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Local residents’ rhymes become children’s books for the third-grade reader. Kaye’s book While Disney Pixar has not yet called was originally published in 2009, but Chandler residents Jim Sachs and Kathy Tate Publishing, a Christian-based Kaye, each has entity which also written a children’s handled Sachs book, book that may wanted her story to one day get the be reintroduced to attention of the readers. “It’s been animation studio. neat, I have had “I would love friends from church to have the book and family wanting turned into a film,” copies of the book,” said Sachs. she said. “I Knew a Gnu” Both authors admit is Sachs’ creative to having a rhyming tale, while Kaye’s scheme in their head inventive piece prior to putting it into is titled “Imagine book form. That!’ Each is a “Once I had the lively rhyming story rhyme I sat down at with a common my computer and religious theme wrote the story in 38 of faith and trust minutes,” said Sachs. in God. It also “I actually held on to offers inspirational it four years before messages. I tried to have it Kaye’s book published.” Stu the Gnu grows up and matures in Jim Sachs’ tale. Submitted photo follows a young Kaye said she baseball player as remembers she had he experiences a a poem in mind, “nail-biting inning.” and with five boys “The player does it’s no coincidence not have a name, that baseball was as he is telling the the backdrop of the story,” she said. story. “I sat at a lot of “But when I had games and the idea the illustrator draw just formed,” she said. the character, I A stay-at-home provided a picture mom, Kaye and her of our youngest son family have lived and the drawing in Chandler for 15 looks like him.” years, while Sachs, The Gnu in an information question is named technology sales Stu in Sachs’ tale, professional, has been and follows the an Arizona resident young creature since 1982. with oversized Kaye has yet to horns grow up and schedule another Kathy Kaye’s story follows a young baseball book, but Sachs has mature. “It is a Christian children’s player who is in the middle of an exciting four more stories game. Submitted photo book with a good ready to go when he message, in the has the funds to start style of Dr. Seuss,” Sachs said. “I have the publishing process. “The second seen the book bring adults to tears. It book is a sequel to ‘I Knew a Gnu,’” he really is a beautiful book.” said. This is the first book for both Both books can be found on www. authors, with Kaye’s written for the Amazon.com, www.Tate Publishing.com 4- to 8-year-old set, and Sachs’ penned and other online retail book sites.
BY TIM J. RANDALL
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