Tool School & Vampoodle in July

It's the first day of school for these busy-builder tools.

Tool School is my second book with the amazing James Dean.

(Mighty Dads was our first book.)

Vampoodle is the follow-up to Shampoodle

with Tim Bowers, who creates oodles of cute dogs!

Both publish one month from today, July 27, 2017.

Buy links are at my website.

Shampoodle is a Bank Street College Best Book of the year!

Bank Street College Children's Book Commitee has announced this year Best Children's Books of the Year...

Shampoodle made the cut!
Woo hoodle!

My author pals Laura Kvasnosky and Justina Headley's books are on the list, toodle. Laura's Zelda and Ivy Keeping Secrets is also an early reader and Tina's North of Beautiful is in the YA category.

Celebrating!

Shampoodle
Random House
Early reader, ages 5-9

My new book Shampoodle released this week!

Shampoodle is finally in stores this week! It's a Random House Step Into Reading title for ages 4-7.
Many thanks to Kirkus Reviews for this lovely review! I so agree that Tim's art is fabulous!

Holub, Joan
SHAMPOODLE
Illus. by Tim Bowers
This Step into Reading title is a crazed, out-of-breath, fly-on-the-wall peek at picture-day morning at the Shampoodle salon for dogs. Four stylists are simply no match for seven rambunctious dogs. Add in the distraction of three cats, and chaos ensues. Snappy rhyming verses lead children through the fiasco to the hysterical hairstyles that are the result (all, oddly enough, look remarkably like the stylists that crafted them): “New hair. Blue hair. / Beads with knots. / Purple hair with polka dots. / Spiked hair. Mohawk. / Striped like skunk. / Glitter critter. / Super funk.” Short sentences, easy vocabulary and a large font fit the Step 2 level. Bowers’s characters all have wonderful personality, especially the pooches. Beginning readers will have to stop laughing at the pictures before they will be able to read the text. Very funny—there may be a short film in this somewhere. (Early reader. 4-7)