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book of the month on TVO KIDS!

SO exiting!!  Willow's Whispers is book of the month in Gisele's Big backyard Bookclub!!

This won't mean much to you if you don't have a toddler and a TV and live in Ontario, but thanks to the wonders of the internet, you can watch Gisele, actually READING OUR BOOK!!!  This makes me feel just thrilled and delighted.  I grew up watching TV Ontario, Finch watches it now too and loves Gisele.

A few months ago I remember watching with Finch and wistfully thinking " Gee I wish Gisele would read Willow..." and dang, did it not come true?! It DID!!

Here is a link to the bookclub page and Willow is the main choice this month.

Hip Hip Hooray!!

 

Yippee! A box full of books arrived at our house last week.  They are very generous with their contributors copies!  I once worked for a publisher who kept all my final artwork and gave me one copy of the book! It was a nice book, but nicer still to get a big pile of books. :)

lately...

Willow is in stores!  This is the first sighting at the Chapters near my work.  I will let you in on a little secret, I practice guerilla promotion of my books.  These were on the shelf, but not the New and recommended table, as they SHOULD have been so I did a little switcheroo.  They had the Cat in the hat" and the "Little Prince" on the table and while they are great books, they are not NEW. Anyway, that is about as bold as I get.  RRR!  Watch out world!

P.S. If you happen to see a copy in your local bookstore, and you are feeling energetic, i would love a photo of it or you with it,  for my little photo album there on the right.

The new Gudrun catalog at breakfast- yummy!

A miracle geranium!  I brought all my pots down to the basement in the fall.  last week while doing a wash I saw this one, who had bloomed all by itself, in the complete dark!  Lovely!

Oh and there is girl cat again, NOT meowing for a change!

I made scones!  Not really a big deal, but for me it was.  It was a fussy recipe and it ended up working despite blueberries going everywhere and a frustrating moment cutting in the cold butter.  Perfect hot from the oven with butter.

Oh and one more thing! Look, there she is on Amazon Japan!  That's neat for me.  Goodness knows I have spent enough money there in my time.  I wonder if anyone in Japan would buy it?  Hope so.

Sneak peek!

Look at that!  I just had my run down phone call with the Kids Can Press marketing department and I am very exited!  My, they do a great job of things.  She reminded me of the Kids Can website where you can see my illustrator profile,  sneak preview spread pages, which I borrowed for my own purposes, above.  Click for slightly bigger!

There is also a really really neat activity PDF you can download (on the left hand side under "Extras" , presently called "learning materials". ) So if you are a teacher,  your class can do this activity or if you are a mum, your kids can play along too!  You can make your own "magic microphone"!

Now I better skedaddle...

...but not before saying a ginormous THANK-YOU for all your wonderful comments on my last post!!  It's so amazing to feel like we have this great community out there where we are all cheering for each other!  I am very exited, to say the least, about becoming a mum myself.  I have been reading all your mum/kids/crafty  blogs for so many years now,  just longing for it to be my turn!

fan page!

Good old facebook-  if you want to join the fan page of my upcoming book- only a few weeks till its out!

you can go here!  I plan to update it with any pictures and news that has to do with the book.

Willow's Whispers fan page on facebook!

and as you can see, I have already made a button to the right, that goes directly to amazon. Shameless promotion!

I have been rather absent lately, I know!  But I have a good reason!  I promise!

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