Children’s Summer Time stories

Authors Carol and Rod read children stories for summer reading programs,. Meet the authors at Book Warehouse at the Outlet Malls of Little Rock July 2019.

Singing some songs to get us started with an ukulele and harmonica.

 

Then Mr Rod read The Adventures of Andrew on the Golf Course Book One about mama duck.

Illustrations by Carol.

Thanks for stopping in Book WareHouse Story Hour with Rod and Carol for story and song.

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Thanks for your support. -Carol and Rod

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Holiday House 2018

November started with a bang singing at The Arkansas State Convention Center for the Holiday House Santa event on November 10th, 2018. We sang Christmas songs as the children came up the escalator to see Santa, who had just arrived in Little Rock.

We read our Holiday storybooks to the children. I read Twas The Mouse Before Christmas, Santa’s North Pole Princess and The Christmas Animals Used by God. Rod displayed The Adventures of Andrew on the Golf Course book series and read book four Golfing with Santa.

 I sold a few books.

Harold the Mouse was there to help.

Rod and I love Christmas.

We even got a chance to visit with Santa. Rod and I will be singing Christmas songs for the Arkansas State Capital Saturday December 1, 2018 for the annual Christmas tree lighting from 6-8pm. We will also have a Holiday Book signing at the Outlet Malls Warehouse Books Saturday December 8, 2018 from 10-2pm.

Thank you for your support. Have a wonderful Christmas.

Carol and Rod

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Golfing at the library with Mr. Rod! That’s right. July 12 Summer Event for Kids!!!

Its Tee Time. Rod Ragsdale and Carol Dabney will be sharing the fun adventures of story and music at the Jacksonville Public Library Wednesday July 12 beginning at 10:30am. Free event. Sharing “The Adventures of Andrew on the Golf Course” book one. Plus an inside golf demonstration which was presented last year and the kids lined to experience. It’s fun.

Singing songs with Miss Carol

 

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Author Rod Ragsdale and illustrator Carol Dabney. “The Adventures of Andrew on the Golf Course”

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Story book for children about golf. Rod has a passion that golf is for everyone in the family. Great outdoor sport.

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touring the libraries around Central Arkansas and telling kids all about golf, and nature out there on the golf course. Telling kids how it builds character. Fun books to inspire kids to learn this sport. Rod’s son Andrew is a golf Pro at DisneyWorld.

Come join us at the Library. Free event Wed July 12  Jacksonville Public library. Thank you to those who purchase our books and music online. Thanks for supporting local authors.

 

Oh yeah baby Book Four has golfing with Santa! Dont just dream about golf in the winter. Golf with Santa. Click link below for details

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Rod and Carol Library events for Kids this summer. Grab your friends see you there!!!

July 12  Wednesday Jacksonville Public Library at 10:30am

July 18 Tuesday Clinton’s Children’s Library Little Rock 10am

 

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Fall Festivals October 2016

Fall festivals are my favorite time of year. The weather is cooling down, the leaves are turning colors, the pumpkins give me a happy feeling. Fall begins the holiday seasons of Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas. For the next three months I get to read my holiday books at schools and Rod and I are practicing our Christmas songs

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In Octobter we kicked off the Fall Festivals at Scott’s Plantation Cotton Festival. That is where Rod and I met three years ago. He was playing music and I was selling my books. We have enjoyed getting to know each other, singing music everywhere together, and now writing children’s books together.

Pumpkins on a gate

Fall Festival

Rod Ragsdale playing his guitar and harmonica at the Plantation Festival 2015

Scott Plantation Settlement Fall Festival

Rod Ragsdale and his book booth of The Adventures of Andrew on the Golf Course

Carol Dabney singing for the folks at the Scott’s fall festival

The Happy Pumpkin, Patch by Carol Dabbney. Great to read to young children every fall.

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The Adventures of Andrew on the Golf Course by Rod Ragsdale

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Rod spent 40 years developing and working on golf courses. His son is a golf pro at Disney world. Rod has been showing me how to play golf the last year as well. I illustrate his adventure books. Great for young children 10 and under. Rod has four books in his series now, including a Christmas special new this year 2016… The Adventures of Andrew on the Golf Course – book four – Golfing with Santa.

