VIRTUAL AUTHOR VISITS What a year it's been and how I miss visiting actual schools! However, I am available for both full-day and single-presentation virtual author visits this fall and winter. I'll be booking in-person visits for spring 2021, with contingency plans in place as needed. Go to my School Visits Page for more details and stay safe!
Super honored that LIFEBOAT 12 is the winner of the 2019 Connecticut Book Award AND the 2020 Oklahoma Children's Sequoyah Award. Now in its sixth printing, it is also nominated for state awards in Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and Vermont. These awards mean the world to me because librarians nominate the books and then kids vote! LIFEBOAT 12 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 in paperback and as an audiobook!
"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.
GREAT WAY TO START THE MONTH
Hope you'll join me and more than 50 other children's book
authors working their magic on November 1! For more
information, click here.
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TIME TO JUST SAY BOO!
Happy Halloween to one and all!
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Illustration from JUST SAY BOO by Jed Henry (HarperCollins)
THE BEST ILLUSTRATORS OF 2014
A highlight of the month was attending the Society of Illustrators
Original Art show where Lane Smith and Arnold Lobel were given
Lifetime Achievement Awards. I was lucky enough to interview
Arnold Lobel for a magazine many years ago. He is missed.
FALL IS HERE AND IT'S TIME FOR . . . BOOK FESTIVALS!
I look forward to these children's book events all year. First up:
Poster by my friend Dan Yaccarino!
Who else will be there? Check out the all-star lineup here.
Then next weekend, September 27, many of us get together
again for the Chappaqua Children's Book Festival, in
Chappaqua, NY. Click here to see the list of more than 80
favorite authors and illustrators reading and signing their books.
This is going to be fun!
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Poster by Matthew Van Fleet
SLIDING THROUGH SUMMER
Wow, where did the last two months go? July and August have been a rush of writing, revising (and revising and revising), looking at illustrations, traveling, and sailing. Highlights were sailing to Martha's Vineyard and a trip to Toronto where I got to visit my friends at Kids Can Press, publisher of THE TOOTH MOUSE and my new book TICKLY TOES. Every office should be this much fun!
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