Hooray for Papa's Way!

The Cooperative Children's Book Center has just come out with their CCBC Choices 2010 annual best-of-the-year list, and That's Papa's Way is on it! The Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC) is a unique examination, study and research library of the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The complete CCBC Choices 2010 publication will be available March 6th, and will include annotations and recommended ages for all of the books included, as well as an author/title/subject index, and a commentary on the publishing year. Thanks so much to this years panel of ladies, Kathleen T. Horning, Merri V. Lindgren and Megan Schliesman and Tessa Michaelson, for selecting Papa's Way!
*You can check out the complete list of titles right here

ALFIE in Japanese!

My editor just shared the exciting news that my new book ALFIE RUNS AWAY, written by Ken Cadow, is going to be published in Japanese! Holp Shuppan will be publishing the edition in the next 24 months~I can't wait!

p.s. the U.S. edition hits shelves this Spring. More info on ALFIE to come!

brooklyn blizzard

I love that it is snowing today while I'm wrapping up my Christmas book. Perfect timing. And I also love how cute the little green car looks right across the street~~Yay for snow days :)