BE GLAD YOUR EARS ARE WHAT THEY ARE!

About the Book

BE GLAD YOUR EARS ARE WHAT THEY ARE!

Text: Barbara Hantman

Illustrations: Esther Leiper

What could catch a little one's fancy more than the whimsy of talented ears that have the ability to drive, dance, perform in a circus, fly and bake? Poet-author Barbara Hantman's witty, inventive text and illustrator Esther Leiper's rich, fun-loving primary color drawings take toddlers and other youngsters on a unique "ear journey" that culminates in a moral lesson about ultimately needing to choose common sense reality over fantasy – particularly when it comes to listening to one's parents!

About the Author

Barbara Hantman graduated magna cum laude from Queens College, and earned a Phi Beta Kappa key and membership in the Education Honor Society while there. She has an M.A. in the Teaching of Language, Literature, Speech and Theatre from Teachers College, Columbia University. Barbara has served a generation of NYC public high school students. Her accomplishments include a fourth book of poetry with Edwin Mellen Press that is fully bilingual in Spanish and English: CAPULLOS DEL ALMA: SOUL BUDS (2004). She has placed in poetry contests sponsored by Performance Poets Association (2001) and the New York Poetry Forum (2003, 2008, 2011). She won first prize in LONE STARS MAGAZINE’s Light of the Stars 2009 Contest for her poem, “The Velvet Toolbox.” Barbara enjoys her role as Corresponding Secretary for the Fresh Meadows Poets, and is proud of her holiday poems, which have appeared in MIDSTREAM MAGAZINE. Other publication credits include FRESHET, POETICA, THE DERONDA REVIEW, MOBIUS, THE CULVERT CHRONICLES, CONCEIT and WOMEN IN JUDAISM: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL. Her latest book, CALL OF ABRAHAM’S KIN, (2010) includes a smattering of Spanish and Hebrew bilingual poems. A sampling can be accessed at http://bookstore.xlibris.com/Products/SKU-0069416049/CALL-OF-ABRAHAMS-KIN.aspx. It features poems with Jewish themes, and illustrations by gifted artist, poet and scholar Esther Leiper-Estabrooks of New Hampshire’s “North Country”. For more information, go to www.BarbaraHantman.com. A second book of Jewish-themed poems with Xlibris – BATHSHEBA’S LEVANTINE BOUQUET – is forthcoming.