Water Sings Blue Giveaway Winner

I'm sad that National Poetry Month is over, but I'm happy to announce a winner for the Water Sings Blue giveaway jointly sponsored by Book Aunt, Chronicle Books, and ReaderKidZ.

We had a number of great ocean haiku, so thank you to everyone who wrote one. Our winner of the haiku drawing actually wrote two, both about flying fish. Let's hear it for Bridget R. Wilson! Here are her poems again:

A plane, no a bird
Incorrect...water and fins
It's a flying fish

Jumping and leaping
Flying fish always go left
The best of both worlds

(I will be contacting Bridget to get her address so Chronicle can send out the book.)

On a related poetry note, here's the link to the entire Progressive Poem. Thanks again to Irene Latham for coming up with such a fun and creative April project!

Springy Giveaway Winner

Daffodils don't grow very well here in Southern California for lack of a winter, but I have a pot of mini-daffs on my window sill and a daffodil screensaver up on my computer. I will confess, in the interest of veracity, not smugness, that the tree by my front gate is blooming like a bride. Which gives me L.A. guilt as I read the news on the Internet about drivers on Lake Shore Drive in Chicago being stuck in the snow and about the blizzards on the East Coast. Anyway, spring being here is clearly some kind of illusion, or, as Amy of Amy's Library of Rock put it in the comments, "Okay, silly California person with your warped science fiction climate!" But you can at least wish and hope for spring, and for daffodils, even with snow piled up to the rafters, right?

In any case, we have a winner! Saskmom will be receiving a signed copy of my picture book, The Secret-Keeper.

And the Summer Giveaway Winner Is...

That would be Bridget, a children's librarian from Tennessee! Bridget said that the summer books she's looking forward to reading this summer are:

1. The Inside Story by Michael Buckley (Sisters Grimm)
2. The Case of the Gypsy Goodbye by Nancy Springer (Enola Holmes)
3. The God of the Hive by Laurie R. King (Mary Russell)

I've happily read The Case of the Gypsy Goodbye, the final book in Springer's terrific series of mysteries starring Sherlock Holmes's cool-headed, much younger runaway sister, and I've recently been reading Laurie R. King's Holmes-inspired books for grown-ups, as well. Great picks!

And now Bridget will be the proud owner of my books, The Secret-Keeper, The Runaway Princess (which she's already read), and The Runaway Dragon. Congratulations to Bridget, and happy summer reading to you all!