The Very Hungry Caterpillar is a children's picture book designed, illustrated, and written by Eric Carle. The book features a very hungry caterpillar who eats his way through a wide variety of foodstuffs before going into a cocoon and emerging as a butterfly. It is one of the few childrens books I remember reading as... Continue Reading →
Rachel’s next book.
My daughter, Rachel, and I wrote a newly published book together, Unicorn's Egyptian Rescue. It has been available long enough to generate a few sales. Rather than wait for royalties to be paid in the real world, I gave Rachel some money as her share of what we had sold to date. This was very... Continue Reading →
My New Co-Favourite Book
I’ve previously written about the book I’ve gained the most satisfaction from writing. That feeling has not changed, though now it has an equal. After my son, Michael, and I received our book, my daughter, Rachel, went into jealousy mode and decided she wanted to write a book with me too! (There were plenty of... Continue Reading →
My most important book
My son, Michael and I wrote a book together. It's available for sale as of today. This is my most important book, because of what it meant to produce something like that with Michael. It was a fun project to work on together. I've recently written a post on how you can do this too.... Continue Reading →
How you can create your own childrens book: A great “at-home” activity for these times.
In chatting to a few people it seems there are quite a few who have children's stories or who would love to write one with their child or children. From the experience writing Eddy’s Treasure (US, AU, UK) with my son, Michael, I can say it is a very worthwhile thing to do and you... Continue Reading →