Welcome!

When I first wrote this page, InklessTales was just starting up, and it was all about reading, writing and drawing.

Now it's expanding into math and music, two of my other loves, with the Mathematical Mother Goose, What's My Number, and Inkless Tunes.

My hope is still that you'll love the stories, pictures, movies and other materials you find here. Still, that you'll leave the site and head to a bookstore — or better yet, you'll go out to one of your local independent booksellers, or to your local library — and get a pile of books to take home and share with a child.

Or, now, that you'll bang a pot or a pan and play drums, or enjoy an instrument or a sing-a-long. Music is great -- and builds the mathematical AND linguistical side of a child's brain.

Read, sing, do numbers.

I can sew without a pattern. My friends are amazed by this; I am not. I took my daughters for a tour at the Museum of the Fashion Institute of Technology recently in New York City. Turns out MOST people could sew without a pattern back in the old days. It was a skill, not a talent.

People are impressed by what I can do: I can draw, I can write, I can sing and play instruments.

Mostly, I can because my mother told me I could: which meant I always tried.

If nothing else -- I'd like this site to be about showing kids if you try, you probably can.

Put two chairs next to the monitor. Then switch it off and write your own stories, and draw your own pictures. Sing your own songs. You'll love it, I promise.

Getting you together to create and enjoy literature, pictures and puzzles is what this project is all about. Whether you're a teacher, a student, or a parent, I hope you'll find something inspiring here.

Thanks for visiting, and come back again soon. Write me if you like at elizabeth@inklesstales.com. You can also visit my personal web site at www.elizabethbushey.com.

Elizabeth Bushey has been a singer, a prepress supervisor, a waitress, a paste-up artist, a hotel chambermaid, a poet, a journalist, an illustrator, a college teacher, a graphic designer, a Web site strategist and most of all, a Mom. She is a lifelong passionate lover of children's literature.

She likes science, math AND reading. And finger painting. Don't forget finger painting.

She is a former member of the Board of the Southeastern New York Library Resources Council, and is an associate member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators.

She is a very busy person. There's even a lot of stuff she left out here.

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Check out the new Inkless Tales Blog at:

http://fannydoodle.blogspot.com