Now Is Your Chance to Vote

CHILDREN'S CHOICE AWARDS is here again! And now is your chance to vote on your choice for best books.

This is the only child-chosen book choice award. Now through April 29, you can pick the winners. On May 2, at the Lighthouse in New York City, the lucky chosen will be announced to celebrate Children's Book Week. To find out more about the voting, click on this link.

To find out more about CHILDREN'S BOOK WEEK, click here.

Read a Book Give a Book

Penguin Books and the Pearson Foundation are sponsoring a wonderful program to provide needy children with books. Visit the website where by simply reading one of the many great picture books you can help put a book into a child's hands.

Some of the fun books I read were

NOBUNNIES PERFECT by Anna Dewdney

FREAK OUT: ANIMALS BEYOND YOUR WILDEST IMAGINATION by Ginger L. Clarke

Check out this fun website--winner of the NEA Foundation Award for Teaching Excellence!

World Read Aloud Day

Today, March 9, is WORLD READ ALOUD DAY. You can celebrate the day with a free read aloud book on BE THERE BEDTIME STORIES. Choose one book, record your reading of it, and share it with someone special in your life.

My book, KITTY KERPLUNKING, is one you can choose from there.

Happy Reading!

Busy Days in New York

MISSOURI SCRIBBLES, the online newsletter of Missouri's regional SCBWI organization, is where you'll find some great writing tips--including my article, "The 10 Most Important Things I Learned in New York." These highlights are from my January visit to the SCBWI Conference--amid the snow and slush. Take a peek and find out the inside scoop to the children's literary world.