Grandma Buddy's House
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Betty Stallings-Murray is Grandma Buddy. Grandma Buddy’s House is a first of many family experiences. She believes when a family gathers it is a celebration of love, heritage and legacy. These communions bring to the family honor, strength, pride and memorialize our family heroes. Children grow up with a since of direction and belonging to. Betty hopes to inspire children to enjoy their very own families.
Grandma Buddy’s House is a wonderful memoir that definitely celebrates the importance of family. The emotions and feelings that your text and illustrations provoke are real and powerful.
Thousands of children can find time in their own lives to connect and compare to your story. You have touched upon a universal moment in time.
Rona Levick
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About the Author
Betty Stallings-Murray lives in New York. She is the mother of four and grandmother of nine. Just retired she is a former kindergarten teacher in the New York City public schools. “Ten Is for Tendai” is her second of a series of books based on her family experiences. In each of her books she shares her own family experiences. As an advocate for literacy the author hopes to encourage children and families to record their own memories, by writing and drawing their own memories. While in the classroom she has learned children love, and is attracted to beautiful colors, therefore she uses markers as her medium. Betty Stallings-Murray is the recipient of an Ezra Jack Keats Foundation grant and numerous other awards for outstanding service to the community and education; the founder of the “Spirit Of Sisterhood;” the creator of the widely traveled exhibition “Come to the Table;” celebrating women, and the author/illustrator of “Grandma Buddy’s House.”