Books by Penelope Dyan

The Mississippi River is the chief river of the largest drainage system in North America. It flows entirely within the USA, and its drainage basin even reaches into Canada! It rises in north Minnesota, and then it meanders south for over two thousand miles into the Mississippi River Delta at the Gulf of Mexico, draining into thirty-one USA states and two Canadian provinces between the Rocky mountains and the Appalachian Mountains! Ranking as the fourth longest and tenth largest river in the world, the mighty Mississippi borders or passes right through several states; and the good part is . . . if you happen to go to New Orleans, Louisiana, you can take a trip aboard a steam driven paddle boat and pretend you are Mark Twain, or Tom Sawyer, just floating down the Mississippi river on a river raft. Written by the award winning author, attorney and former teacher, Penelope Dyan, with photographs by John D. Weigand, this learn to read book is meant not to teach a bunch of facts about this mighty river, but rather to give a kid a feel for what the river is and means. Word repetition, word recognition and rhyme, combined with photographs and fun, makes this book perfect for a boy with imagination! And be sure to look for the music video that goes with this book on the Bellissimavideo YouTube channel.

The needs of the many should always outweigh the wants and desires of the few. However, knowing this is right does not make it so! We all need to think about what is means to care and to share, and why it is true that we all need to follow the 'Golden Rule' and do unto others as we would have others do unto us. And that means putting the needs of others before the needs of ourselves, simply because the needs of the many really do outweigh the wants and the desires of the few!Think about this as you turn each page of this fun, 'learn to read' book, written by award winning author, attorney and former teacher, Penelope Dyan, that is filled to the brim with word recognition, word repetition and rhyme that will help build reading word vocabulary and reading skills! But most of all, have fun with learning; because if a kid doesn't have fun learning, a kid won't love to learn!When you all all finished traveling through the pages of this book, you can go to the Bellissimavideo YouTube channel and you can watch the free music video that goes with this book, and you can have even more learning fun!

It is very true that you are only as good as your word. And this is why you should always mean what you say and say what you mean, and always, always tell the truth, and always be true to your word. In other words, tell the truth; and if you say you are going to do something, please do it! Written by the award winning author, attorney and former teacher, Penelope Dyan, this fun, 'learn to read' book is meant to get a kid thinking as he or she builds his or her reading word vocabulary through the use of word recognition, word repetition and rhyme. But most of all, this book is meant to show a kid that he or she can have fun with learning! After all, if a kid doesn't have fun learning, a kid simply won't love to learn; and learning should always be fun! So have fun learning as a host of fun and familiar Penelope Dyan characters guide you through each page of this fun, 'learn to read' book filled to the brim with fun! And when you are all finished traveling through the pages of this book, you can go to the Bellissimavideo YouTube channel; and you can watch the free, fun music video that goes with this book, and you can have even more learning fun!

You will never know if you can do a thing if you never try to do it!  And if you want your dreams to come true, you will never know if they can come true if you don’t try.  So never, ever say you can’t do something.   It’s simple! ‘CAN’T’ could never do anything that ‘CAN’ could do.  And if you never try to follow your dreams, you will never know if they can come true!  And the elephant, and all of the other fun and familiar Penelope Dyan characters, will tell you this is true!Written by the award winning author, attorney and former teacher, Penelope Dyan, this ‘learn to read’ book is meant to get a kid thinking as he or she practices reading skills and builds his or her reading word vocabulary through the use of word recognition, word recognition and rhyme, as he or she has fun traveling through the pages of this book! (After all, if a kid doesn’t have fun learning, a kid won’t love to learn!)For even more learning fun, there is a free and fun music video that goes with this book on Bellissimavideo’s YouTube channel!So have fun with learning, because learning should always be filled with fun!

You might think there is nothing that you can do about global warming, but then you would be wrong!  Even if we are one person, together we are a massive crowd; and together our single voices become very loud. This book is meant to get you thinking about these things, and it it meant to show you your worth and what you can do to save this planet that we call our Mother Earth!  And yes, there are plenty of emperor penguins for now; but if the world keeps warming, and if this causes the ice in Antarctica to melt, the penguins will most assuredly lose the slabs of ice they live on and call home.Written and illustrated by award winning author, attorney and former teacher, Penelope Dyan, this fun, ‘learn to read’ book, filled with word repetition, word recognition and rhyme, is meant to get a kid thinking as he or she builds his or her reading word vocabulary and reading skills.  A host of fun and familiar Penelope Dyan characters will guide you through this book; and you will be introduced to some new characters, the emperor penguins! And when you are finished reading and  practicing reading skills and building your reading vocabulary, you can go to the Bellissimavideo YouTube channel and watch the free, fun music video that goes with this book!