Imagine if you mixed a little Jim Trelease (author of The New Read Aloud Handbook), the PBS show Reading Rainbow, a bit of folksiness, whimsy and magic, then shook it a bit - out would come Mark Daniel, an exuberant promoter of children's books.
Mark year after year of beats the drums for great children's books day in and day out as a Reading Ambassador. Indeed, his passion for reading, interest, and knowledge of children's books is genuine and infectious. His wife Tami and he have read aloud to their now 12 year old twin sons since birth. (Incidentally both Robert and Stephen read well above their grade level.)
A pioneer in his approach to magical storytelling he is acclaimed nationwide by peers as a mentor, consultant and guru on the topic of magically bringing children's books to life. His video Book Magic is a bestseller in the industry. He is often invited to conferences as a seminar presenter for children's entertainers on the art of performing for children.
Mark Daniel is a full-time children's performer, who as a child, developed a love for books that has continued and strengthened through the years. A librarian took an interest in him and his fascination for magic tricks, and helped ignite the spark by broadening his knowledge through reading.
After a few years, he had read every magic book available through the NC Public Library System. That experience helped to influence his decision to choose a unique and satisfying career as a children's entertainer.
Today, as a Reading Ambassador, Mark performs over 200 shows annually for schools, libraries, and festivals throughout the South.
For the past twenty-four summers, Mark has annually written and developed new, original presentations for the NC Public Library Summer Reading Program, becoming one of their most invited performers statewide.
Mark and wife, Tami, are the directors of KIDabra International, an association that each August during it's conference, attracts hundreds of children's entertainers who gather from across the country and many parts of the world for educational seminars and shows. Learn more at www.KIDabra.com.
Through 38 years of performing (23 full-time), Mark has studied, developed, and refined techniques for entertaining and motivating children, which have garnered praise throughout the educational community. Mark's original series of performances, Those Magical Dinosaurs! and the READasaurus Programs have been seen by nearly three million elementary school students throughout the
Southeast during the past 20 years.
Mark and Tami reside out in the countryside near Mocksville, NC with their identical teenager twin sons, Robert and Stephen.
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