Guest Post: Author Bonny Becker – Have We Gone Too Far In Stripping Bad Things From Picture Books?

I’m excited today to have amazing author Bonny Becker guest posting on my blog. If you don’t know Becker from her adorable new book A Birthday for Bear or from the cute A Visitor for Bear among her other wonderful books including My Brother, The Robot, An Ants Day Off, The Christmas Crocodile, Holbrook, [...]

Interview with Mary Nethery, Children’s Author and Co-Author of Two Bobbies: A True Story of Hurricane Katrina, Friendship and Survival

I’d like to welcome Mary Nethery today for an author interview.  Mary is also the author of  Mary Veronica’s Egg (my book review), Hannah and Jack, Orange Cat Goes to Market, and Two Bobbies:  A True Story of Hurricane Katrina, Friendship and Survival coauthored with Kirby Larson.  I reviewed Two Bobbies:  A True Story [...]

Mary Veronica’s Egg by Mary Nethery, Illustrated by Paul Yalowtiz

In Mary Veronica’s Egg by Mary Nethery and illustrated by Paul Yalowtiz Mary Veronica finds a single egg sitting all alone by the pond.  It’s still warm and unlike any other egg she’s seen.  She searches through the grass to find it’s mother but comes up empty.  She decided to take the egg home to [...]

Interview with Bonny Becker, Author of A Visitor for Bear and More!

If you subscribe to the Maw Books Blog and saw not one, not two, but five book reviews of Bonny Becker’s books and have now landed yourself onto this author interview, you probably noticed that it’s Bonny Becker day!
Bonny is the author of The Christmas Crocodile (my book review), My Brother, The Robot (my book [...]

A Visitor for Bear by Bonny Becker, Illustrated by Kady MacDonald Denton

If you have not picked up A Visitor for Bear by Bonny Becker and illustrated by Kady MacDonald Denton then I highly recommend that you go find it next time you’re out.  It is so cute!
No one ever comes to Bear’s house.  And he quite likes it that way.  He doesn’t like visitors and to [...]