By Sarah Rolles

PA woman publishes first children’s book

Nov 26, 2015 | 5:37 AM

Fifteen years after writing a children’s story that was inspired by her daughter local woman Julie Thorpe has published her first children’s book.

The book titled The Sock Princess tells a story that families with young children can easily relate too. Thorpe said the book is based on those busy morning’s that all parents experience when they are trying to get the kids dressed and ready for the day.

“The socks were always the issue we would think we were all ready to go and then all of a sudden the boots and the socks came off because they weren’t right, so I was inspired by that,” said Thorpe.

“But I soon discovered that other people were also really particular about how their socks feel so there is a theme there and it reminded me of the fairy tale The Princess and the Pea with all the lumps and bumps except this character in this story struggles to get her socks just right.”

Thorpe said her daughter who is now in her 30’s was only six years old when she originally wrote the short story. She said after 15 years of it just sitting in storage she felt it was time to try and share it with others and she decided to take the reins to self-publish it. She also drew all the illustrations in the book herself.

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“It has been really worthwhile and it’s an investment to me,” she said.  “I feel I had a very good story to tell and I have gotten really great feedback from it,” she said.

Thorpe performed her first reading of the book to the kindergarten and Grade 1 students at Red Wing School in Prince Albert on Wednesday morning. Thorpe, who once worked at Red Wing School as an educational associate (EA), said she felt it was appropriate to perform her first reading at that particular school especially since it is where she first shared the story to a group of students 15 years earlier shortly after she first wrote it.

“When I worked here all those years ago, when I first started, I read my story to a group of kindergarten students just to balance it off and just to see if they liked it and then I tweaked it from there,” she said. “So that is why I came back here I just sort of felt like I had come full circle.”

Thorpe will be at the Coles Bookstore in the Gateway Mall in Prince Albert on Saturday Nov. 28 from noon until 4 p.m. promoting her book. She will also be at the John M. Cuelenaere Public Library on Dec. 19 from 10 a.m. until noon.

The book can also currently be purchased on online. 

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