Month: July 2016

Li’l Al Adventures has been winning hearts and creating smiles well before we began our first appearances last February.  Author, Paula Helgerson, has spent the last 5 months or so making personal appearances to read Li’l Al Adventures to school children and preschoolers.  Visits to childcare centers and grade schools took place through the first 1/2 of this year. With school out, the “dog days” of summer have us looking to Fall and cooler days.

Li’l Al Adventures is all about the journey, and we continue to make strides to reach additional Independent Book Sellers.  We are looking for more of our public to get up close and personal with Li’l Al Adventures (on a daily basis). Do you have a favorite Independent book store you’d like to tell us about? Please do. As we are picked up by further locations we will post on this site and on our Facebook Page.

In addition to finding us on Facebook, you can also find us on Twitter @lilaladventures  As we’ve said – Li’l Al Adventure is about the daily journey down life’s path.  Of course, Li’l Al is joined by his trusty dog, Rocky as he discovers the world. No big message. No hidden agenda. Just daily life and simply joys.

Plans are underway for our Fall line up of appearances; readings and book signings. Do YOU have a childcare center, elementary or preschool class that would like a visit? Are you interested in hosting a book signing? You can contact us through the info on our Contact Us page.

Keep smiling with Li’l Al Adventures. We’ve been told they are stories that are read over and over again …..in the same sitting. Who doesn’t like a rain puddle? We are currently hard at work perfecting the next installment due out in Fall 2016. Yes, a Fall seasonal adventure for Li’l Al! Where will Li’l Al Adventures lead? What will Li’l Al Adventures learn along the way? You can be sure Rocky will be involved. You can be sure to smile when reading.

Look who made it into the Sun Post Newspaper?  Thanks, Chris for the interview and our illustrator, Kimberly Forness Wilson – Li’l Al Adventures is stepping out again!

Read the entire article here.

I  want to give a BIG, continued, THANK YOU to The UPS Store Eagan North – Town Centre Shops for their help in self-publishing our Li’l Al Adventures book project.

The world is filled with adventures and Li’l Al is ready to embrace them.  Li’l Al Adventures is about simple joy in the everyday. There is no hidden agenda to preach. Li’l Al and Rocky love that they can just run and have fun. That’s what you’ll find when you read “Li’l Al Steps into Spring” or “Li’l Al and the Snowy Day.” Simple joy in what life offers.

Life may offer a rain storm and gift us with puddles to run through following.  Rain gives us mud that wasn’t soft or squishy before. Li’l Al Adventures looks for the simple joys in life. That’s what you’ll find in the first two books, now available through this site AND through our collaboration with the Independent Book Stores listed on our our merchandise page. Watch for book #3 coming in Fall 2016.

We can now be found in Missoula, MT at Fact and Fiction Books – again – check our merchandise page for more info.

If you find your copy of Li’l Al Adventures in one our partnering book stores or if you purchase you copy online through this site, chances are you will enjoy sharing the stories with the young people you know. As we’ve made appearances at schools (kindergarten classes) and childcare centers we are delighted time and again by the response of the children hearing about Li’l Al for the first, and even second time.

We continue to hear from parents (and grandparents) who have book #1 [Li’l Al and the Snowy Day] and their reports that this storybook is still among their child’s favorite. Or that their child has it memorized from continual readings. Or that it travels along to numerous doctor/hospital visits with their little one.  Bottom line? We feel blessed to have a story that warms hearts and creates smiles; time and time again.