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TRICK OR TREAT, CRANKENSTEIN by Samantha Berger & illustrated by Dan Santat Tour

August 19, 2021 By Heather Leave a Comment

I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the TRICK OR TREAT, CRANKENSTEIN by Samantha Berger & illustrated by Dan Santat Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!

About The Book:

Title: TRICK OR TREAT, CRANKENSTEIN

Author: Samantha Berger & Dan Santat (Illustrator)

Pub. Date: August 17, 2021

Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Formats: Hardcover, eBook

Pages: 40

Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, B&N, TBD, Bookshop.org

Even the grumpiest kiddos will cheerfully gobble up this the delicious follow-up to Crankenstein and A Crankenstein Valentine!

This year, Crankenstein’s favorite day of all—Halloween—has gone rotten! Creepy-cool costumes, super-scary jack-o’-lanterns, and loads of candy have been RUINED by costume disasters, pumpkin-carving nightmares, and a terribly untimely toothache! MEHHRRRR!!! Can Halloween be saved, or will today turn into the crankiest Halloween in history?

Samantha Berger’s beloved “crankster” character confronts all the wicked tricks and treats of Halloween in this bucket full of laughs, illustrated by bestselling, award-winning artist Dan Santat.

Grab the other books in the CRANKENSTEIN series now!

CRANKENSTEIN

CRANKENSTEIN VALENTINE

About Samantha Berger:

Samantha Berger has written many picture books, including Crankenstein and A Crankenstein Valentine, What If…,and Rock What Ya Got. She is a three-time Emmy-nominated television writer and former editorial director and vice president of animated shorts for Nickelodeon. When she isn’t writing, she’s doing voice-overs and helping rescue dogs. Samantha lives in sunny California, and she invites you to visit her at samanthaberger.com.

About Dan Santat:

Dan Santat is the Caldecott Medal-winning and New York Times bestselling author and illustrator of The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend, Are We there Yet?, and After the Fall. He has also illustrated many other picture books, including Crankenstein and A Crankenstein Valentine by Samantha Berger, as well as Lift and Drawn Together by Minh Lê. Dan lives in Southern California with his wife, two kids, and various pets, and he invites you to visit him online at dantat.com.

Giveaway Details:

3 winners will receive a Finished Copy of TRICK OR TREAT, CRANKENSTEIN, US Only.

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Tour Schedule:

Week One:

8/16/2021	YABooksCentral	Excerpt
8/17/2021	Rajiv’s Reviews	Review
8/18/2021	BookHounds YA	Review
8/19/2021	Little Red Reads	Excerpt
8/20/2021	The Momma Spot	Review

Week Two:

8/23/2021	Satisfaction for Insatiable Readers	Review
8/24/2021	@minnesota_mailer	Review
8/25/2021	@curlygrannylovestoread	Excerpt
8/26/2021	She Just Loves Books	Review
8/27/2021	@kristens.reading.nook	Review

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What’s Inside A Flower by Rachel Ignotofsky Tour and Giveaway

February 3, 2021 By Heather Leave a Comment

Little Read Reads is today’s stop on the WHAT’S INSIDE A FLOWER by Rachel Ignotofsky Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!

About The Book:

Title: WHAT’S INSIDE A FLOWER

Author: Rachel Ignotofsky

Pub. Date: February 2, 2021

Publisher: Crown Books for Young Readers

Formats: Hardcover, eBook, Audiobook

Pages: 48

Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, Kindle, B&N, iBooks, Kobo, TBD, Bookshop.org

From the creator of the New York Times bestseller Women in Science, comes a new nonfiction picture book series ready to grow young scientists by nurturing their curiosity about the natural world–starting with what’s inside a flower.

Budding backyard scientists can start exploring their world with this stunning introduction to these flowery show-stoppers–from seeds to roots to blooms. Learning how flowers grow gives kids beautiful building blocks of science and inquiry.

In the launch of a new nonfiction picture book series, Rachel Ignotofsky’s distinctive art style and engaging, informative text clearly answers any questions a child (or adult) could have about flowers.

Reviews:

“The lush, geometric illustrations are the superstars of this adventure, drawing in readers from the front endpapers to the rear . . . A beautiful bloom for the nature shelf.” – Kirkus Reviews

“There’s an abundance of detail in this attractive first work in the “What’s Inside” series, but it’s never overwhelming . . . The pages overflow with life.” – Booklist

REVIEW: We are so excited for this series! With detailed, vibrant illustrations it will be perfect for homeschool science and nature studies. Budding gardeners and botanists go on a backyard adventure to see what lies in each flower and under the soil. So much talent wrapped up in these pages! We are adding these books to our school library. Stunning!

About Rachel Ignotofsky:

Rachel Ignotofsky is a New York Times Best Selling author and illustrator, based in beautiful Santa Barbara. She grew up in New Jersey on a healthy diet of cartoons and pudding and graduated from Tyler School of Art in 2011.

Now Rachel works for herself and spends all day and night drawing, writing and learning as much as she can. Rachel is a published author with 10 Speed Press and Random House Kids. She is always thinking up new ideas.

Check out her books:

What’s Inside A Flower?
The Wondrous Workings of Planet Earth
Women In Science
Women in Art
Women In Sports

Her work is inspired by history and science. She believes that illustration is a powerful tool that can make learning exciting. She has a passion for taking dense information and making it fun and accessible. Rachel hopes to use her work to spread her message about scientific literacy and feminism.

If you like what you see and would like to have it for yourself, please visit her shop.

Giveaway Details:

3 winners will win a finished copy of WHAT’S INSIDE A FLOWER, US Only.

