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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.

Happy Book Birthday: Call Me Gebyanesh Plus Book Giveaway

Time to dance and sing again, dear friends! It’s time to welcome another new book to the world…a world that needs books like this more than ever before.

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Happy Book Birthday: INVENTIONS TO COUNT ON: A Celebration of Black Inventors

It’s another day to smile because we are celebrating a brand new book by Dana Marie Miroballi!!!

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Perfect Picture Book Friday: A RING FOR A KING

Happy Perfect Picture Book Friday, dear friends. When I was a kid, one of my favorite books was Baba Yaga…remember the house that stood on chicken legs and could go here and there? Folktales always capture my attention…and today’s story from Martha Seif Simpson has that folktale feel, A RING FOR A KING.

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