{"id":1848,"date":"2021-12-06T21:33:47","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T21:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goodstuffconnections.com\/?p=1848"},"modified":"2021-12-06T21:33:49","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T21:33:49","slug":"a-farm-animals-christmas-on-short-list-for-award-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodstuffconnections.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/06\/a-farm-animals-christmas-on-short-list-for-award-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A FARM ANIMALS\u2019 CHRISTMAS ON SHORT LIST FOR AWARD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Local businesswomen, and authors, Stephanie Matolyak and Deborah Bailey recently were notified by Chanticleer International Books that their children\u2019s book, <em>A Farm Animals\u2019 Christmas: No Ordinary Farm<\/em>, has made the SHORT LIST of the 2021 Little Peeps Book Awards novel competition for Early Readers! Published in November of 2020, A Farm Animals\u2019 Christmas is a proudly silly children\u2019s story of rescue animals on a real-life farm, waiting for Christmas to arrive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMatolyak and Bailey\u2019s playful children\u2019s story celebrates the animals Matolyak has rescued, with cows, chickens, goats, birds, and cats starring in this holiday-themed adventure. While eagerly awaiting the arrival of Christmas, the furry and feathered friends play in the snow, enjoying each other\u2019s company and indulging in a variety of snacks. Actual photographs of the sanctuary\u2019s animals grace each page, with thought balloons giving them amusing remarks, such as the cow with its snout buried in a feed bucket declaring \u201cWe\u2019re having buckets of fun being together!\u201d or a turkey, cat, and rabbit contemplating what would be their ideal Christmas present. This jolly and supremely silly book is about having a good time, and it would make a fun addition to any young animal lover\u2019s holiday library.\u201d&nbsp; <em>\u2014 Booklife, May 2021 Review<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Little Peeps Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Early Readers. The Little Peeps Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chanticleer International Book Awards looks for the best books featuring stories of all shapes and sizes written to an audience for Early Readers: Story books, Beginning Chapter Books, Picture Books, Activity Books, and Educational Books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalist positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. &nbsp;All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference April 9<sup>th<\/sup>, 2022 (CAC22).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>A Farm Animals\u2019 Christmas: No Ordinary Farm<\/em> is available online at Amazon, Walmart, Etsy, BarnesandNoble, Facebook through the book\u2019s page @afarmanimalschristmas, and locally in various shops and stores, including Penny Lane Candy and VanGorders in Hawley, Brick House and Alice\u2019s Wonderland in Greeley, and Agway in Honesdale. The public can also purchase a copy of the book at Bailey Design and Advertising located at 3305 Lake Ariel Highway in Honesdale. An E-book version is also available on Amazon.com. For more information about the book and authors call 570-251-1512 or email stephaniesfarm@yahoo.com.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>About the authors\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Originally from Johnstown, PA, Stephanie Matolyak, a top-rated area realtor for nineteen years, brings her \u201cPersonal Touch\u201d to her real estate business by creating an annual Christmas card based on her farm and the animals, which all of her clients look forward to every year.&nbsp; \u201c<em>A Farm Animals\u2019 Christmas: No Ordinary Farm<\/em>\u201d children\u2019s book is based on these holiday cards. Stephanie\u2019s eclectic rescues frolic together in the fields at her dream farm, aptly named \u201cStephanie\u2019s Farm\u201d, where their humorous antics, funny and surreal, are captured with her camera and pen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Local businesswoman Deborah Bailey and her graphic design agency have received many graphic design awards and honors over the years. She is the creative artist behind Stephanie Matolyak\u2019s custom \u201cStephanie\u2019s Farm\u201d annual Christmas Cards for her real estate business. Teaming up with Stephanie to write and illustrate <em>A Farm Animals\u2019 Christmas: No Ordinary Farm<\/em> was just a natural fit for her. With her love of graphic design and animals, Deborah sets the backdrop of <em>A Farm Animals\u2019 Christmas: No Ordinary Farm<\/em> with silly photo illustrations bringing any early reader into the world of rescued animals having a good time and waiting for Christmas. Every page is brimming with color and her collages of&nbsp; \u201creal\u201d pictures of animal action, with delightfully funny scenes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local businesswomen, and authors, Stephanie Matolyak and Deborah Bailey recently were notified by Chanticleer International Books that their children\u2019s book, A Farm Animals\u2019 Christmas: No&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1836,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,70,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-our-area","category-popular"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodstuffconnections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodstuffconnections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodstuffconnections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodstuffconnections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodstuffconnections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goodstuffconnections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1849,"href":"https:\/\/goodstuffconnections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848\/revisions\/1849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodstuffconnections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodstuffconnections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodstuffconnections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodstuffconnections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}