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The winners of my book launch cupcake contest & the FB photo contest are now sketches (soon to be painted) in the art for my upcoming book!

"If heaven made him, the earth can find use for him."
-Chinese Proverb

Celebrate National Bookstore Day this Saturday with me at the Flying Pig Bookstore!

Saturday, Nov. 7th, 1 pm
Flying Pig Bookstore
5247 Shelburne Rd.
Shelburne, VT

local but can't make it? Reserve an autographed copy and pick it up later! Call: 802-985-3999

Hope to see you!!

I was going to do a post about the Smith College event that Anna & I attended, but fellow author Jeannine Atkins did such a nice write-up on her blog I thought I'd just link there!

So since I'm not writing about that, I can spend more time doing my most present distraction: SHOPPING!

Okay, even when I was young there were two things I loved reading about in books. Food (which is why I loved Farmer Boy) and clothes (which is why I loved Ballet Shoes). I loved reading the descriptions of what t...

Sketch for November's small graces auction (only 1 more left after this!). Auction on Nov. 16th!

As well as my article, there's a lovely interview of my friend & excellent author Barbara O'Connor and her charming book The Small Adventure of Popeye and Elvis in School Library Journal(this issue is a good one!).

"Behave toward everyone as if receiving a guest."
-Chinese Proverb

There's a profile on me in this month's issue of the School Library Journal. While I'm a tad embarrassed by the complimentary things written, I think Robert would've liked it.

It's almost Halloween, and that meant last Sat (right after the Boston Book Festival) was the time for my annual pumpkin carving! This year, because of scheduling problems (I've been running into that a lot lately), I carved half my pumpkin with Jon, Loretta & Austin:

And the other half the next day at Ranida's house (with Stella and Marius):

I carved hopping bunnies to enter in ModCloth's Trick Out Your Pumpkin Contest: I'm hoping to win the $100. gift certificate so I can buy a new outfit fo...

I was at the Boston Book Festival last Saturday. It was a packed festival, there were crowds everywhere! I do hope Boston does this event annually.

For me, it was lots of fun meeting up with Scott Magoon and Alice Flaherty: They are the creators of Luck of the Loch Ness Monster: A Tale of Picky Eating. I learned from Alice Flaherty, also a highly respected doctor of neurology, that picky eating is actually a genetic trait. People whose ancestors are from areas where there were many poisonous p...