Hello, readers! Today, a treat for the poetic among us. I first met Dr. Colleen Kelley many years ago at an SCBWI conference. Unlike me (a dabbler, at best), Colleen is a serious student of poetry. We’re currently in a picture book study group together (via Zoom), and if we’re …
Warm and cozy. That’s the first thought I had when I saw this cover. Author Robin Currie kindly sent me a PDF of this one, and I was happy to see that it was as charming as the animals featured on this warm, cozy cover. The text is short (yet …
What a beautiful cover, yes? Author Gary Metivier has been a friend for years … I know how hard he’s worked at his craft. So when I learned that he self published this book –– which dovetails beautifully with his amazing That’s Wild YouTube nature video series –– I had …
Okay, whose heart wouldn’t go out to a tiny tiger, the sole survivor of her litter, rejected by her mother? When little Zoya, an Amur tiger born at the Philadelphia Zoo, is rejected, zoo staffers search the country for a foster mother to care for her. The only problem? That’s …
Hello, picture book people! This past spring, I was lucky enough to meet author Jyoti Gopal at a Highlights retreat, and when I learned she had TWO new books releasing this summer, Over in the Mangroves (illustrated by Dikshaa Pawaskar – Orchard Books) and The Power of Your Name (releasing …
It’s publication day for my latest book, a story born on the seat of a tractor, It’s Corn Picking Time! (Neal Porter), stunningly illustrated by Melissa Crowton. Here’s the eye-catching cover! And here’s Kirkus’s starred review of our book: “A rhyming introduction to an essential but often-invisible agricultural process. Dawn …
It’s a happy day when two of my favorite things come together: 1) seeing a story I wrote become an actual book, and 2) giving away a copy to one of our fellow picture book lovers! This time it’s the third book in my and illustrator Bob Shea’s informational fiction …
Hello, friends! The third in a baby animal series I’m doing with Paw Prints hit the shelves in late April. You can read about the first two titles here. In this one, a baby lion cub struggles to find its roar. These books are designed by the talented creators at …
Look at this baby, would ya? SO APPEALING. Even if you weren’t a fan of spiders, I think you’d want to open this book and read about this woman who seems so confident with all. those. spiders she’s clearly keeping for some reason. Penny mentioned this story to me a …
Cuteness alert! I asked my friend Charlotte for a peek at her new book, Hard Hat Hank and the Sky-High Solution, and was I ever glad I did! This is one of those books that, while scrolling down the pages of the PDF, I kept thinking, “Ooh, the boyos are …