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He read the first book at several libraries and showed the children how to putt. They loved golfing at the library.

The Good Earth annual Pooches and Pumpkins Festival. It’s my fourth year.

Pumpkins on a gate

My pup and pumpkin watercolor painting

The pilgrim, Jack, watching over his pumpkin seed to keep it safe from the weather was important. He carried buckets of water in the heat. Patch the pumpkin made a huge Jack-O-Lantern at Halloween and tasty pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving. The book shares the value of hard work, patience and sharing.

my artwork. watercolor. I love painting. Very relaxing.

We hope you will go online to amazon and maybe purchase some of our books as Christmas gifts. Thank you for your support.

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Rod and I will be singing and reading our stories at The Arkansas State Convention Center Saturday November 12 for the Holiday House Santa Event from 9-noon, where we will have our Christmas books for sell and will sign autographs.

Also: The Arkansas State Capital Saturday December 3, from 6-8pm for the annual Christmas tree lighting and Santa event. Saturday December 10 at 11:30 at the Maumelle Library. The Clinton Children’s Library Monday December 19 at 11am. Hope to see you there.

June and July 2016 Carol and Rod Music

June 2016 we found ourselves singing at a country western show at Fox Ridge in North Little Rock. I loved the themed parties y’all. YeeHaw this was fun! Rod and I put on our cowboy hats and sang all our country and folk songs.

I went down south to Ft. Polk, Louisiana and read and sang to my grand daughter Aliyah’s school on the Army base while awaiting the arrival on a new grandchild. Aliyah has helped me present this story several times now from Hawaii to Virginia about her military mommy, the title of the book is of course, “Military Mommy.”

When I got back to Little Rock, we sang at Elmcroft for their Birthday party.

Happy 4th of July at Elmcroft in Maumelle and Brookdale in Little Rock.

Hawaiian summer reading program with stories, songs, and hula at the Maumelle Public Library was lots of fun. We will be presenting a Christmas program December 10, 2016 at 11:30am.

Golfing in the library maybe a first at the Clinton’s Children’s library and learning center Summer reading program. Rod shows children how to putt and reads his first golfing story called “The Adventures of Andrew on the Golf Course.” I’ll tell you, they were very interested and had alot of fun.

Then of course we had to do a bit of hula because we always do during the summer programs and its expected and all the kids get out there and have lots of fun. Some of our Arkansas kids have never seen the ocean, so I enjoy telling them all about my beloved Hawaii, where I lived for 15 years.

All our Hawaiian, military and golf stories are found on Amazon.  “Military Mommy” by Carol Dabney and “The Adventures of Andrew on the Golf Course” by Rod Ragsdale. Please check out all our storybooks for Children and consider them for Christmas gifts. Thank you for your support. We have two new Christmas books this year: “The Adventures of Andrew on the Golf Course -Book Four -Golfing with Santa.” and “Santa’s North Pole Princess”

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Rod and I will be singing: at Holiday House Santa event at the Arkansas State Convention Center downtown Little Rock Saturday November 12 from 9-noon; at the Arkansas State Capital annual Christmas tree lighting with Santa Saturday December 3 from 6-8pm; at the Maumelle Library Saturday Dec 10 at 11:30am, and Clinton Children’s Library Monday December 19 at 11am.

 

Summer fun at the Library

I salute our wonderful libraries. The local libraries are always creating new ways to interest kids in reading. Reading can take you places real and imagined. Reading can ignite and inspire.

Rod and I enjoyed singing and reading our stories at the libraries this summer and taking part in getting children excited about music and showing them some golf adventures.

Reading can change the way you think about your life. When I was young I lived on a goat farm and my sister read Heidi to me. You know the one about a little girl living with goats on a mountainside. What a wonderful story.

The libraries have a theme every summer. A couple years ago the theme was Pause to Read and they had a poster of a puppy reading through a stack of books. Too cute. I enjoyed reading my animal series I had been working on at the time. Well since its a series I guess you could say I am still working on this with my co-author Everett Martindale. I told him The Animals Used By God series would never be finished. There were so many bible stories and animals that I supposed we could just write from now on. That year I traveled to read at the Amador County Library in Pioneer California.

