I ♡♡♡ SYLVIA!!!!!

 Sylvia is the name of a very, very, smart lady who wrote this about Frizzy, the S.A.D. Elf on something called Goodreads:

"I wish this future classic had been around when I was a child. I smiled the entire time I was reading it. The characters are lovable and easy to relate to. The rhyme format is fun and will lead to memory skills. There are a few words that may be just past the reading level, which is perfect. These will encourage children to not only learn new words - but to gain the skills to discover how to learn what new words mean. I would recommend every parent, grandparent and teacher to add this to their collection. You do NOT need to have children in your life to enjoy this sweet read tho!" 5 Stars




Isn't that the sweetest thing to say? Deedy (that's Dorothea Jensen to you) is just as delighted about this review as I am.

The other Izzies say they are happy for me (and Deedy) and I know that they are. (Besides, Sylvia said the characters are lovable and that means all of us Izzies!)
  
Still, my Izzy friends seem to be a little bit worried that this new review for my story is so extra wonderful that I might get "a swelled head".

I hope not.

That sounds pretty uncomfortable.

♡♡♡  Frizzy

P.S. Learn more about my story, and all my friends' stories, at these websites: 

DorotheaJensen.com

IzzyElves.com

Woo hoo! Here's Frizzy's Audiobook Excerpt!

9/21/14 News Flash!!

Deedy just told me that the downloadable audiobook of 

my story will be for sale by the end of next week!

 I'll let you all know when it hits the internet. 

Meanwhile, below is a link to an excerpt of the recording.

So exciting.

♡♡♡ Frizzy

Frizzy's Audiobook Excerpt

Soon We'll Have New Audiobooks!

Deedy (that's Dorothea Jensen to you) tells us she is working very hard to release an audiobook of Frizzy's story and to update the audiobooks of the other three audiobooks.  In the new versions, there will be wonderful Christmas music! It is played by the Wise Women - Louisa, Ruth, Lucy, and Rowena Wise - all professional folk musicians in Australia.

These audiobooks will soon be available as both downloads (from Amazon.com, Audible.com, and iTunes) and as CDs. We Izzies love listening to Deedy read our stories.  She says she pretends that she is reading them to her six grandboys, but we know she is really reading them to us.

Meanwhile, Deedy has been trying to figure out how to post samples from each of our stories on our website, IzzyElves.com.  We've helped her search all over the internet trying to find out how to do this, but so far, no luck.  Even Dizzy, who is something of a whiz with electronics, hasn't been much help to Deedy. (Bizzy, who THINKS he is a whiz with the internet, definitely has been no help at all.) Meanwhile, Deedy just keeps saying "aargh!" (whatever that means).

At least we can show you the audiobook covers. (They are below.)

Meanwhile, we'll let you all know when the New Improved Audiobooks are done!

Cheers,

Bizzy, Blizzy, Dizzy, Fizzy, Frizzy, Tizzy, Quizzy, and Whizzy

Hooray for KKBC! (We Izzies love it!)

So we Izzy Elves have always been disappointed in the way our stories look as e-books.  When a reader can change the size of print etc., it can really make the rhyming text look very strange.

But Amazon has just released a new program called Kindle Kids' Book Creator.  It allows our books to show up with the print and the pictures staying where they are supposed to be.  Now we look as good on the electronic screen as we do in real life!

And wait, wait! There's more.  Now if a reader double clicks on a page, a pop up appears with a fun question about the story and about us.  Deedy will be putting all the answers to these questions on our IzzyElves.com website for us. She's been hanging around quizzing us about what questions to ask and what the answers should be. She is busily converting all four of our stories (Tizzy, the Christmas Shelf Elf; Blizzy, the Worrywart Elf; Dizzy, the Stowaway Elf; and Frizzy, the S.A.D. Elf) into KKBC books.

This is SO EXCITING!

Love,

Whizzy, Dizzy, Blizzy, Frizzy, Bizzy, Tizzy, Fizzy, and Quizzy (and Deedy)

Our Very Own Website!

 All eight of us Izzy Elves have been working inside the internet to build our own website.  We're not quite done yet - a few more bits to hammer in there - but it's worth a peek to see what it's going to be like.

We're pretty proud of it. So is Deedy. (We try to include her in things as much as we can, even though technically she is NOT an Izzy Elf.)

 Here is the link!  Hope you like it.

Santa's Izzy Elves Website

                              
                                           Love from:

                                           Whizzy                                                         Bizzy
                                           Dizzy                                                            Tizzy
                                           Blizzy                                                            Fizzy
                                           Frizzy                                                            Quizzy

                                                                      (and Deedy)

Our Trailers Are DONE!

 It is all so very thrilling!

 Follow these links to see the short version:

Santa's Izzy Elves: Trailer for Kids


And the long version:

Santa's Izzy Elves: Trailer for Grownups!

We hope you enjoy this little peak at the Izzy Section of the North Pole.

Love,

Bizzy, Blizzy, Dizzy, Fizzy, Frizzy, Tizzy,Quizzy, and Whizzy!

Soon we'll have a trailer! (Something that apparently comes BEFORE something else, oddly enough)

Shayne Hood and Deedy (Dorothea Jensen to you) are making a TRAILER for our Izzy Elf stories!

We Izzies are very excited about this, and can hardly wait to see it. Deedy says she will put it right here in our IzzyElfBlog when it is finished.  If she can figure out how to do it.

But meanwhile we are all puzzling over the fact that a trailer is NOT something that trails behind something else, but comes BEFORE it.

Who knew?????

Here is a picture that shows all of us looking worried - we actually look a bit like this right now because we're confused. We're not really worried, you understand, but this picture comes the closest to showing how we feel. It was created by Shayne Hood for Blizzy's  story: Blizzy, the Worrywart Elf. We really were worried when that picture was painted. Not like now. We're just confused. Really.

Thanks for reading our blog!!

Love from the Izzy Elves

To learn more about us Izzies or about Deedy, please go to her website:
dorotheajensen.com