About once a week I race into my kitchen, book clutched to my chest and announce, "You have to see this book!" Someone (the lucky one who just came in for some chips and salsa or an apple) then turns to me and says, "Is it your new favorite?" I smile and contemplate all my favorites and say something like, "Well, yes. It's one of them." Yesterday, I attended the RMC- SCBWI Fall Conference and picked up my fair share of books (as well as a WEALTH of inspiration). This one, A BIG MOONCAKE FOR MOONCAKE! z. b. asterplume 09/24/2018
About once a week I race into my kitchen, book clutched to my chest and announce, "You have to see this book!" Someone (the lucky one who just came in for some chips and salsa or an apple) then turns to me and says, "Is it your new favorite?" I smile and contemplate all my favorites and say something like, "Well, yes. It's one of them." Yesterday, I attended the RMC- SCBWI Fall Conference and picked up my fair share of books (as well as a WEALTH of inspiration). This one, A BIG MOONCAKE FOR
It's not often I run across a picture book that stops me in my ... okay, let's be honest, picture books derail me all the time. But this one...this book! GRUMPY MONKEY, written by Suzanne Lang and illustrated by Max Lang, had me kissing it from the first page. As if just the main character's name wasn't hilarious enough (Jim Panzee... are you kidding me?) and the fact that the sun is too bright, the sky too blue and his bananas too sweet (such hardships), EV-ER-Y-ONE on planet earth who can read Grumpy Monkey z. b. asterplume 08/29/2018
It's not often I run across a picture book that stops me in my ... okay, let's be honest, picture books derail me all the time. But this one...this book! GRUMPY MONKEY, written by Suzanne Lang and illustrated by Max Lang, had me kissing it from the first page. As if just the main character's name wasn't hilarious enough (Jim Panzee... are you kidding me?) and the fact that the sun is too bright, the sky too blue and his bananas too sweet (such hardships), EV-ER-Y-ONE on planet earth who can read
Oh, hello there. Yes, it's been a while. I've missed you too. What have I been doing? The usual. Say, have I told you about my new favorite book? NO? Well, then. I'd like to introduce to BOLIVAR, by Sean Rubin. I don't want to say too much because I knew nothing about it until I tripped across it in my elementary school library, and what a pleasure it was to discover. Almost like discovering the world's last living dinosaur ;) Trust me...check it out! Bolivar z. b. asterplume 05/21/2018
Oh, hello there. Yes, it's been a while. I've missed you too. What have I been doing? The usual. Say, have I told you about my new favorite book? NO? Well, then. I'd like to introduce to BOLIVAR, by Sean Rubin. I don't want to say too much because I knew nothing about it until I tripped across it in my elementary school library, and what a pleasure it was to discover. Almost like discovering the world's last living dinosaur ;) Trust me...check it out!
