Deborah Diesen

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Welcome! You’ve arrived at the web site of children’s book author Deborah Diesen. My new book The Barefooted, Bad-Tempered Baby Brigade, illustrated by Tracy Dockray and published by Tricycle Press, is now available. The book is funny and silly, but it’s also a sentimental story in disguise, complete with a snuggly ending.  Booklist calls it "a great early read-aloud, with a thumping, rhythmic text that kids will want to hear many times over."  And School Library Journal says it's "great fun."

My book The Pout-Pout Fish, a rhyming children's picture book illustrated by the very talented Dan Hanna and published by Farrar Straus Giroux, spent two weeks on The New York Times Book Review Children's Picture Book Best Sellers list and was named by Time Magazine as One of the Ten Best Children's Books of 2008. I was truly honored when The Pout-Pout Fish was selected as the 2009 Michigan Reads title.  A sequel to The Pout-Pout Fish, called The Pout-Pout Fish In The Big-Big Dark, will be published by FSG in August 2010

Here at my site, there's an area just for kids (and the young at heart) where you can play word games and download a fish-themed fortune-teller (a.k.a. a "cootie catcher"). Other areas of my site have book info and free Pout-Pout activity sheet downloads for home, bookstore, and library use.  You can also find my bio and my appearances schedule. I’ve also put together a list of some of the many water-related children’s books written or illustrated by Michigan writers and artists. This book list may be of use in developing Michigan “Make A Splash” 2010 summer reading story times.

In addition to my site, I have a blog called Jumping the Candlestick. At my blog, you'll find updates and current information about me.  In addition, most Mondays on my blog, I run a profile of of a Michigan children's book author or illustrator. The writers and illustrators of Michigan constitute one of its great natural resources, so I always enjoy featuring one on my blog.

To send me a message, or to arrange a school, bookstore, or library visit, click here.

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