-1935706557
The Moon Creeper (Chinese) 978-1935706243

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