Good News for Bear!
- A Visitor For Bear hits #2 on the New York Times Children's Best Sellers List!
- Hear Scott Simon and Daniel Pinkwater read a slightly abridged version of “A Visitor for Bear” for National Public Radio! Link: http://xrl.us/visitorforbear
- Bear has also been named an Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold Award winner for 2008.
- National BookPALS, an organization that uses volunteer professional actors to read books in the classroom, children’s hospitals and cultural institutions, has recommended “A Visitor for Bear” for it’s reading list.
- Horn Book recommended “A Visitor for Bear” in its Summer Reads list for 2008.
Stories Come From Life
In my time, I’ve been an artistic lizard, lazy ant, annoying robot and a little girl with a hungry crocodile on her hands. A little bit of me is in every book I write.
My newest book, A Visitor for Bear, mouse just popped into my head--just popping up is a bad habit of his, it turns out. But there are exuberant Mouses and reluctant Bears all over my life and I bet yours, too.
Holbrook: A Lizard's Tale, is the story of a lizard who longs to be an artist. But no one in his small home town appreciates him, so he travels to the big city to get discovered. As a kid who longed to be a great writer someday, there's more than a little of Holbrook in me!
An Ant's Day Off is about the first ant ever to take a day off-came to me one busy, hurried day when I just couldn't seem to get enough done. I longed to just lie in the grass with nothing more to do than watch clouds passing by in the sky.
My Brother the Robot was inspired when my daughter nearly missed her race at a swim meet. She felt so bad, it got me thinking about what it would be like to do everything perfectly like, say, a robot.
The hungry crocodile in The Christmas Crocodile came from the hungry puppy that wriggled into my arms one Christmas morning. And the wacky family in the book? Well, I do have four sisters and one brother.
