KIDS' DAY...

KIDS' DAY by Deborah Claire.  While camping in the mountains with her parents and three brothers Diana meets a witch who grants her wish that adults stop working and start playing.  At first, it’s great!  Mom and Dad are off their cell phones and totally involved with their kids.  Okay, so there’s no TV, but is that really a problem when videos can be had for the taking?  In fact, anything can be had for the taking; that green stuff is just play money!  The trouble begins when people start fighting over toys and ice cream in the mall, and escalates to a complete shutdown of electricity, water, medical care, and food supplies.  The kids finally decide that people really do have to work, and head out to the mountains to set things right.  

About the Book  

Kids' Day grants every child's wish that Mom and Dad be more available, that quality time go on forever, that playtime never end.  But when it does happen, the results are unexpected.  While adults play, all the services provided by the community fall apart.  Kids might think that it would be fun to get rid of money and never have a bedtime, to use school books as building blocks, and dance in the hallways, but the actual experience is a mind-opener.  Especially when Penny's grandma gets sick and there's no one to care for her, and when smaller kids are being chased by bullies and there's no protection anywhere.

While Kids' Day is a lighthearted romp through a system that's come to a screeching halt, it's just dark enough to be a mirror that shows kids how they fit in the world and how that world holds together.

  About the Author

          Deborah Claire is an artist as well as a writer, and works in television and film--industries where the ability to visualize is as important as the ability to put words together.  Her work is the mainstay of her life, and only her children take precedence.  As a mother of two teenage girls, she is concerned with the state of the world, which is why this book was finally written.  

            When Deborah was younger she would drop everything and travel around the world to the remotest places she could find just for the experience.  Today, because of her children, that’s a little hard to do, but she still “goes where no one has gone before” in spirit and in the worlds she creates with language and, when she has time, with paper and paint. 

            Deborah is thrilled by ideas.  She has spent the last ten years honing her ability to put ideas into words by getting a Master’s degree in Communication, and then going on to create children’s books, screenplays for feature films, and television documentaries.  She supports herself and her children through her writing.  In college, her professors described her as an “original thinker.” 

Original or not, Deborah has dedicated her life to creating works that entertain and teach without being exploitative or moralistic.  She loves what she does, and considers it a privilege to be able to share what she has learned with others.

Reviews  

"A great story for kids...and for adults too!"  Mandy Zukoff, Healthy Kids

"Charming…pleasant style of writing... Lovable main characters, exciting plot... kids will love it!"  Joanna Skevis, e-Writer Magazine

"Once they reach a certain age they don't seem to care anymore, but until then, all kids want their mothers and fathers to spend more time with them.  And they simply can't understand why adults have to go to work.  Kids' Day by Deborah Claire lets readers ages 8 - 14 see how much we depend on each other, and shows them how important they each are in making the system work.  Today, more than ever, this is a message that we all need to understand..."   Joan Sax, Ph.D.