Here’s the weekly news roundup! (Don’t you like how I’m saying that, like that’s a thing I’ve ever done before?) We got a puppy! Her name is Marlo. She’s from Tennessee and is part black lab part horse? moose? Something big. So far...
Have you been wondering if my book Snappsy the Alligator (Did Not Ask to Be in This Book) is the right book for you? Or for your horse-loving nephew? The neighbor kid who wants to be in the CIA? Your son who loves baseball? That 8-year-old you know who is planning on...
Thank you to Blue Bunny Books for hosting me for a storytime on Tuesday, June 21. What a great bookstore! I also showed this early Snappsy sketch. In early 2015, Tim was playing around with the character, and drew Snappsy in swim trunks, in...
Hi everyone! Summer is almost here, a time of…what was it? Sun? No. Sand? Heavens no. Surf? Oh please. A time of READING! Everyone knows summer is time to sign up for your library’s summer reading program, and making yourself a nice sturdy book fort to...
When I meet with students, I try to convince them that being a writer is not easy. That I don’t sit down at my desk and words flow from me effortlessly. I also try to convince them that I’m not rich. I don’t have a butler. I don’t live in a...
