Archive for October 15, 2024

This Saturday the 19th: The Morristown Festival of Books!

Another weekend, another children’s book festival. If you are in the area, please stop by and say hello!

The details:

The Morristown Festival of Books’ KidFest authors will return from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 19, rain or shine, to meet visitors while selling and personally signing books, on the lawn of St. Peter’s Church, 70 Maple Avenue, in historic downtown Morristown, NJ.

 

WHERE KIDS & AUTHORS MEET! 

The Right Book at the Right Time: Halloween Edition

As a parent, I always felt that Halloween was insane. Our kids would go off trick-or-treating, gather up ridiculous amounts of candy, and we’d stress about them actually eating it. In fact, we made up a whole story where they would “trade in” their candy — leaving it out for the Great Pumpkin — and discover a new toy or gift the next morning. The epic wastefulness of it all! What’s better, you might ask? My new “Scary Tales” collection. Three full book-length stories in one (cheap!) paperback compilation. 304 pages for grades 3-6, and no one dies, wonderfully illustrated by the great Iacopo Bruno. Only $8.99 and NO CAVITIES!

Halloween before my time: The three oldest from my family, Barbara, Neal, and Billy. America in the 1950s.

 

My two youngest, Maggie and Gavin, close to 20 years ago. Let’s go, Mets!

Whatever really happened to all that candy, I wonder? I do like a frozen mini Milky Way bar. Sue me.

This Sunday the 13th: THE WARWICK CHILDREN’S BOOK FESTIVAL

 

This SUNDAY, the 13th, I’ll be at the Warwick Children’s Book Festival along with a great number of talented authors and illustrators. Warwick is such a sweet little town, with great shops and restaurants, especially beautiful this time of year. Worth a road trip. And the festival is great fun, too. If you do come, please stop by and say hello! For full details, stomp on this

I’ll be signing any number of books, old favorites and new, including these titles just published in 2024 . . . 

           

 

COME ON OUT & SUPPORT LITERACY,

SUPPORT THE ARTS,

and SHARE the LOVE of READING

with YOUNG READERS!