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Taking Turns was picked up by CBS and Fox Business news and made one of the best Indie children’s books for the month of March!

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Taking Turns Children’s Book Released to Inspire Friendship

San Diego, California – New release Taking Turns is a whimsical theme about restoring balance. Sun and Moon have been together for a lifetime. Can they resolve their differences? Moon’s refusal to take turns with Sun to gain more attention not only impacts his friend, Sun, but affects our whole planet, Earth. Fun facts about our Sun and Moon included.

Filled with nature, science and how the sun and moon resolve their differences, Taking Turns offers social skills for children to learn kindness, sharing and friendship. This book follows the common core state standards for English, Science, and in social skills for children up to grade five.

About the Author

Marianne is an avid tea drinker and lover of the sea. She grew up in New Jersey ice skating on brooks, exploring the wildlife in her neighborhood, and roaming the ocean beaches at the Jersey shore with her other six siblings. There was never a dull moment! She has spent most of her adult life living in Massachusetts, where she attended college, and now calls sunny Coronado CA, her home, with her partner, Keith.

Marianne has been a strong advocate for children’s diversity and literacy since her days as a special education teacher in the Boston suburbs, her years as a mom raising three children and a Mimi to her grandchildren. She has also helped countless families find the perfect place to call home as a Realtor. She volunteers with local coastal advocacy environmental groups and helps young readers struggling to make connections with words in her local public school system.

She celebrates writing about nature, science, history, people, and the wonders of the world around us with a passion to spark curiosity, imagination, and creativity in young readers through her stories. Marianne writes fiction/nonfiction books with STEM themes crossing multiple disciplines, adding a sea of facts, and maybe even making children laugh from time to time.

Marianne is the award-winning children’s author of the picture book Taking Turns in both English/Spanish, illustrated by Gail Nelson,  self-published, 2020. It hit the number one Best Seller list on Amazon, received many Five Starred reviews, and earned a CIPA EVVY Award for independent publishers and authors, 2021.

Her second and debut book, traditionally published with Islandport Press, 2027, THE LAST LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER, will be illustrated by Ann Curch Gagliano. This lyrical nonfiction picture book biography is about Sally Snowman and her personal journey to overcome her learning disabilities and become the (first female) and last lighthouse keeper in the U.S. Back matter includes the history of Boston Light, the first lighthouse in America.

Marianne earned her B.S.Ed. in both Elementary and Special Education from Fitchburg State University and her Certificate in Writing For Children at UCSD.

When Marianne is not writing books for children, you can find her reading stories to her granddaughter on FaceTime or traveling to discover new faraway places.

Marianne is represented by Stephen Fraser @ The Jennifer De Chiara Agency (JDLA) https://www.jdlit.com/