Love manifests itself in many forms. If you are ninety-nine or only ten, whether you live north or south of the equator, you will understand about love. This is a story about love in an international elementary school. It is not just a book about valentines and love in February. Cupid and Dove have to return to earth to help the students find true love. As all school-aged children know, life revolves around the start and end of a school year. This is even more pronounced in the life of an expat kid. All the different manifestations of love are found hidden in the words of this book. Behind every character there is a special feeling and each feeling tells its own story. Read and experience how one feeling can complicate and yet make things perfect at the same time. See how the characters fall in and out of love through the course of a day. Whether it's the unbelievable soaring, hundreds-of-feet-in-the-air love, or the lack of love for a solitary fish in a fishbowl of a Nigerian street shop. A picture says a thousand words but a feeling tells a thousand stories.
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Grant Leif Simens was born in Australia, and then lived in Indonesia for seven years. He moved to Lagos, Nigeria for four years, but spends all of his summers in Lake Tahoe, Nevada. He is a true third culture kid, with experiences from around the world. He wrote this book when he attended the American International School of Lagos. He currently goes to the International School of Bangkok where he continues to write and play sports. He enjoys writing rhyming couplets. A couplet is a pair of lines of a verse that form a unit. He enjoyed Lois Burdett's work with Shakespeare plays. He played Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream and wanted to use that type of confusion to make a story about love in an elementary school. Grant likes to practice the guitar, trombone, and the saxophone. He wants to continue to write stories that young kids will like to read. If you ever run across him in some airport, ask him what his current project is about.
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Too Cute!,
This review is from: Spirit of Saint Valentine: An Expat's Tale of Love (Paperback)
My mother shared this book with me and we had a good laugh. It's so adorable to read about love through a young boys eyes. I really enjoyed the tips on moving for parents and kids. I've had to make several big moves myself and the home base summer spot is brilliant. This is a great read for international students. I truly hope Grant Leif Simens continues his writing career. I'm jealous he was published at such a young age! What an accomplishment.
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First and Second Graders love it.,
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This review is from: Spirit of Saint Valentine: An Expat's Tale of Love (Paperback)
We had the best time reading Spirit of Saint Valetine at our international school. Every student in the classroom enjoyed the easy to read words and the great illustrations. It was fun to see how the students enjoyed the confusion that Cupid and Dove made at the school.
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