Unveiling Pippa’s Hanukkah Hunt: A Joyful Journey Awaits!

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Today is a VERY SPECIAL DAY for several reasons!

Reason #1: It’s World Read Aloud Day! I’ll be sharing ONE GIRL’S VOICE with all of the 4th graders at P.S. 97 in the Bronx, NY.


Reason #2: Today is the anniversary of my very first published book. PIPPA’S PASSOVER PLATE, illustrated by Jill Weber and published by Holiday House, is 8 years old!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DEAR PIPPA!

And Reason #3: We are revealing the cover of Pippa’s next adventure…PIPPA’S HANUKKAH HUNT…which launches this coming fall on September 29!

Oh my goodness…I LOVE this cover…and I hope you do, too!
Jill Weber, the illustrator, really knows what young kids love! Her art is JOYFUL! I’m so excited for children to turn the pages and discover the MYSTERY of the Missing Potatoes. There are clues for the reader on every page, not in the text, but in the illustrations. Great picture book illustrators somehow find a way to show other layers to the story in the pictures…I’m grateful to Jill!

This wonderful book will be flying onto bookstore shelves on September 29…delighting children with Pippa’s search for the missing potatoes. Because Hanukkah is coming and Pippa wants to make potato latkes for all of her friends – and SOMEONE has been taking all of the potatoes.

Do you love Pippa? Did you enjoy the first book? While we wait for the new book to launch, there are a few things followers of Pippa can do:
1. Pre-order the book: At any local bookstore or on Amazon
2. Review the book on Goodreads
3. Ask your local library to purchase copies of the book
4. Tell your friends (Sharing this post on your social media REALLY helps!)

I also wanted to thank folks who have been reviewing ONE GIRL’S VOICE. In my previous blog post, I mentioned that even though that book is a finalist for a Golden Kite in the nonfiction for younger readers category and has received other awards and accolades, it only had 35 reviews on Amazon as of a week ago. After my post, 9 more reviews appeared…THANK YOU to everyone who left early reviews or recent ones! Remember, it’s never too late to review a book! It’s such a worthy book, I hope there will be more reviews. And I will let you all know what happens on Friday night when the SCBWI Golden Kite winners and honor books are announced.

Please make sure you return on Saturday when the Heads-Up-The-Contest-Is-Coming-Soon post goes live…with the huge list of INCREDIBLE prizes for the 2026 #50PreciousWords International Writing Contest. I and my awesome judges, Maria Marshall, Carmen Castillo Gilbert, Leah Moser, Pamela Courtney, Amber Bouchard, Shirin Shamsi, and Diane Tulloch, are so excited to read all of your precious words!

I hope you have a wonderful rest of the week…and find joy in every day, no matter how challenging it may be.

28 thoughts on “Unveiling Pippa’s Hanukkah Hunt: A Joyful Journey Awaits!”

  2. Congratulations, again and again and again for all your author successes! Pippa’s new cover is delightful…the introduction to a want to pick up and read book. Vivian, everything you write comes from that giving heart of yours. You are amazing: a bright light and friend to many.

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    • And thank you again and again and again, dear friend, for being in my corner! I’m so glad you love the cover of the new PIPPA…and guess what? I have a third companion story and hopefully, my agent will want to see it and will send it out.

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    • Oh my goodness…I’ll never forget the fun we all had in Bologna! Was it really 8 years ago? I’d love to get to the Bologna Book Fair again…and meet up. I did have a meet up with Simona 2 years ago when I was in Basel – I went on a Rhine River cruise from Basel to Amsterdam with a local writer friend – Simona met us at a coffee shop in the Old Town and it was wonderful!

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  17. What a delightful cover, Vivian! Looking forward to getting Pippa’s Hanukkah Hunt for all the latke lovers I know. Mazel Tov on all your picture book successes.

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