TWO AT THE ZOO and a Hairy Tarantula

As a YA author I don't often shout about GREAT PICTURE BOOKS, but there's a new one out that my favorite two-year-old keeps asking me to read over and over.

Two at the Zoo by Danna Smith (Author), Valeria Petrone (Illustrator) is a rhyming counting book about a grandfather taking his grandson to the zoo. The verse is so natural and fun to read it makes writing a picture book look easy (IMO picture books are actually the hardest genre to write!).

Today I went to a book signing by Danna Smith for Tw