Looking back, we’ve chosen some of our favorite blog posts on Bash and Lucy–puppy videos, our Roving Reader Leaders interviewing a popular author and our school presentations. We’ve created a number of puppy videos over the years-about autism service dogs, our puppy barking when his favorite person is taking a
Who are the Roving Reader Leaders who appear in our upcoming kids’ book? They’re a group of reading lovers who meet weekly at the library to discuss books, which is just what we do in real life. In our next book, the book lovers must work together, along with golden
It’s not easy for Michael, now 13 and chief of the Roving Reader Leaders, to let go of his kids’ books. But today, for the second time, we gathered up some of our favorites and donated them to the Children’s Book Bank, based in Portland. Among them were some of
Happiness is browsing again at the Beaverton Library, even if we’re limited to half an hour. When I (Lisa) ran into the library to drop off some books just after it had re-opened, it suddenly hit me: I hadn’t stepped inside our favorite library, or any library for that
We were recently invited to be speakers at an author workshop sponsored by Toastmasters, Write Here, Right Now At the workshop, we told the story of why we started our “Bash and Lucy” books about six years ago: We were trying to overcome grief over the death of our golden
Feb. 16 Reading By Mom-Son Authors for Kids With Learning Challenges via The Shadow Project & Roving Reader Leaders Authors Lisa Cohn and Michael Cohn (age 10) will read their children’s books with kids with learning challenges in partnership with The Shadow Project Saturday, Feb. 16. The reading begins at
“Squishy Taylor and the Bonus Sisters” by Alisa Wild immediately caught the attention of Michael, age 9, chief of the Roving Reader Leaders. It was delivered to our door for Multicultural Children’s Book Day 2018 by Capstone Publishing. After quickly reading this first book, Michael insisted on going to the
The kids’ dog book “Rumplepimple Goes to Jail” by Suzanne DeWitt Hall gets a very high rating from kidlit lover Michael, age 9. Watch his review here: Spoiler alert! Michael gives away the plot in this review. Earlier, a 7-year-old Michael reviewed the first Rumplepimple kids’ dog book, and gave
By Lisa Cohn Two Roving Reader Leaders–a club created by me and Michael–appeared on live TV yesterday to share their love of reading and discuss their book reviews and author interviews. With teddy bears in hand, they discussed their favorite books and their recent interview with Troy Cummings, the popular
Keep an eye out for our next Kidlit author interview! Four of our Roving Reader Leaders, age 8-11, interviewed one of their favorite authors recently via Skype. The boys were excited and nervous, but asked great questions and came away from the interview very inspired. Watch our last author interview