I'm happy to report that: 

Brave Girl was featured in  Picture Books as a Springboard to Teaching About Labor Unions in the National Council for the Social Studies magazine Social Studies and the Young Learner (Sept./Oct. '15) and the book was named a 2015-2016 Teacher Recommended Book by the California Teachers Association (featured in Educator (Aug.'15).

Tablet Magazine called Brave Girl one of the best children's books for teaching kids about labor in this September 2015 post.

The ALSC named Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909 (Dreamscape Media) a 2015 Notable Children's Video.

The Fantastic Jungles of Henri Rousseau will be published in Chinese, Japanese and Hebrew. At the Eerdlings blog you can read how Amanda Hall and yours truly created the book.

Classes

UCLA Extension's Writers' Program
Writing the Picture Book: A Beginning Workshop
Mondays, 6:30-9:30 pm
April 28 - June 9, 2014

Events

Writer in Residence
Crossroads Elementary School
Santa Monica, California
February 25 - 26, 2014

UCLA Extension's Writers' Program

Writing for Children: A Beginning Workshop
Mondays, 6:30-9:30 pm
October 28 - December 9, 2013

UCLA Extension Writers Faire
August 25, 2013
11-3 pm
Panel: Writing for the Youth Market

August 2, 2013
Sparkling Nonfiction Picture Books (Breakout Session)
SCBWI National Summer Conference

April 13, 2013
12 - 4 pm
Writing Nonfiction That Rocks (Workshop)
SCBWI British Isles
Theodore Bullfrog Pub, London

April 6, 2013
12 pm - 1:30 pm
Writing Workshop for Kids, Ages 9 - 12
American Library in Paris

December 1, 2012
Co-presenter of Workshop,
"Writing for Zombies and More"
826LA Echo Park

UCLA Extension Writers Faire
August 26, 2012
11-3 pm
Panel: Writing for the Youth Market