Great Write Up

Thank you SO MUCH @littlereaders.futureleaders for your kind words about Roto and Roy, and these awesome photos!!! 😘❤️🥰
📚What book do your kids ask to read and reread?💥My boys absolutely love books that are jam-packed with action. The more exciting, the better in their opinion! Lately, they have been loving today's book, a new release by the bestselling author of the Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site series. If those books are favorite reads with your kiddos, too, be sure to check out this one, the starter of a new series. Although today's story has a different feel with its cartoon-like graphic novel style illustrations and rescue mission storyline, kids who are fans of machines and action will love this one just as much! ❤️Happy reading!

🚁Roto and Roy are a dynamic duo, working together to help in a big emergency - a forest fire that just started. Their mission is to get the flames under control. Through hard work they manage to extinguish the fire, but just as they're headed back, they spot a stray dog close to a cliff. Can Roto and Roy help to save the pup? Love the rhymthic text that Sherri does so well and the illustrations from Don Tate are a perfect match for this storyline. ❤️Fun read aloud to enjoy together!

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Pre-Order New Construction Site Series Books!!!

ANNOUNCING!!! 🎉🎉🎉

TWO new books are coming this fall WITH LIMITED QUANTITIES. 😢 The Halloween lift-the-flap board book 🎃comes out August 30th. 🚜 “Farming” comes out November 15, VERY CLOSE TO THE HOLIDAY SHOPPING SEASON.

BOTH books can be preordered now! 🤗

Books Connect to Children's Play!

THIS!!!! 👉🏻 “My two year old loves books but he doesn’t like to sit there long enough to read them… HOWEVER something changed when I started to connect his books to his play.”

⬆️ Building literacy through play. 🙌🏻 Thank you SO MUCH to @allthingsyellowandbright for this post, these photos and for sharing these words of wisdom.

Thank you to Harvey's Tales

Huge shout out to Harvey’s Tales Books in Geneva, IL. A fantastic local independent book store, complete with en entire children’s book section, coffee/snack shop and two floors of books to delight all ages!!

If you are interested in getting a personalized copy of one of my books, please reach out to them and they will coordinate it! @harveystales can send personalized, signed copies of any of my titles — anywhere! Call them to order! 630-232-2991

Babies

Above a wreath on our front door, a sparrow built a nest and sat, graciously forgiving us for all the times we bolted out the front door, forgetting she was there — making her fly off until things quieted down. And now, finally… babies! ❤️

She's OK!

For the first time EVER, my sweet, old (almost 15) doggie was attacked by another dog. 😱 She was shaken up, but I think otherwise unscathed. 🙌🏻 Now, she seems to have forgotten all about it, and has resumed her favorite activity. 😴 I, however, am having a prolonged panic attack. 😭😩

Loved our old church

Our old church In the city was right across from Daley Plaza, so we'd walk through on the way back to our car. My kids (and MANY kids!) used the Picasso as a giant slide. On summer days, they's splash in the fountain — which was always bubbling after Easter, a sign that spring was near.

Moving to the 'burbs was the right thing for our family, but I have to admit, seeing this picture come up today, I felt a little ache for our old church — with a big, diverse congregation and an amazing gospel choir — for our old stomping grounds, and for these little boys, who (at 16 and 21) tower over me now.

Poor baby girl

Ok… we’re not keeping them. 👟👟 😂 But, if anyone has suggestions on how to give our sweet, old girl extra traction on the floors, please let me know. We’ve tried nail grips and pad stickers; nothing is helping much. 😢