I am excited about this series! (I’m just now reading about it, Feb 2, 2025.) I’d love to read it, but I’ve ordered it from Amazon to be sent to my first grader granddaughter, who LOVES books, but finds reading very difficult (I think it’s a kind of dyslexia that’s making it so unbelievably hard.) Many thanks for writing Ava Lin books! I hope there are more coming in the future.
Ohh, thank you so much, Rose! I hope your granddaughter enjoys it. The reading level is probably advanced first grade, so she may need some help getting into it, but hopefully she'll fall in love with it to continue reading it and the following books! Feel free to let me know how it goes!
Love this post! Thank you for sharing. Are you able to share the synopsis for Book 2 from the proposal? I'm a little confused because this post makes it sound like you wrote the proposal and then later had the inspiration of the kindness tickets/kiddo's made of language, which makes me wonder how general or specific was the book 2 synopsis in the proposal. Thanks!
Oh yes! I was a little muddy about that (probably because I was a little muddy remembering.) I knew it was going to be about the ticket challenge from the proposal. I wrote the synopsis in my pitch as follow: "When her kindergarten teacher sets up a bucket filling challenge, Ava is determined to be the kindest of all! But when she’s distracted by the classroom turtle and inventing a new secret language, it’s hard to stay ahead. Ava finally finds a way to fill the bucket—but not in the way she expected!" I didn't have a story yet, but I sprinkled in more items from my list of ideas and wove them together. So the sequence is not quite accurate in the post, I'll clean it up to reflect. Thank you for catching for clarity!
I am excited about this series! (I’m just now reading about it, Feb 2, 2025.) I’d love to read it, but I’ve ordered it from Amazon to be sent to my first grader granddaughter, who LOVES books, but finds reading very difficult (I think it’s a kind of dyslexia that’s making it so unbelievably hard.) Many thanks for writing Ava Lin books! I hope there are more coming in the future.
Ohh, thank you so much, Rose! I hope your granddaughter enjoys it. The reading level is probably advanced first grade, so she may need some help getting into it, but hopefully she'll fall in love with it to continue reading it and the following books! Feel free to let me know how it goes!
Enjoyed reading the background story of how Ava Lin came to be!
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Such a detailed and helpful recap, as usual. Thanks, Vicky.
Thank you, Sue! Glad it’s helpful.
Love this post! Thank you for sharing. Are you able to share the synopsis for Book 2 from the proposal? I'm a little confused because this post makes it sound like you wrote the proposal and then later had the inspiration of the kindness tickets/kiddo's made of language, which makes me wonder how general or specific was the book 2 synopsis in the proposal. Thanks!
Oh yes! I was a little muddy about that (probably because I was a little muddy remembering.) I knew it was going to be about the ticket challenge from the proposal. I wrote the synopsis in my pitch as follow: "When her kindergarten teacher sets up a bucket filling challenge, Ava is determined to be the kindest of all! But when she’s distracted by the classroom turtle and inventing a new secret language, it’s hard to stay ahead. Ava finally finds a way to fill the bucket—but not in the way she expected!" I didn't have a story yet, but I sprinkled in more items from my list of ideas and wove them together. So the sequence is not quite accurate in the post, I'll clean it up to reflect. Thank you for catching for clarity!