And the Beauty of the World Carried Me, my next picture book, forthcoming from Macmillan/Roaring Brook
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Empathy is a social and emotional skill that helps us feel and understand the emotions, circumstances, intentions, thoughts, and needs of others, such that we can offer sensitive, perceptive, and appropriate communication and support.
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For every person, grief has its own expression, its own trajectory, and its own timetable.
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When one little boy meets the new shy girl in his class, he decides to follow his curiosity and ask questions about her habit of picking up little scraps of colored paper everywhere she goes.
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A gorgeous and whimsical book for young children finding the bravery to to step out our comfort zones to see the beauty of the world.
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Monty Python’s killer rabbit aside, rabbits are prey, not predator—and when they experience fear, there is no hiding it. Their body language is clear. They freeze, they flatten, they even thump their tails. And so they inspire me to embrace the hard feelings. To allow them to be there. My little patron animal is soft and gentle and full of fear!
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Today is the book birthday of the fabulous Sloth Wasn’t Sleepy by author Kate Messner and illustrator Valentina Toro—about little sloth, unable to sleep, who is guided by her mother through mindfulness and calming exercises so can finally rest.
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NEW RELEASE children’s book from Sounds True about a dinosaur who fears change
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For many creative folk, imagination has never been the problem. My problem has always been focusing on one of my many ideas and taking it from start to finish.
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During online learning, some days recess is wrestling with the dogs, some days it is jumping madly on the backyard trampoline, some days it's a short session of Minecraft, but today…
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A couple of weeks ago I finished How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by novelist, essayist, story writer Alexander Chee.
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In Senegal, when someone dies, people say, "a library has burned."
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Did you know that authors generally don’t choose their own illustrators? So I was thrilled when…
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I cannot wait to share my first children's picture book, Tumbleweed, with the world next fall!
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Camping is my favorite thing, and so one of my new favorite children's books is this one from Jennifer K. Mann which came out in April.
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I have 3 Ruths in my life: my grandmother (father's side), a character in a short story that lives under my bed, and my car, Ruth the Honda.
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