Dana Regan
Description
As a primary education professional who began in the field in 1988 and spent 33 years educating, guiding and motivating hundreds of children, Karen recently retired from full-time teaching. She has decided to direct her passion and energy by beginning a new adventure based on her experience and years of wisdom educating young children. As part of her wealth of experience, she taught fourth grade for 25 years and then kindergarten for eight more years. During that first segment of her career, she worked with improving children's reading skills and comprehension. Then moving onto teaching kindergarten, she was immersed in developing and teaching emergent reading and writing instruction. Karen found it incredibly inspiring to teach those youngest learners to become readers and writers. Once they learned to read and write, hence communicate, an entire new world was presented to them. Being in kindergarten, Karen integrated a strong connection between reading and writing. She feels it is crucial to develop both of those skills simultaneously. She also connected literature with writing experiences. Children need to build strong linkages between reading and being able to write in conjunction with reading is crucial. Dana Regan has illustrated more than 85 books for a variety of publishers, including Scholastic, Random House, Penguin, Grosset & Dunlap, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster. She has enjoyed creating many Hidden Picture Puzzles for High Five and Highlights Magazine and recently illustrated a story about the solar eclipse for Click Magazine.
Books
Monkey see, monkey do
On a trip to the zoo a toddler imitates the animals he sees. On board pages.
Mr. Doodle had a poodle
Even though he has not quite mastered the skill of barking, Mr. Doodle's poodle performs many tricks. Includes a vocabulary list.
Lucky Duck
When Emily gets a toy duck for her birthday, she thinks it brings her good luck.
Be Mine
On Valentine’s Day, Sherry finds an anonymous note in her mailbox: be mine. As the notes continue, Sherry becomes more and more charged by the idea that she can inspire such feelings. Her twenty-year marriage is routine and she feels old, aimless, and empty now that her son is in college. When she discovers who her admirer is, she begins a wildly passionate affair with him. But her son’s childhood friend is witness to the affair, her best friend is strangely silent, and her husband is playing a disturbing game of titillation and encouragement. Soon events spiral out of Sherry’s control, threatening not only her marriage but also her son and her home. This deeply erotic thriller explores how little we know ourselves and those we live with and what we risk when we step away from our social personas and allow passion to control our lives.
5 steps to drawing faces
Presents step-by-step instructions for drawing parts of human faces, like the eyes and mouth, and depicting emotions, including happiness, sadness, and fear.
Away went the farmer's hat
A farmer's hat, whisked away by the wind, is enjoyed by his horse, a duck, baby rabbits, a nest of tiny squirrels, and other animals before it finally returns to the farmer's possession.
Brains vs. brawn
Jaylen loves chess and Jess loves baseball. Can they both have fun playing the other's favorite activity? Or can they find something else that they both love?