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New Picture Book: Preorder Available!!
WATER: A Deep Dive of Discovery is arriving at a port near you. Published by Barefoot Books and illustrated by Mariona Cabassa, this feature-filled picture book will be available September 17, 2021.
Immerse yourself in fascinating facts about water!

Kirkus Reviews gave WATER a STAR and called it
"Oceanic in scope--but clear and refreshing!"

Watch the trailer and read more here.

Want a SIGNED COPY? Pre-order online at Bear Pond Books. I'll sign and personalize your book. (Just scroll to the end of the online order form to request your personalization.) Thank you for your support.

FREE FOR YOU AND ME: What Our First Amendment Means is full of poems and stories about our First Amendment freedoms, with kid-friendly illustrations by Manu Montoya. It's a lively book for young readers (and I hear from adults that they love it too)!
Indie bookstore Bear Pond Books is a great place to order it online, and if you make a request on the order form, I will sign and personalize your copy. More information here.
Want to know more about the book? Watch this awesome BOOK REVIEW video by Mrs. Dunlap's fourth grade class.

NEW: Educators' Guide! Download here.
PLUS: A Read-Aloud of the book from Curious City.
Check it out here!

HEY, HEY, HAY!
(A Tale of Bales and the Machines That Make them)
A Bank Street Best Book of the Year, and recommended by the American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture.

Teacher's Guide available here

A rhyming romp in the hayfields, this tale follows a mother-daughter team making hay on their farm --with tractors!
Order a signed book online through Bear Pond Books, here.

Read about what inspired me to write HEY, HEY, HAY, here.

DIET FOR A CHANGING PLANET: Food for Thought
(Twenty-first Century Books/Lerner 2018)
Short-listed for the Green Earth Book Awards, this YA nonfiction invites readers to consider how their food choices affect the environment ... and how eating unexpected dishes is a stop toward healing the earth. Crickets, weeds, invasive species -- check it out!

IMPERFECT: POEMS ABOUT MISTAKES
Two of my poems (both double dactyls) appear in this poetry anthology for middle schoolers about making mistakes, and recovering from them.

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Represented by Erzsi Deàk
Hen & Ink Literary

I love the magic and power of words, and I'm convinced that writing for kids is the best job ever. I'm always learning something new . . . about topics from the machines that make hay to eating invasive insects, from solar power to jumbo squids to unsung heroes to the magic of the water cycle. I write articles, stories, essays, poems, and books. I'm particularly drawn to nonfiction.

I am a founding member of GROG, the group blog for writers and readers of children’s literature. I have lived in Oregon, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, New Hampshire, California, and Spain. I'm now settled happily with my family in rural Vermont, where I write at a table overlooking fields and forests, under the supervision of my dog and my cat. Want to know more about my “writing life”? Click HERE.