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Pre-holiday Baking Day Blogger Giveaway!

November 10, 2014 by Anika Denise 6 Comments

Well, it's officially the pre-holiday shopping and baking season, folks, and I'm excited to announce a special GIVEAWAY for BLOGGERS! The giveaway includes a SIGNED BOOK (courtesy of Penguin) with an ORIGINAL BEAR SKETCH drawn on the end papers, along with a MIXING BOWL filled with goodies for a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Giveaway, News Tagged With: Baking, Blogger giveawaysgifts, Children's Books, Granparents, holidays, Pre-holiday Baking Day Blogger Giveaway

There’s an Opossum in My Mudroom. . . or the Art of Letting Go

October 14, 2014 by Anika Denise Leave a Comment

About two weeks ago, an opossum walked into my mudroom. It sounds like the beginning of a joke, doesn't it? The kids were in bed. Chris was doing an evening session in the studio, and I had come down in my jammies to get a glass of water before retiring upstairs with a book. That's when I heard … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Children's Books, kidlit, letting go, opossum, spirit animals, writing

Lights, camera. . .CAKE!

August 8, 2014 by Anika Denise 5 Comments

Filming Baking Day at Grandma's Book Trailer

I ask a lot of my kids. I ask them to read manuscripts and give me feedback. I ply them (and their friends) with questions about the age-appropriateness of certain (sometimes embarrassing) grade school behaviors. I make them stop what they're doing to write down a story idea when I'm elbow-deep … [Read more...]

Filed Under: #bakingday, Baking Day At Grandma's, Book News Tagged With: Baking, Baking Day at Grandma's, Bangarang Films, book launch, Book trailer, Grandparents, Little Hands, Silverwing Scripts, Tebello Rose

But, it’s about a fish!

July 14, 2014 by Anika Denise 4 Comments

I read that when Kate DiCamillo got the call that she'd won the 2014 Newbery Medal for her middle grade novel, Flora and Ulysses, she cried; and said jokingly through her tears, "But, it's about a squirrel!"I know how she felt. Well. . . sort of. This was maybe not quite on the level of a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Anika Denise, Daphnee Renfrow, Goldie's Death Leap, Listen To Your Mother

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