At long last I can reveal the cover of THE UNTEACHABLES, coming in January 2019. In the past, my covers have featured dogs, beavers, emojis, robots, parrots, and even chickens, but this is my first lizard. Meet Vladimir, a gold dust day gecko. And yes, he is toasting marshmallows using a No. 2 pencil as […]
Super psyched and honored to be named one of “100 Writers To Know” by the always awesome CBC Books. (Which also means they’ve taken me off their less prestigious “Any Old WhatsHisFace” list!) CLICK HERE to take a look!
I had such a great time judging this year’s Scholastic Scope Magazine Write-A-Story contest! This year’s entries were PHENOMENAL! The results are finally in! CLICK HERE for the winner, finalists, and honorable mentions.
Many thanks to The Washington Post’s awesome Kidspost for including UNGIFTED in their summer book club. Mark your calendars – the week of July 18 is officially UNGIFTED Week! CLICK HERE for all the details – and happy summer reading!
Congrats to the awesome cast of the RESTART audiobook, winners of the 2018 Audie award for multivoiced performance, and to Recorded Books for putting together this fantastic production. You’ll hear a lot of familiar voices on RESTART, including narrators from MASTERMINDS, THE HYPNOTISTS, SWINDLE, UNGIFTED and SUPERGIFTED. It’s so great to see these talented people […]
Guess what: WHATSHISFACE stars in the latest PW Kidscast, the can’t miss podcast of the kids book world. CLICK HERE to listen.
Attention: NYLA-SSL Long Island conference attendees: I’m excited to FINALLY accept the Knickerbocker Award I won LAST year, but couldn’t receive because all the flights to Buffalo were canceled due to the storm. Hope to see you at my workshop at 3pm or my autographing at 3:45!
Getting so psyched for WHATSHISFACE … on May 8th, everyone will know his name!
Very psyched to see RESTART on Banks Street College of Educations’s list of Best Books of 2017 – and rubbing elbows with some pretty elite company. Woo-hoo! CLICK HERE for the whole list.
So psyched to be able to reveal that RESTART is a 6th grade selection for Great Words, Great Works by the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Every word on the 2018-2019 School Spelling Bee Study List can be found in one of the books. Can you spell “exhilarated?”
