{"id":405321,"date":"2026-07-20T15:14:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T15:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/405321\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T15:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T15:14:12","slug":"preschooler-book-tells-all-teachers-have-fun-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/405321\/","title":{"rendered":"Preschooler Book Tells All: Teachers Have Fun, Too!"},"content":{"rendered":"

A former Laurelwood Elementary School (SCUSD) preschool teacher and mother of three, Carole Jevons, launched \u201cWhat Does Miss Sue Do? A Teacher\u2019s Summer,\u201d a picture book written in rhyme<\/a> for kids 2-6, on April 15.<\/p>\n

Jevons\u2019s story lets young kids in on a secret: teachers have lives outside of the classroom! They are real people with their own families, hobbies and summer adventures.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy students genuinely believed their teacher lived at school,\u201d said Jevons, explaining that she would often run into her young students outside of class in her Sunnyvale neighborhood\u2014at a park or grocery store.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey didn\u2019t quite know what to make of it. Some would shyly hide behind their parents. Even my most outgoing students were unsure why I wasn\u2019t in the classroom, where I \u2018belonged,\u2019\u201d Jevons continued.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat Does Miss Sue Do? A Teacher\u2019s Summer,\u201d<\/a> editor Erika Klimecky likes how wonderfully Jevons expresses a child\u2019s view of the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cCarole has great insight into what kids see and how different it often is\u00a0from what adults see. This story and the illustrations capture that really well,\u201d said Klimecky.<\/p>\n

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Jevons, who moved from Silicon Valley to Washington state about 18 years ago, said that she made notes for her book while teaching in Sunnyvale. She rediscovered them when emptying a file cabinet before she and her husband sold their Washington home nearly two years ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cI read through the notes and still loved the idea,\u201d said Jevons, who self-published the book, finding her editor and her illustrator, Cristina Kramp, through her women\u2019s networking group. They worked together remotely for a year.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the past year and a half, I\u2019ve been traveling the world full-time, so the collaboration has happened across time zones.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe entire process was completely new to me,\u201d she continued. \u201cI assumed the hard part was writing the words, but deciding the characteristics of Miss Sue, the mood of the book, and the color scheme was all a learning experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

In developing her main character, Sue, Jevons was inspired by two real Sues in her life\u2014her mom and her teaching mentor.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wish my mom, Sue Stern-Barnett, were alive to see the book,\u201d said Jevons. \u201cShe and my mentor, Sue Dallas, were the inspirations for Miss Sue. Sue [Dallas] is from Santa Cruz \u2014 she drove over the mountain to Sunnyvale for decades to teach at Laurelwood Preschool, and the book is dedicated to her.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI love the joy in Miss Sue\u2019s face and the energy she infuses into her adventures,\u201d said Klimecky.\u00a0\u201cIt makes me really happy to see all the\u00a0magic\u00a0in the finished story.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jevons\u2019s four-year-old nephew Freddie in Pasadena is one of Miss Sue\u2019s students in \u201cWhat Does Miss Sue Do? A Teacher\u2019s Summer.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t wait to read it to him and see his face when he realizes he\u2019s in a book!\u201d said Jevons, who returns regularly to California to visit family and friends.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am so excited to finally be sharing this book after so long. I\u2019m proud that I did it, and I hope everyone has fun reading it,\u201d said Jevons.<\/p>\n

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