Chick-O-Saurus Rex Award News: Irma Black Honor & Crystal Kite

Our picture book CHICK-O-SAURUS REX has some new hardware.

We just found out that our fabulous writer and illustrator peers in SCBWI's International Other region have selected it as a Crystal Kite Award winner.  The book sticker looks like this:

Bankstreet College also bestowed an Irma Black Honor upon CHICK which not only gleans us another sticker (this one designed by Maurice Sendak), but also gets us invited to an awards breakfast in New York on May 22nd (open to the public). Super exciting! The book sticker looks like this:

And here's the book (and the other two honor books) with the sticker:

Thank you to everyone who voted and spread the word about CHICK. We appreciate it so much.

ETA: An interview with us on the Germany/Austria SCBWI blog!

Chick-O-Saurus Rex Trailer Premiere + Photos

We're super thrilled that our Chick-o-Saurus Rex picture book trailer is now live (many thanks to Vania at VLC productions) - check out the exclusive reveal at Fuse 8 on School Library Journal! Leave us a comment and let us know how you like it.

Last Saturday we had our first event at Watermark Books in Wichita, KS.  Check out this awesome display in the window.

We had fun reading the book aloud and signing for the great crowd that came out.  Lots of chicken fans in Kansas!

Don't forget that we'll be at Hooray for Books in Alexandria, VA tomorrow at 3:30 pm.  Hope to see you there!

Chick-O-Saurus Rex Updates!

Can you believe CHICK-O-SAURUS REX comes out next week already? (add to Goodreads)

We have some fun stuff in the works, including three upcoming bookstore events:

Saturday July 27, 2013, 11 a.m. at Watermark Books in Wichita, KS

Saturday August 3, 2013, 3:30 p.m. at Hooray for Books in Alexandria, VA (also appearing: Ann Bonwill & Erin Cabatingan)

Saturday August 10, 2013, 10 a.m. at Fundamentals Bookstore in Delaware, OH

Come out and see us and get a personalized illustration in your copy of the book!

CHICK has also gotten some awesome trade reviews:

“Fun for reading aloud, especially in group settings." (Booklist)

"Dinosaur-loving youngsters will warm to Little Chick." (School Library Journal)

"Provides a distinctive angle to a story about bullying." (Publisher's Weekly)

Also, if you want to see me with swamp hair, check out this CHICK promo video where Daniel and talk about our process and we share a hilarious dinosaur joke.

Book news!

We had a great mail day yesterday!

First - finished copies of CHICK-O-SAURUS REX (which comes out July 23, 2013)

You can already preorder on amazon or at an independent bookstore near you.

Then, I got copies of the Tawainese version of Level 2

Lots of quotes on it from people we know

I also got cover flats for THE MEMORY OF AFTER paperback (new title of Level 2), but I can't show them because they have the cover of CHASING BEFORE on the back ... which I will reveal soon, but not quite yet.

Speaking of THE MEMORY OF AFTER (Level 2) - there's an awesome eBook sale going on which ends tomorrow.  Get it on kindle for only $3.79. Or in any other eBook format for only $3.99.

Cover Reveal! Chick-o-Saurus Rex

Remember how I told you I also wrote a picture book in collaboration with my husband, Illustrator Daniel Jennewein?

Well that picture book, CHICK-O-SAURUS REX, now has a cover!

Check it out:

And here's the summary:

It's coming out on July 23, 2013. You can already add it to Goodreads and even pre-order it.

I've also gotten word that F&Gs are in (the picture book version of an ARC) so I'll give one away to someone who comments on this post (and leaves an e-mail address so I can contact you if you win) by midnight CST of Thanksgiving day. US and Canada only for this one.

I'll leave you with this picture of Daniel and me in front of a T-Rex skull.

Are you mighty enough?!