Dear Readers: I’m so glad you are reading Diamond Lil! It’s only the second chapter book I’ve ever written! Diamond Lil is the sequel to The Trouble with Chickens (illustrated by Kevin Cornell). The original idea for the villain in the book – Vince the Funnel – came from a sketch that Harry Bliss did… Read more »
Author-In-Residence
What’s Your Story, Doreen Cronin?
This month, ReaderKidZ welcomes best-selling author of Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type and Rescue Bunnies, Doreen Cronin, with the second book in her hilarious J.J. Tully mystery series, The Legend of Diamond Lil. What’s your story? Who? Where? When? Let your readers know something interesting about your childhood years. Include the good and the bad,… Read more »
Welcome to ReaderKidZ, March 2012
Whodunit? Readers of all ages love a good mystery. Whether it’s the fun of figuring out who the culprit is as the story goes along, or seeing the bad guy get his just deserts, there are few things more satisfying than a good mystery. Luckily for children on all reading levels, the selection of mysteries… Read more »
E-mergency! by Tom Lichtenheld and Ezra Fields-Meyer
Chronicle Books has created some super supplemental material to support the cleverly hilarious picture book, E-mergency! – some great lessons and activities designed to keep a child engaged in the story for a very long time. And, as studies show, the longer a child is engaged in stories, letter recognition and comprehension skills are developed. E-mergency! just might be the book… Read more »
E-MERGENCY by Tom Lichtenheld
TOM REVEALS: The Story Behind the Story… E-mergency began when this video, created by Ezra Fields-Meyer, was sent to me by my friend and collaborator, Amy Krouse Rosenthal. In the video, one of the letters falls off the roof and has to go to the hospital. I immediately wondered what the repercussions of such a… Read more »
Welcome to ReaderKidZ, February 2012
Children love to laugh. Tickle a little girl and she’ll laugh uproariously even as she begs for mercy. Give a boy a funny book and he’ll laugh every time he reads it, again and again and again. Humor provides the same relief for children that it does for adults: it’s an affirmation that even though… Read more »
Tom’s Story
What’s your story? Who? Where? When? Let your readers know something interesting about your childhood years. Include the good and the bad, the funny and the serious. I am a kid who loves to draw and make up silly stories, stuck in the body of a middle-aged man. When I was a kid in a… Read more »
