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Award-Winning Children's Books To Improve Literacy by Author Renee Hand

Writing Goal: To Maximize Reading Comprehension Through Interactive Games

The Crypto-Capers Series as well as the Joe-Joe Nut Series is a group of books that challenge and interest readers by involving them into the stories, encouraging the reader to learn about various topics.

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I am very excited. Book 1 of my Joe-Joe Nut Series has just won an award by Creative Child Magazine. It is as follows:

The Adventures of Joe-Joe Nut and Biscuit Bill: Case #1: The Great Pie Catastrophe,
a 2010 SEAL OF EXCELLENCE AWARD
(Books for Kids-Storytime category)

Barnes and Nobles Booksellers now carries the Joe-Joe Nut Series. http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Great-Pie-Catastrophe/Renee-Hand/e/9780878393510/?itm=1 , on-line and in bookstores.

The Adventures of Joe-Joe Nut and Biscuit Bill, Case #1: The Great Pie Catastrophe, is available in bookstores big and small. Amazon has it as well including on Kindle. Copies are also available through my webstore as always.

Check out my Joe-Joe Nut Contest. Readers can create their own characters for book 3 which will be coming out early next year. Rules and info can be found under my Joe-Joe Nut Series page under Character Contest. Readers can also create characters for my Crypto-Capers series. Info is under that drop down as well. Good luck to all.

Summary:

Down in Acorn Valley just before the 42^nd annual Pie Festival could begin, a crime was committed. Someone

stole Miss Cluck’s blueberry pie that she was going to enter into the pie contest. Who did she call to come to

her aid? She called the best detectives in the valley of course—Joe-Joe Nut and Biscuit Bill animal detectives.

As they discover clues and gather facts, the hunt begins and Joe-Joe and Biscuit follow animal tracks that

lead them to four different suspects. Bears, ducks, frogs, raccoons…oh my! But who committed the crime?

Use your deduction and reasoning skills to solve the case along with Joe-Joe and Biscuit. Learn about animal

tracks and some of the animals who make them. Can the case be solved before the judging of the pies? Come

find out in Book #1: The Great Pie Catastrophe.

This is another great educational series for young children. The reader will be reading and learning about various skills that will supplement what children will be learning about in school. In book 1 your child will begin to learn about deduction and reasoning as well as about animal tracks and some of the animals who make them. Book 1 is a cute and interesting story children of all ages will love.

I am currently booking school/library visits for Summer and Fall of 2010. Please e-mail me at thecryptocapersseries@gmail.com for more information.

I also have a new blog. Please check it out at http://thecryptocapersseries.blogspot.com/

On this blog I will be reviewing children's books and interviewing author's as well as updating info about The Crypto-Capers Series and having various contests that work on reading comprehension. My Crypto-Capers Series is filled with puzzles and cryptograms for the reader to solve, and is filled with suspense. The blog on this site is filled with literacy games and will be mostly for my author events, contests and updates. Please check both out. I have tons of things that I am doing.

Send children's book review information to thecryptocapersseries@gmail.com

Check out my video on YouTube for The Case of the Missing Sock!

Check out my new video for The Legend of the Golden Monkey

You can also check me out on facebook and twitter!

Click on the books that you would like to see and enjoy!

The Crypto-Capers Series for Children: