How did I get this lucky? I spend my days writing for kids! Does it get any better than that? (Only if you add a palm-fringed beach or the British Museum . . . and once in a while, I do.)

The art on the right (by the wonderful Bill Slavin) shows me with some of my characters. Note please that no one is paying the slightest attention to me. Well, that's how it is for a writer. You make up characters, and then they develop lives of their own. They surprise you. They amuse you. They begin to feel like your friends.

And somehow I have now written more than thirty-five books (picture books, novels and graphic novels). Here are the newest —and the most exciting to me!

Three Little Mittens? Not two? What will happen to the one who doesn't match? How does it feel to be excluded? The Three Little Mittens is a thoughtful, funny, warm-and-fuzzy story about friendship and belonging —and finding a way to be yourself! Art by Natalia Shaloshvili. (Fall/23, Tundra Books)

Get ready to giggle at Cinderella —with Dogs! What would happen if, when Cinderella was left home alone in the cinders, there was a mix-up with the fairy godmother — and a fairy DOGmother turned up instead? With her own ideas about ballgowns, coaches and transport to the palace? A doggish version of the classic fairy tale! Art by Freya Hartas. (Spring/23, Nancy Paulsen Books)

Arthur Who Wrote Sherlock is a picture-book biography of Arthur Conan Doyle. It tells how Arthur created the legendary character Sherlock Holmes — and how Sherlock became such an enormous success that Arthur was soon looking for ways to stop the series, and even put an end to the great detective himself! Art by Isabelle Follath (Fall/22, Tundra Books)

 

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