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Little Free Library 3.0

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So excited! We got our Little Free Library installed last week and stocked it up on Sunday. Our daughter Annabelle painted two nice sets of READ letters for it, featuring characters from awesome children’s books. Recognize them?

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How Can Pencils Be So Cute?

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I got an envelope from Boyds Mills Press on Saturday, and I opened it to find an advance copy of their Spring 2019 catalog. And guess what’s on the cover (which was a wonderful surprise to me!)? That’s right! It’s art by the wonderful Angela Matteson, and it just happens to be the cover art […]

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Skinny Dip with Laura Purdie Salas in Bookology

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Do you guys know Bookology? I’ve mentioned it here before, but in case you haven’t heard of it, it’s a weekly email letter/magazine “pointing out articles published that week as well as curated children’s books and reading news.” It has all sorts of fun features, including Skinny Dip, in which children’s authors and illustrators and […]

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The First Review of Meet My Family Is In

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It’s always a relief when the first review is a good one! In December’s School Library Journal is this review of Meet My Family! Animal Babies and Their Families (and I see the cover went up on Amazon recently). SALAS, Laura Purdie. Meet My Family!: Animal Babies and Their Families. illus. by Stephanie Fizer Coleman. […]

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The Wolf Hour [Poetry Friday]

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Happy Poetry Friday! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) This week, I’m celebrating The Wolf Hour, by Sara Lewis Holmes! It’s a menacing and delightful fairy-tale mash-up that feels as much poetry as novel to me. Sara is the author of Letters from Rapunzel and Operation Yes as well as sophisticated, gorgeous poems each […]

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Foreign Editions and My Next Book!

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Picture Book Foreign Editions All of my picture books with Lerner/Millbrook have had foreign editions published, and it’s always exciting to imagine kids on the other side of the world reading something I  wrote. Amazing! Here are a few of the iterations over the past few years. Here are some thoughts on foreign editions: Did […]

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Whew! A Review

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Last week, a new review of If You Were the Moon showed up in my Google Alerts. All I could see on the notification was that it was a review from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (yay!) and that it had ** by it. Oh, no. I figured no matter what the […]

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Writing a Golden Shovel Poem: Day 5

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[You can read Days 1, 2, 3, and 4 by clicking, if you like.] Well, you guys, I feel like sharing my process makes it sound like I have put hours and hours into this poem! But, really, it was just a stolen 15 minutes here and there. I have spent more time writing the […]

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Writing a Golden Shovel Poem: Day 4

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[You can read Days 1, 2, and 3 by clicking, if you like.] After writing at Valleyfair, I took my poem on the road next to Taco Bell. I do most of my writing on my laptop or phone, but playing around with short poem drafts lends itself to longhand, sometimes. Here are the drafts […]

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Writing a Golden Shovel Poem: Day 3

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[You can read day 1 and day 2 here.] Yesterday, I went to Valleyfair (theme park) with Randy and Maddie. It was a gorgeous day, high 60s and sunny, and the park was practically empty. No lines for anything–even the big coasters! We rode and ate and laughed–and I worked on my poem. Sadly, even […]

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