It’s time to plan for World Read Aloud Day (WRAD) 2023! I can’t wait to spend the day zooming into classrooms and reading books to students. This is absolutely one of my favorite days of the year. Here is my handy dandy sign-up sheet for WRAD 2023. Snag a spot, and I will contact you with…
**UPDATE** We have an #IAmADuskExplorer giveaway winner: Becky Kidd! Congratulations!! ************************************************************ We are nearing a surreal launch day for DUSK EXPLORERS (illustrated by Ellen Rooney/published by Page Street Kids), a picture book about those summertime evenings when you’ve just finished dinner and race out the front door to meet up with all of your neighborhood…
Today is the first anniversary of the launch of my debut picture book, THIS BOOK IS SPINELESS, so incredibly illustrated by Alice Brereton and published by the wonderful people at Page Street Kids. I owe this book so much and want to tell you why. I’ve talked about the inspiration for THIS BOOK IS SPINELESS…
Hi all! Long time, no blog. But what better way to get back into it than to create a little Halloween story for a contest. And I’m being quite literal about the “little”. Below is my spooky submission for Susanna Leonard Hill’s 9th Annual Halloweensie Writing Contest. It’s such a fun way to challenge yourself…
NOVA THE STAR EATER is noshing on tasty stars a little beyond our galaxy. But on May 21, 2019, she’ll be here! Watch out, SUN! I’m thrilled to have another book coming out with Page Street Kids and beyond-the-stars happy that the super-talented and space-obsessed John Taesoo Kim illustrated it! You’ll fall in love with…
Wow, I can’t believe it’s almost been a month since THIS BOOK IS SPINELESS (Page Street Kids, illustrated by Alice Brereton) hit the shelves. I can barely remember the last month because of all the activity, plus my mind took a while to catch up to what just went down. Here are some of the things…
Oh my goodness, I urge you to immediately buy The Remember Balloons or request it at the library or get it for your child’s elementary school teacher, what have you. The Remember Balloons by Jessie Oliveros and smartly illustrated by Dana Wulfekotte will tug at your heart strings and might make that watery stuff fall…
I’m back from a bit of a hiatus. Life got crazy pants! Totally banana bottoms. But, on course now, and I’m hoping to do more reviews of some of my favorite picture books. To kick off the summer right, I had to review Pie Is for Sharing. Hello? Pie is in the title, people. It’s…
I’m excited to share the news of my third picture book coming out Spring 2020 with Page Street Kids titled WANTED: DUSK RAIDERS and am thrilled to work once again with editor Charlotte Wenger. I can’t wait to see what illustrator Ellen Rooney does with my words. Can’t. Wait. This story was inspired by my…
I’ve had many moments when I’ve shed tears during the process of becoming a children’s author. Rejections…check. A request for an R&R (revise and resubmit)…check. An offer…check. An agent…check. More book deals…check. Just the thought of being able to one day hold a printed, hardback copy of my book in my hands reduced me to…