Welcome humans (and worms) to Picture Book Spotlight, the seriously serious blog for serious people who are serious about picture books (and sometimes worms). Today we get to feature Julie Hauswirth and her debut picture book, If My Sister Were A Worm, published by Holiday House and illustrated by Jessica Goecke. Congrats to the whole team on a successful launch! 🥳 Our boys would definitely like turning each other into worms if they could. At least eight times a day. One of

Happy Monday and welcome to Picture Book Spotlight! 🥳 To begin, there are some serious shenanigans happening at my author Facebook page, Picture Book Spotlight. Things have kind of blown up over there since July, and it's been a lot of fun to connect to readers and fans of the books. There are shenanigans like stuffies that almost look like Dennis and silly videos and everything in between. Hard copies of The Book of Rules are currently sold out everywhere online from the ba

Happy Tuesday and welcome to Picture Book Spotlight! Once upon a time, a certain author appeared on this here blog...it was back in 2019, and Lizzy and I were agent siblings. An agent sibling is someone who has the same agent as you (agent cousins are people who share your agency but a different agent). Agent second cousins are...alright, that's enough of that. Now I'm just making stuff up. The other ones are totally real. Totally real... Over the years, Lizzy has been someon