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November Media Roundup

Smiling. At its conference NSTA announced its Outstanding Science Trade Books and both Eat Like a Bear and Here Come the Humpbacks were on the list! Richie’s Picks reviewed Eat Like a Bear here.  I...

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Eat Like a Bear

“Sayre and Jenkins follow Vulture View (2007) with a similarly excellent study of brown bears that’s in equal parts poetic and enlightening.” -Kirkus, starred review.  

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Tips for Helping Kids Try New Foods

Preschool teachers rock! This teacher’s joy lifts my spirits every time I watch the video. While signing Rah, Rah, Radishes and Go, Go, Grapes last year in Atlanta, I met this fabulous teacher who...

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Eat Like a Bear Writing Process

See my interview with Kirkus Reviews.com Julie Danielson of Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast.

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ALA Notable For Eat Like a Bear

Raising my bowl of blueberries this morning to illustrator Steve Jenkins. Our book, Eat Like a Bear, which received three starred reviews, was  named an ALA (American Library Association) Notable Book...

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Board Book and News

Rah, Rah, Radishes! becomes a board book in the Little Simon Classic Board Book line on July 15th!   In 2015, look for Woodpecker Wham illus by Steve Jenkins (Holt )and my photo-illustrated Raindrops...

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Raindrops Roll: Miss Rumphius, Secrets & Science

Raindrops Roll comes out with Beach Lane/S&S on Jan 5, 2015.  Each photo I took has a special meaning to me and some have hidden creatures in them. So this blog covers the behind-the-scenes secrets...

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Raindrops Roll in Wall Street Journal

Greetings from here at my desk, Jan 5, 2015! “. . . we read and are refreshed by such beauty and natural simplicity,” says the Wall Street Journal of my just released photo-illustrated book, Raindrops...

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Raindrops Roll

Text and photos by April Pulley Sayre. Beach Lane Books/S&S, January, 2015. Ages 3-8. “With lyrical words and striking images, a poet, photographer, and veteran natural history writer celebrates...

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Woodpecker Wham!

Illustrated by Steve Jenkins, Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, May 12, 2014. “Repetitive onomatopoeic sounds such as ‘CHOP, CHIP, CHOP’ and ‘BONK-BONK-BONK’ combine with plentiful alliteration to...

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Florida, Raindrops Roll, Woodpecker Wham

Book love! A great review in Bookpage and a third star for Raindrops Roll (Beach Lane/S&S), this time in Publisher’s Weekly. Woodpecker Wham, with Steve Jenkins, will be released May 15 and was...

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Woodpecker Wham! and SLJ

Woodpecker Wham! was released today by Henry Holt. So excited to have this third collaboration with illustrator Steve Jenkins, thanks to Holt. (You can support our work to share nature and science with...

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NCTE, NSTA, Kirkus Raindrops Roll

Floored and thrilled that RAINDROPS ROLL was just named An Orbis Pictus Recommended Book by NCTE, the National Council of Teachers of English. This award for the best nonfiction of 2015 considers ALL...

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ALA Notables: Raindrops Roll, Woodpecker Wham

Raindrops Roll and Woodpecker Wham were both named ALA Notables! So thankful to the folks who put time and energy into serving on the ALA Notable Committee and also those on the NCTE Orbus Pictus...

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Slowest Book Ever

“The Antidote for a Hurried Childhood” was what the Huffington Post called my middle grade nonfiction book, The Slowest Book Ever (Boyds Mills Press, release in April, 2016) in a sneak peek article...

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Four New Books!

  Happy to announce four books for 2016. Go, Go, Grapes board book debuted in the Little Simon Classic Board Book line in Feb. The Slowest Book Ever, (Boyds Mills Press) came out in April. In October...

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New Book Backstory: Full of Fall

Full of Fall, my new photo-illustrated picture book, will be released by the superb team at Beach Lane/S&S  August 29 2017. Happy to say it has received three starred reviews (Publishers Weekly,...

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New Book Backstory: Warbler Wave

Warbler Wave will be released by Beach Lane, Simon & Schuster on February 13, 2018. See some spreads on S&S website. This book is the fulfillment of a dream, part of my life goal to share...

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Thank You, Earth Plus 3 New in 2019

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Being Frog

Being Frog hops into stores Feb 2, 2020! Read the Kirkus starred review. This picture book is about empathy and exploring another being’s world. Want to hear the frogs? The actual Green Frogs from...

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