TITAN AND THE WILD BOARS: The True Cave Rescue of the Thai Soccer Team is now available from my good friends at HarperCollins. I'm thrilled to team up with Thai journalist Pathana Sornhiran who was reporting outside the Tham Luang Nang Non Caves last summer as this mesmerizing story unfolded. Take a peek at the "Behind the Art" book trailer created by talented illustrator Dow Phumiruk.
Super honored that LIFEBOAT 12 is now in its sixth printing and is nominated for state awards in Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Mississippi, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, and Vermont! It has been named an 2019 ALSC Notable Book, a 2019 Bank Street Best Book of the Year and the winner of the 2019 SCBWI Golden Kite Award for middle grade fiction. (See the NYC awards ceremony below!) And now you can get it as an audiobook!
WRITER AT WORK
There's a good reason I haven't posted in a long time. For the past few months, I've been working on researching and writing my very first middle grade novel. It's a whole new ballgame for me and I'm loving every minute. More news soon!
ADA'S VIOLIN: The Story of the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay
The news is out and I can finally talk about the book I've been
working on for the past year! Perhaps you've seen the Recycled
Orchestra on 60 Minutes? Or in the brand-new movie entitled
the Landfill Harmonic? Each chronicles the story of children growing
up on a landfill in Paraguay, one of the poorest slums in all of
South America. One day, an environmental engineer named Favio
Chávez had the ingenious idea of building musical instruments from
the trash. With the help of Nicholás Gómez, they transformed oil drums
into cellos, water pipes into flutes and baking trays into violins! How do
they sound? Just listen!
ADA'S VIOLIN, to be published next spring by Simon and Schuster,
tells the story of these amazing kids through the eyes of Ada Ríos,
the young girl who grew up to become a first violinist in the
orchestra, playing to sold-out crowds around the world. Illustrations
by Sally Wern Comport just came in and they're stunning. So
excited about this book!
EXCITING NEWS
A big announcement is coming from my publisher Simon and Schuster and
I can hardly wait to share. Details to come!
A PEEK INSIDE
Here's an inside look at some of my favorite pages from MISSION: NEW BABY
in stores on February 24. Hats off to illustrator Mary Lundquist!
"OUR FAVORITE 101 CHILDREN'S BOOKS OF THE YEAR" Thanks to Librarians Matthew Winner and Cynthia Alaniz for including ROOTING FOR YOU in Katie Davis's podcast about the best books of 2014! Katie also provides a downloadable PDF of all the book titles here. Thanks, Katie! And congratulations to all the other authors and illustrators!
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BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT
I'm very pleased to annouce my newborn book—a picture book for expectant big brothers
and sisters. Due date: February 2015. It received a big welcome from Publishers Weekly
in a featured review!
To read the whole review, click here.
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Connecticut Book Awards
Connecticut Center for the Book
Hartford Public Library
500 Main Street
Hartford, CT 06103
Keynote speaker: Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Philip Caputo
Ceremony followed by reception and book signings
Author Palooza
Connecticut Convention Center
100 Columbus Boulevard
Hartford, Connecticut
James H. Boyd Intermediate School
286 Cuba Hill Road
Huntington, NY 11743
(Details to come!)
Pequot Library Writers' Series
720 Pequot Avenue
Southport, CT 06890
Join me and other esteemed picture book authors and illustrators for a panel discussion about a child's first books.
