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Children’s Picture Book
Donating Books to the Children’s Book Bank
This week, we were excited to donate about 40 Bash and Lucy picture books, along with hundreds of used books, to the Children’s Book Bank, located here in Portland. We were looking for a place to donate both Bash and Lucy books and some of Michael’s used children’s books, and
Kids’ Audiobook Review: “Hearing the Boys’ Voices was So Fun…Made me Laugh”
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
Creating a Character who Embodies Goodness for Kids’ Book
Our fourth kids’ book stars Vera, a character based on Michael’s surrogate grandma, an immigrant from Ukraine. One of our aims in the book is to create a character who embodies goodness, just as Vera does in real life. When we spoke with Vera yesterday, she had recently received her
Why We Began Writing Our Kids’ Dog Books
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
The Joy of Hiking with a Golden Retriever
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
Mom-Son Author Visits, in Person and Via Skype!
We’re excited about the mom-son author visits we have lined up for the fall! Today we autographed and sold our kids’ dog books and audiobooks at a homeschool fair. We were especially excited about sharing information about our audiobooks, which feature the voices of kids age 5 to 13. When
We’re Writing our Next Kids’ Dog Book!
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
Reviews of Our New Children’s Audiobook, Featuring Voices of Kids!
Reviews of our new children’s audiobook for “Bash and Lucy Fetch Team Vera and the Dream Beasts” are coming in and we’re excited! We just finished sending out 49 CDs to the winners of our Goodreads giveaway. Listen to a sample and check out the audiobook on Audible here: https://adbl.co/2Oh4KSY The
Sharing Our Kids’ Audiobook at Hillsboro Local Authors Fair
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