You can’t live out your life with a heart of stone, so after Eliana Beam’s grieving period as a widow, she focused attention on perfecting Mozart and Beethovan on the piano, took up watercolor painting, visited Italy and Mexico, and spent time with her grandchildren.  Eliana not only crocheted afghans for each and every grandchild and great-grandchild, but she also began writing children’s books for them in rhymed and metered verse.  These books include Andy’s Birds and Andy at the Zoo, two books whose story and illustrations teach unique water color and fiber art techniques with which children can experiment. 

Green Frogs Seldom Cry is about a brave little girl who has her tonsils removed without crying.  Beam wrote Green Frogs Seldom Cry for her granddaughter Deborah to help her overcome her fear of hospitals and prepare her for anesthesia and surgery.

Writing more prolifically than ever in her eighties, Beam’s great-granddaughter inspired her wickedly delightful Sabrina children’s book series.  These stories in verse about Sabrina, an extremely clever and willful little girl, impart valuable life lessons from Sabrina’s misadventures.  Books include:

•          Sabrina Swallowed a Dictionary

•          Sabrina’s Fifteen Minutes of Fame

•          Sabrina’s Bedroom

•          Sabrina the Pack Rat

•          Sabrina’s Halloween

•          Sabrina Cures Her Hiccups

•          Sabrina Is Lost

The Sabrina children’s books, all approximately 100 lines in rhyme and meter, are not yet published.