It's here! It's here! It's here!
Puddle Jump Collective : 13 children's book author / illustrators combining forces to showcase art, discuss craft, collaborate, and contribute to the kidlit world.
We'll blog, share projects, and splash often.
I'm honored to be one of the lucky 13.
This rain-loving girl skipped to the front of the line
for the our very first project -
a collaborative Puddle Parade.
Author/illustrator
Lorian Dean is next up
to combine my rainy girl with an entirely new character and set up,
which she will post, and tag another illustrator to follow suit.
I can't wait to see what transpires.
I hope you'll join us as we journey into the big pond.
Jump!
Goodnight, pencil jars.
Goodnight, lunchboxes.
School's out!
Hello, sunshine books.
Hello, swing seats.
Hello, sandy feet.
Summer is in session!
Summery reads:
Sam and Jump by Jennifer K. Mann
A Beach Tail by Karen Lynna Williams, ill. by Floyd Cooper
Listen to Our World by Bill Martin Jr & Michael Sampson, ill. by Melissa Sweet
Surf's Up by Kwame Alexander, ill. by Daniel Miyares
Ocean Sunlight by Molly Bang & Penny ChisholmIsland: A Story of the Galapagos by Jason Chin
Because... of
this poem by Children's Author Nicola Davies, and the #3000chairs project.
It's worth every second it takes to read.
My husband and I had the opportunity to spend time in Kosovo with war survivors - refugees who returned to their homes carrying life-wrenching scars of war, with stories that ached in the hearing, and burned in the telling.
I wish a chair for every child running from war.
I wish refuge.
and hope.
and light.
