I WANT TO SPOTLIGHT THESE BOOKS
Join us for this tour from June 7to June 25, 2021!
Book Details:
Book Title: Kip the Letter X by Kim Patrick
Category: Children’s Fiction (Ages 3-7), 36 pages
Genre: Children’s Book
Publisher: Full Cycle Publications
Release date: June 2020
Tour dates: June 7 to June 25, 2021
Content Rating: G.
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Book Description:
Kip the Letter X searches far and wide trying to find his purpose.
Buy the Book:
Amazon.com
Full Cycle Publications
Add to Goodreads
Meet the Author:
Kim Patrick was born in England, raised in Britain and South Africa, and now lives in the United States. She loves animals, books, films, the letter X, and much of the rest of the alphabet.
connect with the author: website ~ twitter ~ goodreads
GREAT INTERVIEW FROM AUTHOR KIM PATRICK
What made you want to write a children’s book?
Children take in information at such a phenomenal rate compared to adults. Learning to love yourself is something that once you learn it, you never forget it. Why not start with the very young?
In this book you focus on self worth and loving yourself. Why?
I wanted to write a book that would be interesting and funny, but also offer more than just a good giggle. Maybe if more kids learned to appreciate their uniqueness instead of trying to conform, then we’d have much happier adults in the world.
How do you decide what to write about for a children’s book?
I can’t speak to what other writers do, but for me it starts out as something that has really caused an emotional reaction in me. Watching kids on a playground bully another kid kicked off this book. Luckily, the parents stepped in and the situation was diffused, but I always wondered about the poor kid that was picked on. How did he feel? How did his mother deal with the fall out from that?
How do you make time to write?
I have to schedule it in or it never gets done! Some of the biggest writing distractions for me are movies, my animals demanding playtime, and having to stop and eat.
Will you be writing another book?
After I finish writing a book I usually give myself time to reconnect with the world and my family. Then, when it’s time I’ll know it and another book will happen.
I WANT TO SPOTLIGHT THESE BOOKS
Join us for this tour from June 7to June 25, 2021!
Book Details:
Book Title: Spartan and the Green Egg by Nabila Khashoggi
Category: Middle-Grade Fiction (Ages 8-12), 95 pages
Genre: Children’s Adventure: Graphic Novel
Publisher: Full Cycle Publications
Release date: January 20, 2021
Tour dates: June 7 to June 25, 2021
Content Rating: G.
Book Description:
In Book 5, Land of The Midnight Sun, Egg, the friendly live alien spaceship, creatively uses an enchanting art gallery to reveal the young adventurers’ next destination. Spartan, Katie, Max, Tor, and Grimm find themselves in Greenland, home to some of the biggest glaciers on earth, and known as The Land of the Midnight Sun because, in summer, the sun never sets. Greenland’s vast and daunting landscape is almost completely covered with ice and snow.
With the help of some friendly Greenland sled dogs, they arrive in the charming village of Siorapaluk and befriend a young Inuit, Malik, and his family. They soon learn that Malik’s father and his group have gone missing while on an expedition. The team goes in search of them, at their own risk. Before long, they are caught up in a treacherous avalanche and trapped on a glacier that has broken off from the mainland. Hope arrives from a powerful source as they bear witness to an astonishing and beautiful miracle from the Earth’s living creatures.
Buy the Book: Amazon.com
Full Cycle Publications
AND NOW AN INTERVIEW WITH AUTHOR Nabila Khashoggi
What is Land of the Midnight Sun all about?
This is the fifth book in the Spartan & the Green Egg series and it is set in Greenland. The gang of kids, along with their helpful alien friend, named Egg, must help rescue a film crew and their guides from an iceberg that has broken away from the mainland. It tells a great story, IMHO, but also uses climate change and its impact as a backdrop.
Do you have a favorite among the books you’ve written?
Actually, it’s always the one I’ve just finished. Probably because it is the one that is freshest in my mind!
How did you get started writing children’s books?
I got started on a whim. I used to tell my son, Spartan, bedtime stories that involved his favorite toy (a green egg). It kind of took on a life of its own and I took the leap into making them into a graphic novel.
Why did you choose to write your book as a graphic novel?
I decided that using a graphic novel format would make the book more accessible to a wider range of children, especially those readers who maybe weren’t fans of reading. I also am a comic book fan and grew up loving them.
What’s next?
Well, I’m working on Book 6 in the series as well as working as the spokeswoman for The Children for Peace. It’s a nonprofit organization that helps children in impoverished places around the world to obtain equipment, books, desks, and so forth for their schools.
Meet the Author:
When her eldest son was a toddler, Nabila used to entertain him with made-up stories about a boy who traveled the world inside a live green egg that just so happened to be an alien from another planet. She turned the tales into a colorful children¹s graphic novel series, Spartan and the Green Egg, with the intention of introducing children to environmental and cultural themes around the world.
A portion of all proceeds from the Spartan and the Green Egg book series, toys and accessories is donated to The Children for Peace ONLUS. Based in Italy, this non-governmental organization helps young people worldwide who are living in challenging circumstances obtain their essential needs such as food, medical help and educational opportunities. Nabila currently lives in New York and has two sons.
connect with the author: website ~ twitter ~ facebook ~ pinterest
Tour Schedule:
June 7 –Cover Lover Book Review – books spotlight / giveaway
June 7 – Working Mommy Journal – books spotlight / giveaway
June 8 – Wottaread – book spotlight of Kip the Letter X / author interview with Kim Patrick / giveaway
June 8 –Wottaread – books spotlight / author interview with Nabila Khashoggi / giveaway
June 8 – Rockin’ Book Reviews – books spotlight / guest post with Nabila Khashoggi / guest post with Kim Patrick / giveaway
June 9 – Locks, Hooks and Books – books spotlight / giveaway
June 10 –A Mama’s Corner of the World – books spotlight / giveaway
June 14 – @twilight_reader – books spotlight
June 15 –Jazzy Book Reviews – books spotlight / guest post with Nabila Khashoggi / author interview with Kim Patrick / giveaway
June 16 –Stephanie Jane – books spotlight / giveaway
June 16 – The Adventures of a Travelers Wife – books spotlight / author interview with Nabila Khashoggi / author interview with Kim Patrick / giveaway
June 17 – Pick a Good Book – books spotlight / author interview with Nabila Khashoggi / author interview with Kim Patrick / giveaway
June 18 –Books for Books – books spotlight
June 21 – The Bespectacled Mother – books spotlight
June 22 – Lisa’s Reading – books spotlight / guest post with Nabila Khashoggi / author interview with Kim Patrick / giveaway
June 23 – Splashes of Joy – books spotlight / author interview with Nabila Khashoggi / author interview with Kim Patrick / giveaway
June 24 – Gina Rae Mitchell – books spotlight / giveaway
June 24 – I Read Kid’s Books – books spotlight / guest post with Nabila Khashoggi / guest post with Kim Patrick / giveaway
June 25 – Sefina Hawke’s Books – books spotlight
TBA – Rajiv’s Reviews – books spotlight / giveaway
And now for the wonderful giveaway Click on the link below.
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