To celebrate the publication of my new book, The Science of Light, I’ll be signing books til they run out! Thanks to Hudson Co-op for hosting (Thanks Laura, Sue and Kat!) and to WordUp Community Bookshop for being the bookseller … Continue reading
THE SCIENCE OF LIGHT Things That Shine Flash and Glow (Holiday House) is an Orbis Pictus Honor Book! You can read more about the award here: https://ncte.org/awards/orbis-pictus-award-nonfiction-for-children/ The 2023 gold winner is Blue: A History of the Color as Deep … Continue reading
Ms. Seitner’s second graders drew some magnificent crows yesterday! I wish I could show you all of them, but I got excited and forgot to screen shot every one. These second graders added lots of interesting detail in the feathers. … Continue reading
I was so happy to be a Zoom guest in Ms. Seitner’s first grade classes at Léman Manhattan Preparatory School this morning! We talked about how books are made, from idea to a printed and bound book, and then we … Continue reading
Word Up Community Bookshop had a “Mini-Festival” of children’s literature this weekend and it was so fun. I was there with many of my uptown illustrator and writer colleagues, from Dr. Ruth Westheimer (Roller Coaster Grandma) and Chris Raschka (Yo! … Continue reading
Two Books! One Drawing! One Winner! Enter a giveaway drawing to win a copy each of my two new books, LET’S COLOR TOGETHER: A SHAREABLE COLORING BOOK FOR PARENTS AND KIDS, a coloring book from Sourcebooks featuring complex and more … Continue reading
I was so happy to present a workshop to three classes of first graders at PS/IS187, Hudson Cliffs School, in Ms. Neidish’s library classes. It was a totally jam-packed 45 minutes per class–first I read CROW MADE A FRIEND and took … Continue reading
This has been a wonderful year for Crow and Crow’s story of making friends in CROW MADE A FRIEND. Daniel made a really cute video for me, featuring our talented friend Jay Douglas as the voice of Crow, and the … Continue reading
What a great time we all had making friends at the CROW MADE A FRIEND (Holiday House 2015!) publication party this past Sunday! What I wanted to do most of all to celebrate Crow, and makers everywhere, was to have … Continue reading
