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School Visits: A Week In Tulsa!

January 30, 2025 / / No comments

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I’m looking forward to a week visiting schools in Tulsa, OK. Leaving on Sunday, a day after my birthday. I’ve prepared unique presentations for PreK-K. Grades 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8. The full monty! Wait, no, not that. Anyway. I’ll go from Two Birds and a Moose for the youngest up to Shaken and Upstander for the oldest.

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Curiously, it’s been the “Big Idea Gang” series that’s been getting me invited to places lately, schools buying these books for every student, reading them in multiple classrooms. I recently got invited to CT for the same reason.

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I am grateful to be asked into a school to speak to young readers. I try to inspire them, encourage literacy, share my enthusiasm for books, and aspire to leave the room just a tiny bit better than when I first arrived.

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Michael Cera, “Juno,” Two Ballerinas & an Aspirational Moose

January 15, 2025 / / One comment

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Publishing comes with a lot of heartbreak and disappointment — rejection is the core experience for even “successful” authors — but I still cling to the pleasures of making things. Of being inspired, of creating new books or poems or art. The worst day is pub day, when hopes and dreams are dashed against the rocks of indifference.

Anyway, this little book about an aspirational moose won’t be out until August, 2025.  I sent a photo of Michael Cera from “Juno” to my editor, describing how I saw Moose. And in this rare case, both my editor and illustrator listened and cared and worked to honor my silly vision.

The actor Michael Cera and my moose. It’s a small thing but it delights me.

 

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NOTE: This is not the official or “final” cover. But I imagine it’s close. 

This is the second story from my “. . . And a Moose!” Series for very young readers. Available in paperback, cheap.

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