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Lillie Sloan is a native of Southern Arkansas where she lives with her husband of 25+ years and their three grown children. She has an Associates Degree in Early Childhood Education and works with children in many different aspects.
Lillie has had a love of books since childhood. "I don't remember a time when I didn't read," Lillie said. She wrote her first short story at the age of 9, writing on the back of old homework pages. She was active in her high school Creative Writing Club, serving as president. She also wrote for the high school newspaper.
Lillie spent her teen years volunteering at the county library and eventually worked there for three years before attending college. Being surrounded by books was a dream come true.
As sometimes happens with life, Lillie became focused on her family, and writing became a dream that would be pushed to the backburner. But a life-threatening disease and many months of treatment and hospital visits led Lillie to return to her love of writing and focusing on the gift that God has given her.
In 2018, Lillie made a commitment to her writing career and released her first early reader chapter book, "Winifred Rose Armstrong: IT Happened."
Reviewed by Donna Gielow McFarland for Readers' Favorite
Winifred Rose Armstrong: IT Happened by RJ Andrews is a story told by seven-year-old Freddie. Freddie is in first grade and she has a best friend and a favorite color, which she tells you all about. Freddie is very happy (except she’d really like a dog), until one day when her life gets turned upside down. She is going to be a big sister! To Freddie’s dismay, lots of things start to change. She calls her future sibling IT and she’s heard horror stories from her friends about when IT happened to them! Of course she can’t convince her parents to just get a dog instead, so IT happens to Freddie whether she likes it or not.
I thought the first person narrative by Freddie was cute and it focused on the things a six or seven-year-old girl would care about. The language usage also sounds like a child, although this may be a problem for young readers, so this book is best read by children who already have pretty good reading skills, or it could be read to a child of an appropriate age. I thought the author’s treatment of the subject matter was well done and I would enthusiastically recommend Winifred Rose Armstrong: IT Happened to a child (probably a girl) who has been an only child and is about to get a sibling. I think a girl in kindergarten or first grade would relate very well to how Freddie feels about things and also about the resolution to her dilemma.
