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Picture Book Feature: The Farmer and the Clown

This is a wordless picture book for everyone who understands how it is to be separated from your family.


The blurb on the jacket flap goes:


Home.

You know where it is
when you're there.

But sometimes
you get a bit separated from home,
and you may need a little help
finding your way back.


The story begins with a farmer who watches a circus train pass by his vast field. Ack! Somebody falls off the last car and the train chugs away without anyone noticing. The farmer hurries f...

Goodbye, Mrs. Henderson

Thought I'd hold myself accountable this week.

One of my goals this year is to spend more time painting. Besides the art lessons I took when I was very small with my sisters (gosh, I must have mentioned previously that we dreaded those Sunday evenings because we were made to go), I'm basically self-taught.


And it has been such a surprisingly empowering path. Though I confess, it was extremely intimidating at first ...

So here's my first watercolour piece for this year. It's titled "Goodb...

Middle Grade Feature: Absolutely Truly

A cozy middle-grade mystery I slumped down on the hall bench and banged my forehead against one of the boxes I was holding. It was so unfair! The math grade, the move -- everything! Why couldn't we have just stayed in Texas?

This time, there wasn't even the prospect of moving some place decent again in a year or two either. This time, I was stuck. Forever. In population you've-got-to-be-kidding-me Pumpkin Falls, New Hampshire.

...
Truly Lovej...

Picture Book Feature: Gifts from the Enemy

A moving non-fiction picture book.

"I was 13 years old when the German soldiers marched into town and killed poor Papa.

I was 14 when, in the middle of the night, they forced their way into our home and took my older brother Shmuel away.

I was 15 when the Nazis came for me. I didn't even have the chance to hug Mama and little Hirsh good-bye. It was the last time I would ever see them again."


...


Gifts from the Enemy is a true story told by Alter Wiener, Holocaust survivor and...

2 Reviews, 2 Pins & Here We Go {Finally}!

Last year, I entered Little Orchid's Sea Monster Trouble in a Writers' Digest competition. Didn't win anything but I received this feedback from my judge:
"In Little Orchid's Sea Monster Trouble by Claudine Gueh Yanting we are presented with a story that weaves the power of myth and fable into a story that feels as important today to our contemporary society as it might have around the village center centuries ago. Obviously, that's one of the goals here - to create a kind of moder...

25 Roses For Everyone

Let's start the year off with some roses and book-talk, yea?

I'm pleased to join Middle-Grade Author, Stephanie Faris, on her 25 Roses Blog Tour. Stephanie's latest children's novel, 25 Roses, is out now {please check out the blurb and links below}. I asked her about her favourite childhood reads and here are some of her fondest memories about reading in the 80s.

... The 80s: A Great Time to Be a Tween
Stephanie Faris

When I was in middle school, book-swapping was huge. I might never have read V...

2015 Goals & Giveaway Announcement

Happy holidays, dear friends here! 2014 has been fabulous because of you all. Thanks for the warmth and here's to a graceful 2015.

I've lined up my goals for the coming year:


more writing (short stories, 1 MG novel, 1 picture book draft)more reading (of course!)more watercolour paintingconsistent bloggingmore encouragements for my studentsmore swimming (one of my highlights this year is that I've finally overcome my anxiety in water!)more connections with fellow writers/readers/ bloggersa...

Pinterest Inspirations ~ Cafes

This week's Pinterest inspirations should be fun for most of us writers, bloggers, artists and readers.

Cafes!

The quiet warmth of a good cafe always makes me feel safe, alone yet absolutely not lonely, and excited that fruitful work will be accomplished in the next hour. Hope you enjoy this batch!



The cafes here are from Europe, Singapore, Korea and Taiwan. (If you're interested in finding out more about th...

The Boy on the Porch

A childless couple, John and Marta, finds a boy asleep on the porch of their farmhouse one day. They haven't seen him around before. They don't know who left him with them or why. All they have is that scraggly note.


There's nothing they can do but take the boy, Jacob, in. (Not that they aren't secretly happy to.)


The boy doesn't talk. He taps. Tap tap tap. Tap-tap, tap-tap. It takes Marta a while to figure out that's how he communicates. John trades in his belts and hat at the stor...

Billy & Monster's Golden Christmas

This week, I'mhappy to introduce a fellow children's author to you guys ~ David Chuka.I had the privilege to be interviewed on David’s blog on December 4th and it was fun answering his questions. You can read it all here .


David has released a book just in time for Christmas!


Billy and Monster’s Golden Christmas is now available to download on Amazon.

In this book, which is the fifth instalment in his bestselling series – The Adventures of Billy and Monster – David tackles that scenario we...