SUGAR PLUM COUNTDOWN
Plum Fantastic debuts this fall. It's the first book in the Sugar Plum Ballerinas chapter book series, which I'm writing with Whoopi Goldberg. Stay tuned for more details!PIRATE MOM WINS BLUE CRAB AWARD!
Pirate Mom is the winner of the Maryland Library Association's 2007 Blue Crab Award for Transitional Fiction. A panel of librarians selected it from a field of over 150 books for young readers. Books by Kate diCamillo and Sara Pennypacker were also honored--I'm thrilled to find myself in such esteemed company.NEW NONFICTION FOR FALL 2007
Please keep an eye out for my five new titles:World of Music: Australia, Hawaii and the Pacific (Heinemann)
Nat Love (Lerner)
Safari Adventure: Charts, Graphs, and Tables (Heinemann)
Animal Secrets: Animal Life Processes (Heinemann)
Mexico or Bust!: Migration Patterns (Heinemann)
INTERVIEW POSTED
Amy Tsaykel recently featured me on her website, Escape Artist. You can read the interview here.AVAST--OVER 135,000 COPIES OF PIRATE MOM SOLD!
Pete loves pirates--until the Amazing Marco hypnotizes his mom and turns her into a balmy buccaneer. How would you like to have a mom who steals underwear from clotheslines and attacks the mailman with a wooden spoon? Pete needs to think fast--he wants his real mom back!
"Appealingly cartoony illustrations suit the silly fun: a winner." Kirkus Reviews
"Fun for independent readers and for reading aloud to younger children." Booklist
Scholastic Book Club Selection
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Illustrations ©2006 Stephen Gilpin
Author photo ©2006 Corie Howell