Her expertise with comics and a previous job with a newspaper doing graphic design helped inform her illustration approach.
The Clayton resident turned to writing books for kids after retiring from her occupation as a school professor. She is obsessed with studying and kids’s literature and writes image books, early studying books for grades PreK-3 and exercise books.
She lately shared her love of books and studying with the group at Barnes & Noble in Concord. Children loved a enjoyable afternoon of storytelling, creativeness and inspiration on the Veranda purchasing heart.
Ripley learn and mentioned a number of of her image books, together with “Ellie the Cat in The Princess Ballerina and the Lost Tiara,” a part of a collection referred to as Kitty Cat Cousins. She additionally learn “Pearl the Cat Needs a Friend,” “Kelvin the Cat and Artie the Alien in the Intercosmic Vacation” and “Motorcycle Mack Slows Down.”
Inspiration
Many of her tales are impressed by her 4 grandchildren, as Ripley weaves in themes of their favourite pursuits like ballerinas, mermaids and astronauts. She bases different tales on her life experiences residing off the crushed path in Clayton.
Early in her profession, Ripley labored in company America. She retired from that job and moved to Clayton 25 years in the past together with her husband and kids. She went again to highschool to earn a grasp’s diploma in English and taught at Diablo Valley College and Cal State East Bay.
While a professor, she revealed two nonfiction books for adults, many essays and articles for tutorial journals, in addition to “The Playhouse Mysteries: A Historical Novel of the Elizabethan Stage.”
“My true love is Shakespeare,” mentioned Ripley, who additionally taught programs in fashionable English literature, youngsters’s literature, graphic novels and comics as American literature.
“I like comics as a visual way to teach reading,” she famous.
Ripley is available for varsity visits, the place she conjures up children to jot down and teaches the artwork of comedian books.
For extra info, go to her Yellow Duck Press web page on Facebook or ripleyonline.com.
Kara Navolio
Kara Navolio is a contract author, telling tales of actual life heroes and attention-grabbing folks for a number of native newspapers since 2015, together with The Pioneer and Lamorinda Weekly. She can be the editor of an area journal, Northgate Living, and her debut youngsters’s image e-book Everybody Can Dance! was launched by Brandylane Publishers, Inc. in May 2019. She has lived in Walnut Creek together with her husband for 30 years and is the mother of two now grown youngsters.
