By Lisa Cohn When Michael, now 13, was five, our dog Hudson was just a puppy. Hudson frolicked wildly at Michael’s fifth birthday party, and taught us a few lessons. At Michael’s recent 13th birthday party, Hudson also insisted on being in the middle of the action, but he didn’t
By Lisa Cohn You’ve heard about our love of dogs. But truth is, we love all animals–including polar bears. Michael and I recently participated in a National Geographic story about climate change anxiety in kids. The writer approached us because I had written a similar story for a local parenting
We were thrilled when another children’s book author this week listened to our first kids’ audiobook, “Bash and Lucy Fetch Confidence,” and enjoyed the voices of the boys, age 5-7, who helped record it. “I listened to Bash & Lucy Fetch Confidence this morning and I was blown away. Hearing
We started writing our kids’ dog books about seven years ago, after our dog, Lucy, died suddenly at the age of 6. To help us overcome our grief, we decided to write a book, “Bash and Lucy Fetch Confidence,” about how a dog named Lucy instilled confidence in the boys on
In our last book, “Bash and Lucy Fetch Team Vera and the Dream Beasts,” Vera is the assistant mayor and the coach of the most successful girls’ soccer team in the town. She’s a dog lover and an inspiration to kids. In our next book, the girl-power grandma and immigrant
While we’ve been in isolation due to Covid-19, Ally, Michael and I have walked nearly every day with our golden retriever, Hudson. Hudson is a character in our third book and did some lively voice-over barking for our last audiobook His deep voice lends itself well to being an audiobook
To celebrate the holidays, we’re offering you three free kids’ audiobooks, all of which were recorded with the voices of Michael (now age 11), his friends and family members. (Plus his dog!). All of the audiobooks are high quality enough to
We’re excited that we’ve begun writing the next kids’ dog book in the Bash and Lucy series! Dogs take center stage in this book. We can’t give away too many details, but we can provide a few hints. First of all, the main dog-loving characters are Bash (of course), his
We’ll be giving away our new kids’ audiobook–recorded with the voices of six kids, three adults, and one dog–Sat. Sept. 22 at the Hillsboro Public Library Local Authors Fair. We just finished recording the “Bash and Lucy Fetch Team Vera and the Dream Beasts,” audiobook, which features the voices of
We’re excited about our Mom-Son Author school visits this month, and will also be visiting the Hillsboro Public Library. In addition, we’re planning Mom-Son Author school visits via Skype in the classroom around the world, with our first later this month. During our school visits this month–with the Hillsboro Public Library,