Children’s Book Benefits Animal Rescues And Shelters
September 24, 2016 at 5:07 a.m.
Children’s Book Benefits Animal Rescues And Shelters
By David [email protected]
The series is “On the Pond,” with the first book called “Herman T. & Friends.”
“These stories were written by my grandchildren and I probably four or five years ago. We’ve always just kept them typed and in a drawer. And then one day we were talking about animal shelters – we rescued our first one, Zoey (a dog) – and I said, ‘How about we publish a book, our first story, but we have to donate all the profit to something good?’ And they said animal shelters. So I said, ‘OK then. That’s what we’re going to do then,’” Dixon recalled in an interview in her Chapman Lake home in Warsaw.
She said it doesn’t take long for them to write a story.
“We tell some crazy stories. All of the characters in all the stories we wrote would be animals they would see – the turtles, the fish – everything they would see on our lake,” she said.
Last year she found a publisher in Bloomington, Xlibris, and she started working with them. The book was published July 7.
“They were wonderful to work with, and they provided my illustrator,” Dixon said.
The illustrator is Salvador Capuyan.
Herman T. is a turtle.
“Basically, the story is about friends,” Dixon stated. “When Herman gets himself in a bit of a jam, it shows how they all work together – all the friends on the pond work together – to get him back home.”
With each character, the book describes what they do. The beaver builds dams, the owl is wise, for example.
Dixon said she’s planning at least three books in the “On the Pond” series because that’s how many are already written. She’s waiting until 2017, however, before publishing the second one.
“As the author, I order the books at a great savings so that they can be sold for more profit to go to the different shelters,” she said.
The first animal shelter to receive proceeds from the book will be Alsip in St. John, Ind. Her daughter is working with Alsip on a fundraiser, and 40 books have already been sold for them.
Dixon met with AWL Director Darla McCammon on Wednesday. She said the book poster is going up, and the books are on hand at the shelter.
“We’re hopefully going to do really well for her, too,” Dixon said. “My goal is to just be able to help as many of the rescues and shelters as we can with the book. And hopefully the next book, also.”
To help as many shelters as possible, Dixon wants to set a time limit on the book sales. Book sales over the next two months will go to the AWL. Cost is a minimum donation of $10, which allows $3 from each sale to go to the shelter. The books online are $15.
After that, she wants to help a rescue operation in a little town near Rensselaer. Dixon said she has a list of rescues and shelters from when they were looking for a dog.
“I just think they are so in need, and you have so many great volunteers that come in and help that we should try to do something and help,” she said.
Pamela and her husband, Rick, are from the Hammond/Portage area and bought their house on Chapman Lake as a cottage and then moved there permanently in 2008 after Rick retired from the railroad.
In the book, Dixon thanks her grandchildren, Tayler, Matthew and Emma.
The book can be found online at Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Xlibris.com. Copies can be purchased by emailing Dixon at [email protected]. Any profit goes to the shelter.
Dixon said she hopes to do a fundraiser and a book signing in October for the shelter.
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The series is “On the Pond,” with the first book called “Herman T. & Friends.”
“These stories were written by my grandchildren and I probably four or five years ago. We’ve always just kept them typed and in a drawer. And then one day we were talking about animal shelters – we rescued our first one, Zoey (a dog) – and I said, ‘How about we publish a book, our first story, but we have to donate all the profit to something good?’ And they said animal shelters. So I said, ‘OK then. That’s what we’re going to do then,’” Dixon recalled in an interview in her Chapman Lake home in Warsaw.
She said it doesn’t take long for them to write a story.
“We tell some crazy stories. All of the characters in all the stories we wrote would be animals they would see – the turtles, the fish – everything they would see on our lake,” she said.
Last year she found a publisher in Bloomington, Xlibris, and she started working with them. The book was published July 7.
“They were wonderful to work with, and they provided my illustrator,” Dixon said.
The illustrator is Salvador Capuyan.
Herman T. is a turtle.
“Basically, the story is about friends,” Dixon stated. “When Herman gets himself in a bit of a jam, it shows how they all work together – all the friends on the pond work together – to get him back home.”
With each character, the book describes what they do. The beaver builds dams, the owl is wise, for example.
Dixon said she’s planning at least three books in the “On the Pond” series because that’s how many are already written. She’s waiting until 2017, however, before publishing the second one.
“As the author, I order the books at a great savings so that they can be sold for more profit to go to the different shelters,” she said.
The first animal shelter to receive proceeds from the book will be Alsip in St. John, Ind. Her daughter is working with Alsip on a fundraiser, and 40 books have already been sold for them.
Dixon met with AWL Director Darla McCammon on Wednesday. She said the book poster is going up, and the books are on hand at the shelter.
“We’re hopefully going to do really well for her, too,” Dixon said. “My goal is to just be able to help as many of the rescues and shelters as we can with the book. And hopefully the next book, also.”
To help as many shelters as possible, Dixon wants to set a time limit on the book sales. Book sales over the next two months will go to the AWL. Cost is a minimum donation of $10, which allows $3 from each sale to go to the shelter. The books online are $15.
After that, she wants to help a rescue operation in a little town near Rensselaer. Dixon said she has a list of rescues and shelters from when they were looking for a dog.
“I just think they are so in need, and you have so many great volunteers that come in and help that we should try to do something and help,” she said.
Pamela and her husband, Rick, are from the Hammond/Portage area and bought their house on Chapman Lake as a cottage and then moved there permanently in 2008 after Rick retired from the railroad.
In the book, Dixon thanks her grandchildren, Tayler, Matthew and Emma.
The book can be found online at Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Xlibris.com. Copies can be purchased by emailing Dixon at [email protected]. Any profit goes to the shelter.
Dixon said she hopes to do a fundraiser and a book signing in October for the shelter.
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