Light can be so many things – a mother’s love.” Tree branches are there to connect and extend. And when you’re doing something that’s good and right, you should feel light too. It literally defies gravity because of it’s structure. It’s a light leaf and then that feeling when you let it go. The leaf is physically light. The bright green leaf floating in the wind. “Light can be many things, such as the brightness our Sun brings. We asked Markette to explain some of the messages portrayed in the book. What is Light is one of the first stories that I wrote down about the inner light that you have in you.” And I was imaging also all of the wonderful things that I wanted to teach him as a mother and I needed to write some of this down. I still had the passion for storytelling and while I was reading him the newborn books here and there, I realized that I had stories inside of me. And while I wasn’t working, I was a stay-at-home mom. “I did the book in the year after I had my baby. The light revealed on the final page makes a fitting finale for this sweet, bright tale.” Young readers will enjoy discovering the special glow in everything from nature to the smiles of loved ones. Lyrical text and crisp, cheerful illustrations illuminate What Is Light? each page revealing the sparkle found in a child’s simple but extraordinary world. She’s also winner of a 2017 Telly Award and the 2016 CableFAX award for Best Talk Show Host in the region and was nominated for the 2018 Emmy in the host category!Ībout the book: “Light can be so many things! The twinkle of a faraway star, a firefly captured in a jar, a mother’s love, a turtle dove. She is also the author of the just published inspirational children’s book, What Is Light? She has been featured on NBC’s TODAY, ABC’s Live! with Kelly and Michael and on VH1′s national morning show Big Morning Buzz Live. Shepard is host of Great Day Washington on CBS in Washington DC’s WUSA9. “I don’t think I had this fairy tale childhood where everything was perfect and all of my needs were met but I truly feel that I had something innately in me that whenever somebody tried to tell me I was less than or I wasn’t enough or I didn’t matter as much, I just never ever accepted that,” Markette Sheppard told Hollywood on the Potomac. And so this was really like my love letter to my son that is now in a book.”

And if kids could just realize that early on, who knows where they’ll go with that information.

It comes from within you and the things that you do. What is Light? “It’s my love letter to children all over the world. Photo credit: Courtesy of Markette Sheppard

Media Notes by Janet Donovan | on June 11th, 2018 |

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