Tea Time with Miss Carol

You’re at home with small children. What do you do? Set up a tea time with Miss Carol of course. Dress up, set the table, pour some tea. Gather all their favorite stuffed animals  and turn on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFA_rrpJfFU&fbclid=IwAR2dMFgNlOx28e-2CcBRFqQMoFYtMxRWnrq0-hzEf_jEPACnD3ToPWob6cs

Children love to dress up and have a grand event to attend. You can make this happen whenever you are ready.

Sometimes tea time with Miss Carol is a story and song time… about a different kind of tee time. Golf! Hear Rod Ragsdale’s children storybook adventures about Andrew on the golf course during Tea Time with Miss Carol.

Sing “Five Green and Speckled Frogs” and hear “The Adventures of Andrew on The Golf Course – book 2 -DANGER.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFdQdbq4qVk&t=511s

Sing “Six Little Ducks” and hear “The Adventures of Andrew on the Course – Book 1 -Mama Duck” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4bdVEWmCkk&t=170s

Miss Carol also has Tea Time Sunday School Adventures. That’s right, while we are social distancing because of the Coronavirus Pandemic we need to be creative about having church at home for children. Here are some animal parables that are fun and have character values, plus there is always a song. “SundaySchoolatHome #caroldabney.com

“Wanda, the Whale Used by God” is a whale of a Tale written by Miss Carol and Everett O. Martindale. Its about Jonah and the Big Fish. About disobedience and forgiveness. Kids usually love the song “Jonah Did” composed by Miss Carol. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCnWxnORTOM&t=529s

Wisdom, the Elephant Used by God” written by Carol Dabney and Everett O. Martindale. About Noah and the Ark. God is leading all the animals to the ark, and Wisdom is a little elephant that is following the call of God. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVnhtjAgDIk&t=91s Children can sing along to the song “I Will Follow” composed by Miss Carol.

 

Carol Dabney is a music teacher and staying connected with her students by making music videos on YouTube and sometimes Facetime and Zooming private Tea Times. #FamilyFun #AdventureStories #SundaySchoolatHome #TeaTimeWithMissCarol #CoronavirusSingingSolutionsForKids #socialdistancing

Carol is an author and illustrator, published by Et Alia Press. She has a wonderful new children’s storybook “Butterfly Dreams, A Friendship Takes Flight” about friendship and encouragement and changes. Small children will also learn about the life-cycle of the amazing monarchs. Available at Amazon and at etaliapress.com

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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.

Check out our books online at https://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Andrew-Golf-Course-Adventure/dp/1514820870/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=The+Adventures+of+Andrew+on+the+Golf&qid=1563128922&s=gateway&sr=8-4

 

Thanks for your support. -Carol and Rod

A Christmas Carol

Merry Christmas 2017. Love being a music teacher and entertainer especially at Christmas time.

…and I’m engaged to the singing Santa, which makes it all the more festive.

It doesn’t matter what age you are, we are all childlike at Christmas.

Rod Ragsdale sang Christmas carols for Holiday House at the Arkansas State convention center  starting in November to kick off the season. Rod, Cindy and my daughter Michelle sang Christmas carols at the Arkansas State Capital December 2 for the annual Christmas Tree Lighting. Rod and I have been to over 30 senior centers and nursing homes in central Arkansas, festivals and several schools.

Plus the Jacksonville Library Children’s after school program and Children’s Library and Learning center.

We were the Whoville Christmas carolers for the GrinchFest along with channel 11’s Craig O’Neille, who is the Grinch master story-teller, held every year at the Children’s Library in Little Rock.

We also read our Christmas stories at the capital, several schools and libraries. Here is my sister Cindy Reyes who translates all my storybooks into Spanish.

These pictures are from the times I have traveled to Santa’s North Pole Adventureland in Jonesboro to sing and read for Kathy Johnson and her sisters for their magical store. I wrote a new story just for their Princess specials called “Santa’s North Pole Princess” the book is in their gift shop. https://www.facebook.com/santasnorthpolejonesboro/

 

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Rod has a Christmas adventure for young children called Golfing with Santa book four in The Adventures of Andrew on the Golf Course series.

https://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Andrew-Golf-Course-Book/dp/1537450476/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1513949834&sr=1-4&keywords=The+Adventures+of+Andrew+by+Rod+Ragsdale

 

From our home to yours Merry Christmas and may God richly bless you in the new year 2018.

Happy New Year 2018.

Summer Programs of 2017

Michelle and Carol Dabney and Rod Ragsdale. We had a lot of fun the summer of 2017 playing music for senior centers and for children programs in central Arkansas. Here we are at the Hilary Clinton Children’s Library and Learning Center for story hour doing a Hawaiian program on July 18, 2017.

Michelle danced a lovely hula. She was born in the Hawaiian islands. She is a health coach in the Little Rock area.

Rod gave an indoor golfing demonstration and we sold his “The Adventures of Andrew on the Golf Course” book series.

https://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Andrew-Golf-Course-Adventure/dp/1514820870/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1509239591&sr=1-1&keywords=Rod+Ragsdale

We also did a Hawaiian program for the Kids Zone at Fitness 10 gym in Little Rock July 14, 2017. Telling the kids all about Hawaii.

