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Grace Goes To Washington Blog Tour and Giveaway

October 25, 2019 By Heather Leave a Comment

Title: GRACE GOES TO WASHINGTON

Author: Kelly DiPucchio, LeUyen Pham (Illustrations)

Pub. Date: September 3, 2019

Publisher: Disney-Hyperion

Formats: Hardcover, eBook

Pages: 40

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

“Who’s in charge here?”

When Grace learns about the three branches of the United States government, she and the rest of the student council put the lesson into practice as they debate how to spend the money from a school fund-raiser. Should they buy new sports equipment? Books for the library? Instruments for the music room? The arguments continue as they travel to Washington, DC, for a field trip. Exploring government buildings and national monuments, Grace feels closer than ever to her dream of becoming president someday. But she and her classmates have a lot to learn about what it means to serve the needs of the people, especially when the people want such different things!

In this follow-up to New York Times best seller Grace for President, Kelly DiPucchio not only introduces how our government makes decisions, but also shares what it takes to be a true public servant. 

About Kelly:

Kelly is the award-winning author of several children’s books, thousands of To-Do lists, and a few recipe cards. Two of her books, Grace For President and The Sandwich Swap, were New York Times bestsellers.

Like most kids who grew up in the 1970’s, Kelly had a pet goat and bought all her clothes from the Sears catalog. Like most teenagers who grew up in the 1980’s, Kelly had really big glasses and feathered hair.

Today, Kelly lives with her husband and three children in southeastern Michigan, where she enjoys writing just about everything except her own bio.

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Giveaway Details:

3 winners will receive a finished copy of GRACE GOES TO WASHINGTON, US Only.

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Tour Schedule:

Thank you Rockstar Bok Tours!

Week One:

10/1/2019- BookHounds YA– Review

10/2/2019- Paper Reader– Review

10/3/2019- Cindy’s Love of Books– Excerpt

10/4/2019- Savings in Seconds– Review

Week Two:

10/7/2019- The Pages In-Between– Review

10/8/2019- Feed Your Fiction Addiction– Review

10/9/2019- Dazzled by Books– Review

10/10/2019- Wonder Struck– Review

10/11/2019- fictitious.fox– Review

Week Three:

10/14/2019- Life Within The Pages– Review

10/15/2019- Spoiled Girl– Review

10/16/2019- Beagles and Books– Review

10/17/2019- Avid Reader– Excerpt

10/18/2019- Nerdophiles– Review

Week Four:

10/21/2019- PopTheButterfly Reads– Review

10/22/2019- Book-Keeping– Review

10/23/2019- Two dogs and a book– Excerpt

10/24/2019- Little Red Reads– Review

10/25/2019- Two points of interest- Review

Week Five:

10/28/2019         Fyrekatz Blog   – Review

10/29/2019         Southern Girl Bookaholic    – Review

10/30/2019         That Georgia Gypsy – Review

10/31/2019         Wishful Endings – Review

Bruce’s Big Storm Blog Tour and Giveaway

October 16, 2019 By Heather Leave a Comment

Title: BRUCE’S BIG STORM

Author: Ryan T. Higgins

Pub. Date: September 3, 2019

Publisher: Disney-Hyperion

Formats: Hardcover, eBook

Pages: 48

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

Bruce’s home is already a full house.   But when a big storm brings all his woodland neighbors knocking, he’ll have to open his door to a crowd of animals in need of shelter-whether he likes it or not.   Readers will love this next installment of the uproarious, award-winning Mother Bruce series.  

Thank you Rockstar Book Tours!

About Ryan: Ryan T. Higgins is a New York Times Bestselling author/illustrator residing in Southern Maine. He lives with his two dogs, two cats, one gecko, one tortoise, one son, one daughter, and one wife. As a child, he lived on a diet of cartoons, cheese sandwiches, and climbing trees. At the age of four he decided to become a cartoonist and he’s been making his own cartoons ever since.

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Giveaway Details: 3 winners will receive a finished copy of BRUCE’S BIG STORM, US Only.

