Three Questions and Three Sentence Starters with Alexandra Penfold
Hi, Alexandra Penfold! Welcome to Watch. Connect. Read. Thank
you for dropping by to chat about your debut picture book, Eat, Sleep, Poop!
Wow! What a FUN title and cover illustration! It
makes me laugh out loud whenever I look at it. Please book talk Eat, Sleep, Poop using
no more than 140 characters. Twitter style!
Alexandra: Eat, Sleep, Poop! is
a tender look at life inside and outside of the crib from a baby’s-eye
view, perfect for new parents and siblings-to-be.
What ran through your head the first time you
saw Eat, Sleep, Poop's cover illustration?
Alexandra: Aw, baby! I just love, love, love Jane Massey's
illustrations. She does such a wonderful job capturing so many sweet and funny
moments in a young baby's life. And she's the master of those subtle
micro-expressions that babies make.
I always enjoy reading your book-related
tweets. Please share some forthcoming books that you're excited about.
Alexandra: 2016 is really shaping up to be a terrific picture book
year! I'm also a children's book agent and I'm looking forward to new
books from my clients Jessixa Bagley, Liz Wong, Meghan McCarthy, Suzanne
Kaufman, and Adam Lehrhaupt. I can't wait to get my hands on Lucy Ruth Cummins'
picture book, A Hungry Lion, or A Dwindling Assortment of Animals, Stephen Savage's The
Mixed-Up Truck and Bob Shea's The Happiest Book Ever.
Please finish these sentence starters:
School libraries are the best!
Picture books open new worlds to children of all ages.
Mr. Schu, you should have asked me about my other upcoming
picture books, We Are Brothers, We Are Friends, illustrated by Eda
Kaban and Food Truck Fest, illustrated by Mike Dutton, both due out
from FSG in 2017.
Look for Eat, Sleep, Poop on September 13.
Wow! I think children should be able to identify (at any age) about this. Maybe we can hear about the brother book next time.
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