Wimee Creates with Animals and Numbers

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Be a creator with Wimee! In Wimee Creates with Animals and Numbers, join your favorite robot Wimee from the show Wimees Words (as seen on PBS) for wacky wordplay and visual fun. This simple concept book, perfect for early readers ages 3-6, teaches rhyming, numbers and counting with animals that are both familiar and unique. It also encourages readers to think about feelings and emotions, create new rhymes, and mix and match images.

Wimee Creates with Animals and Numbers includes:

• Pairs of rhyming words that are combined with action words to make silly sentences.
• Simple illustrations focusing on familiar and unique animals, numbers and counting.
• A focus on age-appropriate, relatable feelings and emotions.
• A note to parents and educators with ideas on how to use the book to further learning.
• Examples of more words to rhyme.

Wimees Words is an interactive mixed media show for preschoolers that inspires kids to learn through imagination, vocabulary building, and storytelling through puppetry, music, wordplay, and technology. Watch Wimee on your local PBS affiliate!

Author Bio

Stephanie Kammeraad is a co-producer, writer, and tech director for the Wimees Words show. She loves reading and creating, and believes one can never have too many books!She grew up in Metro Detroit, graduated from GVSU with a degree in Psychology/Special Education, andhas coordinated and taught preschool through middle school over the past twenty years throughout West Michigan. She is currently the Director of Childrens Ministry at a church in Grand Rapids, MI, where sheliveswith her family, three cats, and a dog in a home filled with puppets, plants, and lots of plantain chips. Kevin Kammeraad is the co-producer and lead puppeteer on the Wimees Words show and is part of the Community Engagement Team at Kent District Library.Kevin loves to perform, write, draw, sing, make things, and wonder about possibilities.Kevin is an artist, childrens author, music maker, and master puppeteer who has spent his career performing interactive, inspiring, high energy shows at schools, family events, libraries, and festivals across the country over the past twenty years. Kevin grew up in Holland, MI, has a degree in Film & Video Production from GVSU, and currently lives in Grand Rapids, MI, with his family in a home filled with books, music, and lots of tortilla chips. Michael Hyacinthe is a U.S. Navy Seabee veteran and a social entrepreneur.Following his military service, Michael was recognized as Inc. Magazines Top 30 Under 30 Entrepreneur in 2010. Shortly thereafter, Michael founded[Has Heart]to connect with wounded veterans and to help them experience restoration through art. This initiative inspired Michael to create Wimage, a childrens media and tech company that creates digital technology, as well as the popular childrens show titled Wimees Words seen around the country on PBS.Originally from the Bronx in New York City, Michael currently lives in Grand Rapids, MI, and enjoys spending time with his four kids, volunteering with various organizations, and playing the drums at musical events and alongside Wimee at his live in-person shows.