Patsy Dunstan is a seasoned educator who has worked with children of all ages for over 50 years. She has taught in Jamaica, The Bahamas and the United States. She has a wealth of experience in igniting the flame in her students for knowledge, resulting in confident and successful students.
Patsy fell in love with verse at a young age, a love that has remained with her throughout her life. She agrees with the poet laureates of the United States who are strong advocates of exposing children from an early age to poetry. In Joseph Brodsky’s own words, 1987 Nobel Prize winner in Literature and Poet Laureate of the US from 1991 to 1992, “Poetry must be available to the public in far greater volume than it is.”
Patsy uses this workbook Interactive Alphabet in Verse with a variety of poems, to give children the opportunity to become phenomenal readers and successful individuals. She sees it as her responsibility to help foster a love for reading in children. She believes poetry is the key to joy-filled learning.