Stories. Hope. Light. Love.
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January 16, 2024
Stories, to me, are like golden doorways. Julia Sarda’s art for the upcoming Hotel Balzaar perfectly captures that sense of promise and possibility. I’m so excited to have readers step into this fairy tale world where anything can happen. Coming October 1st, 2024. Reactions: 2.5K Comments: 204 Original Post
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January 9, 2024
This kid I was 54 years ago? She is my New Year’s resolution. I want to honor her tenderness, her hope. I want to tell stories that will keep her imagination, her belief in the impossible alive. Happy New Year, everyone. Reactions: 5.4K Comments: 218 Original Post
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December 25, 2023
Carmen Mok and Orris and Timble and I are all wishing you a holiday season filled with friendship, stories and love. Reactions: 1.5K Comments: 154 Original Post
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December 19, 2023
Every year, I read Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, and every year, it convinces me that it is never too late to change. In the same way, I remember reading Katherine Paterson’s Bridge to Terabithia for the first time, encountering this sentence: “He felt there in the teachers’ room that it was the beginning of…
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December 12, 2023
Wait! One more thing about the porcine wonder: I’ve signed copies of Mercy Watson is Missing, and I’m putting them in Little Free Libraries around the neighborhood. This fabulous art of a happy (!) Eugenia Lincoln is by the amazing Chris Van Dusen. Go see if you can locate that pig! Reactions: 2.1K Comments: 116…
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December 5, 2023
Meet Percival Smidgely. He is the private detective who has been charged with finding the missing pig, Mercy Watson. Will he succeed? Will Mercy Watson be found? Is toast involved? What about butter? And what does that pigeon behind Percival Smidgely have to do with the missing pig? All will be revealed—maybe. Mercy Watson is…