This post came into being due to a catalog that landed in the mailbox of my friend, Jan. She was delighted by the offerings in it, and knew I would be, too. Picture books with accompanying soft-toy animals? Lead me to them! I rushed to the website. I had a marvelous time. Oooooh! A stuffed […]
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Outside, the November days have been getting progressively colder and drearier. All weekend it snowed. That’s November where I live… at least, outside. Inside, it’s a celebration of picture books! As I posted earlier this month, I’ve been participating in PiBoIdMo — Picture Book Idea Month. I’m also, as you can see, an “ambassador” for
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I’m very happy to be posting this today! You may or may not know that I had a slight delay in getting my Flubs 2 Fixes Copy Editing and Proofreading service off the ground. That delay is over, and I am now able to offer my services as noted in the Services for Writers —
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Doing the research for this post was a joy. Jean Little is one of my favorite authors, a widely acclaimed author of both picture books and middle grade novels. She was born in Taiwan of Canadian parents in 1932, which makes her 81 — a fact which boggles my mind just a little. The family
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It’s Thanksgiving Day in Canada. It’s a day of thinking of all that we have to be grateful for, of celebrating the harvest, of joining with family and friends to feast on turkey and pumpkin pie (unless you’re a farmer, in which case you’re likely very busy getting the crop off the field and the
Make that “of a different phylum…” My cousin Beverley Brenna has a new book coming out, with an anticipated release date of November 15th. It is a departure from the subject matter and style of her recent books, which may come as a surprise to those who have read and loved the time-slip adventure Falling
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I surprised myself this spring when I began writing a middle-grade mystery, and found that I was enjoying the process thoroughly. (Since it’s for middle grade readers, it has no goriness in it. My kind of book!) When I think about it, though, it shouldn’t have been such a surprise. Although my mystery reading as
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If you’ve read either The Dot or Ish, Peter H. Reynolds’ fabulous picture books about celebrating creativity and making your own kind of art, even if you (or others) don’t consider you artistic, then you’ve already encountered the basic principle behind International Dot Day — making your mark in some artistic-ish way, and celebrating your
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