Encinitas mom Phyllis Schwartz lately unveiled her third youngsters’s ebook, “Laggie and Grillo: An Unlikely Friendship,” the story of kindness, respect and friendship.
Schwartz, a former journalist and San Diego State College alum, mentioned her love for writing took her from the newsrooms to the bookstores.
“My lifelong love of writing led to me being a neighborhood information author in San Diego and Chicago,” Schwartz mentioned. “All through that profession, I continued to put in writing poetry, so it was a pure after I segued out of native TV to proceed with my love of writing poetry and a few of these I turned
into rhyming youngsters’s books.”
In 2022, her writing profession led to her first youngsters’s ebook, “When Mom Feels Great, Then We Do Too!” which includes her challenges surviving three various kinds of most cancers whereas elevating her two children. Shortly after, she launched “Mom Wombat Says Make War No More!.”
As we speak, she’s the proud writer behind “Laggie and Grillo: An Unlikely Friendship,” which tells the story of a lady who should write a poem about one thing that makes her mad. On this case, it’s not with the ability to have a pet.
“My ebook not solely helps youngsters take into consideration the duties of maintaining a pet, but in addition concerning the significance of serving to opposites get alongside and the artwork of compromise,” Schwartz mentioned.
Schwartz mentioned she hopes readers get pleasure out of her books. In her latest ebook, she mentioned she hopes readers be taught concerning the significance of respect.
“I’d like mother and father and their children to consider respecting different cultures, studying different languages, expressing your self by means of writing and serving to opposites get alongside,” she mentioned. “I feel youngsters ought to expertise the identical emotions and values as I hope mother and father do.”
Schwartz could have a ebook signing from 1 p.m. to three p.m. Sunday, March 16 at Warwick’s bookstore in La Jolla and from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, March 29 at Barnes and Noble in Encinitas (1040 N. El Camino Actual).
“Laggie and Grillo” is obtainable in each hardcover ($18.95) and paperback ($12.95), in addition to e-book (Kindle, $4.95) codecs at Barnes & Noble, Warwick’s, and Amazon.
For extra details about the ebook and Phyllis Schwartz, go to www.phyllisfeelsgreat.com.
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