Building Character with Abbi from Birds in the Flower Basket
It’s Friday! Time for my blog feature, Building Character
in which you get to meet a character from a book. Talking to a character
outside of their book is fun! Huge. Amounts. Of fun.
This week
Strands of Thought is excited to host Abbi from Birds in the Flower Basket.
It’s so great to have you with us, Abbi. Tell us a little about yourself.
My name is Abbi. My best of all
friend is Mittens. He is my cat that stays with me forever. He likes to cuddle
and sit on my lap. Once he got outside and wanted to get the birds.
We’d love to get to know you better. What do you like to
do for fun?
I like to watch the birds out the
front window. They fly back and forth to Momma’s flower basket. Mittens likes
to watch them, too. When winter comes, I wonder if the birds will come back
again. I like to play with my toys. I like to go to the store with Momma.
What are your favorite foods?
Smashed potatoes with gravy, ice
cream and colored M & Ms.
What about you are people always giving you a hard time
about?
“Sometimes Momma’s friends, or
Gramma, say I have too much energy. I like to run through the house. Mittens
chases me. Sometimes, I chase him. Once someone asked if something was wrong
with me that had letters to it that I couldn’t understand. Momma said not to
worry. She didn’t care if I did have ADHD or any other thing with letters to
it.
What do you want to be when you grow up?
Me.
Great decision! No one is better at being you than YOU!
Thanks Abbi for joining us today and for introducing us to your life and
Mittens.
Readers, you can learn more about Abbi and Mittens in her
story Birds in the Flower Basket:
Abbi’s mother struggles to keep her flowering plant alive
while birds raise their family in it. This gives Abbi a valuable lesson on how
birds create a nest and raise their young. It is a learning experience from
identifying the birds through watching the young hatchlings grow and take wing.
Learn more about Abbi’s author:
Mary Jean Kelso is a
multi-genre’ author. Besides Birds in the Flower Basket, she is
the author of Cowboy James, RV Mouse, The Christmas Angel,
and its sequel, One
Family’s Christmas, The Adventures of Andy and Spirit and the Andy & the Albino
Horse series. She is the
author of the young adult Lynne Garrett series as well as Kat’s
Cradle, Blue Coat, and The
Homesteader series.
Mary Jean wrote for many newspapers and magazines (including
Family Motor Coaching, Trailblazer and RV’n On) and was an Asst. Editor for
magazines prior to concentrating on fiction for children, young adults and
adults.
Mary Jean received awards from The Nevada Press Assn. and
The National Press Assn. as a correspondent for The Lahontan Valley
News. She is a member of Made in Nevada.
Visit Mary Jean at Facebook,
Linkedin, www.authorsden.com/maryjeankelso,
www.andyandthealbinohorse.blogspot.com,
Amazon.com and www.madeinnevada.org.
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If you have a character from a children’s, tween or young
adult book that you’d like to see interviewed on Building Character, please
contact kaistrand at yahoo dot com.
Hi Kai, thanks for an informative interview with an interesting character.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations, Mary Jean, for a book on an important subject.
Hi Julie, your cover picture is really cute.
Thank you, Barbara. Abbi is an adorable character to visit with.
DeleteSounds cute. And I always appreciate books that have anything to do with learning disabilities like ADHD.
ReplyDeleteI agree Janet. Really any book that shows off how we are all different from each other in a positive way is important.
DeleteThanks everyone!!!
ReplyDeleteI had fun with this one. It had been a frustration of mine while I sat at my desk working on other books. The birds have decided every year that my hanging baskets make a good place to put their nests. Finally, it occured to me to make a story out of it. We never know where inspiration is going to come from!!
Mary Jean
What a great story of your inspiration behind the book! Thanks for letting Abbi visit, Mary Jean.
DeleteSuch a nice story and fun to read. I was just thinking of where inspiration comes from this morning. Very timely!
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping in, Nancy! Lately I've been finding inspiration EVERYWHERE! I wish it was always like this.
DeleteCute idea to interview the character--when I read her favorite foods, I thought, ALL MIXED TOGETHER? And then I realized it was a list--M and Ms are one of my favorites, too!
ReplyDeleteWho wouldn't sprinkle M&M's on their mashies? Thanks for visiting, Margo.
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