Oregon Book Award for Children's Literature

I'm SO pleased to have won the Literary Arts, Eloise Jarvis McGraw Award for Children's Literature, an Oregon Book Award

 - for my book Hannah and Sugar. What an honor! Thank you Literary Arts!

Head here to see a list of all the winners: https://literary-arts.org/what-we-do/oba-home/

It was such a fun night:

Accepting the award and speaking in front of more people than I ever have before.

Mac Barnett was the judge for my category! 

 With my husband and biggest supporter, Mark.

 With my writing group, Susan Boase and Abigail Marble.

 With my mother in law and mother. ♥!

Portland event - First Books fundraiser - Breweries For Books!!!

Please come by Migration Brewing on Wednesday, July 20th and join me in supporting First Book Portland. I'll have copies of both Hannah and Sugar and The Summer Nick Taught His Cats to Read to sell and I'll donate 10% of my proceeds to First Book. I'll have a little story time and we'll do some fun activities for kids! There'll be trivia for grownups and 10% of your food and drink purchases will go to First Book.

Spread the word and I hope to see you there!

a HANNAH and SUGAR song!

 The wonderfully charming children's musician Emily Arrow has created a new song based on HANNAH AND SUGAR! She's visiting Portland this weekend and will be performing 3 times.

I'll be at the Atlas Scoops performance tomorrow at 3:30p. I'll bring books to sell and sign and bookmarks too! Here's the set list for that show:

More readers!

Hannah and Sugar readers

It makes me very happy to see pictures of kids reading HANNAH AND SUGAR. So far, this has been the best part of making a picture book. Seeing real kids reading MY book! It's amazing.

Emily!

Jojo!

And here's my 90 year old Nana with HANNAH AND SUGAR. She's an incredibly creative woman - she sews, writes, paints, crochets, and crafts and she's always picking up some new project to try. I'm very lucky to have her as my grandmother. 

Thanks for always being an inspiration, Nana!

Hannah and Sugar release party

Hannah and Sugar was released on March 8th! It's been such a fun couple of weeks. Powell's Books hosted me for a fabulous launch party. It was a wonderful experience to celebrate the release of my book in the bookstore I used to work at. Many thanks to all the folks who came out to support me and to Powell's for hosting!