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Audrey Penn is an American children's writer. She is best known for writing The Kissing Hand, a picture book featuring anthropomorphic raccoons.
Audrey Penn grew up in Silver Spring, Maryland. Audrey Penn didn’t start off her career as a writer. Penn, in the 1970s, was a ballerina dancer dancing for the New York City Ballet, Danny Diamond Dance Theatre, Stuttgart Ballet, and the National Ballet. Between 1973 and 1976 she was an alignist and choreographer for the US Figure Skating team for the Pan American Games and the 1976 Olympic Gymnastics Team. Penn's first book was Happy Apple Told Me. In 1980, after developing Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis, Penn was too ill to continue with ballet. Due to many painful surgeries and not being able to walk for weeks led her to write more books like Blue Out of Season and No Bones About Driftiss. Penn currently resides in Maryland with her husband and their two children.
Audrey Penn's first book written in 1975, Happy Apple Told Me, won the Midstate Library Association Award and was nominated for the Caldecott Medal Award. Penn's second book, Blue Out of Season, won the Mid-State Library Association Award and Very Special Arts Recognition Award. Her best known book, The Kissing Hand, was the New York Times number one best seller and won the Distinguished Achievement Award for Excellence in Educational Journalism. In 2004, A Pocket Full of Kisses also was on the New York Times number one best seller. (Retrieved from Audrey Penn's Official Website)A New York Times best seller.
The Kissing Hand is an American children's picture book written by Audrey Penn and illustrated by Ruth E. Harper and Nancy M. Leak. It features a mother raccoon comforting a child raccoon by kissing its paw. First published by the Child Welfare League of America in 1993, it has been used "to reassure children upset by separation anxiety."
Based on a 2007 online poll, the National Education Association named the book one of its "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children." It was one of the "Top 100 Picture Books" of all time in a 2012 poll by School Library Journal. It has been translated into at least five languages and has been followed by five sequels. 5657
On a train ride in Wheaton, Maryland, Penn witnessed a ritual in which a mother raccoon placed its nose on a baby raccoon's paw, and then the baby raccoon placed its paw on its own face. The park ranger said that the purpose of the ritual was to transfer scent from the mother to the baby so that the baby could recall the mother's scent by bringing its paw to its face. Penn "started a similar ritual with her daughter — kissing her hand and telling her that whenever she was homesick, she could put her hand to her face."
Kissing is a municipality in the Aichach-Friedberg district, in Bavaria, Germany. It is located just 10 km south of Augsburg and has about 11,200 inhabitants (2007).
Kissing was first mentioned in a document in 1050 AD as Chissingin, it was a minor regional centre of rule and jurisdiction called a Hofmark (German article). In even earlier times, around 500, there was a thing hill nearby, which was later swept away by the floods of the river Lech.
The surname Kissinger (as in Henry Kissinger) means inhabitant of Kissing or Kissingen.
A hand (Latin manus) is a prehensile, multi-fingered organ located at the end of the forearm or forelimb of primates such as humans, chimpanzees, monkeys, and lemurs. A few other vertebrates such as the koala (which has two opposable thumbs on each "hand" and fingerprints remarkably similar to human fingerprints) are often described as having "hands" instead of paws on their front limbs. The raccoon is usually described as having "hands" though opposable thumbs are lacking.
Fingers contain some of the densest areas of nerve endings on the body, are the richest source of tactile feedback, and have the greatest positioning capability of the body; thus the sense of touch is intimately associated with hands. Like other paired organs (eyes, feet, legs) each hand is dominantly controlled by the opposing brain hemisphere, so that handedness—the preferred hand choice for single-handed activities such as writing with a pencil, reflects individual brain functioning.
Some evolutionary anatomists use the term hand to refer to the appendage of digits on the forelimb more generally — for example, in the context of whether the three digits of the bird hand involved the same homologous loss of two digits as in the dinosaur hand.
A kindergarten teacher, Elementary K, reads aloud "Chester the Brave" by Audrey Penn. The book is illustrated by Barbara L. Gibson. Chester the raccoon is the main character of this book. There is a series of books about Chester beginning with "The Kissing Hand." In this book Chester learns that being brave is about finding the courage to do things that scare you.
A kindergarten teacher, Elementary K, reads "The Kissing Hand" By Audrey Penn.
For music I used the "Playful" theme music from iMovie
This is a live reading of the children's book The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn and Ruth E. Harper. Book Synopsis: Chester the Raccoon is starting school, but he is scared. Mother Raccoon shares with Chester the magic of the kissing hand which will fill his heart with his mother's love wherever he goes. Accelerated Reader Book Information: Interest Level (IL): LG ATOS Book Level: 2.7 AR Points: 0.5 Grade level: Preschool-3 Age level: 3-8 years ENJOY THIS BOOK? The Kissing Hand can be found here: http://amzn.to/1GYoDpw (affiliate) About Miss Yumi: Miss Yumi is a preschool teacher who does live readings of children's books. Read along with Miss Yumi or enjoy your favorite kids book read aloud! Please subscribe to the channel if you enjoy watching or listening to kids books being read a...
