Jeff Green and his wife, Stephanie, have evening story time with their young daughters every night, even if it is through FaceTime when she is on the road with the team. It will be no different from this Mother’s Day.
What will be different this time is that Stephanie will not just be a narrator, she will be a writer. And this time his daughters will be the star of his own stories.
Stephanie wrote the children’s book “Dream, Little Girl, Dream” essentially as a love letter to her daughters, and was published just in time for Mother’s Day.
“Me and my wife had priority reading for our daughters before going to sleep at night,” Green told The Post. “My wife is thinking of making a book as a memento for our daughters, a story about them, and a dream about young children [and that they] Do a great job
“She came up with the idea of creating a book that would create a memory for our daughters that we can read to them so that they can understand that they have grown up.” She came with him, and she made it come true. “
Sunday’s virtual storytime – in preparation for facing the Bulls with the Nets in Green and Chicago – could feature Stephanie’s book, which began selling on Amazon and Vervante on Monday. Being available near Mother’s Day was important to Stephanie, who sees reading with children as important bonding. This has certainly been done for the Greens with daughters Sophia and Jasmine.
“I have always been a reader myself. I read a lot almost every day, and the girls have a good collection of books. We read every time; It is part of the routine. “I like, you know why it is not something for girls that they enjoy very much, and do something for them and when they are older and it is for the children of the children? It is very good and Will be special. “
And if “Dream, Little Girl, Dream” is a special thing, Mother’s Day is a special time to share it.
“An average parent, they have limited time with children between jobs, daily pickup and just daily activities in life: cooking, cleaning,” Stephan said. “I just wanted to make sure that everyone could share this story, one night story. For us, we teach our girls every night. So they get too busy with characters or storytelling – they ask questions and just keep up with it.
“It is our time to read without any distracting, no-call girls and we soak it up completely. It is so important for my family and my husband personally that we should all come together to read [thinking] Mother’s Day can be such a great thing to end the night with this book, and for children to read it and fulfill their imagination. “
Which is basically the point of the book.
In it, the Green sisters – yes, they are named Sophia and Jasmine and bear a supernatural resemblance to the author’s daughters – get tucked into bed with a kiss on the forehead from their parents. But instead of a dreamless sleep, they hop out of bed and hop on a magical adventure – from world-class athletes to life-saving doctors imagining their own futures.
A 12-year NBA veteran and a key leader of the Nets’ team, aiming for the league title, considering his father. But older green sister Sophia is more into ballet than basketball. Younger sister Jasmine prefers to become a doctor thanks to the love of Doctor McStuffins. Though just 3 years old, she waits for a bit.
Nevertheless, the whole message is that anything is possible. In many ways, Green – still digging his way through the NBA at 34, despite open heart surgery – is living proof of that.
“It’s about the time you spend, the intimate time you get with your children, to tell them a story, to give them imagination, to give them hope – especially about the book – that Anything they set their mind to is possible, ”he said. “It is a big part of motherhood and in our case there is a relationship with children – daughters. We felt that it was important to keep that story out. I think my wife did a great job on it.”
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