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Carolyn Joyce Dodds

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Author Carolyn Joyce Dodds

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Feauturing Tessa's Tall Tales
Imagination at sea

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Books for children

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Tessa's imagination at play...

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First Release In A New Series Of Children's Books

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Meet The Author

Learn More About Carolyn

Carolyn Joyce Dodds lives in Northern California where she has raised her two grown sons. She is a retired syndicated newspaper columnist and is now passionate about her role as a Special Education Teacher and Reading Specialist.

Meet The Illustrator

June Gomez is a long time Bay-Area resident and a native Californian. Her creative talents were evident to those close to her at an incredibly young age. In school as well as home, June was always finding ways to express her creativity. A sketch book was her traveling companion in her youth. Art classes were a constant in her school schedules throughout the years.

" As an artist, I really love what I do..."

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Tessa's Tall Tales

Written by Carolyn Joyce Dodds and illustrated by June Gomez

New San Francisco Bay Area native and author, Carolyn Joyce Dodds, creates Tessa's Tall Tales, a quick-witted, whimsical tale intended for school-age children. Tessa delights in telling tall tales but has she stopped telling the truth altogether?

Tessa and her parents must navigate the waters between truth and falsehood without crushing creativity. It is a challenge for all imaginative children. Readers will delight in the adventures of wolf cub Tessa, her parents and friends as fancifully drawn by Academy of Art College graduate, June Gomez.ragraph

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What People Are Saying About Tessa's Tall Tales

"Jamie S. writes:This was such a cute story about the importance of telling the truth instead of making stories up to sound like the truth! I have two girls of my own and have taught preschool for 27 years! I had many children come to mind that I was reminded of while reading this cute book!"

Jamie S.

“Heidi H. says this is such a sweet book about a lesson hard to explain to kids at times. Well done Miss Dodds! Her son and former student of Ms. Dodds, Jake, says — “This book is about respect, telling lies and always telling the truth.””

Heidi H.

“I love this book and I love Carolyn Joyce Dodds for writing it!!”

Juliet H.

“Pam G. writes: I just thought it was very well written and I love the illustrations. It was tactfully and subtly sending a message about what is creating a story to share and what is going overboard where it turns into a lie. It was a social story and we need more of it with our young people. That's where it starts, that's where manners, compassion, sympathy empathy all starts— in the very young. Round of applause! ”

Pam G.

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The Sand Bucket

The sand bucket was the last of 30 or so illustrations for “Tessa’s Tall Tales”.

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Swimming with Whales

Exploration and adventure begins with the imagination.

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