An Oinkrrific Day!: Activity and Coloring Book

Are you ready for an adventure? Jean Voice Dart's An Oinkrrific Day! Activity and Coloring Book is a valuable, heartwarming educational resource for teachers and parents. This sweet, silly, and straightforward book is a powerful message of friendship, self-confidence, harmony, and love. The activity book and the accompanying An Oinkrrific Day! Musical Bully-Busting Barnyard Adventure storybook teach

• Ten common farm animals (crow, cow, donkey, sheep, duck, horse, dog, cat, hen, chick)
• Ten children's animal sounds (moo, caw, hee-haw, baa, quack, neigh, bow wow, cluck, cheep, meow)
• Ten children's classroom rhythm instruments (xylophone, tambourine, wrist bells, maracas, ukulele, triangle, harmonica, cowbell, claves, and drum)
• Common emotions and feelings (angry, sad, happy, brave, proud, loving, kind, sorry, surprised, sick, hungry, etc.)
• Repetitive rhythmic rhyme patterns
• The importance of a loving, supportive family and community
• The importance of believing in oneself to follow one's dreams
• The importance of apologizing and forgiving

Jean's rhythmic rhymes and Anastasia Yatsunenko's illustrations introduce the reader to Bernie, the sensitive, posy-picking piglet, who must find an oinkrrific sound! Bernie leaves his family, meeting ten different barnyard buddies who offer advice.

What will Bernie do? Can he find his "oinkrrific" sound? Children and adults of all ages will giggle, learn and smile as they discover mazes, matching games, tracing, coloring, and word searches. They learn how to be true to themselves, follow their dreams, and listen to their hearts.

It's the oinkity, oinkity best place to start!

Growing up next to the Illinois cornfields, Jean listened to chirping crickets, chased lightning bugs, and created imaginative stories, songs, and poems. As a teenager, she wrote, "The Pig Who Found Music," a heart-warming story about little Bernie, later entitled "An Oinkrrific Day!" the first in the Bully-Busting Adventure Series. "Friends Have Feelings" continues the story of Bernie the pig and his barnyard friends.Multiple life challenges empowered Jean to become an author, registered music therapist, credentialed teacher, and certified creative and performing arts coach. Today Jean is a Certified Expressive Arts Grief and Trauma Coach and a Certified Art Therapy Practitioner. She helps people discover, identify, and release blocked feelings through the expressive arts (art, music, dramatic arts, public speaking, and creative writing) with her books, group sessions, and private sessions. She is currently authoring her adult book series based on the Podcast "Courageous, Creative Conquerors." It features stories and creative artwork from those who have triumphed over trauma. For more information, visit www.jeanvoicedart.com

Anastasia Yatsunenko was born and raised in Ukraine. She graduated from Kyiv University as a designer-illustrator and now works in the city, relaxing and observing nature and animals. Spending time with her grandfather is something very dear to Anastasia's heart. She especially enjoys seeing cows, horses, rabbits, chickens, pigs and watching the swans and ducks in the village lake. Today Anastasia and Jean are delighted to have found one another and join together to create the Bully-Busting Adventures series of books, including the storybook "An Oinkrrific Day! A Musical, Bully-Busting, Barnyard Adventure." For more information, visit www.jeanvoicedart.com