Book
Blurb
Come step
through a door into Talitha’s world, a little skirt who comes to life when she
meets many girls in a special family.
She is happy as she travels to their homes for their two-year-old
photographs. But Talitha encounters
problems when she least expects it.
Filled with colorful and detailed illustrations, young children will
delight in this heartwarming story about a little skirt’s adventures.
Bio
Becky Van
Vleet is a retired teacher and principal and a former homeschool mom. She and
her husband make their home in Colorado Springs, where Becky enjoys oil
painting, gardening, and hiking and biking in the great outdoors. Becky
relishes spending time with her family and especially reading books to her
grandchildren.
How I
Came Up with Book Idea
I was
inspired to write this children’s story to preserve the family history behind a
little skirt that has been traveling in our family for more than 70 years,
three generations. A hand-sewn skirt was
given to my mother, Alberta, by her childhood friend in 1948 for my oldest
sister’s second birthday. My mother took
her first daughter to a professional studio to have her picture taken in the
little skirt, honoring her friend, Omadeen.
Alberta saved the skirt and a tradition was started when three more
daughters were born.
Over time,
the four daughters began to pass the little skirt around to one another when they
had daughters of their own, the second generation. The tradition of the little girls in our
family getting a professional picture wearing the skirt at age two held fast
and continued on into the third generation, Alberta’s
great-granddaughters. As
our family scattered around, the little skirt began to fly on airplanes to
reach all of the little two-year-old girls in the third generation in various
locations throughout the United States!
When I set
out to write a fun tale about this traveling skirt, I decided the skirt would
be personified and I wanted to come up with a meaningful name for her. Talitha’s name means “little girl” from Mark,
chapter four, in the New Testament.
The theme/tagline for my website is "Where Creating and Preserving Memories Happen" which coincides with my inspiration to
write this children's book, based upon a true family story.
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