Let's welcome the first picture book debut author to feature for Celebrating Debutantes on the blog!
13 Random Facts
1. I've planted over one thousand trees in a day.
2. In 7th grade I dressed up as a giant carrot for Halloween. (What was I thinking?)
3. I love black licorice and salt and vinegar chips.
4. When I was young, I wanted to live in a house with no furniture – just styrofoam packing peanuts that I could rearrange into "beds" and "chairs."
5. The only phrase I remember from my high school Italian class is: "Io sono tanto innamorata di te." (I am madly in love with you.)
6. My first albums were GREASE: (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDpOM0L9eQI) and ABBA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFrGuyw1V8s.
7. I love trying to play fiddle and guitar, and I sing loud while I'm driving.
8. I'm scared of lightning (unless I'm inside, away from windows and plumbing, in which case I like it).
9. Some of my favorite smells are woodsmoke, rosemary, tomato leaves, pine needles, and bread baking.
(Sidenote: Mmm, yes.)
(Sidenote: Mmm, yes.)
10. The first book I remember making was a collection of animal traps when I was about five or six. One trap had an upside down box with straws going into it and a sign on a toothpick that said: "Ants, there's sugar in here."
11. When I was little, the snowbanks in front of our house were sometimes as tall as my dad. I used to make tunnels and forts in them, digging out the softer snow and leaving the hardened crust on top.
12. My favorite childhood book was a Helen Oxenbury-illustrated version of Edward Lear's The Quangle Wangle's Hat. I loved the parade of fantastical creatures, including the Attery Squash, the Pobble Who Has No Toes, and the Dong with the Luminous Nose: http://www.somethingimade.co.uk/2012/05/well-loved-books.html
13. Growing up, my special place was a good climbing tree in the park down the street.
I grew up in Thunder Bay, a small Canadian city on the North Shore of Lake Superior. It was a wee bit chilly but really beautiful.
Somehow I made it through high school, college, and a Master’s degree without realizing how much I loved writing. It wasn’t until I had my first child and wrote a picture book for him that it occurred to me I might want to be an author.
Find her: Website * Facebook * Twitter * Goodreads
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More about Jessica!
I grew up in Thunder Bay, a small Canadian city on the North Shore of Lake Superior. It was a wee bit chilly but really beautiful.
Somehow I made it through high school, college, and a Master’s degree without realizing how much I loved writing. It wasn’t until I had my first child and wrote a picture book for him that it occurred to me I might want to be an author.
Find her: Website * Facebook * Twitter * Goodreads
Check out Jessica's debut [picture] book!
by Jessica Young
Published August 6th 2013 by Candlewick Press
Blurb (Goodreads):
What is your blue like? A lyrical ode to colors — and the unique ways we experience them — follows a little girl as she explores the world with her family and friends.
Your neighbor says red is angry like a dragon’s breath, but you think it’s brave like a fire truck. Or maybe your best friend likes pink because it’s pretty like a ballerina’s tutu, but you find it annoying — like a piece of gum stuck on your shoe. In a subtle, child-friendly narrative, art teacher and debut author Jessica Young suggests that colors may evoke as many emotions as there are people to look at them — and opens up infinite possibilities for seeing the world in a wonderful new way.
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Yesterday: Rachel Waxman (The Crickhowell School for the Muses) and Mindee Arnett (The Nightmare Affair)
Tomorrow: Kelsey Sutton (Some Quiet Place) and Piers Torday (The Last Wild)
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I have a niece who is just the right age for this book! :D It looks very cute and I can't wait to read it.
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