Cheryl writes content—fiction and nonfiction, poems and puzzles—that engages and educates the youngest readers in the family.
Highlights for Children
Click on the titles to read the PDFs.
Shapers of Our Nation
What do you know about our Founding Fathers and Mothers? Get the facts, take the quiz and play a game about some key figures in American history.
Make a “Scene”
Something funny goes on when kids are introduced to the “rules-not-rules” of improvisational comedy. (Parents: Check out these improv comedy games online to get your kids’ creative juices flowing—and make everyone laugh out loud! Perfect to play in person or virtually.)
From A to Z
What happens after the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog? Here’s one version. [Hear this story read by the author.]
Silly Stickers Stories: Farm Tales
A sampling of Mad-Libs-style stories, created for fill-in-the-blank Hidden Pictures® with stickers.
In Tune
A poem about harmony, published in High Five magazine.
The Right Tools
A read-along rhyme featured in Highlights Press International’s All About Construction.
Highlights Press
2021 Almanac of Fun
Chose, edited and wrote content for February, May and November.
Silly Stickers Stories: Farm Tales, Christmas Tales and Easter Tales
Wrote Mad-Libs-style stories, created for fill-in-the-blank Hidden Pictures® with stickers.
Best Kids’ Christmas Jokes Ever!
Contributed a whopping 75 “new” jokes to a Highlights pantheon of classics.
Tongue Twisters!: The Trickiest, Twistiest Joke Book Ever
Created 750 uniquely loopy linguistic phrases—covering topics about animals, school, space, dinos and more—to top off kids’ contributions, for a total of 1,500.
Highlights Learning
Learning Fun Workbooks
Compiled, edited and wrote content for eight curriculum-based workbooks: Addition (Grades 1 and 2); Subtraction (Grades 1 and 2); Phonetics and Spelling (Grades 1 and 2); and Reading and Writing (Grades 1 and 2).
Handwriting Practice Pads
Chose and edited content for Tracing Practice (Pre-K). Letter Practice (Kindergarten), Word Practice (Grade 1) and Cursive Practice (Grade 2).
Jump Start Press/Sundance Publishing
Four 80- to 92-page middle-grade novels:
- Covering Home: After his mother remarries, a star high-school baseball catcher confronts his long-held superstitions while awaiting the birth of his new baby sister or brother
- Best Foot Forward : When her Air Force pilot dad is reassigned, a socially awkward teenager adjusts to the move from California to Colorado, and from surfing to snowboarding
- The Breakaway: Twin siblings—a boy and a girl—face cyberbullying as both try out as a “package deal” for the ice hockey team at their new high school
- Raising Courage: A shy teen overcomes the loss of her beloved family pet, and her fear of public speaking, by volunteering to raise a puppy that will become someone else’s service dog