Whispering Pine Press International, Inc.
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Whispering Pine Press International, Inc. publishes books by authors that share our vision of making available wholesome reading and educational materials that are aimed at today’s family. WPPI especially welcomes unpublished works that represent life in Washington State’s Inland Empire or North Central regions, or the Pacific Northwest as a whole. We are foremost a grassroots publishing enterprise with a desire to explore our common experiences here at home. In addition, we also welcome authors of books that offer learning opportunities for children as well as those that reflect the spiritual and social realities that are shared by all.
Whispering Pine Press International, Inc. was established in 1999 by Karen Jean Matsko Hood as an enterprise that would enable her to organize, format, bring to print, and market the large number of unique ideas and projects she has envisioned and continues to develop today. A woman of high energy and endowed with a wealth of creativity, Ms. Hood is someone who is driven to be involved with her interests and passions, whether it be her advocacy for effective adoptive and foster parenting, the rights of abused and neglected children, her love of gaited horses and country living, her poetry, love of cooking, feministic outlook, patriotism or her love for nature. Whispering Pine Press International, Inc. possesses the capability of enabling expression in all these areas and more. Furthermore, under Ms. Hood’s guidance, the company seeks to support the literacy program for children and adults, as well as provide works in bilingual editions wherever possible.
Karen Jean Matsko Hood resides in Liberty Lake near Spokane, Washington, along with her husband, sixteen children, and foster children. Her hobbies include cooking, baking, collecting various collectibles and antiques, photography, indoor and outdoor gardening, and the cultivation of unusual flowering plants and orchids. She enjoys raising several specialty breeds of animals including Icelandic horses, bichons frisés, cockapoos, Icelandic sheepdogs, Newfoundlands, Rottweilers, and a few rescue cats. Hood also enjoys bird-watching and finds all aspects of nature precious. She demonstrates a passionate appreciation of the environment and a respect for all life.
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My Holiday Memories Scrapbook for Kids – Translated Spanish
by Karen Jean Matsko Hood
This is the fifth scrapbook in the series and is especially designed for children to help them to remember their unique and joyful adventures through life. Scrapbooking provides an outlet of expression that may not be available in any other form. Families get involved and show their children how much they love them by helping them fill in the pages of this book to preserve family memories.
My Holiday Memories Scrapbook for Kids – Translated Portuguese
by Karen Jean Matsko Hood
This is the fifth scrapbook in the series and is especially designed for children to help them to remember their unique and joyful adventures through life. Scrapbooking provides an outlet of expression that may not be available in any other form. Families get involved and show their children how much they love them by helping them fill in the pages of this book to preserve family memories.
My Holiday Memories Scrapbook for Kids – Translated Hindi
by Karen Jean Matsko Hood
This is the fifth scrapbook in the series and is especially designed for children to help them to remember their unique and joyful adventures through life. Scrapbooking provides an outlet of expression that may not be available in any other form. Families get involved and show their children how much they love them by helping them fill in the pages of this book to preserve family memories. When I
Halloween Delights Cookbook
by Karen Jean Matsko Hood
For this fun and festive time of the year, author Karen Jean Matsko Hood presents a unique cookbook that is full of tasty and satisfying recipes. Inside are page after page of mouth-watering recipes that will certainly be a hit with family and friends during this special time. Written for the novice cook as well as the accomplished chef, Halloween Delights Cookbook will be appreciated by all.
Girls Can Do Activity and Coloring Book
by Karen Jean Matsko Hood
Girls should know that they can do almost anything that they desire if they are willing to put in the time and effort. This activity and coloring book provides hours of fun through crossword puzzles, mazes, word searches, numbers, counting, word games, connect-the-dots--and much more!
Иней на весенней зелени
by Karen Jean Matsko Hood
Переведенное издание «Иней на весенней зелени» было опубликовано на русском языке. Это первая книга, которая была переведена в собрании поэзий «Иней на весенней зелени»
Карен Джен Мацко Худ пишет открыто и честно. Ее поэтический почерк захватывает читателя с первой минуты. Если Вы еще не знакомы с ее работами, мы предлагаем Вам сборник стихов под названием «Иней на весенней зелени».
