About Kim

Kim Taylor-DiLeva is an author, educator and homeschooling mom.  She was a classroom teacher and elementary school librarian for over 10 years before finding her life passion in writing. 

When Kim had her daughter, she found a book on signing with your baby and thought it would be fun to do.  She started to read up on it and did more research.  What she discovered was that using sign language with hearing children isn't just fun, but it can also help improve communication and speaking vocabulary.  This knowledge would have been helpful to have a few years earlier with her son!  She also found out that the visual and kinesthetic properties of sign language has been shown to help preschool and elementary school children to learn new vocabulary and is a tool that can especially help struggling learners, struggling readers and struggling spellers.  Kim felt that this knowledge would have been helpful when she was a classroom teacher and elementary school librarian.  As a result, Kim decided that more people needed to know about how wonderful sign language can be with hearing children, and she wrote her book for librarians, Once Upon a Sign.  She is also a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) and the National Storytelling Network.