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A library bookshelf filled with digital images of books with silly names and photos, where occasionally photos of the books, ROSE, LILY, and VIOLET are interspersed with arrows pointing to them.

Barbara Alt - Creator of Children's Books

The Stories

Coming Soon - Dreamland

A Chapter Book for Ages 6-10

A look into a child's imagination.  
A game is played where children spin around in circles in the yard until they are dizzy and fall down to the ground. 

When they wake up, looking up into the clouds, they are in Dreamland and their adventure begins! 

Each chapter is a short story of a new Dreamland experience.

Pine trees with a blue cloudy sky above, featuring a heart chaped cloud with a hold in the center. This represents the Clouds chapter of the book Dreamland.
A pathway with inlaid rock winding through the trees with the sun peeking through the trees. This photos represents the Pathways chapter of the book Dreamland.
The top of a bay horse's head with a black mane walking on a sandy field from the perspective of the rider. This represents the Ranch chapter of the book Dreamland.

Picture Books

Rose's Adventures Series

Featured here is a series of children's books I've written and illustrated, inspired by a balloon that floated around my house.

Front cover of the book ROSE, showing a heart-shaped rose-colored balloon flying over a grassy field with a turquoise blue sky with light clouds.
Front cover of the book, LILY, showing a look into a crystal ball of a lily pond with a single white lily flower in the center, and surrounded by green trees.
Front cover of the book, VIOLET, showing a grassy area with a wooden fence and a brown shed with a green metal roof surrounded by trees with the left arch of a rainbow coming up from behind the trees into the sky. The title VIOLET is displayed vertically with a reflection with a rainbow colored background on the right side with a light purple violet flower shown below.

ROSE

June 2020

Book 1 in the Series Rose's Adventures
A heart-shaped rose-colored balloon floats around its owner’s house after being brought home from her retirement party. The balloon, named Rose, is on quite an adventure after she sees the majestic big balloons in the sky from the windows of the house. Her journey takes her on a search for a way out as she longs to fly in the sky with the big balloons, hot-air balloons which carry people in their basket and soar over the beautiful country side.

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LIly

July 2020

Book 2 in the Series Rose's Adventures

​Once Rose begins to fly around in the sky, she discovers a lily pond full of lily pads with beautiful flowers. She befriends one of the flowers, named Lily, who joins Rose as she soars the countryside. Together, they discover all kinds of fun things, including Barbie and Tommy trying to find them. Their discoveries are shared in this story, but their favorite things of all are lily pad ponds.

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VIOLET

October 2020

Book 3 in the Series Rose's Adventures
Rose and Lily discover another friend, named Violet, which is also the last color of the rainbow. Together the three fly around to discover beautiful rainbows, and the story describes some of the things they might find at the end of each rainbow.

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"Mixing imagination with a bit of reality"

Barbara Alt

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Contact - Barbara Alt

Albuquerque, New Mexico

brblyn58@gmail.com

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A scene showing a white ptarmigan photo, a gemstone globe, miscellaneous orbs in a bowl, and several carvings of ducks, and some autumn looking leaves. A scene that Rose may have seen while floating around the house in the book, ROSE.
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