Little Palace Earns A Moonbeam Award

DENVER - Oct. 23, 2019 - PRLog -- Jeffrey Erlacher's Little Palace won bronze for Moonbeam Children's Book Awards.

The Moonbeam Awards are dedicated to the notion that reading to and with children will inspire them to become lifelong readers and learners.

Judging is based on content, originality, design, and production quality, with emphasis on social relevance and age appropriateness. Our judging panels include experts from the fields of editing, design, teaching, bookselling, and library, and some categories are judged by teachers and their students.

Author, Jeffrey Erlacher was born and raised in Iowa but has developed a passion for traveling. With his Masters in English, he has spent time teaching bilingual primary school and became a professor in the department of English at the University of Colorado Denver. He currently resides in Denver with his wife Marisol, son Santos, and two foster children. During his many travels through six of the world's continents, he gained his inspiration for the novel on his trip to Paris in 2013.

Little Palace is a story based on a tiny island in Seine, France. Head chef Narcisse runs the best restaurant in all of Paris during WWI. Narcisse's restaurant, Le Minipalais–The Little Palace–serves as a refuge from the war for animals and humans alike. Humans Marcel and Jacqueline serving each customer, and Narcisse working tirelessly in the kitchen.

After a catastrophic night, Le Minipalais' regular patrons find the restaurant closed by the ministry of health the next day. Although the Parisian restaurant has never received any complaints, Narcisse and the artists suspect a certain animal-hating human is to blame.

Little Palace is available for purchase on https://zimbellhousepublishing.com/.

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