It’s a special day, Picture Book Builder folks! It’s pub day for the adorable TIC, TAC, AND TOE, written by my dear friend Sheri Dillard! 🎉🎉🎉 Sheri and I first met when I joined the online critique group that she was in, about fifteen years ago now. 🥰 I’m so …
No tricks! Just treats! This Halloween, the only thing better than full-size candy bars are these 10 books! Some are classics. Some are favorites. Some are new. All are SPOOKTACULAR.
Sometimes, I see several new picture books about similar topics. A few years ago, for example, there seemed to be a plethora of picture books released about trees. And, I remember another year with multiple picture books celebrating hair. This year, within a week, I’ve read two 2025-released lyrical nonfiction …
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 …
Hi Everyone! Last month, I celebrated the release of my 9th picture book, SOME DAYS I’M THE WIND, illustrated so beautifully by Dinara Mirtalipova (WhooHoo!). So, I thought this month I’d share with you a little behind the making of this book (and, of course, offer a giveaway! More on …
I’m excited to share with you this new thought-provoking title from debut author Stacy C. Jensen and illustrator Victo Ngai. Before I Lived Here takes readers on a journey backward in time, prompting them to wonder what came before. The book opens with a young boy looking out a window …
Horses and books — what more could you ask for? I’m excited to chat with dear friend Maria Gianferrari today about her latest book, RAIN AND THE READING HORSE, illustrated by Hannah Salyer. The book publishes today! Here’s the description from the flap copy: “When a shy girl attends a …
Hello, Picture Book Builder people. Many of you know that I have been dealing with a really big loss. Last November, my high school sweetheart/college boyfriend/husband of nearly 30 years/father of my two kids/grandpa of two baby boys he never had a chance to meet had a heart attack and …
When Auggie Learned to Play Chess, written by Meredith Rusu and Illustrated by Stephen Costanza. Auggie is not happy to have moved. He misses his old house by the sea and isn’t fitting into the countryside, or his new school. Then he finds his father’s old chessboard that was given …
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 …