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January 15, 2025
Book Spotlight + Giveaway: The Tales of Charlie Wags, New York City
Title: The Tales of Charlie Wags: New York City | Author: Sofie Wells & Ali Barclay | Illustrator: Sanna Sjostrom | Genre: Picture Book | Publisher: Kendam Press | Publication Date: | ISBN: Book Details: Book Description: Charlie Wags is a seemingly ordinary pup. He sits on command, is appropriately needy, and only sometimes begs for treats. But Charlie has an extraordinary secret. He loves to …
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January 7, 2025
Book Review + Giveaway: Freedom’s Game
Title: Freedom’s Game | Author: Rosanne Tolin | Genre: Middle Grade | Publisher: Reycraft Books/Benchmark Education | Release Date: October 8, 2024 | ISBN: 9781478876199 Publisher’s Book Summary: Publisher’s Book Summary: Twelve-year-old Ziggy Wirth, originally from Germany, doesn’t know what to expect when he arrives at the Annemasse orphanage in eastern France. It is 1942, and the Nazis have …
December 6, 2024
Introducing 5 Minute Christmas Tales
🎶 On the first day of Christmas 🎶…I’m excited to share a collection of short stories in this Christmas treasury 🎄 Title: 5 Minute Christmas Tales | Author: Stephanie Ward | Illustrator: Karen Saavedra | Genre: Children’s Short Story Collection | Publisher: Bookoli | ISBN: 9781802494891 | Release Date: August 2023 (From the publisher) The perfect length for bedtime, 5 Minute Christmas Tales is sure to get …
November 29, 2024
Review + Giveaway: What Bear Said about Life, Love, & Other Stuff
Title: What Bear Said about Life, Love, & Other Stuff | Author: Jack Wiens | Illustrator: Jack Wiens | Genre: Junior Fiction | Publisher: Torchflame Books | Publication Date: October 15, 2024 Book Description: The boy has a lot of questions—hard ones about love, honesty, grief and loss, prejudice, forgiveness, why we are here, and more. Bear’s wise answers are always offered with …
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Review + Giveaway: What Bear Said about Live, Love, & Other Stuff
Title: What Bear Said about Life, Love, & Other Stuff | Author: Jack Wiens | Illustrator: Jack Wiens | Genre: Junior Fiction | Publisher: Torchflame Books | Publication Date: October 15, 2024 Book Description: The boy has a lot of questions—hard ones about love, honesty, grief and loss, prejudice, forgiveness, why we are here, and more. Bear’s wise answers are always offered with …
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November 7, 2024
Arabella and the Magic Pencil: A New Slovak Edition
Or should I say “Arabela“? What an absolute surprise and delight to see the first foreign language edition of Arabella and the Magic Pencil released in Slovakia. I think the title in this beautiful language looks absolutely stunning on the cover. It’s such a joy to me that there are children in a country I …
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October 30, 2024
The Children’s Book Review Reviews Allen the Alien
A fabulous review from a fabulous review site…plus a really cool photo on photo. So good! Allen the Alien by Stephanie Ward & Aleck Morton | Book Review The Children’s Book Review is my go-to reference for kid lit, so if you’re interested in children’s books, this is the site for you. Check out their …
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October 29, 2024
The 14th Annual Halloweensie Writing Contest
It’s that time of year again when awesome children’s author Susanna Leonard Hill hosts a fun writing contest for Halloween. I found my entry from 2014 ~ An Alien Goes Trick-or-Treating ~ which just happens to star a friendly little alien named Allen. So, yeah, that character/story/book idea has been around for a very, very long time! …
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October 14, 2024
Breaking Boundaries in Picture Books
I’m often asked about what I like to write and why. It may seem obvious, but often it’s a very telling question for authors — a mystery writer will say they love writing poetry or a romance novelist will admit to secretly writing short horror stories under a pen name. I’m a picture book writer …
September 23, 2024
Book Review + Giveaway: Kelcie Murphy and The Academy for the Unbreakable Arts
Title: Kelcie Murphy and the Academy for the Unbreakable Arts | Author: Erika Lewis | Genre: Middle Grade | Publisher: Starscape | Release Date: March 1, 2022 | ISBN: 9781250208262 Publisher’s Book Summary: A 2023 Teacher Favorites Winner (6th-8th Grade) for the Children’s Book Council Brimming with Celtic mythology, action, and danger, Erika Lewis’s Kelcie Murphy and the Academy for …
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Notes from a writer with wanderlust
When I was a kid, I read every story I could find about far away places, travel and transportation. In fact, my favorite book was The Little Yellow Bus" about a girl who took the bus to visit her gran
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