Please Pass the Toe Jam

By Nancy Granata

Hop, skip and jump on in to jam-packed, fun-filled, foot-learning experience. From start to finish the playful story line and illustrations in this book will entertain, delight and educate at the same time. Please Pass the Toe Jam proves that learning about feet can be fun! Meet your toes and first hand some of their biggest concerns; tight shoes, stubs and more. Step inside for some jingle job laughs, learn important foot facts and enjoy a fun journey through a jam lesson. The underlying message is to take good care of your toes and feet protecting them from injury and keeping them healthy. Toes have a BIG JOB! Too often toes are overlooked for their amazing contribution to everyday movements. Find out if you are a good toe caretaker. Teaching with humor is often the most impressionable way to plant a seed in someones mind. This book is intended to be one of those seeds. We all depend on our feet to last a lifetime; the lifetime of our feet depends on us.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Aug 9, 2012
• ISBN: 9781477243718

Nancy Granata

A self-bio is difficult for me and writing it in third person means I have to call myself ‘she’ and isn’t that weird? If I had 10,000 ‘great me’ things to write about, writing a bio would still be difficult for me. Okay, the author is a senior. Not one in high school, but one who qualifies for discount movie tickets and free coffee sometimes on senior fast-food day. She is retired from the insurance industry, alarm clocks and daily rush hour traffic. Now living in the mountains, she and her husband have come to love the peace and beauty that accompany mountain living. The author spends her free time now doing what most retired folks do, venturing into things they never imagined themselves doing. She considers herself a poet at heart and over her lifetime has written many poems; happy, sad, serious and silly. Her ideas for book writing include children’s books, several available on the AuthorHouse website as well as Amazon.com. Try “The Prefect Porch for Witch Watching”. It’s sweet and you only need to be able to sing a little. In writing “Deserved” the author attempted to go where she’s not gone before by writing a fiction novel with some rather unusual eerie twists. She leaves you to wonder, who’s in your dreams?

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© 2012 Nancy Granata. All rights reserved.

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Published by AuthorHouse 7/31/2012

ISBN: 978-1-4772-4370-1 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4772-4371-8 (e)

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Dedicated with much love to our family’s ‘grands’ and ‘greats’:

Jessica, Jason, Nicole, Ashlei, Amanda, Laurence, Rosemary,

Tomena, Bryan, Elisabeth, Kylee, Jacob and Corbett.

Special loving remembrance to my sisters:

Lanny Rae and Betsy Jo

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"Ready! Set! Beeegin! And stretch, two, three, four; bend, two, three,

four; touch toes, two, three…"

      Knock it off, baby toe. Middle toe whispered with annoyance. "You are

a toe; you can’t do toe-touching exercises. Now stop your wig-waggling

nonsense and be still before you wake up everybody clear over to the other foot.

We’re all hot, tired and trying to rest after such a long run and your circus

acrobatics are ruining our naps."

Not acrobatics, silly; I’m doing aerobics. Watch; stretch, two, three…

      Shhhh! You are going to start a toe-stomping nightmare. Now stop it.

      But I have to workout so I can grow bigger. Baby toe explained in his

rosiest-tosiest voice hoping once middle toe understood his reason for exercising

she would be less annoyed with him. "See, I’m tired of being the ‘little piggy that

went wee, wee, wee all the way home’. I want to be a big toe." Baby curled

himself half under as he huffed out another three and a four.

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      A big toe? Middle toe gasped as baby toe’s reason for exercising turned

her moon a deep shade of purple. "Keep your voice