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Beverley Elliott M.D.Children have been the main focus in my professional life. My first job as a registered nurse was in paediatrics. After travelling extensively, I decided to attend university, and that led to medical school and a paediatric residency at McMaster University in Hamilton, ON… all said and done by the age of 40! My career as a paediatrician began in Burlington, ON, but after 7 years I was recruited to rural SE New Mexico where I practiced until retirement. I couldn’t have asked for a better professional opportunity as I was able to use my expertise in both hospital (in-patient and critical care) and office settings, and because it was a predominantly Hispanic community, it was also a wonderful cultural and educational experience for my family… great friends and an obsessive love of green chili.
Now in retirement, I am pursuing a life-long dream of writing for children, focusing on the formative years where learning to read is critical in establishing a lifelong desire to read and learn. My third children’s picture book is in the works and will be published early in 2023. My first 2 books, GREYSON’S SHOES, and GRAMMIE’S SUITCASE, are based on situations in the early life of my first grandson, Greyson, who is autistic. Because they are written in rhyme, they are fun to read and children engage readily. Both education and entertainment for the child and the reader are my objectives in writing. I am very fortunate to have a friend who is a wonderful illustrator and artist, Anna Maureen Costello, and it is she that creates the visual life of my stories.. I am the mother of 3 children, the grandmother of 5 wonderful and witty grandchildren, ages 6-17, and my partner/spouse of well over 50 years says he will hang in there and continue to cheer me on. |
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