Blog tour stop #9: Jen at Pop! Goes the Reader has likened Gladys Gatsby to Harriet M. Welsch and Sarah Crewe. Well, the praise really can’t get any higher than that! Thank you, Jen, for your extremely thoughtful reviews of the entire series. <3
ALL FOUR STARS
Happy release day, Stars So Sweet!
Release day is here, and the All Four Stars trilogy is complete. Stars So Sweet, the concluding volume of the series, is now out in the world! I’ll be celebrating tonight at Books of Wonder in NYC–I hope you’ll join me if you’re in the area. You can find a link with info about that event, and… Read more »
A Baked Creation!
Stars So Sweet comes out tomorrow! If you’re in New York, I hope you’ll join me at Books of Wonder to celebrate! Blog tour stop #8: Check out this delicious review and bonus cheese and scallion madeleine recipe (YUM) by Sylvia at A Baked Creation! Her fancy photography of Stars So Sweet among the macarons is definitely worth a gander,… Read more »
For What It’s Worth!
Blog tour stop #7: Here’s an excerpt. “I can’t think of a better book to sit down and read with your kids. It opens your eyes to different cultures, foods, languages and is an excellent jumping off point to discuss diversity, responsibility and relationships of all kinds.” Thank you so much to Karen at For What… Read more »
Word Spelunking!
Blog tour stop #6: Another chance to win a full set of All Four Stars books–and to read another thoughtful review of Stars So Sweet, over at Aeicha’s blog Word Spelunking! Happy reading, and good luck if you enter to win.
Log Cabin Library!
Blog tour stop #5: Thank you for delving into Stars So Sweet in this excellent review, Brenda at Log Cabin Library! Gladys is so lucky to have thoughtful readers like you. 🙂
Bookish Illuminations!
Blog tour stop #4: Book blogger and school librarian extraordinaire Katie has been a huge supporter of the All Four Stars books since day one, and I was even lucky enough to meet her in person last spring at one of my events for The Stars of Summer! Now she’s back at Bookish Illuminations with an in-depth review of Stars… Read more »
Middle Grade Mafioso!
Blog tour stop #3: The wonderful Michael Gettel-Gilmartin has reviewed Stars So Sweet for Marvelous Middle Grade Monday over at his blog, Middle Grade Mafioso. He calls someone named Tara Dairman “one of the funniest middle grade writers around.” Well, I’ll take it! 🙂 Thank you for reading and reviewing, my friend.
Všechny čtyři hvězdicky (All Four Stars in Czech!)
Czech it out (yuk, yuk): Author copies of the Czech translation of All Four Stars–Všechny čtyři hvězdicky–arrived on my doorstep this week! The book was published by Albatros in 2016, with a new cover by Eva Chupíková. The cover was a glorious surprise to me, because the last I heard, the publisher was planning to use… Read more »
Event tomorrow in Bellevue, WA!
Hey, Seattle! Tomorrow (Thursday, 6/9) at 6 PM I’ll be at University Book Store in Bellevue, Washington, as part of the incredible Children’s and YA Author Extravaganza! I can’t wait to team up with these other fantastic authors of middle grade, YA, and picture books to talk about writing for young people (and sign books,… Read more »