I review children’s books from picture books to YA for Armadillo Magazine, The Children’s Book Review, iReadBooks Tours and was a former reviewer for the Children’s Book Council of Australia. Here you’ll find links to all of those reviews, guest posts, author interviews and giveaways.
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Book Review + Giveaway: A Tall Tale, How the Ostriches Got Their Long Necks and Long Legs
Title: A Tall Tale: How the Ostriches Got Their Long Necks and Long Legs | Author: Scott Sollers | Illustrator: Alejandro Chavez | Genre: Picture Book | Publisher: Stephanie’s Stories | Release Date: 2024 | ISBN: 9781637557730 Publisher’s Book Summary: This is the story of two rival communities living in valleys separated by a ridge. The Have-Alls live in…
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Just So Stories Reviews Allen the Alien
Huge thanks to Sue at Just So Stories for this insightful review of Allen the Alien! For every child who has arrived at a new school and feels the odd one out because they don’t know the local games or interests, for every newcomer who can’t speak the local language, for every ND child who…
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Booking Around the World: Les Hôtels Littéraires
I’m always on the lookout for bookish places, so when I was wandering (read: slightly lost) in Rouen, France recently, I noticed this sign. Now, my French is awful, but I do remember a couple of words from high school classes: livres = books, chambres = rooms. Plus, the big clues of hôtel and littéraire…
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Author Interview on Little Darlings
It was such fun sharing a bit of background information about my new picture book, Allen the Alien, on Little Darlings. In fact, I’ve publicly shared my own drawing of Allen for the first time. 🫣 The wonderful Aleesah Darlison, award-winning author and curator of Little Darlings, focuses the site on “those little darlings of…
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Happy World UFO Day!
Yep, World UFO Day is July 2nd — an official awareness day to celebrate Unidentified Flying Objects. And I know a couple of aliens who are definitely going to be celebrating! One of the first of Aleck Morton’s hilarious illustrations in Allen The Alien is one of Allen and Byte flying a spaceship toward Earth.…
Stephanie Ward 