#pb10for10: Fairy Tales

Educators Mandy Robek & Cathy Mere have been running the #pb10for10 event for several years now. What’s #pb10for10? Well, you pick 10 picture books you simply can’t live without and share today, August 10th, with the hashtag #pb10for10 (see the official rules here). Share your own and check out all the others in the #pb10for10 Google Community.

I participated the last two years and loved it each time. My themes were Rhyming Picture Books in 2015 and Pirates, Dinosaurs, & Dragons in 2016 (you don’t need a theme, but sometimes it helps narrow down your choices when there are TONS of amazing picture books, it’s hard to narrow it down).

This year, I’m sharing my favorite Fairy Tale Picture Books because my next book, It’s Not Jack and the Beanstalk, comes out in just a few weeks – on 9.19.17:

(feel free to check it out here)

One note: I limited my choices to only one retelling per story. Without further ado, here are my ten.

1. Little Red Gliding Hood by Tara Lazar & Troy Cummings

2. The Three Pigs by David Wiesner

3. Snoring Beauty by Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen & Jane Manning

4. Señorita Gordita by Helen Ketteman & Will Terry

5. Mirror Mirror by Marilyn Singer & Josée Masse

6. An Undone Fairy Tale by Ian Lendler & Whitney Martin

7. The Three Cabritos by Eric A. Kimmel & Stephen Gilpin

8. Hensel and Gretel: Ninja Chicks by Corey Rosen Schwartz, Rebecca J. Gomez, & Dan Santat

9. Interstellar Cinderella by Deborah Underwood & Meg Hunt

10. Goatilocks and the Three Bears by Erica S. Perl & Arthur Howard

Don’t forget to check out everyone else’s favorite picture books, comment, and share in the #pb10for10 Google Community!

Where I’ll Be Next

• Today! Thursday, August 10 at 6:30pm: Charlestown Branch of the Boston Public Library, 179 Main Street, Charlestown, MA, USA
• Saturday, August 12th at 10:30am: Franklin Public Library, 25 Kenwood Circle, Franklin, MA, USA
• Friday, September 8th at 7:00pm: The Writers’ Loft, 20 North Main Street, Sherborn, MA, USA

#pb10for10: Pirates, Dinosaurs, & Dragons! Oh, my!

Educators Cathy Mere & Mandy Robek have been running the #pb10for10 event for several years now. What’s #pb10for10? Well, you pick 10 picture books you simply can’t live without and share today, August 10th, with the hashtag #pb10for10 (see the official rules here). Share your own and check out all the others in the #pb10for10 Google Community.

I participated last year for the first time and had a blast. My theme was Rhyming Picture Books (you don’t need a theme, but sometimes it helps narrow down your choices when there are SOOO many great picture books out there).

This year, I’m sharing my favorite, Pirate, Dinosaur, and Dragon Picture Books (you can probably guess why – if not, see the sidebar —>)

1. The Pirates Next Door by Jonny Duddle

2. Rex Wrecks It by Ben Clanton

3. Take Care, Good Knight by Shelley Moore Thomas & Paul Meisel

4. The Night Pirates by Peter Harris & Deborah Allwright

5. Edwina: The Dinosaur Who Didn’t Know She Was Extinct by Mo Willems

6. When a Dragon Moves In by Jodi Moore & Howard McWilliam

7. Pirate Princess by Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen & Jill McElmurry

8. Hiding Dinosaurs by Dan Moynihan

9. Have You Seen My Dragon? by Steve Light

10. Kid Sheriff and the Terrible Toads by Bob Shea & Lane Smith

(#10 isn’t strictly about dinosaurs, but it allows me to have three books each for pirates, dinosaurs, and dragons – and then this one – you’ll see when you read it)

Don’t forget to check out everyone else’s favorite picture books, comment, and share in the #pb10for10 Google Community!

Where I’ll Be Next

• Tuesday, 8/30 at 3:00pm: Pirasaurs! Book Birthday Party! (An Unlikely Story’s Second Story, 111 South Street, Plainville, MA, USA)
• Thursday, 9/1 at 7:00pm: Pirasaurs! Book Launch (Porter Square Books, 25 White St., Cambridge, MA, USA)
• Saturday, 9/3 at 10:30am: Pirasaurs! Storytime (Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard Street, Brookline, MA, USA)
• Saturday, 9/10 at 11am: Dear Dragon Book Launch! (The Concord Bookshop, 65 Main St, Concord, MA, USA)

Pirasaurs! Book Trailer!

In case you missed it, the book trailer for Pirasaurs! debuted yesterday on Watch. Connect. Read. where I also finished the sentences of Mr. Schu. I’m not gonna lie, I’ve been reading Mr. Schu’s site for years and to have the honor of finishing his sentences is pretty freakin’ cool.

You can check out the full interview and book trailer premiere here. Pirasaurs! is illustrated by Michael Slack (*genius*) and will be published by Scholastic on August 30, 2016 (but is available for pre-order from all bookstores now).

Where I’ll Be Next

• Saturday, 5/14: School Librarians of Rhode Island Conference (University of Rhode Island, Kingston Campus, USA)
• Saturday, 5/21 at 11am: Mansfield Public Library (255 Hope Street, Mansfield, MA, USA, USA)
• Saturday, 5/21 at 3pm: Park Street Books & Toys with Nancy Tupper Ling & Ammi-Joan Paquette (504 Main Street, Medfield, MA, USA, USA)

Two for You

(two books I recommend you read)

1. Orangutangled written by Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen and illustrated by Aaron Zenz

2. Polkabats and Octopus Slacks written & illustrated by Calef Brown