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Happy Book Birthday to Me!

Reading Picture Books with Children: How to Shake Up Storytime and Get Kids Talking about What They See goes on sale today. In jsut a little while I will head over to sign stock for orders at The Eric...

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Tell Me about Your Whole Book Approach Storytimes

I no longer lead regular storytimes in my professional life, but I get to read at home with my kids every day (the photo above is from a few years ago and pictures me and five of my kids, long before...

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Article about the Whole Book Approach in Bay State Parent Magazine

Thanks very much to Bay State Parent Magazine for this great article about the Whole Book Approach and Reading Picture Books with Children:...

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Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Honor for A Crow of His Own!

I got an email last Friday telling me that I was named as a recipient of the 2016 Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Honor Award for A Crow of His Own! I had to keep this amazing news a secret for the past few...

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Picture Book Recommendations & Book Marketing Buzz Blog Interview

Thanks to Brian Feinblum for this interview on Book Marketing Buzz Blog! I was glad that his questions let me highlight the good work of We Need Diverse Books while also naming picture books I’ve used...

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SLJ Webcast with Yolanda Scott & Emily Prabhaker (& Book Giveaway!)

I recently participated in a webcast about the Whole Book Approach with my editor from Charlesbridge, Yolanda Scott, and my colleague from The Carle, Emily Prabhaker. We had over 1,500 people register...

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Snappsy the Alligator Did Not Ask to Be in This Post

I recently taught a 2-credit graduate course on the Whole Book Approach in the Simmons at The Carle program. I’ve taught it several times before, but this was the first time I did so under a 4-day...

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Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Honor Acceptance Speech

This week I attended the Fay B. Kaigler Children’s Book Festival at the Thad Cochran Center on the University of Southern Mississippi campus in Hattiesburg, MS April 6-8, 2016, where I accepted the...

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Interview with Illustrator Nicole Tadgell about Real Sisters Pretend

I was so excited to see this interview, “Illustrating Love” with the brilliant Nicole Tadgell about her work on our picture book, Real Sisters Pretend. Nickie recently spoke to my Simmons College...

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Real Sisters Pretend Author Visits

I’ve led thousands of storytimes over the course of my career, but as a new picture book author, so far only a handful of these have featured picture books I’ve written. A Crow of His Own illustrated...

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Back to School with My Books and Others, Too

  My summer-reading son We are savoring the last weeks of summer before kids return to school and my own classes begin at Simmons College. My children’s summer reading has them combing through our...

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The Year of the Rooster

  I am thrilled to share the good news that a publisher in China has bought the translation rights to A Crow of His Own! And, it may or may not be a coincidence that 2017 is the Year of the Rooster....

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Picture Book Month Daily Whole Book Approach Tweets

  November 2016 is Picture Book Month, and over on Twitter I am drawing upon the Whole Book Approach to tweet about picture book art and design. I’ll feature new picture books each day that make the...

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Crow your Own Crow for Job Action Day

Thanks to Celebrate Picture Books for this review of A Crow Of His Own, posted in honor of Job Action Day: “Instituted in 2008 and now sponsored by LiveCareer to empower employees and job seekers to...

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2017 Mock Caldecott

This is the list of 2016 picturebooks that my Simmons College graduate class CHL 403 The Picturebook is using in our Mock Caldecott. Which books are you rooting for? Which ones would you add? Chime in...

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Reaching Real Kids with Real Sisters Pretend

Real Sisters   My picture book Real Sisters Pretend (Tilbury House Publishers 2016) was inspired by a conversation I overheard two of my daughters having about adoption after a stranger questioned...

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2017 Mock Caldecott Picks

I taught two sections of my graduate course on the picture book at Simmons College this year, one at The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, and one at Simmons College’s main campus in Boston. We...

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Picture Book Family Diversity

I got some really nice feedback on my prior post for the recent Blogging for LGBTQ Families Day, including several requests for book recommendations. I recently gave a presentation at the NESCBWI...

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Library Learners Blog Post Series about RPBWC

  Click to see larger image   Knowing that real readers are out there reading my books will never, ever get old. And knowing that one of my books is helping readers get even more out of their picture...

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MERGE for Equality Children’s Book Campaign

  I am thrilled to announce that I’ve signed on as a consultant with MERGE for Equality to support their Children’s Book Campaign. This nonprofit organization based in Florence, MA seeks “to engage...

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