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Tour Schedule:

Week One:

10/1/2019- Shortcake_bibliophage– Excerpt

10/2/2019- Cindy’s Love of Books– Excerpt

10/3/2019- fictitious.fox– Review

10/4/2019- BookHounds YA– Review

Week Two:

10/7/2019- PopTheButterfly Reads– Review

10/8/2019- Do You Dog-ear?– Review

10/9/2019- Savings in Seconds– Review

10/10/2019- The Try Everything– Excerpt

10/11/2019- Starlight Reads– Review

Week Three:

10/14/2019- Treestand Book Reviews– Review

10/15/2019- Beagles and Books– Review

10/16/2019- Little Red Reads– Review

10/17/2019- Wonder Struck– Review

10/18/2019- Life Within The Pages– Review

Week Four:

10/21/2019- Fyrekatz Blog– Review

10/22/2019- Southern Girl Bookaholic– Review

10/23/2019- Two points of interest– Review

10/24/2019- Novel Novice– Review

10/25/2019- Here’s to Happy Endings– Review

Week Five:

10/28/2019- YA Book Nerd– Review

10/29/2019- Satisfaction for Insatiable Readers– Review

10/30/2019- Nerdophiles– Review

10/31/2019- Wishful Endings– Review

God Bless America: The Story of an Immigrant Named Irving Berlin Blog Tour & Giveaway

June 12, 2018 By Heather Leave a Comment

Title: GOD BLESS AMERICA: THE STORY OF AN IMMIGRANT NAMED IRVING BERLIN

Author: Adah Nuchi, Rob Polivka (Illustrations)

Pub. Date: June 5, 2018

Publisher: Disney-Hyperion

Formats: Hardcover, eBook

Pages: 40

Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, B&N, iBooks,  TBD

An inspiring portrait of an immigrant and the gift he gave his new home.

Persecuted as Jews, Izzy Baline and his family emigrated from Russia to New York, where he fell in love with his new country. He heard music everywhere and was full to bursting with his own. Izzy’s thump-two-three, ting-a-ling, whee tunes soon brought him acclaim as the sought-after songwriter Irving Berlin. He ignited the imaginations of fellow countrymen and women with his Broadway and Hollywood numbers, crafting tunes that have become classics we still sing today.

But when darker times came and the nation went to war, it was time for Irving to compose a new kind of song:

A boom-rah-rah song.

A big brass belter.

A loud heart-melter.

A song for America.

And so “God Bless America” was born, the heart swelling standard that Americans have returned to again and again after its 1918 composition.

This is the tale of how a former refugee gave America one of its most celebrated patriotic songs. With stirring, rhythmic text by Adah Nuchi and delightful, energetic art by Rob Polivka, readers will be ready to hum along to this exuberant picturebook.

 

So many of us are descendants of immigrants who fled their countries for various reasons and landed in New York to make their way in the American dream. Flipping the first few pages of God Bless America stirred feelings of remembrance and gratitude for me as I’ve studied the sights and places my third great grandparents experienced coming over from their homeland to the docks, markets and tenements of a new land. Busy, corded conditions, yet exciting and new. A land of opportunity and work. I loved the true to era illustrations which captured all Irving and other refugees would have seen in the city.

A hopeful children’s book which teaches young ones about the songs we know and love as well as their own roots. Irving endured hardship with grace, striking it out on his own to make a living as a young teen. He followed his natural talent and his dreams to rise to the top of the nation as an underdog. This is a story of grit and grace. We will be reading and relating God Bless America to our own early history as a family. What a wonderful story!

 

About the Author

Adah Megged Nuchi was first introduced to the children’s publishing world at home, as the daughter of a children’s book art director. She began her own publishing career at the National Book Foundation, and later at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books for Young Readers, where she was an acquiring editor of picture books, middle-grade, and young adult fiction for seven years. Her books have been named to the Kids’ Indie Next List, YALSA Best Books for Young Adults, and Indies Introduce New Voices lists. As an editor, she most loved finding new talent and working with authors to shape a story.

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Giveaway Details

3 winners will receive a finished copy of GOD BLESS AMERICA: THE STORY OF AN IMMIGRANT NAMED IRVING BERLIN, US Only.

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Tour Schedule

Week One:

6/4/2018- RhythmicBooktrovert– Excerpt

6/5/2018- The OWL– Review

6/6/2018- Christen Krumm– Review

6/7/2018- BookHounds YA– Guest Post

6/8/2018- Book-Keeping– Review

 

Week Two:

6/11/2018- Savings in Seconds– Review

6/12/2018- Little Red Reads- Review

6/13/2018- Reading Is My SuperPower– Review

6/14/2018- Two points of interest– Review

6/15/2018- A Dream Within A Dream– Excerpt

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