For Grown ups

April L. Kameka has been an auntie and a mom for decades and has always loved reading to the children in her family. The author often delights her family with newly made-up stories. She enjoys reading aloud to children and adults alike.

April was a published poet in her teens. Now, after retiring from a thirty-year medical career, the author writes transformational stories for children — teaching grammar through animal adventures that celebrate diverse friendships and unique points of view.

The author loves nature and animals, actively supporting conservation efforts and the care of endangered mountain gorillas in Virunga National Park in the DRC, Africa.

Having struggled with grammar as a child, years later, the author noticed her nephew — alongside many children his age — struggled with foundational reading, comprehension, and writing skills. The author stepped up to help her nephew with words, their meanings, and the power of punctuation, by making the process silly, useful, and accurate.

The author started with rhymes. Together, they discovered real words to add to his vocabulary — exploring the delightful differences between words we might take for granted. They acted out different words for walking: strut (proud), stroll (leisurely), trudge (heavy and weary). Language came alive.

From there, the author developed animal characters with big personalities, weaving in themes of inclusion, friendship, problem-solving, and navigating change. These stories made her nephew laugh so hard that he fell in love with reading — and gave writing his own stories a joyful go.

In the Georgie and Friends series, April has woven bolded parts of speech throughout each story
to make grammar visible and memorable:

Georgie's Nighttime Adventure showcases verbs — it's all about doing!

Georgie and the Twelve Missing Pies focuses on all those special describing words — adjectives.

Nouns take centre stage alongside Sally the pig in Sally McNally from Silicon Valley.

Today, her nephew still reads every story the author writes — catching now the subtle meanings
that make grown-ups laugh too.

The author resides north of Toronto, Canada, where she continues to write books that help children discover the joy of reading, while introducing the parts of speech that shape how we see the world and how we connect with each other.