About viviankirkfield

Writer for children - Reader forever - Mom of 3, educator, author of FOUR OTTERS TOBOGGAN: AN ANIMAL COUNTING BOOK (PomegranateKids, PIPPA'S PASSOVER PLATE (Holiday House), SWEET DREAMS, SARAH (Creston Books); MAKING THEIR VOICES HEARD: THE INSPIRING FRIENDSHIP OF ELLA FITZGERALD AND MARILYN MONROE (Little Bee Books); FROM HERE TO THERE: INVENTIONS THAT CHANGED THE WAY THE WORLD MOVES (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Jan 19, 2021); PEDAL, BALANCE, STEER: Annie Londonderry, First Woman to Bike Around the World (Calkins Creek/Astra, Feb 20, 2024) picture book junkie, lover of travel, hiking, fly-fishing, cooking, and playing Monopoly with my grandson.

Cover Reveal: DARK SKIES – Another #50PreciousWords Success Story

Posted on May 5, 2025 by viviankirkfield

Hello dear friends! Today we have one of my favorite posts…a book cover reveal. And it’s especially meaningful to me because this story was a #50PreciousWords prize winner in 2023. Read on to find out exactly how this happened – author Lindsey Hobson stopped by to chat with us. PLUS, I’m also attaching the flyer for #50PreciousWordsforKids because today is the first day of Children’s Book Week – and as always, I’m inviting parents and teachers to email me their children’s stories which will be posted on my blog for Mother’s Day next Sunday.
But for now, let’s welcome Lindsey!

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Perfect Picture Book Friday: I WILL ALWAYS BE

Posted on May 2, 2025 by viviankirkfield

Happy Perfect Picture Book Friday, dear friends.
This has been a busy blog week…We had posts on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and now, Friday. Plus, I am the guest blogger over at the Official SCBWI blog for the month of May – and my first post went live yesterday: https://scbwi.blogspot.com/2025/05/just-do-it-why-i-love-writing-contests.html it’s a 5-minute read and so I hope you’ll pop over there after you read this wonderful Perfect Picture Book Friday post:

Truly, our country and our world are facing challenging times…and books like today’s feature, I WILL ALWAYS BE, are more important than ever. And we are so lucky because author Rebecca Levington stopped by to share a bit about the story behind the story.

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Cover Reveal: GROUCHO, THE GROUCHY GROUNDHOG

Posted on May 1, 2025 by viviankirkfield

I really love cover reveals…it always feels like an unveiling of a masterpiece at an art museum. So much talent and hard work and planning go into the creation of a cover for a book…and I’m THRILLED to be part of this celebration for author Lydia Lukidis and illustrator Tara Hannon for their upcoming graphic chapter book. So let’s lift the curtain and reveal this wonderful cover for…GROUCHO, THE GROUCHY GROUNDHOG! And let’s welcome Lydia and Tara!

LYDIA AND TARA: Thanks for having us on your blog, Vivian!

Tara and I are super excited to reveal the cover for upcoming early reader graphic novel that we started working on ages ago…GROUCHO THE GROUCHY GROUNDHOG!

What’s the graphic novel about?

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