Author Lynn Rosenblatt

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2016 SILVER AWARD
ROCKIN’- ROLLIN” ALPHABET
by Lynn M.Rosenblatt

Jenkins Group is proud to announce the winners of the 2016 Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards.

Creating books that inspire our children to read, to learn, and to dream is an extremely important task, and these awards were conceived to reward those efforts. Each year’s entries are judged by expert panels of youth educators, librarians, booksellers, and book reviewers of all ages.

Connecticut teacher and author LYNN ROSENBLATT devoted twenty-five years to teaching energetic and spontaneous first and second grade children. She empowered students through a global teaching approach and welcomed student creativity and spontaneity. The ROCKIN’~ ROLLIN’ ALPHABET was a treasured manuscript and now becomes the newest addition to her Author-in-Resident presentations.

While sharing her poems with first graders, Lynn discovered the children’s magnetic attraction to her teddy bear illustrations. They related to the drawings and would retell and compare their own childhood experiences with the antics of the teddy bears.

These connections became valuable ingredients in the recipe for enriching reading, verbal expression, and inspiring students to be creative writers. The theme song became the frosting on the cake! The kids loved it ~ and a stage presentation was in the making. The song and the orchestral arrangement are perfect companions for this engaging book.

Perhaps a stage presentation is waiting in the wings at your school, too! Lynn’s greatest honor is her collaboration with her children ~Teri’s precious bears, Pamela’s critique and edits, and Ned’s musical collaboration… “He read my heart as he created this arrangement,” Lynn often states.

“…Music and the Arts are the artistic sweetness that glue information to the brain and soul.”

Author Lynn Rosenblatt’s first book, MONARCH MAGIC! Butterfly Activities & Nature Discoveries, is an award winning, national educational resource for preserving the habitat of the monarch butterfly. Her Life Cycle photographs grace the corridors of the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center in Hartford, CT.

As an accomplished author, Lynn presents her program “Life Cycle of an Author” for schools and libraries.

MONARCH MAGIC has received several honors:

TIME for KIDS – top resource for teachers;
NEA Today – Resource for Teachers;
SKIPPING STONES MAGAZINE ~ Nature and Ecology Honor Award Book;
PARENT’S GUIDE – CHILDREN’S MEDIA AWARD for Outstanding Achievements in Activity Books;
Parent’s Choice Seal of Approval ~ Silver Honor Winner for the highest quality in children’s books –

“If there is a better book for children about butterflies I haven’t seen it.”

Lynn’s educational website ~ www.monarchbutterflyusa.com ~ informs thousands nationally.

As a member of the National Association of Professional Women (NAPW), Lynn is the Public Relations Coordinator for the ROB THE DRUMMER Educational Programs, Inc. ~ a dynamic Anti-Bullying, Anti-Drug, Self-Esteem Concert ~ www.robthedrummer.com The “Give Goes On” vision of friend and teaching colleague, Kim Waltmire, brought Lynn’s photography to the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center. ~ http://www.visualccl.com/ give-goes-on ~ Her photos were selected to represent the monarch as the STATE INSECT for AL, ID, IL, MN, TX and VT ~ www.statesymbolsusa.org.

Lynn was the performing artist of her original song, ONE BIG WORLD (Anthem for World Peace) at the 1995 SPECIAL OLYMPICS WORLD GAMES and at the 1996 Caring for Our Planet EXPO – Eastern Connecticut State University. The orchestration was chosen for the WFSB Channel 3 Special Olympics Video ~ and the song is shared on the ART MILES MURAL PROJECT web site ~ http://www.milesofmusic.org/One-Big-World2.html Lynn is a recipient of the Connecticut Celebration of Excellence Award for her unique math program entitled “Cecil the Centipede 0 – 100,” Featured Speaker ~ ATOMIC Math Conference ~ “Cecil the Centipede 0 – 100,” Nominee for the Presidential Awards for Educational Mathematics and Science Teaching, Keynote Speaker at Elementary Science Day (MONARCH MAGIC) ~ Wesleyan University, Connecticut Science Center Presenter ~ “A Bug’s Eye View” (MONARCH MAGIC) and featured speaker at the Connecticut Reading Educators Conference, CREC.

She was nominated four times by her students in Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers ~ and Who’s Who International – Leading Educators of the World, 2005. “She has shown a keen sense of being able to ‘see through the eyes of a child clearly’ and finds that magical process of unlocking their complete and most artistic potential.”