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Announcing a Three-Book Giveaway of God Made Daddy Special!

Father’s Day is just around the corner. If you are one who celebrates this day and you’re searching for the perfect gift for that special daddy in your life, you might like to enter this three-book giveaway of God Made Daddy Special. sponsored by Zonderkidz.This padded cover board book features nine animal daddies and the special relationship they have with their babies. Written in rhyme for children aged six and under, the book closes with the human parent and child.

Take a peek at some of the wonderful illustrations by illustrator Estelle Corke and check out your instructions for entering the giveaway… Continue reading

Announcing a Three-Book Giveaway of God Made Daddy Special!

Father’s Day is just around the corner. Are you searching for the perfect gift for that special daddy in your life? If so, you might like to enter this three-book giveaway of God Made Daddy Special. sponsored by Zonderkidz.

God Made Daddy Special

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The Final Stop on the Tour.. and Where I’m Going Next!

As hard as it is to believe, we have reached the end of our eight week blog tour celebrating the release of God Made Mommy Special and God Made Daddy Special.

So that means that if you didn’t yet choose that one-of-a-kind special gift for Father’s Day, you have just one chance left to win a free copy of both these cute books. Just visit Children’s Ministry colleague DeDe Reilly to read her review and enter the giveaway.

Thank you to everyone who participated in the tour, everyone who entered the giveaways, and everyone who took the time to leave those all-important reviews. They mean more to me than you will ever know.

Now that my virtual author tour has ended, I’m about to begin a real-life one, over the pond, in England. This time next week I’ll be visiting three Primary schools in the north of England, where I was born.

I hope to encourage these children to discover what it is that God made them good at, to work hard at it, pursue their dreams, never give up, and see what our great God can do. Because I know that amongst those listeners, there’ll be authors, and illustrators, and athletes, and physicians, and teachers, and wonderful parents… they just don’t know it yet.

Stay tuned for photographs of my visit there and in the meantime, read about what happened at my very first author visit to Sutton Oak Primary School, England.

Meet the Illustrator of God Made Daddy Special… Plus a Giveaway!

If you’ve peeked inside the pages of God Made Daddy Special you’ll have seen these adorable images of animal babies with their dads…

These wonderful illustrations were drawn by Estelle Corkea British illustrator 🙂 living in the south of England.

Now if you’ve ever wondered, like me, where illustrators come up with their ideas, or what they do with sketches they’ve drawn but can’t be used, or how long it takes to develop characters, then you’ll want to take a trip to my next blog stop on the Mommy and Daddy book tour, where I sat down with Michelle Huddleston to chat about the books.

As well as seeing a little live interview with me, you’ll get to read all Estelle’s answers to the questions above, plus more. (Can you guess which of these animal daddies and their babies she had never drawn before: was it Daddy Octopus or Daddy Skunk?)

Find out here and enter the two-book giveaway!

Five Fun facts About My New Books, Plus Another Giveaway!

It’s always fun to be featured on another writer’s blog and so, when children’s author Laura Sassi, (author of the Amazon #1 best-selling zoo book, Goodnight Ark) invited me to share five fun facts about my new mommy and daddy books, I was excited.

Head on over to her blog today to find out what those five fun facts might be, and while you’re there, be sure to enter the sixth giveaway of God Made Mommy Special and God Made Daddy Special.

PS… If you happen to be a grandparent, you’ll LOVE fun fact #5!

UPDATE! Congratulations to Jennifer Scopel on winning the giveaway!

Announcing Stop Number 3 in the Mommy & Daddy Book Blog Hop, and Another Giveaway!

What are you going to give, or hoping to receive for Mother’s Day this year?

Just for fun, I thought I’d try to find out what the most popular Mother’s Day gifts might be and in my search, I came across a fascinating article on USA Today entitled The 19 Best Mother’s Day Gifts of 2017

What would your guesses be? Top of the list was the ‘Gift of Scent’, closely followed, somewhat predictably, by the ‘Gift of Flowers’, and in at number three came the ‘Gift of Security’ (an indoor camera….as IF!)

