{"id":2444512,"date":"2019-05-22T21:20:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T03:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/aspen-author-jill-sheeley-to-be-featured-on-pbs\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T21:20:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T03:20:00","slug":"aspen-author-jill-sheeley-to-be-featured-on-pbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/aspen-author-jill-sheeley-to-be-featured-on-pbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Aspen author Jill Sheeley to be featured on PBS"},"content":{"rendered":"
Author Jill Sheeley and Kip during an interview on ‘Kid Stew,’ which airs at 6 a.m. Friday on Rocky Mountain PBS.<\/strong>
Courtesy of \u2018Kid Stew\u2019<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As a writer of children\u2019s books, for 20 years Jill Sheeley has used her talents to inspire and acknowledge budding Aspen Elementary School scribes with her Fraser Creative Writing Contest, while she has employed her storytelling prowess through the group Spellbinders.<\/p>\n

Come Friday morning, the spotlight will be cast on Sheeley, who will be featured on the preteen show \u201cKid Stew,\u201d co-produced by best-selling author James Patterson. The show airs at 6 a.m. on Rocky Mountain PBS.<\/p>\n

Sheeley has written<\/a> two cookbooks as well as her 1982 debut, \u201cChristmas in Aspen.\u201d Her literary love affair with dogs also is reflected through her \u201cAdventures of Fraser the Yellow Dog\u201d series and other canine romps.<\/p>\n

Sheeley\u2019s dog books caught the attention of the PBS station in South Florida, where Patterson lives and which co-produces \u201cKid Stew\u201d with the novelist. The Emmy-winning show is in its second season and was created by Patterson, who like Sheeley is an advocate for children\u2019s literacy.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no reason learning has to be dull and boring \u2026 it can even be hilarious,\u201d Patterson said in a statement announcing Sheeley\u2019s appearance on the show. \u201cOn \u2018Kid Stew\u2019 we\u2019re teaching about art, history, international culture, the environment and more, but we\u2019re having a lot of fun while we\u2019re at it \u2014 so much that parents might start watching, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sheeley said she learned a year ago that \u2018Kid Stew\u2019 wanted to feature her. She didn\u2019t know much about the program but researched it and became interested.<\/p>\n

\u201cOver a year ago they contacted me,\u201d Sheeley said Wednesday, \u201cand said they were doing this segment with authors.\u201d<\/p>\n

Soon enough a filmmaker and his apprentice were at Sheeley\u2019s Brush Creek Village home, where the two \u2014 both cast members also \u2014 interviewed her about her favorite books and the dogs who\u2019ve inspired her to write about them.<\/p>\n

Roughly a month ago, Sheeley learned the show featuring her would premiere on PBS at 6 a.m. Friday. The upcoming \u201cKid Stew\u201d also will include a segment on the Copper Mountain ski patrol rescue dogs as they train to save avalanche victims, according to the statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel really honored,\u201d said Sheeley.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s certainly in good company.<\/p>\n

Other writers featured in the \u201cKid Stew\u201d series include Judy Blume \u2014 whose books \u201cAre You There God? It\u2019s Me, Margaret\u201d and \u201cTales of a Fourth Grade Nothing\u201d are commonplace on young girls\u2019 bookshelves \u2014 as well as Eliot Schrefer, Ridley Pearson, Soman Chainani and Peter Brown.<\/p>\n

The educational series also dives into art, science, history and music, among other topics.<\/p>\n

Sheeley isn\u2019t the sole local who will appear on Friday\u2019s program. Also included are her dog Ranger, a yellow labrador retriever whose parents are the late Fraser and Maggie, as well as her daughter Courtney\u2019s dog Kip, an Australian shepherd. Courtney, who appeared in the Fraser books when she was younger, and Kip are the main characters in Sheeley\u2019s 2016 book, \u201cAdventures of Kip in Aspen and Snowmass.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sheeley\u2019s books draw on the local flavor of Aspen and Snowmass, seen through the eyes of a dog and children.<\/p>\n

rcarroll@aspentimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n

via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Author Jill Sheeley and Kip during an interview on ‘Kid Stew,’ which airs at 6 a.m. Friday on Rocky Mountain PBS.Courtesy of \u2018Kid Stew\u2019 As a writer of children\u2019s books, for 20 years Jill Sheeley has used her talents to inspire and acknowledge budding Aspen Elementary School scribes with her Fraser Creative Writing Contest, while […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2444512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-22 08:34:05","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2444512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2444512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2444512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2444512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}