Fabulous Fairy Village Story by Children’s Author and Homeschooler Teressa Diggs Set to Exhibit at FIBF 2024

The Frankfurt Book Fair is prestigious not only because of its size but also because it carries centuries of history. The spirit of the event hearkens back to Frankfurt’s medieval book festivals, where customers can discover a wide range of books by storytellers, scholars, religious figures, and more.

So, for homeschooler and now author Teressa Diggs, it is an ideal place to showcase her very own take on an original fairy tale children’s story.

Diggs is the author of the “Marshwiggles” books, two of which are already published. They follow the stories of enchanting fairy creatures called Marshwiggles, which is her own word for the various fairies, elves, and leprechauns of older folk tales.

For the Frankfurt Book Fair 2024, she has arranged to showcase “Marshwiggles: Decoy Squad” with the help of self-publishing and book marketing company ReadersMagnet. In this story, a little girl named Betsy inadvertently heads closer to the territory of a Marshwiggle village hidden in a cranberry bog.

However, true to their secretive fairy nature, the Marshwiggle villagers are terrified at the thought of being discovered and must find a way to guide little Betsy back to her guardians. With the advice of their sagely mayor, they find all sorts of clever ways to do just that.

Diggs had the ideas for the world of “Marshwiggles” long before she had formally published her children’s stories. Having homeschooled many of her children, she learned firsthand the importance of creativity as opposed to the rote learning still employed by many educators she encountered. Thus, she hopes her book will inspire young readers and teachers alike with the fun ideas they can apply in the classroom.

Those visiting the 2024 Frankfurt Book Fair can find “Marshwiggles: Decoy Squad” on display at the ReadersMagnet exhibit at stand 6.0 B11. The event will be held on October 16-20, 2024, at Messe Frankfurt, Ludwig-Erhard-Anlage 1, 60327 Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The book is available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and ReadersMagnet Bookstore. To learn more about Teressa L Diggs’ works, visit her website at: https://motherhoodbyterri.com/.

“Marshwiggles: Decoy Squad”
Author: Teressa L. Diggs
Published date: June 26, 2024
Publisher: ReadersMagnet LLC
Genre: Children’s Book

Author Bio

Teressa is a mother of 5 children, one of which was a SIDS. Of those children, 3 were born by an attending midwife and 2 were born in the hospital with all the doctor’s preferences instead of hers. She is an advocate of Home Schooling and Home Birthing. You can read more of her life from her website: www.MotherhoodbyTerri.com

Teressa attended the University of Wyoming and has a bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education. She has been a substitute teacher, a librarian, a telephone operator, a youth care worker in a treatment center for teens. Her favorite occupation was being a mother. She loves learning and enjoys learning new things as a mother. She misses her children’s younger days, but loves being a grandmother of 13 grandchildren and lastly, she counted great grandmother of at least 6, she sort of lost count on that one. In any case, she loves children and watching them learn and grow.

Teressa wrote her first book Number Patterns: In Hundred Charts as a tribute to an early pet peeve which was rote learning in Math. She struggled with multiplication tables and the memorization because she moved from a school that was behind in teaching them, to a school that was ahead of learning in math. She managed to make it through and even became good at math despite not knowing all those facts. She could never pass the drills, but she understood the concepts of numbers.

Then, she had a son who was a very creative young man who struggled in math. He had a teacher in the public schools that turned him off math because of the incessant multiplication drills. Because of that, she decided to homeschool her children to let their creative minds grow in a better way. She had gone 20 years lacking an associate degree by just 6 credits. She decided to return to college to get a teaching degree, which put her children back in the public schools. In the 80’s when her children were young, there was a lot of talk of requiring homeschooling parents to have a teaching degree. She fell for it and that is what took her back to school.

When Teressa was in college at Laramie County Community College, she was working on her preliminary teaching classes and had to take a class called Theory of Arithmetic. At the same time her 2nd grader was working on a hundred chart. As a result of those two facts, she was inspired to put together her first book mentioned above, which is a compilation of what she learned in her Theory of Arithmetic class and how to put that information together to create a fun way to learn math facts in a more creative way. Teachers let children look at the hundred chart but they don’t let them really play with the hundred chart. So now here she comes to encourage them to do just that. She also has a website on homeschooling at www.homeschoolingdigest.com to help up and coming homeschoolers stay in the business of teaching their offspring how to love life and grow academically in a very natural setting.

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