Cathy Witbeck - Author/ Illustrator
Introducing
Picture the Alphabet
An Alphabet Look and Find Book
Available now at Amazon, and other fine retailers.
Free Printable Winter Village
I've always thought it would be fun to create paper scenes. My first free printable scene is a winter village. I hope you have fun cutting it out and setting it up. Click on the image to go to it's download page.
If you enjoy free printable activities, check out my free printable Paper Doll page.
What can you do with the Fairy Village Coloring Book?
My picture book Pysanky Promise describes how to make a Ukrainian Easter egg.
My Pysanky Coloring Book, gives you the chance to color your own egg. It also has a chart that shows you symbols, colors and their meanings.
Using this guide you can color an egg for a specific person. For example: If you wanted to thank a teacher, you could color an egg with a geometric diamond pattern that means knowledge and the color purple that stands for patience. Or color an egg with meaning that is significant to you.
Pysanky Promise
A story about family traditions and the art of Ukrainian Easter eggs.
When Alena learns her grandmother's hands have grown too shaky to make pysanky (Ukrainian Easter eggs), she learns the art herself, hoping to heal her grandmother's heart. The book explains the method for making pysanky, as well as a bit about the history, symbolism and tradition behind the craft.
BIO
Cathy Witbeck is a Canadian born author-illustrator transplanted to the USA. She remembers writing and drawing ever since she could pick up a pencil. She did an especially lovely piece of artwork on the side of the septic tank with house paint at a very young age. Perhaps that’s when it was discovered that she was gifted, or maybe it’s why she was sent to the USA.
She has five grown kids and one grown husband. When she isn’t writing and illustrating, she wishes she was writing and illustrating and not folding the laundry.
I would love to visit your school
I love to write, I love to illustrate and I love it when I find kids that have the same passion. I would love to come to your school and tell your class about pysanky, writing, illustrating or all three. Feel free to contact me to set up a school visit in Utah.
Heads up. The best writing book I have ever found for kids is Writing Magic by Gail Carson Levine. You can find it on Amazon. It is a great starter book for kids who really want to write.
Contact Cathy
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