Malinda Mitchell

Malinda Mitchell

About

Malinda Mitchell is married to her husband Alton, has four grown children, a fifteen-year-old son, and eight grandchildren. She has been writing fiction for all ages for more than forty years. Among her books and Amazon Shorts, Malinda was also published in the summer issue 2008 and spring and summer 2009 issues of Once Upon A  Time Magazine, before they closed their doors. She also has stories published on www.more.com   http://64.151.118.227/user/profile/7840.  Malinda's most recent book is, Miss Sugar Crumb's Magic Kitchen. Watch for Miss Sugar Crumb's Cooking Lesson, with beautiful hand painted, color illustrations by Nora Tapp Franzese, soon to be released. Also watch for, Starville, a World of Magic, Love and Friendship, illustrated by Corey Colombin.

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Santa's Birthday Gift

Santa's Birthday Gift

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<p><span style="color:#000000;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;">Santa’s Birthday Gift was written in response to a grandchild’s question, after reading the story of the Nativity.<span>  </span>She asked, “But where’s Santa?”<span>  </span>This story tells the story of the Nativity and then goes on to tell the story about how when Jesus is born, Santa sees the star at the North Pole and travels to see the baby.  Since he is a toymaker, he brings his bag of toys - and offers them to the Christ Child, and then to all the people of the town.  His birthday gift to Jesus is a promise to bring gifts to all good boys and girls each year on the Christ Child's birthday</span></p>

Story Behind The Book

I love to write children's books that promote love and friendship.

Reviews

<p style="line-height:normal;margin-bottom:0pt;" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family:Arial, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;">Book: <em>Miss Sugar Crumb’s Magic Kitchen</em></span></p><p></p> <p style="line-height:normal;margin-bottom:0pt;" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family:Arial, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;">Author: Malinda Mitchell</span></p><p></p> <p style="line-height:normal;margin-bottom:0pt;" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family:Arial, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;">Publisher: Tex Ware, 2009</span></p><p></p> <p style="line-height:normal;margin-bottom:0pt;" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family:Arial, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;">Illustrator: Nora Tapp Franzese</span></p><p></p> <p style="line-height:normal;margin-bottom:0pt;" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family:Arial, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;">ISBN-13: 978-1-935500-06-3</span></p><p></p> <p style="line-height:normal;margin-bottom:0pt;" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family:Arial, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;">Related website: <a href="http://www.authorsden.com/MalindaMitchell"><span><font color="#3f3f5b">www.authorsden.com/MalindaMitchell</font></span></a> (author), <a href="http://www.tex-ware.com/"><span><font color="#3f3f5b">www.tex-ware.com</font></span></a> (publisher)</span></p><p></p> <p style="line-height:normal;margin-bottom:0pt;" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family:Arial, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;">Language level: 1 (nothing objectionable)</span></p><p></p> <p style="line-height:normal;margin-bottom:0pt;" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family:Arial, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;">Reading Level: ages 8-12</span></p><p></p> <p style="line-height:normal;margin-bottom:0pt;" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family:Arial, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;">Rating: 5 stars (EXCELLENT)</span></p><p></p> <p style="line-height:normal;margin-bottom:0pt;" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family:Arial, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;">Reviewed by Wayne S. Walker</span></p><p></p> <p style="line-height:normal;margin-bottom:0pt;" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family:Arial, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;"><span>     </span><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Mitchell, Malinda</span>.<span>  </span><em>Miss Sugar Crumb’s Magic Kitch</em>en (published in 2009 by Tex Ware, Everett, WA).<span>  </span>Most fairy tales are set in some undetermined place and time, but what would it be like if a fairy tale was put in a modern setting?<span>  </span>Miss Sugar Crumb lives in a little yellow house surrounded by a white picket fence out in the country.<span>  </span>She likes to plant flowers, bake pies, feed the animals that live in the woods near her house, and visit her neighbors, Jake and Emma Colworth, who are childless but very much want a baby.<span>  </span>But why was a rabbit able to talk with Miss Sugar Crumb and tell her that hunters were trespassing on her property and the Colworth’s property?<span>  </span>And when she went to ask the Colworths to put up more “No Trespassing” signs on their property, why did the green and pink tea cup which she took with her and accidentally left suddenly have the faces of a little boy and a little girl on it?</span></p><p></p> <p style="line-height:normal;margin-bottom:0pt;" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family:Arial, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;"><span>     </span><em>Miss Sugar Crumb’s Magic Kitchen</em> is a charming, fairy-tale like story, that children will adore, but the characters are pictured by the striking illustrations from Nora Tapp Franzese in as modern a fashion as you or I would be, perhaps making it appear more relevant or applicable to our time.<span>  </span>Miss Sugar Crumb seems initially to be unaware of the magic in her kitchen, but she likes helping the animals and doing good deeds for others.<span>  </span>Maybe there is a metaphor here about how we may not always realize the sort of “magic” that we can work in the lives of people by our pleasant attitudes and acts of kindness.<span>  </span>Miss Sugar Crumb certainly provides a positive role model for youngsters, and I can’t think of a better reason to read a book.<span>  </span>Author Malinda Mitchell has given us a pearl.</span></p>