Coral Springs residents Hillary Feerick-Hillenbrand and Jeff Hillenbrand are the authors of the Mitch Spinach series, tales of a boy with secret super powers and lessons on eating healthy.Īlong with the other authors, Cardillo gave an autographed copy of her book to each of the students, so each left with three new books. Jeanetta Brancaccio from Stuart is the author of "Ann's Amazing Adventure," a story of a doll named Ann, who becomes lost and through her adventure learns the positive message of love. "I asked them, ?What do you think the shark of my story was?" The kids said, ?To be kind ? to be famous for the right reasons.' I thought, ?Omigod, you get it! I told them ?I'm so glad you understood' what I was getting at."Īnother author, and a husband and wife writing team, also made the trek to Tallahassee. "One of the teachers talked about the ?shark' of a book ? the main idea," said Margaret Cardillo afterward. Dividing them into groups of 20, each author read their book to the students, and talked with them about writing, school and what they had heard. "And the kids were so cute, and so well-behaved."įrom Ruediger Elementary School in Leon County, and Crossroad Academy Charter School in Leon County, the children ranged from kindergarten to fourth grade.
"The house is gorgeous, really something to be proud of," said Margaret Cardillo. Along with the authors of two other children's books, both living in Florida, Margaret Cardillo met with the state's first lady, as well as 60 young students from Tallahassee area schools.
Now 30 years old and a graduate student at University of Miami, Cardillo drove up to Tallahassee with her father, Naples attorney John Cardillo, for the affair on Thursday. Rick Scott, at a book signing in Barnes & Noble, Cardillo was delighted to receive an invitation to a literary event for children at the Florida Governor's Mansion, at 700 North Adams Street in Tallahassee. With whimsical, '50s evoking illustrations by Julia Denos, the 32 pages of "Just Being Audrey" show how Hepburn used her fame to benefit the disadvantaged, particularly children, all over the world, through her work for UNICEF.Īfter meeting Florida's First Lady Ann Scott, wife of Gov. "She was too tall, her feet too big, and her neck was too long. "More than anything, Audrey wanted to be a ballerina," the book begins. Naples native and author Margaret Cardillo's first children's book ? her first book, period ? garnered glowing reviews from "Booklist" and "Publisher's Weekly," which said "Audrey Hepburn proves as irresistible a character in the pages of a children's book as she did?on the silver screen."Ĭardillo's book, "Just Being Audrey," presents the iconic actress, not just as a screen star, but as the humanitarian activist she became, and as the "ugly duckling" child she was before either. Then, it got her invited to the Florida Governor's Mansion.
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