Mother's Day Delights Journal
by Karen Jean Matsko Hood
This decorative journal is the perfect companion to the Mother's Day Delights Cookbook: A Collection of Mother's Day Recipes, Cookbook Delights Holiday Series. It's a great tool for writing down your thoughts, favorite recipes, or simply keeping track of important reminders, personal notes, and special occasions.
Train Running
by Kyler Hood
Kyler Hood has released a page-turner novella, Train Running. The story paints a colorful picture of life in India through the eyes of Mackenzie Riehl, an imaginative young woman who attends her sister’s wedding in Bombay, burdened with a terrible secret. But it’s no secret that Riehl wants the wedding to fail.
Christmas Gifts-in-a-Jar Cookbook
by Karen Jean Matsko Hood
Delicious Gifts-in-a-Jar recipes are versatile, nutritious, and always add a special flair to many dishes, whether used in cakes, pies and breads, in preserves, as a salad ingredient, in wines or brandies, or any number of other imaginative ways.
Holiday Gifts-in-a-Jar Cookbook
by Karen Jean Matsko Hood
As with most of us, you have probably had a gift-giving quandary where you just do not know what to get for someone who seemingly has it all. In Holiday Gifts-in-a-Jar Cookbook, Karen Jean Matsko Hood offers page after page of clever suggestions for just such a predicament.
Onion Delights Journal
by Karen Jean Matsko Hood
This decorative journal is the perfect companion to the Onion Delights Cookbook: A Collection of Onion Recipes, Cookbook Delights Series – Book 8. It’s a great tool for writing down your thoughts, favorite recipes, or simply keeping track of important reminders, personal notes, and special occasions.
Huckleberry Delights Journal
by Karen Jean Matsko Hood
This decorative journal is the perfect companion to the Huckleberry Delights Cookbook: A Collection of Huckleberry Recipes, Cookbook Delights Series. It’s a great tool for writing down your thoughts, favorite recipes, or simply keeping track of important reminders, personal notes, and special occasions.
My Holiday Memories Scrapbook for Adopted Kids
by Karen Jean Matsko Hood
This scrapbook is especially designed for children to help them to remember their unique and sometimes complicated journeys through life. Scrapbooking provides an outlet of expression that may not be available in any other form. Families get involved and show their children how much they love them by helping them fill in the pages of this book.
My Dentist and the Tooth Fairy: Activity and Coloring Book
by Karen Jean Matsko Hood
With the help of the three Tooth Fairies, Dr. Tooth explains to his young readers the importance of good dental care. Featuring 166 pages of puzzles, mazes, pictures to color, and enchanting artwork, My Dentist and the Tooth Fairy is ideal for children who are fearful of visiting the dentist or need a better understanding of the importance of proper dental care.
Huckleberry Delights Cookbook
by Karen Jean Matsko Hood
For those of us living in the heart of Washington, we enjoy a deeper appreciation of the huckleberry. The Inland Northwest yields the greatest bounty of huckleberries in the country, from which author Karen Jean Matsko Hood writes and gathers her recipes for Huckleberry Delights Cookbook.
Christmas Delights Journal
by Karen Jean Matsko Hood
This journal is based on the book, Christmas Delights Cookbook: A Collection of Christmas Recipes, Cookbook Delights Series. This journal can be used for writing your thoughts or recipes. Use this special journal to keep track of personal notes and occasions. Also, this journal can be used as a diary to record unique thoughts and ideas throughout each day. This journal is easy to carry and use.
My Special Care Scrapbook for Adopted Children
by Karen Jean Matsko Hood
This scrapbook is especially designed for adopted children to help them to remember their unique and sometimes complicated journeys through life. Scrapbooking provides an outlet of expression that may not be available in any other form. Families get involved and show their adopted children how much they love them by helping them fill in the pages of this book.
My Holiday Memories Journal: A Daily Journal
by Karen Jean Matsko Hood
This is a great way for a child to write about the loving family or families that they have shared a part of their life with. This journal is stuffed full of pages to write about this special time shared with loved ones. It also makes a great gift for a child.