I scanned quickly down the list, searching, searching for the gift I hoped to find, whizzing past the gifts of style, and beauty, and technology and ‘chic’, and nowhere, nowhere, did I find what I was looking for… I couldn’t believe it, but the ‘Gift of READING’ simply didn’t make it into the top 19. As a children’s book author, and an avid reader, I have to say: That is… Just. So. Sad.

And so, in an effort to compete with USA Today, I stopped by author Traci Smith’s blog, to offer my top THREE recommendations of children’s books, newly released for Mother’s Day 2018, any one of which would make the PERFECT ‘Gift of Reading’.

So, don’t delay, pop over there now and be sure to enter the third giveaway of God Made Mommy Special and God Made Daddy Special.

Visit Traci Smith.

Announcing the Second Stop in the Mommy & Daddy Book Blog Hop…

One of the most wonderful things for an author to see when any new title is released is a photograph of a little one with the book. And I just had to share this latest one with you..

Doesn’t that make you smile!

So if there’s a little one in your life who would love to have their picture taken my books, please enter the second giveaway at Purposeful Moms,where I sat down with Suzette Ladouceur as she interviewed me about author life…

Happy Reading!

Announcing the Winners of the Giveaway, Plus Eight More Chances to Win!

Drum roll please…

The three lucky winners of God Made Mommy Special and God Made Daddy Special are:

Lindsey, Chelsea Wipf and Krissanna! Congratulations ladies!

If you didn’t win, don’t despair! For the next eight weeks, I’ll be hopping on board a brand-new blog tour where these two books, the perfect gifts for Mother’s and Father’s Day, will be featured.

From homeschooling moms to authors; from reviewers to Children’s Ministers, the eight folks listed below will be sharing their thoughts about these new releases.

Along with their reviews, I’ll be sharing five fun facts about the books; answering questions, offering guest posts, and taking part in a joint author/illustrator interview with Estelle Corke.

Most exciting of all, there’ll be a giveaway of both titles at every stop, courtesy of my wonderful publisher, Zonderkidz.

Be sure to enter the first giveaway right now, with Children’s Pastor, Dema Kohen, at Families On a Mission.

And here’s the whole blog tour, just in case you’d like to hop along with me! Continue reading

Who Wants to Win My New Mommy & Daddy Books?

I was never very good at math in school, but even I know that eight cute animals, two padded-cover board books and one awesome illustrator add up to something wonderful…

God Made Mommy Special and God Made Daddy Special  celebrate the special bond between animal parents and their little ones. Whether it’s Mommy Deer, Mommy Hamster, Daddy Bat or Daddy Lion, they all have one thing in common: these parents love their babies!

Each book closes with a celebration of the love between human parent and child, because even though God made all mommies and daddies special, there’s none as special as YOURS!

These two titles are now available in bookstores everywhere, but before you rush out to buy these lovely gifts for Mother’s and Father’s Day, you should enter the giveaway, sponsored by my awesome publisher, Zonderkidz, right here, on my blog.

All you have to do is leave a comment on this post, telling me who you would read the books to. And if you share this post on Facebook, just let me know and you’ll be entered twice. Three lucky winners will be announced one week from today, Monday April 16th.

Good Luck!

Cover Reveal Times Two, Plus YOUR Chance to Win These Two New Titles!

Hurrah! The day has arrived when I can reveal the covers of my brand new children’s books, coming to a bookstore near you early next spring:

Meet God Made Mommy Special and God Made Daddy Special.

These two engaging padded cover board books celebrate the special bond between animal parents and their little ones. Whether it’s Mommy Deer, Mommy Hamster, Daddy Bat or Daddy Lion, they all have one thing in common: these parents love their babies!

Each book closes with a celebration of the love between human parent and child, because even though God made all mommies and daddies special, there’s none as special as YOURS!

Here’s an excerpt from one of my favorite poems from the pages of the Daddy book, and your chance to peek at the adorable illustrations by Estelle Corke:  Continue reading