Calling All Educators!!

Attention all teacher and media specialist friends! Barnes and Noble is offering (even more) discounts to educators on Jan 7-15th. All you need is your educators card (or a school ID).

Learn more here:

https://stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/9780061840563-0

And here:

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/h/bn-educators

And thank you for all you do for us and your students! :)

STORYSTORM

What's the best way to kick off 2017? By joining #storystorm17 OBVIOUSLY. There is still time to sign up, so bust out your pencils and rain boots (just kidding, you don't need rain boots), and let's get writing!

#storystorm
#storystorm17
#pibidmo

https://taralazar.com/2016/12/27/storystorm-2017-registration-is-open/?relatedposts_hit=1&relatedposts_origin=11322&relatedposts_position=0


* Storystorm is the new and improved PiBoIdMo, which used to be hosted every November by Tara Lazar.

** Tara Lazar is the kidlit blogger extraordinaire behind www.taralazar.com, and author of fabulous books such as Little Red Gliding Hood and Normal Norman

I LOVE YOU FOR MILES AND MILES Cover Reveal

Hello fellow PB readers and writers. I am excited to announce that Alison Goldberg has just revealed the cover for her debut picture book, I LOVE YOU FOR MILES AND MILES. Check it out, along with her fabulous interview!

https://hayleybarrettwrites.wordpress.com/2016/12/21/alison-goldbergs-big-moment/

Manatee Academy

I want to give an extra special shout out to MANATEE ACADEMY and the amazing Debbie Remington! Thank you for letting me visit with your students. I had a blast presenting about writing, reading and of course, monkeys!

(Not pictured is my phone, which was blowing up with texts because my four year old daughter had jammed a bead up her nose at school and they could not get it out.**)

#mindyourmonsters

#authorvisit

#hypnosisharry

**If you ever are having a big presentation and your daughter jams beads up her nose and you get lots of texts about it and you can't freak out publicly and then you have to think on your feet and find a fast solution on the way to her school, try the Nose Frida, available at most Targets.

2016 Best Book Awards

I am super excited to announce that both MIND YOUR MONSTERS and HYPNOSIS HARRY were honored in the "Children's Picture Book: Hardcover Fiction" category of the 2016 Best Book Awards.

That's right. Both books. Two. Not one. Two. This is SO a donuts-all-day kind of celebration. 

Thank you to the Best Book Awards judges, and congratulations to my fellow winners!

#hypnosisharry
#mindyourmonsters
#bestbookawards
#picturebookawards

For more information, please visit: 

http://www.bestbookawards.com/2016awardpressrelease.html

St. Paul's School

If you are ever want to have your mind blown, go back to your alma matter as a grown up for a book fair and author visit. It was a such an awesome, amazing, occasionally teary-eyed, experience. 

Ya'll this is the third grade teacher who worked at St. Paul's when I went there! And he remembered me! and he laughed at all my jokes during my presentations! He is now my favorite person EVER.

 

See that pile-up of super cool kids? I'm in there somewhere signing bookmarks.

Barnes and Noble partnered with St. Paul's for this book fair and - man!- was it groovy. Thank you so SO much for having me join in all the hippie dippy fun. 

#hypnosisharry

#mindyourmonsters

#bookfair

#barnesandnoble

#GirlScoutsRule

I had the pleasure of helping these amazing Girl Scouts earn their scribe badge. Thanks for having me! #girlscoutsrule#mindyourmonsters #hypnosisharry #authorvisit