My Adoption Celebration Scrapbook
by Karen Jean Matsko Hood
This scrapbook is especially designed for adopted children to help them to remember their unique and sometimes complicated journeys through life. Scrapbooking provides an outlet of expression that may not be available in any other form. Families get involved and show their adopted children how much they love them by helping them fill in the pages of this book.
A medalha perdida
by Karen Jean Matsko Hood
A versão traduzida do famoso livro A Medalha Perdida foi traduzida e publicada em Português.
Leia e experiencie essa história sobre um verão de mudanças com as amáveis Stedman. A irmã mais velha e séria tem que lidar com a sua frieza para com o pai ausente por mais de um ano. Ela também tem de ajudar a sua mãe super trabalhadora, Debbie, a sobreviver ao fato de ter de criar duas filhas sozinha.
Gaited Horse: Activity and Coloring Book
by Karen Jean Matsko Hood
Gaited Horse Activity and Coloring Book, written by author Karen Jean Matsko Hood, introduces children to information on the gaits of the gaited horse. Children will have hours of fun learning about the gaited horse and the fun of doing word puzzles, cryptograms, coloring, mazes, crosswords, number games, and many more wonderful educational activities.
Goodnight, I Wish You Goodnight, Translated Hindi
by Karen Jean Matsko Hood
This translated edition of Goodnight, I Wish You Goodnight is translated and published in Hindi. It is a delightful soothing bedtime story to relax young children before they fall asleep.
The tradition of the bedtime story has been around since before the written word. For generations, and in every culture around the world, parents have prepared their children for bed by telling them stories.
Buenas noches, te deseobuenas noches
by Karen Jean Matsko Hood
Buenas noches, te deseo buena noches es el primer libro de la serie de libros ilustrados Hood Picture Book Series. Esta es una deliciosa historia para dormir que tranquilizará y relajará a los niños pequeños antes de que se duerman.
Girls Can Do: A Daily Journal
by Karen Jean Matsko Hood
This decorative journal is the perfect companion to the Girls Can Do, Activity and Coloring Book, Hood Activity and Coloring Book Series - Book 5. Promoting and developing self-esteem and a “can do” attitude in girls at an early age is of great importance.
Halloween Delights Journal
by Karen Jean Matsko Hood
This journal is based on the book, Halloween Delights Cookbook: A Collection of Halloween Recipes, Cookbook Delights Series. This journal can be used for writing your thoughts or recipes. Use this special journal to keep track of personal notes and occasions. Also, this journal can be used as a diary to record unique thoughts and ideas throughout each day.
Easter Delights Journal
by Karen Jean Matsko Hood
This journal is based on the book, Easter Delights Cookbook: A Collection of Easter Recipes, Cookbook Delights Holiday Series. This journal can be used for writing your thoughts or recipes. Use this special journal to keep track of personal notes and occasions. Also, this journal can be used as a diary to record unique thoughts and ideas throughout each day.
Tea Time Delights Cookbook
by Karen Jean Matsko Hood
Tea time has been a long-standing tradition among the British, and many Americans also partake in this enjoyable pastime. Traditional high tea is always served with wonderful pastries and finger foods along with the hostess’s choice of delicious tea. Inside Tea Time Delights Cookbook, you will find a compilation of delicate yet tantalizing recipes that will fit perfectly with your favorite tea.
My Special Care Journal
by Karen Jean Matsko Hood
This is a great way for a child to write about the loving family or families that they have shared a part of their life with. This journal is stuffed full of pages to write about this special time shared with loved ones. It also makes a great gift for a child.
Mi álbum de recuerdos de las festividades
by Karen Jean Matsko Hood
Esta edición traducida de Mi álbum de recuerdos de festividades para niños, Edición traducida al español (My Holiday Memories Scrapbook for Kids, Translated Spanish Edition) está impresa en español. Es el quinto álbum de recortes de la serie y ha sido diseñado especialmente para niños con el objetivo de ayudarles a recordar sus aventuras únicas y felices durante la vida.
