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November Media Roundup
Smiling. At its conference NSTA announced its Outstanding Science Trade Books and both Eat Like a Bear and Here Come the Humpbacks were on the list! Richie’s Picks reviewed Eat Like a Bear here. I...
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“Sayre and Jenkins follow Vulture View (2007) with a similarly excellent study of brown bears that’s in equal parts poetic and enlightening.” -Kirkus, starred review. ALA (American Library Association)...
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Preschool teachers rock! This teacher’s joy lifts my spirits every time I watch the video. While signing Rah, Rah, Radishes and Go, Go, Grapes last year in Atlanta, I met this fabulous teacher who...
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See my interview with Kirkus Reviews.com Julie Danielson of Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast.
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ALA Notable For Eat Like a Bear
Raising my bowl of blueberries this morning to illustrator Steve Jenkins. Our book, Eat Like a Bear, which received three starred reviews, was named an ALA (American Library Association) Notable Book...
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Board Book and News
Rah, Rah, Radishes! becomes a board book in the Little Simon Classic Board Book line on July 15th! In 2015, look for Woodpecker Wham illus by Steve Jenkins (Holt )and my photo-illustrated Raindrops...
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Raindrops Roll: Miss Rumphius, Secrets & Science
Raindrops Roll , which has received two starred reviews, one in Kirkus, one in School Library Journal, comes out with Beach Lane/S&S on Jan 5, 2015. Each photo I took has a special meaning to me...
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Raindrops Roll in Wall Street Journal
Greetings from here at my desk, Jan 5, 2015! “. . . we read and are refreshed by such beauty and natural simplicity,” says the Wall Street Journal of my just released photo-illustrated book, Raindrops...
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Text and photos by April Pulley Sayre. Beach Lane Books/S&S, January, 2015. Ages 3-8. “With lyrical words and striking images, a poet, photographer, and veteran natural history writer celebrates...
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Illustrated by Steve Jenkins, Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, May 12, 2015. “Verdict: Lovely and exciting, this title is a great hook for young researchers, as well as fledgling ornithologists.”...
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Book love! A great review in Bookpage and a third star for Raindrops Roll (Beach Lane/S&S), this time in Publisher’s Weekly. Woodpecker Wham, with Steve Jenkins, will be released May 12 and was...
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Woodpecker Wham! and SLJ
Woodpecker Wham! was released today by Henry Holt. So excited to have this third collaboration with illustrator Steve Jenkins, thanks to Holt. (You can support our work to share nature and science with...
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NCTE, NSTA, Kirkus Raindrops Roll
Floored and thrilled that RAINDROPS ROLL was just named An Orbis Pictus Recommended Book by NCTE, the National Council of Teachers of English. This award for the best nonfiction of 2015 considers ALL...
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ALA Notables: Raindrops Roll, Woodpecker Wham
Raindrops Roll and Woodpecker Wham were both named ALA Notables! So thankful to the folks who put time and energy into serving on the ALA Notable Committee and also those on the NCTE Orbus Pictus...
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Slowest Book Ever
“The Antidote for a Hurried Childhood” was what the Huffington Post called my middle grade nonfiction book, The Slowest Book Ever (Boyds Mills Press, release in April, 2016) in a sneak peek article by...
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Four New Books!
Happy to announce four books for 2016. Go, Go, Grapes board book debuted in the Little Simon Classic Board Book line in Feb. The Slowest Book Ever, (Boyds Mills Press) came out in April. In October...
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New Book Backstory: Full of Fall
Full of Fall, my new photo-illustrated picture book, will be released by the superb team at Beach Lane/S&S August 29 2017. Happy to say it has received three starred reviews (Publishers Weekly,...
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Warbler Wave will be released by Beach Lane, Simon & Schuster on February 13, 2018. See some spreads on S&S website. This book is the fulfillment of a dream, part of my life goal to share...
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Thank You, Earth Plus 3 New in 2019
2018 brought Warbler Wave (see post below) and Thank You, Earth. New in 2019 will be three books: BLOOM BOOM, my latest photo-illustrated book from Beach Lane/Simon & Schuster, celebrates plant...
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Being Frog
[et_pb_section][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text] Being Frog hops into stores Feb 2, 2020! Read the Kirkus starred review or the Publisher’s Weekly starred review or the starred review...
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