February 10, 2012

Thank You to the delightful fourth graders and their great teachers at the Joseph C. Caruso School visited today on Career Day. I was so honored to share my work with
you and to introduce my magical friends and encourage creativity and imagination. Remember, magic is all around you!!

J.L. Kimmel

January 2012….honored to be a part of this….
“McDowell County is an American story that deserves a new chapter. Given the challenges, being conventional won’t be good enough here. We will be flexible, creative and entrepreneurial, and will take risks.”  –AFT President Randi Weingarten
 
Spring Tree Press  wants to thank Joanne DeCuollo of Rumson ,NJ for donating J.L. Kimmel’s award winning ‘The Magic Gown’ books to the school program
‘Reconnecting McDowell‘ in McDowell County, West Virginia

TheBricklayerz/ FullTime Records/ K. Undefeated clothing/ JL.Kimmel combined efforts help give out free gifts on xmas day to kids and homeless people in Newark Nj 2011..

Third appointment at the elementary school Cesare Guasti, Prato with teachers Tina Massa and Ilaria Pussumato. Art laboratoy of plastiline puppets assembled with autumn fruits and free painting inspired by the characters of the ‘Call of Anchovy’ book.

On Thursday, Oct. 27, David Ceccarelli visited the Elementary school ‘Cesare Guasti’ of Prato, Italy. He shared his short story book, L’IRRESISTIBILE RICHIAMO DELL’ACCIUGA,  and stories from his many trekking adventures. The students sang and drew pictures of the infamous three rats from his book as a great surprise

David Ceccarelli will be presenting his book: ‘The Irresistible Call of the Anchovy’ on the 21st of October in the secondary schools of the Comprehensive ”G. Borsi” Castagneto Carducci and Donoratico (Livorno) Italy.

J.L. Kimmel presents ‘IT STARTS WITH AN IMAGE’ Illustrated Short Story Workshop with a presentation of original art work at The Rumson Country Day School.

‎2 Original oil wilderness paintings by J.L. Kimmel for sale @ Beauregard Fine Art.

Today 14th of May at 18:00 just outiside of the Belforte’s library in Livorno, Italy, author Prato David Ceccarelli will present ‘The  Irresistible Call of the Anchovy’. A young adult book  divided into seven stories all connected with each other. The last of the seven is a work of fantasy writer Janine Kimmel author of “The Magic Gown. ” “The  Irresistible Anchovy” was recently awarded with an honorable mention in a national contest of fiction and poetry titled: “Prato: a tissue of culture 2011. The book is the latest imprint of Spring Tree Press along with Belforte Publishing of Livorno. Spring Tree Press is a small American publisher with whom David has worked for for the last few years.

David Ceccarelli with comedian,’Consalvo Noberini’ who is commenting on The  Irresistibile Call of the Anchovy’.. 

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L’IRRESISTIBILE RICHIAMO DELL’ACCIUGA has been chosen for a ‘honorable mention’
International contest: Prato: un tessuto di cultura / international prize for poetry and fiction.

(by David Ceccarelli)

(by J.L Kimmel)

In honor of Burma’s Aung San Suu Kyi for her courage, elegance and unyielding determination to stand by her principles of human dignity; and to support the education and creativity of Burmese Refugee Children living at the Thai Freedom House in Chiang Mai, Thailand, we are donating copies of J.L. Kimmel’s ‘The Magic Gown‘ and  The Magic Doorway booklet. We wanted to support the children’s education and creativity and appreciate the opportunity to gift copies of the Magic Gown to the Thai Freedom House, which is a community language and arts learning center for refugees from Burma and Indigenous Peoples.

The executive director of Thai Freedom House, Lisa M. Nesser, upon hearing about the gift of books responded, ‘We would be extremely grateful and privileged to accept a donation of your book for our students.  Most of our students have no printed material in their homes to practice their English, no books whatsoever and it would be amazing if they had their own copy of your book.  In honor of Aung San Suu Kyi at that!’

This gift was made possible through a grant from the Angeles Arrien Foundation for Cross Cultural Education & Research.

“I’m delighted to say that the most extraordinary things happen – even when times are extraordinarily difficult. …I see everything as an initiation – it is transformational. …I’ve learned a lot about allowing and patience and tenacity. …There will be people that won’t get your work, but you keep moving forward. Things take time. In our culture, it seems that we are focusing on how many and how fast, and I’ve come to calm down and say that it is about quality – not quantity.” (more…)

Spring Tree Press is delighted to share a letter to J.L. Kimmel about ‘The Magic Gown’ from a wonderful, creative, 10 year old girl. In her mother’s words, she had never seen her daughter so excited while reading a book and that her daughter is a  ’voracious reader’.

Thank you Yocheved!

An amazing creative artist herself and unbelievable helper, Emma Offen,
dressed as Nizella the fairy queen, a character from ‘The Magic Gown’ book.
Thank you my dear friend, Emma! Thank you Begonia!

(this one of kind couture costume was designed and made by Linda ‘Begonia’ DeAngelis)
photo by Robert Ender