Oops!

When youโ€™ve thrown on boots over your pajamas to take your kid to schoolโ€ฆ and three hours later you realize youโ€™re still dressed like that. ๐Ÿคฆ๐Ÿปโ€โ™€๏ธ

Please Stop!

โ€œBanning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight.โ€

โ€” Stephen Chbosky

Thanks Westin Public Library!

From the childrenโ€™s book section at the Westin Public Library: Thank you, @bellaonbooks for this adorable post! ๐Ÿถ (Iโ€™m a huge dog lover; this kills me!)
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What are YOU reading this weekend? We have some ongoing house projects, so reading about construction sites seemed a perfect fit! Grab your construction hat and join in.

Featured in PW

Featured in PW Bookshelf, WITH PHOTO! ๐ŸŽ‰ Iโ€™m BEYOND EXCITED about this project with my friend, Don Tate. ๐Ÿš๐Ÿ‘จ๐Ÿพโ€๐Ÿš€Preorder, please! ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿป Available in February.

Roto and Roy

A sneak peek at my next picture book series, illustrated by the incredibly talented Don Tate. Our FIRST REVIEW is in โ€” and itโ€™s lovely!!!

Publishers Weekly โ€” ROTO AND ROY: HELICOPTER HEROES (Little Brown, Feb. 2022). โ€œRinkerโ€™s (Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site) brisk, bouncy rhymes and Tateโ€™s (William Still and His Freedom Stories) crisp, curvilinear digital cartoons vividly chronicle the duoโ€™s firefighting heroics. . . . Itโ€™s the ideal story for any reader who yearns for straight-up selfless heroism from people and vehicles alike."

Wow!

I. DROVE. THIS. ๐Ÿ‘Š๐Ÿป Some brave souls at CAT, presumably with plenty of insurance, let me have a hand at the controls. ๐Ÿ‘ท๐Ÿปโ€โ™€๏ธ๐Ÿšง It was like the mother ship calling me home. ๐Ÿ’ซ Thank you, @im_archie4 for making this possible. ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿป

Yesterday felt a bit epic!

Yesterday felt a bit epic! I finished the edits for a new book (more on that later!), discovered that our latest Construction Site offering, Construction Site: Merry and Bright (a lift-the-flap book) is selling like hotcakes in Canada (do they like hotcakes in Canada?) AND todayโ€™s PW Childrenโ€™s Bookshelf featured TWO different genres โ€”WITH PHOTOS.

I shall now drop the mic and stay in bed, because things can only go downhill from hereโ€ฆ!

PW thanks for the review!!

Featured in PW Bookshelf, WITH PHOTO! ๐ŸŽ‰ Iโ€™m BEYOND EXCITED about this project with my friend, Don Tate. ๐Ÿš๐Ÿ‘จ๐Ÿพโ€๐Ÿš€Preorder, please! ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿป Available in February.

Roto & Roy....it's on it's way ...check out my new book! (FEB '22)

A sneak peek at my next picture book series, illustrated by the incredibly talented Don Tate. Our FIRST REVIEW is in โ€” and itโ€™s lovely!!!

Publishers Weekly โ€” ROTO AND ROY: HELICOPTER HEROES (Little Brown, Feb. 2022). โ€œRinkerโ€™s (Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site) brisk, bouncy rhymes and Tateโ€™s (William Still and His Freedom Stories) crisp, curvilinear digital cartoons vividly chronicle the duoโ€™s firefighting heroics. . . . Itโ€™s the ideal story for any reader who yearns for straight-up selfless heroism from people and vehicles alike."