I read my Military mommy book when I read to Sgt Yano Library program at Schofield Army barracks when my daughter was stationed in Oahu. The children and I marched and saluted as I read the pages.

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Hawaiian Programs Summer 2014

I always like to sing a few songs too. In fact I get asked to sing at the libraries as much as read these days. Libraries are just fun places to go to anytime of the year, but they really work overtime during the summer.

 

 

This year the theme was based all about Sports. Perfect to read Rod’s adventures on golf books. Rod brought his golf club, golf balls, and let the kids try it out first hand. He read his story and sang a couple song with his guitar and the kids loved it. we went to the Children’s Library downtown Little Rock. Maumelle Library. and Nixon Library in  Jacksonville so far this month.

 

Its fun to do a Hawaiian program for the kids. Show a bit of hula and tell them about whale watching, and sea turtles. I let them play my ukulele, rain stick and bamboo sticks,  and of course they want to see pictures of the volcano.

 

I use to take my children to the library all the time when they were little. They would sit on the floor and look at pictures. They would read some and took great care in each picking out books to bring home. And they were Free books too, what a plus. How can you beat that?  My kids read a lot of books and they all did well in school. I think it really helped to have joined in on fun programs and reading challenges at the library. I just love the library. A great way to spend the summer. So just wanted to say Thank you.

my books can also be found on Amazon …

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Tee Time

It’s summer time, the kids are out of school. What to do? Let play some golf and start them young says Rod Ragsdale, author of “The Adventures of Andrew on the Golf Course”… its a great outdoor sport for the whole family.

 

 

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A fun short story for young children to inspire them to get out there and learn the game of golf. In this series of golf stories Rod tells about how there is a lot more going on on the golf course then you’d think. There are amazing trees and flowers, lots of small animals, insects and wonderful birds.

There is nature all around for families to discover. In his first book he tells the true story about how Andrew saves a little duck, and how golf brings out a person’s character.

Its a tender Go-Ask-Dad story line in each book as Andrew learns how to be a better golfer and about being a better person all around.  

Golf is a game you can challenge yourself or your friends.

It’s summertime. Let play a game of golf!

Rod Ragsdale has been in the golf industry for 40 years. Now he is retired and plays golf every morning for fun.

 

Saturday April 9, 2016 at 10am Children’s Library in Little Rock- hear the stories of The Adventures of Andrew on the Golf Course book series for young children.

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Author Rod Ragsdale has been in the golf industry for over forty years. He loves to inspire children to play the great game of golf. His son Andrew started playing when he was just two years old.

 

Illustration created by Carol Dabney

 

Aliyah Jane learning at age three

Great family sport.

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Book Two

Rod loves to read his stories about golf at libraries and classrooms, he loves to teach golf, but he really loves to play golf. he will be reading the first two books at the Hillary Clinton Children’s Library and Learning Center on 10th street in Little Rock Arkansas Saturday April 9, 2016    at 10am along with Carol Dabney… Yes there will be music too bring the whole family. Free event. .

I’m learning to play too!

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Summer Music Programs at Clinton’s Children’s Library

Rod Ragsdale and Carol Dabney play music for children’s hour at the Hillary Clinton Children’s Library and Learning Center

Carol Dabney and Rod Ragsdale will be playing music during children’s story hour Monday August 3 and Monday August 10th at 10am and 11am Summer Children’s programs at the Hillary Clinton Children’s Library and Learning Center in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Dabney and Ragsdale compose and record music and audiobooks for children. They also teach music on request guitar, piano, harmonica and ukulele. They sing at private birthday parties, luaus and special events.

Children enjoy interactive music time with Carol Dabney and Rod Ragsdale June 30

children singing and dancing with Miss Carol

Carol Dabney and Rod Ragsdale having fun playing music for children

Carol Dabney and Rod Ragsdale having fun playing games during story hour at the Children’s Library June 30, 2015

Carol Dabney and Rod Ragsdale will be playing interactive music with children again August 3 and August 10th and 10am and 11am at the Hillary Clinton Children’s Library.

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