As most of you know by now, Katey Howes, an extraordinary author, poet, and human, very unexpectedly passed away last month. I’ve known Katey for several years and I was so very excited that we were going to be presenting together on a poetry panel at ALA in San Diego …
While I love biographies, and teachers sometimes check them out for lessons, this part of the library collection has not been particularly popular with my students. They do, however, love sports books, whether of the fun facts variety, odes to favorite local teams, or photo-heavy manuals. A few weeks ago, …
Hello, Picture Book Builders people. The end of another school year is HERE, and I have the perfect way for all of you to celebrate–Goodnight School. This gem of book is written by my pal and critique buddy Catherine Bailey and illustrated by Cori Doerrfeld. Gift it to a child! …
Hello, my book-loving friends! Today I’m happy to introduce the first two books in a new series from Paw Prints (Baker & Taylor imprint) called BE BOLD!, authored by me. They are Sea Turtle Swims and Kangaroo Hops. I’m guessing these books will be shelved in a library’s nonfiction section. …
Hello, Picture Book Builders people. If you know me, you know I love to write funny and often heartfelt books that star farm animals. Well, I love to READ those kinds of books almost as much. My latest farm animal book crush is Moo Hoo written by Audrey Perrott and …
PEACHES by Gabriele Davis and Kim Holt tells the story of a little girl attempting to surprise her father with a homemade peach cobbler. This isn’t just any cobbler, though. This is the recipe her mother loved to make before she passed away. This tale of the way food creates …
Welcome PBB friends! I’m so thrilled to have Michelle Schaub here today! She has been someone I’ve looked up to for SO long as a fellow poet and rhyming picture book author. I *think we originally met in the Poet’s Garage, a critique forum we both belong to, but I’ve …
DANCING HANDS, The Story of Friendship in Filipino Sign Language written by Joanna Que and Charina Marquez, illustrated by Fran Alvarez, is the story of how two children become friends through Filipino sign language and simply the act of sharing, bonding, and learning how to communicate with each other. This …
Hello, picture book people! My next book debuts in one short week: This is the second in a series with Putnam about oddball animals with what might be called superpowers. Here’s the publisher’s description: Just wait till you hear what a parrotfish can do! You may know they live in …
The first picture book I pick up is rarely nonfiction, whether science, history, biography, nature, whatever. But when I DO pick up a nonfiction picture book, I am usually fascinated. Which kind of makes sense. In high school I avoided classes like history and science because I thought they were …