The Kissing Hand read by Barbara Bain. Written by Audrey Penn and illustrated by Ruth E. Harper and Nancy M. Leak. School is starting in the forest, but Chester Raccoon does not want to go. To help ease Chester's fears, Mrs. Raccoon shares a family secret called the Kissing Hand to give him the reassurance of her love any time his world feels a little scary.
Bookmarked! 2012 featured author Audrey Penn discusses what writing means to her, including her earliest inspirations for writing.
Welcome to Playtime Toy Unboxing! Today we are reading another FAVORITE. THE KISSING HAND, by Audrey Penn. We highly recommend this book for your kids especially if your child is having a hard time adjusting to being away from his or her parents. Is your child crying when you drop them off in school? This is a MUST READ for those occasions and will help bring some comfort to your baby. We started reading this story when KK went to her first day of school and we actually play the Kissing Hand with her every day. It always makes her smile. SPANISH leer libros, cuento antes de dormir , libros para niños , la lectura en voz alta , lectura en voz alta RUSSIAN читать книги, сказку , детские книги , чтение вслух, чтение вслух , обучение английский , научиться читать POLISH czytanie ksią...
The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn Support the Author and Purchase here: http://amzn.to/1HWln7r Background music: Pachabelly by Huma-Huma
Sometimes it's just as hard for us to leave our children in a new situation as it is for them. How comforting for both parent and child to know that the love and reassurance to face such separations can be as close as the palm of our hands! More info: http://www.chinaberry.com/prod.cfm/pgc/11100/sbc/11103/inv/178/tid/629060406
A kindergarten teacher, Elementary K, reads "The Kissing Hand" By Audrey Penn.
For Shlok - great book for preschoolers and Kindergarten
Ms. Silver reading The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn and Bunny Cakes by Rosemary Wells
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Jordan is joined by Audrey, Lister, Jack and Ian as they rank ten items from best to worst AND NOTHING BAD HAPPENS Featuring Shark Tank, Baseball, Call of Duty, Surge, Zynga, George W Bush, Penn & Teller, Home Improvement and They Might Be Giants
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After a beautiful but unsophisticated girl is seduced by a worldly piano player and gives up her out-of-wedlock baby, her guilt compels her to kidnap another child. Cast Sally Forrest ... Sally Kelton Keefe Brasselle ... Drew Baxter Leo Penn ... Steve Ryan Dorothy Adams ... Mrs. Aggie Kelton Wheaton Chambers ... Mr. Kelton Rita Lupino ... Joan Audrey Farr ... Nancy Carole Donne ... Jane Ruth Clifford ... Mrs. Elizabeth Stone Ruthelma Stevens ... Miss James Virginia Mullen ... Mrs. Banning, Infant's mother Marie Harmon ... Irene Roger Anderson ... Bill Aikens Gregg Barton ... Patrolman Charles Seel ... Dr. Williams Lawrence Dobkin ... Assistant District Attorney Patrick Whyte ... Reverend Culbertson Maurice Bernstein ... Doctor in delivery room Tom Coleman ... Townsman Dian Fauntelle ....
TBS Bioethics Initiative How did we get here? Where are we going? With Chancellor Arnold Eisen from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and Professor Jonathan D. Moreno from the University of Pennsylvania. Chancellor Arnold Eisen Arnold M. Eisen, one of the world's foremost authorities on American Judaism, is the seventh chancellor of The Jewish Theological Seminary. Since taking office in 2007, Chancellor Eisen has transformed the education of religious, pedagogical, professional, and lay leaders for North American Jewry, with a focus on graduating highly skilled, innovative leaders who bring Judaism alive in ways that speak authentically to Jews at a time of rapid and far-reaching change. Professor Jonathan D. Moreno Jonathan D. Moreno, Ph.D. is the David and Lyn Silfen Universi...
I went down to the harbour
To meet my new bride
She said "i'll wear a white ribbon tied high"
She wore a white ribbon tied high on her thigh
Dark clouds on the horizon
A few spatters on her dress
And with my coat buttoned up to her throat
From the hotel balcony
She stared out towards the sea
From the hotel balcony she stared out away from me
And if there's one thing i know
It's when not to speak
She came lay beside me
Touched my hair soft as a breeze
I was just like a child
On christmas day
But with the strength of a man
And just like snow
Falling into hot milk
That little woman disappeared
Against my skin