We sang Hawaiian songs and danced the hula.

We also shared our Hawaiian program for the Whole Foods Kids Club September 1, 2017.

The kids enjoyed doing some hula with Michelle. I read the story of “Military Mommy” about my daughter in the army when she was stationed in Hawaii at Schofield Barracks. She is serving in Iraq now.

https://www.amazon.com/Military-Mommy-Second/dp/1480038989/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1509240150&sr=1-2&keywords=Carol+Dabney+Military+Mommy

 

Rod and sang for a Hawaiian luau at The Manor Nursing Home in Little Rock, on my birthday in September and I was presented with a cake. We are regulars there and they have become like family to us the past two years.

Rod and I went into the recording studio and made a really awesome new audiobook for children. “Mia, the Mouse Used by God” with an original song “Where You Go” about a mouse who becomes a match -maker for Ruth and Boaz from the bible story out of the book of Ruth. We recorded at Blue Chair Recording Studio in Austin, Arkansas July 27, 2017.

https://www.amazon.com/Mouse-Used-Ragsdale-Carol-Dabney/dp/B074R45NM6/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1509240541&sr=8-1&keywords=Carol+Dabney+Music

https://www.amazon.com/Mia-Mouse-Used-God-Animals/dp/1537353802/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1509240485&sr=1-1&keywords=Carol+Dabney+Mia+the+Mouse

We had a lot of fun singing this past summer. Hope you will check out all my books available on Amazon. Thank you for supporting local artists and authors.

https://www.amazon.com/Carol-Dabney/e/B0056B1AFW

 

Thanks for stopping in. -Carol Dabney

 

 

 

 

 

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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click link above to view book details.

 

 

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

https://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Andrew-Golf-Course-Book/dp/1522745602/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1499701545&sr=1-3&keywords=Rod+Ragsdale

click link above and see details of book two.

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

https://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Andrew-Golf-Course-Three/dp/1536960357/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1499701545&sr=1-2&keywords=Rod+Ragsdale

click link above and read details of book three.

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

https://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Andrew-Golf-Course-Book/dp/1537450476/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1499701545&sr=1-1&keywords=Rod+Ragsdale

 

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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https://www.amazon.com/Carol-Dabney/e/B0056B1AFW

Golfing with Santa – a child’s adventure

Did you ever wonder what it would be like to play your favorite sport with Santa at the North Pole? Well Andrew got to do just that! See, Andrew loves golf. It just so happened that it was snowing pretty hard one Christmas Eve when suddenly who should appear? You guessed it. Andrew couldn’t believe his eyes, and that was only the beginning. https://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Andrew-Golf-Course-Book/dp/1537450476/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1481587830&sr=1-1&keywords=rod+ragsdale

The Adventures of Andrew on the Golf Course series is written by Rod Ragsdale and illustrated by Carol Dabney.

Rod on the golf course, just before making a snowman. Here is where the wheels began turning for his fourth book – Golfing with Santa.

The books starts with Andrew helping his dad shovel snow around the golf course country club. awe…work. Nothing like it to get a person day dreaming about what he or she would rather be doing.

I mean really what if..

Rod Ragsdale and Carol Dabney tour libraries and schools singing and sharing their stories. Children love putting the golf ball inside the library. Rod demonstrates and the kids love it!

next program open to the public. free family fun at the Clinton Children’s library on 10th street in Little Rock, Arkansas. Sing some Christmas carols and hear a few of Rod and Carol’s Christmas stories. Maybe golf a bit. You may even purchase an autographed book for your child. Monday December 19 beginning at 11am.

Holiday books for children

Holiday books written by and Illustrated by Carol Dabney, Rod Ragsdale and Cindy Reyes. Two new stories this year: The Adventures of Andrew on the Golf Course Book four -Golfing with Santa and Santa’s North Pole Princess. Available on  Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Andrew-Golf-Course-Book/dp/1537450476/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1478607026&sr=1-1&keywords=rod+ragsdale

https://www.amazon.com/Carol-Dabney/e/B0056B1AFW

A child’s bedtime storybook, “Twas The Mouse Before Christmas” will be read in both English and Spanish by the three authors Saturday December 3, 2016 at the Arkansas State Capital annual Christmas Tree Lighting beginning at 6pm. Free event.

https://www.amazon.com/Twas-Mouse-Before-Christmas-Tail/dp/1477608370/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8

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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Don Roberts Arkansas

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.

https://www.amazon.com/Happy-Pumpkin-Patch-childrens-Thanksgiving/dp/1480236675/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8

The Adventures of Andrew on the Golf Course by Rod Ragsdale

https://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Andrew-Golf-Course-Adventure/dp/1514820870/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1477220785&sr=1-4&keywords=rod+ragsdale

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.

https://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Andrew-Golf-Course-Book/dp/1537450476/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1477220785&sr=1-2&keywords=rod+ragsdale

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”

https://www.amazon.com/Carol-Dabney/e/B0056B1AFW

 

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.

reading in classrooms

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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