"My class loved the Tag-a-Long book because they could relate to the girl and her quilt. They said the book was like a "true story" because they had either things like bears or quilts or a special blanket that was theirs only and it was "their tag-a-long." It triggered a writing frenzy with my students. They began to write about their "tag-a -longs" and the adventures of other things that could be "tag-a-longs." It has been a wonderful language experience for my first grade students."
Ms Candi Borah
First Grade Teacher
Gunnison Elementary School
Gunnison, Colorado
"The gift of a quilt is a gift of love and comfort that one never outgrows. How well Ms. Andrews has captured this feeling in her Tag-a-Long book. Children need this sense of love in order to become comforting adults."
Beverly Goode
Independence, Kansas
Wilma Andrews received her BA and Masters degrees from Western State College, Gunnison, CO and her Handicapped Learners Certification from Oregon College of Education, Monmouth, Or. She has supervised teacher interns at the UC, Davis, and taught elementary through junior high grades. She is a Who's Who in American Education 1987-88 recipient. The Tag-a-Long Poem in the front of the book can be found in the American Poetry Anthology Vol IX, Number 4. Wilma is retired and lives in Independence, Ks with her husband.
Every young child needs to feel important and "know they are loved." Tag-a-Long is a story about love and how that love transfers and grows along with the child. Each book is personalized by the child when they color the illustrations in the book, and illlustrate their own personal stories in the back of the book. When they grow older, they can look back at this book and have warm and happy memories about their childhood. Tag-a-Long is like everything else, "it changes with time."