New Book & E-Book: Goodnight Bermuda
J.K. Aspinall, launched one of her Christmas books, Goodnight Bermuda, at Brown’s Corporate Night, and is also offering parents and friends a fun way to enjoy books with a young child. Aspinall has teamed up with Ripple Reader, an e-book innovator and designer, who sells book titles that are downloaded like an e-book, but allows the child or parent to record their own voice while reading.
“I met the company while attending Book Expo America in New York in May,” said Aspinall. “They’re very new on the market, but they’re attracting titles from famous publishers. It’s a wonderful opportunity to promote Some Child Books of Bermuda who will be listed alongside the likes of Scholastic and Charlesbridge. It will be great publicity for Bermuda.”
The first book handled by Ripple Reader is Aspinall’s Pitty Pitty Pat.
“Goodnight Bermuda will be the next book on the Ripple library,” said Aspinall. ” A customer can go into my book site www.pina.bm and click on the Pitty Pitty Pat description. The Ripple Reader link on the web page will take one directly into my e-book information.”
Aspinall said that many Bermuda parents have already brought Pitty Pitty Pat in hardcover and that this added feature does not distract, but enhances the reading pleasure for a young child. “It’s also a wonderful gift for Christmas, as the giver can record the story in their own voice and then pass it on to the child. Their gift is sent over the web, so no packages, no postage.” Average price for a recordable e-book is $8.99.
Other titles destined for Ripple Reader are The Boy Without a Foot, the Banana Leaf Faerie Elf from Bermuda featuring Ronnie Chameau, and her soon to be released, exciting Christmas title, Gombey Baby, created with the assistance of Irwin Trott, leader and founder of the Warwick Gombeys.
Pitty Pitty Pat inspired the writing of the Goodnight Bermuda said Aspinall. “The early reader is a genre that I have not delved into before; however, the tourist market’s response indicated that this is a “hot” field.”
“When I had the preliminary copy at the Craft Market, I had so many tourists saying, “oh, it’s like Goodnight, Moon…” However, it’s not anything like Goodnight, Moon, a small board book written by Margaret Wise Brown, and first published in 1947. But then again, that book sold millions…so…I should be so lucky.
In Goodnight Bermuda, a child observes the world with simple, honest appraisals, saying “goodnight” to tree frogs, chameleons, bumblebees and every wondrous thing in Bermuda from the island’s architecture to her culinary art, the codfish cake.
Moonlight spreads magic throughout a collection of outstanding illustrations depicting fish, a mermaid, a gombey and famous landmarks. The child expresses that one day she will climb Gibbs Hill Lighthouse, walk through a Moongate, tour the world with Marley Frog, and exchange her Guardian Angel for an angelfish who will take her swimming. Imitating a gombey, she falls off her bed and bumps her head, and says, as much as she’d like to be a mermaid, she’d have to exchange her legs for a tail and give up her cat. The large scale text appeals to the early reader, revealing an amusing side that can be only expressed by a child.
The books, 32 pages, 4-colour art printed on heavy gloss paper, will be on sale this week in bookstores throughout the island at a retail price of $15.95. “I am trying to keep my prices down,” said Aspinall,” so that in these times of a tough economy, every parent can afford to buy a book for a child for the holidays.”
Aspinall will be at the Brown’s next two Corporate Nights, Thursday and Friday, 6:30p.m. to 9:00p.m. and will be signing books at The City Market in Hamilton this Saturday from 8:00a.m. to 12:00p.m. and again on Sunday afternoon at St. George’s Olde Time Market from 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
The second book in the Goodnight series, called Hello Fish, is due for publication in 2011. Aspinall’s website will also mail books overseas.
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