Listen, you win some and you lose some. Sometimes you’re the least popular, but at least you can console yourself that you’re super highly rated (because no one else has read it to give it a worse review). You, too, can check out your year in books on Goodreads, if you track what you read…
Well, it wasn’t meant to be this time (like last time). The Little Red Publishing Hen, despite all of your votes, did not make the semi-finals of the Goodreads Choice Awards 2015. I appreciate all of your efforts and hope you enjoyed the story. But, for the meantime, it’s back to scoreboard-watching and hoping our author…
Listen. What I’m about to tell you may shock and upset you. For a great many people it won’t be surprising, in the least. But I feel it needs to be said. For too long, Big Picture has run the picture book business. You know who I mean. Mo Willems. Oliver Jeffers. Drew Daywalt. Maurice…
This is going to remind people, people who have long memories, of another time and another place. So I’ve been told I’m not allowed to go around people’s houses, sign them up for Goodreads accounts, visit the Best Picture Book page, write in The Little Red Publishing Hen and vote for it for best picture…
Because precisely no one asked, I’m about to tell you the story of the odd little non-children’s story called The Little Red Publishing Hen. So grab a cup of tea and settle in, folks. I woke up a few weekends ago to the urgent call of nature — I had the ghost of a story lodged…