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September 16, 2025
Happy Book Birthday, THE TROUBLE WITH GIRAFFES!
The pets (and kids!) from Pet Club want you to know they have made the space EVEN MORE WELCOME with the newest addition to the authorly shelf. Available TODAY at your favorite indie store and online at all the usual places, and check out my Appearances page for upcoming opportunities to get any and all…
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Published on September 16, 2025 10:12
September 9, 2025
One week from today…
I’ve also updated my authorly Appearances page to include the upcoming Olympic Peninsula Local Authors Event at Field Hall, Port Angeles, the PNBA Fall Trade Show in Spokane, WA, and the Bigfoot Kids’ Book Festival in Redmond, WA. If you’d like to preorder a SIGNED COPY, please head over to Port Book & News and…
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Published on September 09, 2025 12:30
June 23, 2025
the first opinion is in!
Kirkus has weighed in on THE TROUBLE WITH GIRAFFES, and they very much understood what we were trying to do. Favorite quotes include: “Mantchev takes inclusion a step further from in her earlier book Strictly No Elephants (2015), demonstrating that removing barriers to physical access can transform a nominal “All are welcome” policy from good…
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Published on June 23, 2025 14:27
January 28, 2025
annnnnd the pre-order buttons are LIVE!
So, two surprises… first, we had a title change, and I absolutely adore this one for a number of reasons. Remember the opening line from STRICTLY NO ELEPHANTS? Yup. There it is, right on the cover of the follow-up. Secondly, it appears there will be a BOXED SET with both the Pet Club books in…
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Published on January 28, 2025 09:11
July 23, 2024
In time for the tiny elephants 10th anniversary…
Thrilled to bits to reveal this project is well in the works, and over the moon to be working with Taeeun and the artistic team at Paula Wiseman/S&S. Stay tuned for previews of artwork and information about preorders!
Published on July 23, 2024 15:17
May 5, 2022
Another (tiny elephant) milestone
The word from them’s in the know is that the tiny elephant book now has over a quarter of a million copies in print and I am not even sure what to do with that information, to be honest. My first reaction is “holy heck, that is a lot of books.” Which is true. A…
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Published on May 05, 2022 12:18
January 24, 2022
Perfectly Delightful
Just received word that THE PERFECTLY PERFECT WISH, illustrated by the talented Jessica Courtney Tickle, is a finalist in the picture book category for the Golden Sower Award 2022-2023, which is presented annually to the authors and illustrators of the best books, as voted by school-age children in Nebraska. Happy to be keeping company with…
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Published on January 24, 2022 15:26
January 18, 2022
Felicidades!
STRICTLY NO ELEPHANTS might have debuted waaaaaay back in 2015, but it’s still finding audiences and connecting with new readers. Most recently, it was published in Spanish for the US market, so the Children’s Book Committee at the Bank Street College of Education just named it one of the best picture books of 2021 for…
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Published on January 18, 2022 12:14
September 14, 2021
Lucky Number Seven!
TWISTY-TURNY HOUSE is my seventh picture book published by S&S, so I shall take a moment to reflect on my incredible luck of having landed there in 2013 with the sale of STRICTLY NO ELEPHANTS. The tiny elephant marches on, in numerous languages on a circuitous journey around the globe, spreading the message of “that’s…
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Published on September 14, 2021 07:28
July 24, 2021
And the first review is in!
Publisher’s Weekly has read TWISTY-TURNY HOUSE and says many nice things, finishing with “the cat’s initial foray down the house’s twisty-turny staircase is positively cinematic as the creators show how, from very separate lives, a community of mutual joy and mischief is forged.” POSITIVELY CINEMATIC. Yes! It is! Wait, wait. Pic, or it didn’t happen?…
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Published on July 24, 2021 14:02
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