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I’m thrilled to be going to my first Chappaqua Children’s Book Festival where I will be representing How To Coach Girls and Sumo Joe. I’m also interviewing three authors on behalf of KidLitTV: Phil Bildner, Sandra Neil Wallace, and Joyce Wan. Today, I’m preparing for my interview with Sandra Neil Wallace. I met Sandra Neil…
I think the Holy Grail of Halloween picture books is the classic, Room on a Broom, which combines so many delightful elements into a Halloween-themed book: counting, friendship, humor, and a search for missing objects. Room on a Broom by Julia Donaldson, illustrated by Axel Scheffler These Halloween picture books have some of these elements. What…
Big Catch On the beach, it’s like a festival/ but in the sea, they will hold funerals/ for the tens of thousands dead. Japanese poet Misuzu Kaneko (1903-1930) I’ve been thinking a lot about Buddhist rituals now that my mom is at the end of life. The Buddhist services that I have attended have…
My son’s favorite class in middle school was Ed-Tech, an engineering class. He thought it was fun to invent things to solve problems. That’s what engineering is … designing and building machines and structures including bridges, roads, vehicles, and buildings. It’s often to solve a practical problem or improve on a machine that already exists….
I’m really excited to be included at the Chappaqua Book Festival on October 5, 2019. It will be held at Bell Middle School, 50 Senter Street, Chappaqua NY 10514. I’ll be in the nonfiction section repping How To Coach Girls, but I’ll also be reading my picture book, Sumo Joe, during one of the read…
I’m thrilled that Sumo Joe shares a book birthday with Rajani LaRocca’s Midsummer Mayhem! She held a wonderful book launch party at The Concord Bookshop and it was fun to see other authors including Carol Gordon Ekster, Alison Goldberg, Susan Tan, Hayley Barrett, and Lisa Rogers. (Lisa is also part of my New in ’19…
My son was introduced to boxing by my trainer Marc Gargaro when he was eight years old. Now he’s fourteen years old. Back then, I would take whatever kid had a free week during the summer and bring him or her to my morning boxing training session. My son was too young to object and…