Charming Children's Story Stresses the Joy of Imagination

The Dirter by Nina E. McLain is an enchantingly illustrated children's book which celebrates creativity.

Philadelphia, MS (PRWeb) January 4, 2007 -- Nina E. McLain's The Dirter explores how the simplest things can be the greatest treasures in a magically illustrated children's book about a young boy who has lost his favorite toy.

A small boy misplaces a beloved toy he calls his "dirter" and struggles to explain what it is to his mother in the whimsically illustrated children's book by Nina E. McLain. McLain used a true-life experience (her stepson had his own "dirter") as inspiration to describe how and why children use words and how their individual imaginations develop. As the boy's mother finally realizes that the "dirter" is a cardboard tube her son loves to make sounds into, she comes into contact with her own childlike sense of wonder and joy.

Meant not just to encourage readers and inspire creativity, but to also make the world a better place, The Dirter's proceeds will go to the Oprah Winfrey Kosciusko Mississippi Boys and Girls Club. Told in playful rhymes that children will love, and filled with delightful illustrations, The Dirter is a book that both children and their parents will cherish.

For more information or to request a free review copy, please contact the author at nina @ mclaininc.com. The Dirter is available for sale online at Amazon.com, Borders.com, and through additional wholesale and retail channels worldwide.

About the Author

Nina E. McLain is a part-time nurse anesthetist working on her Ph.D in nurse anesthesia at Virginia Commonwealth University. McLain lives with her husband and her highly imaginative son in Philadelphia, Mississippi.

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