February 2025! The cover is official (October 2025 release)

2/1/25 First glimpses of May 2025 Paperbacks

June 2024 -- Slipped under the door from a neighbor.

I love Arcadia Books in Spring Green, Wisconsin!

June 2024: Copyedits on ROCK PAPER INCISORS

Hungarian translation of EGG MARKS THE SPOT

Cast photo of Lifeline's SKUNK AND BADGER

July 2023 -- The Korean and Turkish editions of Skunk and Badger! Yay!

Feb 2023 -- Rye Field's SKUNK AND BADGER in Complex Chinese! Yay!

12.6.22 Exile in Bookville (Chicago)

May 2022 -- Dorothy tells me Skunk and Badger is in Bas Bleu catalog!

This is such a fun catalog for readers! YAY!

5/21/22 Wine & Words with 57th Street Wines AND 57th Street Books (Chicago!)

Wine paired with Skunk and Badger? "Fruit forward with a red silty clay base."

That wine is yummy!

One of my goals? To meet Cozbi Cabrera. I did!

AND I met Sara Paretsky... big grins. She's done so much for women writers. Thanks Sara!

5/20/22 -- Chickens spotted at Book Bar Zoom event in Denver!

Thank you to Mountain Vista Elementary School, Pioneer Elementary School and Iron Horse Elementary! I HAD A BLAST! YAY for all of you!

April 2022 -- At Exile in Bookville in Chicago, IL to sign books! YAY!

March 2022: Tasso e Puzzola is shortlisted for the Anderson Award in Italy!!!

March 2022 -- Mercer Reads SKUNK AND BADGER!

Got a packet from Janice Langdon, Librarian of Mercer Elementary in Mercer, Pennsylvania. Wow!

😍Feb 2022 -- A friend sent me this from The Bookworm (Edwards, Colorado)!

11/15/21 Blue Willow Bookshop in Houston names EGG MARKS THE SPOT one of the years best!

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11/16/21 Amazon named EGG MARKS THE SPOT a top 20 kids book of 2021!

October 2021 -- Russian!

October 2021 -- Look what arrived in the mail from Editorial Flamboyant!

These are the Spanish and Catalan translations of SKUNK AND BADGER! YAY!!

9/28/21 Signing EGG stock at Anderson's in Naperville, Illinois

Bookseller Anne Swanson helped! Thank you, Anne!

9/23/21 -- The Book Stall (Winnetka, IL)

9/22/21 -- The Book Stall Event with Elizabeth Hubbard and James Klise

9/21/21 -- Gibson Bookstore (Concord, NH) event with Kate Hannigan

9/18/21 -- at Booked in Evanston, IL. My first in-person book event with the Skunk and Badger books

Booked has an amazing double-door (kid-sized entry inside adult-sized entry)

L to R: me, Rachel Round (owner), Eli Nelson (manager)

9/15/21 Books & Co Lisa Baudoin and Boswell Books Daniel Goldin talking about the Skunk & Badger books

9/13/21 -- Unabridged Books in Chicago!

Thanks to Owen, Simeon, Shane, Matty, and Ed!

9/11/21-9/12/21 Printer Row Lit Festival

9/11/21 -- Virtual Book Tour

9/9/21 -- Bookends & Beginnings (Evanston, IL)

September 8, 2021 -- Exile in Bookville (Chicago, IL)

I snuck in…

9/6/21 Book Cellar (Chicago, IL)

First stock signing of EGG MARKS THE SPOT!

9/6/21 -- Showing Adam from Book Cellar (Chicago, IL) the art

August 21, 2021 at Prairie Fox Books in Ottawa, Illinois with Dylan Conmy!

8/21/21: Prairie Fox Books (Ottawa, IL)

8/21/21 Signing stock at Prairie Fox Books in Ottawa, IL

8/21/21

August 2021 -- A giveaway for pre-orders of EGG!

August 2021: Signing bookplates for Egg Marks the Spot

7/14/21 First review! And it's a ⭐️! Yay!

June 2021 -- EGG MARKS THE SPOT arrives!

I like how the two books look together!

A chicken and an animal in a fedora...

May 2021 — The Italian SKUNK AND BADGER has arrived!

In Italian, Badger comes first. (Badger approves!)

May 2021 - I join Jon at the Gaithersburg Book Festival

March-April 2021

January 2021 -- DACHS UND STINKTIER in Germany

Photos arrive of the book in a German bookstore! Thank you CBJ! YAY!

1/6/21 -- SKUNK AND BADGER is in People Magazine!?!

You open the magazine and see….

12/20: Skunk and Badger a "top pick" in the Irish Independent!

Here’s the text: "A funny and charming novel, written in crisp, sparkling prose, with outstanding illustrations. A mini gem, perfect for reading aloud.” YAY!

Skunk and Badger a "Festive Cracker" in the Daily Mail! 12/20

12/20: A behind the scenes look at a school visit in 2020 (with holiday lighting).

Here's what the holiday lights sort of looked like.

(I’m wearing a very cool Women & Children First Bookstore t-shirt)

Chicago Public Library is my library, so it's SUPER fun to be part of this! Yay!

10/4/20–SKUNK AND BADGER in The New York Times Book Review!

October 2020 -- Skunk and Badger in German!

9/27/20 – The Sunday Times (London) names SKUNK AND BADGER "Children's Book of the Week!" YAY!

September 20th -- 2020 meant most gatherings were virtual...

At our Skylight Books event, Jon explains where he got the lettering for the title…

September 20th -- the lettering came from Alfred Wainwright and...

September 20th -- Lettering also came from this book!

September 17th -- Blue Willow Books

Unabridged Bookstore September 2020

Unabridged Bookstore

September 2020

Unabridged Bookstore

September 2020

A close up so you can see my smiling eyes! 😊

Signing books for The Book Cellar on a Rainy Morning

September 2020

My Books have ARRIVED!

September 2020

The ARCs have arrived!

February-ish (?) 2020

See?

December 2019

DONE!

It was hard work! December 2019

My niece tries to crack a geode!

December 2019

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