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Tour Schedule:

Week One:

2/1/2021	A Dream Within A Dream	Excerpt
2/2/2021	BookHounds YA	Review
2/3/2021	Little Red Reads	Review
2/4/2021	Do You Dog-ear?	Review
2/5/2021	Nerdophiles	Review

Week Two:

2/8/2021	She Just Loves Books	Review
2/9/2021	Westveil Publishing	Review
2/10/2021	onemused	Review
2/11/2021	@minnesota_mailer	Review
2/12/2021	@bookshelfmomma	Review

50 Cities Blog Extravagana- Baltimore, Maryland

July 18, 2017 By Heather Leave a Comment

50 Cities of the U.S.A. by Gabrielle Balkan

Author: Gabrielle Balkan

Illustrated by: Sol Linero

Format: Hardback, 112 Pages

ISBN: 9781847808707

Publisher: Wide-Eyed Editions

Series: The 50 States

Amazon

To Be Published: September 7, 2017

From the team that brought you The 50 States comes 50 Cities of the USA. Explore skycraper streets, museum miles, local food trucks and city parks from Anchorage to Washington D.C., and discover more than 2,000 facts that celebrate the people, culture, and diversity that have helped make America what it is today.

Cities include Anchorage • Atlanta • Austin • Baltimore • Birmingham • Boise • Boston • Burlington • Charleston Charlotte • Cheyenne • Chicago • Cleveland • Columbus • Denver • Detroit • Hartford • Honolulu • Houston Indianapolis • Jacksonville • Kansas City • Las Vegas • Little Rock • Los Angeles • Louisville • Memphis Miami • Milwaukee • Minneapolis-St. Paul Nashville • New Orleans • New York • Newark • Newport • Oklahoma City • Philadelphia • Phoenix • Pittsburgh • Portland, MA • Portland, OR • Rapid City • Salt Lake City • San Francisco • Santa Fe • Seattle • St. Louis • Tucson • Virginia Beach • Washington, D.C.

Here are some fun facts about Baltimore:

7 FOOT KNOLL LIGHTHOUSE Lighthouse keepers in the 1870s lit the beacon lamp every evening and cleaned the lens every morning.
B&O RAILROAD MUSEUM Explore artifacts from Maryland’s 1830 Mount Clare Station—the first railroad station in the United States.
CYLBURN ARBORETUM This city park has gorgeous trees, gardens, and greenhouses that grow plants for the city’s parks.
EMERSON BROMO-SELTZER TOWER Once Baltimore’s tallest building, this 15-story tower is home to 33 artists studios…and a fire station!
GREAT FIRE OF 1904 Brave and strong fire horses like Goliath of Engine Company 15 helped fight fires before fire engines were invented.
GREEN MOUNT CEMETERY The grave of the person who invented the Ouija board is shaped…like the spooky game!
INNER HABOR Paddle boats here are modeled after “Chessie,” a fabled sea monster said to swim Chesapeake Bay.
JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINE was the first U.S. medical school to admit women and use rubber gloves during surgery, both in the 1890s.
LEXINGTON MARKET is the place to get Maryland’s famously sweet blue crabs, who can only move side to side—they can’t go forwards or backwards!
McCORMICK SPICE In 1889, an entrepreneurial 25-year-old sold these spices door-to-door. Today, some 2,000 people work here.
NAACP Founded in 1909 by leaders like W.E.B. Du Bois and Mary White Ovington, this civil rights organization supports equal opportunity.
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF DENTISTRY Here, brush a giant set of chompers, see George Washington’s dentures and bizarre vintage toothbrushes.
ORIOLE PARK AT CAMDEN YARDS This beautiful ballpark displays statues of Oriole greats like Frank Robinson, Jim Palmer, and Cal Ripton Jr.
PATTERSON PARK is a muddy stop on the annual 14-mile Kinetic Sculpture Race; competitors build outrageous, usually bike-powered, floats that travel on water and land.
REGINALD F. LEWIS MUSEUM An annual Kwanzaa party celebrates seven principles, like Kuumba: to leave our community more beautiful than we inherited it.
THE AMERICAN INDIAN CENTER boasts art programs and a heritage museum with Lumbee art and culture exhibits.
THE AMERICAN VISIONARY ART MUSEUM celebrates creative, innovative art like that of Deborah Berger, an autistic “visionary” who created great work from yarn.
THE BOOK THING Volunteers give away the some 200,000 books at this hot book spot—for free!
THE MARYLAND ZOO is home to Rise and Conquer, two 1.8 lb ravens who are brothers, like to eat cat food and shred telephone books.
THE MOUNT VERNON FLOWER MART is the un-official kick-off of lemon stick season, made with a peppermint stick and a lemon—yum!
THE MOVIE HAIRSPRAY about 1960s Baltimore, created by local legend and movie director John Waters, is now a Broadway play.
THE NATIONAL GREAT BLACKS IN WAX MUSEUM presents life-size wax figures of heroes like Zora Neale Hurston, Nelson Mandela, and Henry “Box” Brown, who, in 1849, mailed himself to freedom.
THE PIGTOWN FESTIVAL annually celebrates the neighborhood’s roots as a site of German butchers with great food…and a pig race! Oink!
TRANSAMAERICA TOWER For some 35 years, Peregrine falcons have lived on the 33rd floor of this, Baltimore’s tallest building.
USS TORSK (SS-423) During WWII, U.S. submarines like this were named for fish. This sub is now a museum, re-painted as a shark!

About the Author

Author GABRIELLE BALKAN has worked with Scholastic, Harper Collins and Penguin. She lives and works in New York.

Illustrator SOL LINERO lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her clients include Scholastic, Oprah magazine, Jamie Oliver Magazine and Wired.