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Now visit Oz in paperback
Marcel approves.
Audiobook accolades
PJ Ochlan collects FIVE @SovasVoice narration nominations, including one for The Simple Art of Flying from Tantor Audio! See the list of 2021 nominees here.
Also nominated:
Blue Ivy Carter for Hair Love
Elizabeth Knowelden for Disney's Cruella
Erin Moon for Better with Butter
Sophie Amoss for Revenge of the Living Ted
The Week Junior magazine’s Book of the Week
The Week Junior reports news directly to kids ages 8-14—providing the facts behind what’s happening in the world and empowering Gen Alpha to develop and voice their own point of view. Our weekly subscription magazine, launched in March 2020 and now reaching over 100K households, is packed with news, science, animals, nature, sports, entertainment, and puzzles alongside reader-submitted stories and causes kids care about. Interactive franchises, like The Big Debate (inviting readers to weigh in on the news of the week) and Junior Council (kid reporters in training) provide a platform for kids to be heard.
In addition to content that encourages children to arrive at a real understanding of the world, The Week Junior’s experienced team of literacy-minded editors also provides parent-oriented communication around timely topics and resources for educators.
A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection!
Junior Library Guild, a MSI Information Services company, was founded in 1929 as the Junior Literary Guild, a commercial book club devoted to juvenile literature. Today, JLG is the leading book review and collection development service that helps thousands of K12 school and public libraries acquire the best new children’s and young adult books. Our mission still follows editorial board member Eleanor Roosevelt’s mantra to put the right book in the hands of every reader–fostering the love of reading and learning as a path to lifelong success. Read more about the Junior Library Guild here.
Winner of AudioFile Magazine’s Earphones Award
P.J. Ochlan, narrator of The Simple Art of Flying, has brought home the prize! You can purchase or listen to a sample of his brilliant depiction, made available by Tantor Media, here.
The Simple Art of Flying is coming to audio book
Available for download on July 21st from Tantor Media: The Simple Art of Flying! Narrated by P.J. Ochlan, a multiple Audie Award winner, Odyssey Award winner, multiple Earphones Award winner, and multiple Voice Arts Award winner, get ready for a raucous listen! Click here for a sample.
(One of my African grey readers sent me this pic, and I neglected to write down the owner’s name! I’d love to tag you and your dashing, darling (clearly well-read) bird. Please, reach out!)
New cover, new title
(Well, it’s actually the OLD title, but still.)
Coming your way February 23, 2021!
Add to Goodreads and pre-order here now!
Now in paperback . . .
It’s just as cute as its hardcover sibling
Winner of the CNY Children’s Book Award
The Simple Art of Flying has won the 2019 CNY Book Award for Children’s Books, sponsored by the YMCA and Upstate’s Golisano Children’s Hospital. Learn more about this award and the 2019 nominees here.
Author friends just wanna have fun (at Books of Wonder)
We came. We paneled. We signed (lotsa) books. We laughed ourselves silly (a specialty of ours).
From left to right: Chris Baron, Rajani LaRocca, me, J. Kasper Kramer, and Josh Levy!
Call Me Alastair nominated for the 2020 CILIP Carnegie Medal!
The CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals are the UK's oldest and most prestigious children's book awards, recognising outstanding writing and illustration in books for children and young people.
CILIP Carnegie Medal is awarded annually to the writer of an outstanding book written in English for children and young people.
Medal holders include Arthur Ransome, C.S. Lewis, Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Phillip Pullman and Sally Gardner.
The entire list of nominees can be found here.
Call Me Alastair makes UK’s Best New Children’s Books 2019 list
Packed full of 100 brilliant books for children from 0-11 (with a few suggestions for 12+ readers too), you can download BookTrust’s full guide by clicking here. Find Call Me Alastair listed under “Great Books Guide: for 10 to 11 year olds.”
New book on shelves in 2021
And it has a title change! It’s now titled:
THE HEDGEHOG OF OZ
Coming to a Scholastic Book Fair near you this October
(I’m currently fainting out of sheer delight. Please be advised.)
The Simple Art of Flying receives 2019 Parents’ Choice Foundation silver award
Find the list of winning books and reviews here.
The Simple Art of Flying flies into March 2019’s OwlCrate Jr. subscription boxes
For more information on this stellar company and how to sign up for your very own book boxes, click here.
Image by @robbyreads
Book launch success
There was laughter. There were tears (lots). There was cake.
Book deal: Alastair makes his way across the pond!
The adventure begins . . .
(with a title change: The Simple Art of Flying)