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February 2026 news (and 2025 year-end review)

It’s been a long time since I’ve sent out a newslet­ter, so this is way over­due. Sor­ry! I’ve been work­ing on a few dif­fer­ent projects: sev­er­al pic­ture books and a mid­­dle-grade non­fic­tion pro­pos­al. I expect I’ll be dust­ing off my nov­el man­u­script this year, too. I’m look­ing for­ward to a bunch of upcom­ing speak­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties and a new book com­ing in

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Now available: All four Meet Your World board books!

All four books in the Meet Your World series are now avail­able in board book for­mat!   This for­mat allows even the youngest read­ers to enjoy them (and grab, chew on, drop, etc.), and now they can own them all. These edi­tions are only one spread short­er than the hard­cov­ers and still include back­mat­ter, though it is slight­ly sim­pli­fied and condensed.

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New STEM informational fiction on the way: Newton’s Paws of Motion

I’m thrilled to share my lat­est book deal, a humor­ous STEM pic­ture book inspired by my very own cat (and his “exper­i­ments”). This one teach­es young read­ers about New­ton’s Laws of Motion through the eyes of a curi­ous, sci­ence-lov­ing feline and his less-than-enthu­si­as­tic fam­i­ly. I feel so lucky to get to col­lab­o­rate on it with Justin Kras­ner and Karen Obuhanych

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New SEL picture book: Let the Light In

My lat­est pic­ture book, Let the Light In, is now avail­able wher­ev­er books are sold. This book was ini­tial­ly inspired by watch­ing a dear friend nav­i­gate a ter­ri­ble loss, and I draft­ed and revised it while work­ing through some sad tran­si­tions of my own. That may sound a bit drea­ry, but this book is all about tak­ing care of yourself

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New STEM picture book: You Are a Garter Snake!

The fourth book in the Meet Your World series, You Are a Garter Snake!, is now avail­able wher­ev­er books are sold. Find out more and order your copies here! From the pub­lish­er: The fourth in the adorable, STEM non­fic­tion pic­ture book series that encour­ages very young read­ers to learn—through gen­tle inter­ac­tiv­i­ty and play—about the ani­mals who share their world Stretch, slip,

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Good news for You Are a Raccoon!

I’m so excit­ed to share that YOU ARE A RACCOON! has won the Mary­land Blue Crab Young Read­ers Award for Begin­ning Non­fic­tion! Each year, a com­mit­tee for the Mary­land Library Asso­ci­a­tion (MLA) selects  one win­ning book and up to three hon­or books to receive an award in each of the fol­low­ing cat­e­gories: Begin­ning Read­er Fic­tion, Begin­ning Read­er Non­fic­tion, Tran­si­tion­al Fiction,

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Now available — 2 new Meet Your World board books!

YOU ARE A HONEY BEE! and YOU ARE A RACCOON! are now avail­able as board books. Even while I was first research­ing and writ­ing these, I pic­tured them as board books. So I’m thrilled they’re final­ly avail­able in that for­mat for the youngest read­ers and nature lovers to enjoy (and grab at, and chew on, and…). They’re only one spread shorter

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New STEM picture book: You Are a Robin!

The third book in the Meet Your World series, You Are a Robin!, is now avail­able wher­ev­er books are sold. Find out more and order your copies here! From the pub­lish­er: The third in the adorable, STEM non­fic­tion pic­ture book series that encour­ages very young read­ers to learn–through gen­tle inter­ac­tiv­i­ty and play–about the ani­mals who share their world. Flit, flap, flut­ter! You

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Year-end reflection for 2023: Successes

  I love par­tic­i­pat­ing in chil­dren’s author Julie Hed­lund’s 12 Days of Christ­mas for Writ­ers as part of my year-end reflec­tion and new year goal-set­t­ing process. Day 3 of the series is an oppor­tu­ni­ty to reflect on our suc­cess­es dur­ing the past year.    Here is my pro­fes­sion­al suc­cess list for 2023: I signed a con­tract for a new pic­ture book and

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June 2023 news

Get your free activ­i­ty kit! There is now an activ­i­ty kit/curriculum guide for the first two books in the Meet Your World series, YOU ARE A HONEY BEE! and YOU ARE A RACCOON!, and it is adorable! The guide fea­tures cre­ative art projects, games, and writ­ing and sci­ence-relat­ed activ­i­ties to extend both the fun and edu­ca­tion­al val­ue of the books.

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