The pets (and kids!) from Pet Club want you to know they have made the space EVEN MORE WELCOME with the newest addition to the authorly shelf. Available TODAY at your favorite indie store and online at all the usual places, and check out my Appearances page for upcoming opportunities to get any and all…
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Kirkus has weighed in on THE TROUBLE WITH GIRAFFES, and they very much understood what we were trying to do. Favorite quotes include: “Mantchev takes inclusion a step further from in her earlier book Strictly No Elephants (2015), demonstrating that removing barriers to physical access can transform a nominal “All are welcome” policy from good…
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So, two surprises… first, we had a title change, and I absolutely adore this one for a number of reasons. Remember the opening line from STRICTLY NO ELEPHANTS? Yup. There it is, right on the cover of the follow-up. Secondly, it appears there will be a BOXED SET with both the Pet Club books in…
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The word from them’s in the know is that the tiny elephant book now has over a quarter of a million copies in print and I am not even sure what to do with that information, to be honest. My first reaction is “holy heck, that is a lot of books.” Which is true. A…
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Just received word that THE PERFECTLY PERFECT WISH, illustrated by the talented Jessica Courtney Tickle, is a finalist in the picture book category for the Golden Sower Award 2022-2023, which is presented annually to the authors and illustrators of the best books, as voted by school-age children in Nebraska. Happy to be keeping company with…
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TWISTY-TURNY HOUSE is my seventh picture book published by S&S, so I shall take a moment to reflect on my incredible luck of having landed there in 2013 with the sale of STRICTLY NO ELEPHANTS. The tiny elephant marches on, in numerous languages on a circuitous journey around the globe, spreading the message of “that’s…
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