Ghost Pies Inspired by How to Make Friends with a Ghost

We’re resharing these ghost pies we made a few years ago inspired by Rebecca Green’s How to Make Friends with a Ghost.  They were very easy to make.  All you need is:

🌷 A tulip-shaped cookie cutter

🥧 Frozen pie crust

🍎 Apple cider jam (or another fall flavor)

🧁 Glaze (1 cup powdered sugar + 1 tbsp milk + 1 tbsp maple syrup whisked together)

🖌 Wilton’s Foodwriter Edible Color Markers

If you haven’t made hand pies before, check out Hello Wonderful’s recipe for Easy Mini Jam Heart Hand Pies.

Happy baking! 👻🥧🍁

A Story Is to Share: How Ruth Krauss Found Another Way to Tell a Tale

Carter Higgins’ newest book is a thoughtful tribute to beloved children’s author Ruth Krauss.  Ruth’s listening ear, observant eye and boundless sense of wonder and playfulness made her a remarkable storyteller.  Isabelle Arsenault’s art charmingly captures Ruth’s energy and circuitous creative journey.  Thank you, Carter, for sharing the beauty of Ruth’s life with us, and the magic and light that sprung forth from her perseverance.  You three are an inspiration to writers everywhere!

A Story Is to Share: How Ruth Krauss Found Another Way to Tell a Tale was written by Carter Higgins, illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault and published by Abrams Books for Young Readers.  One of our favorite books this year!  It’ll be out on October 11.

The Three Billy Goats Gruff

Wit and prodigious humor abound in this deft retelling of a classic tale about the meeting of three billy goats and a terrible, terrible troll.  It’s one of the funniest stories we’ve come across this year.  We have a feeling that it’ll be one that parents won’t mind reading aloud again and again. 😉 Seriously, folks, don’t miss this one!  Out on October 18.

The Three Billy Goats Gruff was written by Mac Barnett, illustrated by Jon Klassen and published by Orchard Books.

Still This Love Goes On

With loved ones by our side, we watch the winter grow into hard ice “with little tracks appearing on the snow” and later, heading into the warm months, “summer flowers turn the fields to sun.”  Throughout the changing year, one thing remains constant — love.  It flows from heart to heart.  Love goes on and on.  A beautifully resonant and poetic celebration of the seasons, everlasting love of family and the Indigenous community.

Still This Love Goes On was written by Buffy Sainte-Marie, illustrated by Julie Flett and published by Greystone Kids.

When Lola Visits Events in October 2022

October events! 🍁🍂

I’ll be at two literary festivals next month — the First Philippine Festival of Books for Children on October 1 in San Pedro and the inaugural Liwanag Lit Fest on October 22 in Long Beach.  Scroll right to see dates, times and details.  I’ll be raffling off When Lola Visits tote bags at each event.  Hope to see you there!