Award-Winning Children’s Author Kathy Brodsky Makes West Coast Book Signing Appearance

Award-winning children’s book author Kathy Brodsky, a nationally recognized psychotherapist and author of 11 books, will be conducting a book reading and signing in Santa Monica, California, tomorrow (Thursday), May 18.

Brodsky’s books focus on playful adventures that lead to a deeper understanding of life’s seemingly small moments in a lighthearted but powerful way.

“Through rhyme, illustration and probing questions, Kathy Brodsky offers up delightful tales of friendship and kindness that will help nurture positive social skills in our children,” said Richard J. Davidson, Ph.D., professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Brodsky's books have won multiple awards, including Book of the Year from Creative Child Magazine in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2016. She was also voted into the Top 10 in the International Literacy Association and Children's Book Council’s Children’s Choice Reading List. Each year, 12,500 school children from throughout the United States read newly published children’s and young adult books and vote for their favorites — Brodsky was selected for this elite list in 2014.

Additionally, her books have won several national citations from the Green Book Festival, which honors books that contribute to greater understanding and positive action on the worldwide environment. “Girl Scouts Magazine” also awarded a Brownie Badge to Brodsky under the category “My Best Self” for promoting self-esteem awareness.

Brodsky is a Psychotherapist and Licensed Clinical Social Worker specializing for the past 47 years in children, family, and women’s issues. She has been quoted for her expertise as a therapist in The Wall Street Journal, Sunday Independent (South Africa) and Parenting NH Magazine.

Teachers have often used Brodsky’s messages for furthering social awareness in their students. Her books have earned positive reviews and awards from the Children’s Book Council and Huffington Post, and others, and Kathy is involved with many efforts to promote literacy for children and families.

Brodsky’s books include fan favorite award-winners like “A Horse Named Special,” “Stover,” “The Winner Is...,” “My Bent Tree,” “The Inside Story,” and “High Wire Act.” They can be purchased through Amazon, Barnes & Noble (BN.com), and other retailers, and at kathybrodsky.com. Brodsky regularly visits bookstores, schools and nonprofit organizations to share her books and love of reading as a guest author, speaker and writer-in-residence. She most recently presented at the Manchester YMCA Early Learning Center as part of a Children’s Literacy Foundation (CLiF) program to promote literacy for at-risk children, and during Children’s Book Week in Boston, MA.

Brodsky will be conducting the book signing at Books and Cookies Book Store in Santa Monica, coinciding with the release of her first Spanish language book, El Cuento de Don Gato Pez, the Spanish version of her popular A CatFish Tale, Creative Magazine’s 2013 Book of the Year. Brodsky will read selections from all 10 of her children’s books, whose storylines are inseparably intertwined.

The Spanish version of “A CatFish Tale” offers a comical chronicle of an unlikely friendship that will have parents and children alike chuckling. And now, the story is available to a wider audience thanks to its recent release in Spanish. See what happens when a Penguin heads off to Penguin University, and his fish are left in the care (and paws) of his good friend, the cat!

“It is important to encourage kids to read, write, and use their imaginations to tell stories, and by publishing ‘A CatFish Tale’ in Spanish, we hope to reach new audiences and amplify the importance of literacy,” Brodsky said.

Brodsky tells more than just a funny story in “A CatFish Tale” and uses her professional experience to tap into universal emotions of people of all ages with themes that are evident in her books. All of her books offer socially conscious messaging as well as gentle lessons wrapped neatly in rhyming verse and colorful, highly appealing illustrations. Often seen through the eyes of animals and usually inanimate objects, children connect with the themes and ideas.

“El Cuento de Don Gato Pez” is the first of three of Brodsky’s books that will be translated into Spanish. The next two will be printed with both English and Spanish translations on the same page, helping build bilingual reading skills while encouraging kids and their parents to read together. Brodsky’s unique voice and trademark rhyme sequences are preserved in the translated version.

To learn more about Brodsky’s work, upcoming appearances, or to purchase any of her books, visit kathybrodsky.com. Contact Brodsky at 603.668.1975 or kathy@kathybrodsky.com.

Photo caption: Award-winning author Kathy Brodsky showcases two of her latest books, A “CatFish Tale” (loosely based on a true story about the friendship between a cat and a penguin), and “High Wire Act” (about a little traffic light that, because of strong winds, falls off its wire and lands on a truck, causing some comical chaos). Both books were named Book Of The Year from Creative Child Magazine. All of Brodsky’s books weave positive messages in rhyme that teach important life lessons that keep kids and parents alike wanting more.