Dear all, how are you! Today I am not asking you with a question mark but bring up the joyful spirit using the exclamation mark 🙂
I hope you are doing great in this quarantine period. This is Ms. Friska’s website where I share my experience and strategies to promote reading is fun to people around, and now to you too 🙂 Today’s library session topic is about this surprising story with title: Exclamation Mark. I have the recorded storytelling below, please have a watch 🙂
The Story
Do you find the book interesting? It is amazing to see how each of us is meaningful in this world, just like The Exclamation Mark, Question Mark, Period.
The Authors
The Exclamation Mark is created by Amy Krouse Rosenthal & Tom Lichtenheld.
Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Amy Krouse Rosenthal was well known as the children’s book author. She wrote more than 30 books for children. Her several books are on the New York Times bestseller list: I Wish You More, Uni the Unicorn, Plant a Kiss, Exclamation Mark, Cookies: Bite-Size Life Lessons, and Duck! Rabbit! Most of her books are praised as creative, imaginative, funny, and different.
She also a writer for memoir and made video projects in Youtube. She was a contributor to the TED Conference.
Amy Krouse Rosenthal Foundation
Amy K. Rosenthal was a cancer fighter. Her husband and her have Amy Krouse Rosenthal Foundation to carry their mission: providing funding for ovarian cancer research as well as child literacy.
Tom Lichtenheld
Tom Lichtenheld is an art director, illustrator. He has taught advertising classes at Miami Advertising School and Chicago.
His Awards
CLIO Award; Kelly Award finalist; named among Adweek magazine’s “Creative All-Stars”; awards from New York Art Directors Club, British Design and Art Direction, Communications Arts Advertising Annual, and One Show; Child magazine best children’s book designation, 2003, for What Are You So Grumpy About?
Their Works
After creating The Exclamation Mark, both talented Amy K. Rosenthal (author) and Tom Lichtenheld (illustrator) created numerous well praised books such as:
Collaborative Minds
It is interesting to see how these two talented creator met. You may read how Amy K. Rosenthal and Tom Lichtenheld met and had their collaborative creative working here: An Interview With Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Tom Lichtenheld, Creators of Exclamation Mark.
Do not afraid to think creative, open your eyes to see possibility of the beauty in the world. Deliver your message to all people, and let it stay and cherished by children all over the world, just like Amy K. Rosenthal and Tom Lichtenheld did.