O meu livro de colagens com recorações das férias
by Karen Jean Matsko Hood
Essa edição traduzida de O meu livro de colagens de recordações das férias para crianças, Edição Bilingue em Inglês e Português encontra-se lançada em português. Esse é o quinto livro de colagens do seriado e foi criado por crianças de uma forma muito especial para os ajudar a lembrar de suas aventuras felizes e únicas por toda a sua vida.
My Birth Celebration Scrapbook
by Karen Jean Matsko Hood
This is a great way for a child to remember the loving family or families that they have shared a part of their life with. This scrapbook is stuffed full of pages to fill with special times with loved ones.
My Birth Celebration Journal
by Karen Jean Matsko Hood
This decorative journal is the perfect companion to My Birth Celebration Scrapbook: Children’s Scrapbook Series. It’s a great tool for writing down your thoughts, favorite recipes, or simply keeping track of important reminders, personal notes, and special occasions. This journal is great for jotting down your own poetry and short stories, or use it to store addresses and phone numbers.
My Adoption Celebration Journal
by Karen Jean Matsko Hood
This is a great way for a child to write about the loving family or families that they have shared a part of their life with. This journal is stuffed full of pages to write about this special time shared with loved ones. It also makes a great gift for a child.
Christmas Delights Cookbook
by Karen Jean Matsko Hood
For this very merry time of year, author Karen Jean Matsko Hood presents a unique cookbook that is full of tasty and satisfying recipes designed around the themes, colors, and traditions of Christmas. Inside are page after page of mouth-watering recipes that, when prepared, will certainly be a hit with both family and guests alike during this special season.
Valentine Delights Journal
by Karen Jean Matsko Hood
This decorative journal is the perfect companion to the Valentine Delights Cookbook: A Collection of Valentine Recipes, Cookbook Delights Holiday Series – Book 2. It’s a great tool for writing down your thoughts, favorite recipes, or simply keeping track of important reminders, personal notes, and special occasions.
Valentine Delights Cookbook
by Karen Jean Matsko Hood
More than any other time of the year, St. Valentine’s Day fills our hearts and minds with special feelings of tenderness and appreciation for that special person in our lives. We enjoy doing something out of the ordinary that shows our loved one that we truly value them and are pleased with who they are.
St. Patrick’s Day Delights Journal
by Karen Jean Matsko Hood
This journal is based on the book, St. Patrick’s Day Delights Cookbook, A Collection of St. Patrick’s Day Recipes, Cookbook Delights Series. This journal can be used for writing your thoughts or recipes. Use this special journal to keep track of personal notes and occasions. Also, this journal can be used as a diary to record unique thoughts and ideas throughout each day.
St. Patrick’s Day Delights Cookbook
by Karen Jean Matsko Hood
You will enjoy the folklore, poetry, stories, and creative recipes in this cookbook written by cook, author, and poet Karen Jean Matsko Hood. It is packed full of unique recipes that are fun and healthy to help you celebrate this holiday. Your family and friends will delight in helping to prepare these delicious recipes and then share them with others to enjoy the tradition of “all things green.”
My Holiday Memories Scrapbook for Kids
by Karen Jean Matsko Hood
This is the fifth scrapbook in the series and is especially designed for children to help them to remember their unique and joyful adventures through life. Scrapbooking provides an outlet of expression that may not be available in any other form. Families get involved and show their children how much they love them by helping them fill in the pages of this book to preserve family memories.
Icelandic Horse: A Daily Journal
by Karen Jean Matsko Hood
This journal is based on the book Icelandic Horse Activity and Coloring Book. This useful journal includes drawings from the book. This journal is easy to carry and use. What a thoughtful gift this journal would be! Buy the Icelandic Horse Activity and Coloring Book to complement the journal. Together both make a wonderful educational opportunity for learning about gaited horses.
My Special Care Scrapbook
by Karen Jean Matsko Hood
This is a great way for a child to remember the loving family or families that they have shared a part of their life with. This scrapbook is stuffed full of pages to fill with special times with loved ones.
Frost of Spring Green
by Karen Jean Matsko Hood
Karen Jean Matsko Hood’s writing is bold and honest. She communicates in a simple, direct way that is sure to captivate readers. If you are not yet familiar with her work, you are in for a treat with this first release in poetry series.
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