Ellie the Elephant and the Day She Remembers

Experience For the past 12 years, Kathy Chamberlin has been on staff at Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas as a Children’s Minister. While at Gateway, she authored many full length curriculums, video lessons and film productions. Along with her background in Children’s ministry, Kathy is a dynamic and sought-after teacher, speaker, actress and author. She has an incredible ability to connect with children at their level that is powerful and applicable. Target Market The people expected to buy this book are parents, grandparents, Family Counselors, churches and gift seekers. The book’s positioning will emphasize to its target market that it’s unique and fresh, appetizing to all tastes and able to bring light the internal battles concerning freedom that children face while growing up. Publicity and Advertising -Storytime at local libraries -Reading times at schools over the U.S. -Speak at family/women’s conferences -Book signings and readings at bookstore -Mega church bookstore -Family Counseling events/seminars

Ellie learns a big lesson in making inner vows and how they bind and keep you from freedom and becoming who you’re meant to be.Ellie is a typical young elephant. She loves to run and play with her friends and spend time with her family. But Ellie has a problem, she has trouble remembering. It seemed to Ellie that no one else has trouble remembering things. So when tragedy happens due to her forgetting, she promises herself that she will never forget again. When that inner vow is made, she begins down a path of remembering the wrong things. Years go by and Ellie grows to be a strong, loving adult elephant that has a dark secret; she has never forgotten the rope on her leg that keeps her bound. Not until Nathan, an elderly, wise elephant comes into her life that her thinking is challenged and true freedom comes. Ellis learns a lesson in forgiveness, the power of inner vows and freedom. Including in the book are Review questions designed to promote healthy conversations between child and adults.