I just found a link to Lauren Child’s kitchen. I adore the bright colors.
Can someone click over and tell me if that is indeed a piano painted white?
If you could re-do your house, whose art would you
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On My Nightstand Tuesday
1. TRUE (. . . SORT OF) by Katherine Hannigan (Greenwillow)
2. JACOB WONDERBAR AND THE COSMIC SPACE KAPOW by Nathan Bransford (Dial Books)
3. FOXY AND EGG by Alex T. Smith (Holiday House)
4. CLOCKWISE by Elle Strauss (e-launch
… Read More Permission to be Awesome + Thankful Thursday
In light of the news yesterday that Apple CEO Steve Jobs stepped down, my husband found a speech Mr. Jobs gave in 2005 at Stanford’s graduation.
We only live once. Make it count.
The Story Spine
I recently read a post at Imagination Soup by the talented Deborah Underwood, author of A Balloon for Isabel and the NYT best-selling The Quiet Book.
In the post, Ms. Underwood discusses how daunting she assumed it would
… Read More Doggy Whys? A picture book review.
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I adored this non-fiction picture book, written in an original, engaging format. Q&As (Why do dogs wag their tails?) feature on the left-hand side of a spread, while more … Read More
Jonathan and the Big Blue Boat, a review.
Jonathan and the Big Blue Boat by Philip Christian Stead
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Having viewed the trailer (over and over), for which Mr. Stead also composed the music, I so wanted to fall in love with this … Read More
How Querying is Like Sending Your Kids Off to Camp
1. You worry, stress, obsess over details. (Does he/she need a beach towel and a bath towel, or only bath? Does this sentence need a comma? You take it out, put in back in, take it out . . .
… Read More Story Endings (Or, Johnny Depp & Alan Rickman in the same post.)
I’m having a time brainstorming a couple of picture book endings. I usually start strong with a single idea that somehow chases a rascally rabbit down a deep dark hole. Which leads me to Johnny Depp when I’d started with … Read More
Coming 2017!
