Dare to Imagine: A magical, whimsical journey
By (Author) Leonard I. Eckhaus
BookBaby
BookBaby
10th March 2023
United States
Children
Fiction
Paperback
98
Width 152mm, Height 228mm, Spine 7mm
222g
Dare to Imagine
Dare to Imagine is a cornucopia of children's poems, songs and fables designed to engage curiosity, conversation and create a sense of belonging.
Kids can follow along with the kitten Patches as she makes a new friend and experiences the importance of heeding her mother's advice.
And they'll meet Sirius, the brightest star in our galaxy, and learn how she taught all the other stars to shine brightly and light up the sky every night.
They can also go on an adventure with Darby, who rides a trolley car and marches in a parade.
Or a journey to an ancient castle to meet a king and queen, and learn about blackbird pie.
Each poem and fable thoughtfully parallels events and activities all younger children experience in their own lives, and the included questions create fun, enlightening and sometimes silly conversations for the whole family, or classroom!
And as an extra bonus to keep the fun going, each of the poems is also a lyric to a song that kids can learn and sing along with!
Simply purchase the book to get special access to the free song downloads.
Dare to Imagine is a slam-dunk addition to your family library, and the perfect gift for the kiddos or teachers in your life!
Leonard
Eckhaus
My Story
In 2017 Leonard co-founded LL Music, a music production company and
record label. He received two Grammy nominations in 2018 for his first
album, Rendezvous, featuring the singer, Clint Holmes. In Your Arms Forever,
the song he wrote for his wife Linda charted on UK Radio in the very first
week it was released and received over 50,000 views on YouTube. It was
also number 5 on Italy's Independent Radio Top 100 Playlist. One of his
children's songs, Let's be Silly, was a semi-finalist in the International
Songwriting Competition (ISC), the most prestigious songwriting competition
in the world.
His autobiography, My Journey: (Lessons I've Learned Along the Way), was
selected by UK Talk Radio as one of the top 10 must-read books in 2021. His
first children's book, Grinza's Orchard, was an Amazon number 1 bestseller.
His most recent book, If I Were a Pony, a poem about the relationship
between a young lad and his pony, aimed at the grade school audience, has
won eleven awards including Creative Child Magazine's 2021 Book of the
Year. And his poem, Why I Love Baseball, along with his thoughts on the
sport, was recently published by the online magazine, Baseball Roundtable.
Leonard Eckhaus is also the founder of AFCOM (1980), the leading
association in the world for Data Center Managers; he established and
presided over The Data Center Institute, a think tank of leading computer
industry corporate and data center visionaries; and he created, produced and
published DCM, an award-winning magazine. His comments and information
about the growth and impact of Data Centers have appeared in such major
publications as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, the
Washington Post, U.S. News & World Report, Bloomberg News and others.
Leonard has served on the Boards of the Nevada Ballet Theater and the Las
Vegas Philharmonic. He and his wife Linda are Capstone contributors at Las
Vegas' Smith Center for the Performing Arts. They also support the Las
Vegas Opera and the local Chamber Music Society.
Leonard is married to his childhood sweetheart, Linda, for 60 years. They
have two children, Lee and Jill, and three grandchildren, Stephen, Mikki and
Hannah. He and his wife have been living in Las Vegas for the past twenty-
two years and have traveled the world extensively, visiting over 90 countries
and all seven continents.