About
Ms. Eldering is an award winning author. Her stories "Train of Clues", "The Proposal", "Tulip Kiss", "Butterfly Halves", and "Zombies Amuck" have placed in a variety of contests. Her story "Bride-and-Seek" was selected for the South Carolina Writers' Workshop (SCWW) anthology, the Petigru Review. Her story "Train of Clues" is the predecessor to the Junior Geography Detective Squad, 50-state, mystery, trivia series. Ms. Eldering makes her home in upper state South Carolina and loves to travel, read, cross stitch and crochet. When she's not busy working her full-time job as a medical transcriptionist or participating in virtual classroom visits, she can be found at various homeschool or book events.
For more information about the JGDS series, please visit the http://jgdsseries.blogspot.com
For more information about Elysabeth's other writings, please visit her http://elysabethsstories.blogspot.com
Description
<p>What if you treated others the way you'd like to be treated? What if everyone did that? What kind of world could there be? Robert and Kait decide to look for the golden ruler that their Mom has told them about, only to find out that she meant RULE instead of ruler. What is this "Golden Rule" and what does it mean? Join in the children's quest to discover how to follow the Golden Rule and share it with others, as you meet many classroom friends from the author's previous books. This is the eighth rhyming children's book by award-winning author Sherrill S. Cannon, whose other bestselling books include Mice & Spiders & Webs...Oh My!, My Fingerpaint Masterpiece, Manner-Man, Gimme-Jimmy, The Magic Word, Peter and the Whimper-Whineys and Santa's Birthday Gift. Former teacher Sherrill S. Cannon has won thirty-six awards for her previous rhyming books and is also the author of seven published and internationally performed plays for elementary school children. She has been called "an absolute master of rhyming" by Mother Daughter Book Reviews and "a modern day Dr. Seuss" by GMTA Review. She lives in New Hope, Pennsylvania. Now retired, she travels the country with her husband in an RV, going from coast to coast to visit their children and grandchildren, and sharing her books along the way. Publisher's website: http://sbpra.com/sherrillscannon</p>
Story Behind The Book
Challenged to enter a writing contest - a fan mystery contest for the debut of Silence of the Loons - where we had to write a mystery using four of eight totally unrelated words (a soiled ballet slipper, a wig, a headless Barbie, a tattoo, footprints in the snow, the scent of Obsession, the sound of a train whistle, and a page from the dictionary). The story was written and submitted and placed second in the contest. That led to contacting an editor with the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators to give direction to make each of the fifty states the mystery instead of a mystery destination. She sent me a packet of information on directions to go to make the states their own series. This is the predecessor to the Junior Geography Detective Squad (JGDS), 50-state, mystery, trivia series.
