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Sorry I've been forgetting to blog again... i just wanted to pop on and share a bit about all the fun I'm having at the moment for Halloween! M asked me to help organise things for our new rhyming book launch. It's a book set in the autumn, so isn't a Halloween-themed book. It is the THIRTEENTH book in our rhyming series, though, so we thought launching it over Halloween would be fun. Anyway, we've been drawing ourselves dressed up in our Halloween costumes, and I've been making cool FREE Printables (both ones based on the new book, and some Halloween ones). M has even promised to photograph me helping her to carve a pumpkin, if I finish off the puzzle pages I'm doing! I will add the Printables to the website later, and I promise to post any cool photographs here too! Bye for now Odd Sock xxx
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Hi everyone! Today I'm excited to share with you all a great blog post review for our book Molly Mouse and the Bear Cub! You can read the post for yourselves, on children's author K.Lamb's website, by clicking on the link below. We'd like to thank Ms Lamb for featuring our book. 😊❤️ http://klamb.net/2016/07/18/molly-mouse-and-the-bear-cub/ If any of you would like to grab a FREE eBook copy of our last book, "The Midsummer Dance", then this book will be FREE tomorrow and Wednesday (19th & 20th July). Just click on the cover picture above to go to the book's page on Amazon. We're all busy illustrating our next rhyming picture book at the moment. The words and pictures may change a bit before we have finished, but the 2 pictures above are a sneaky preview. Bye for now!
Love Odd Sock xxx Hi everyone! I wanted to pop on to wish all our US friends a very Happy 4th July! The postman just delivered the US print edition of our newest rhyming book, "The Midsummer Dance". I always get really excited when a new print book arrives, and I insist on having my photo taken next to it! M is going to help us to finish the British Edition after her week long holiday in Italy. We will also be finishing the Ragnar Rabbit 2nd print book then. (So I should be getting my picture taken with 2 more new print books soon. I can't wait!) And we have also just had our Molly Mouse and the Bear Cub rhyming book read out on the cool StoryTime Pup YouTube channel for kids. You can check that out here...
=> http://youtu.be/cjqNt0zIueY Bye for now. Love Odd Sock xxx A quick note from Melinda:We are all pretty excited today. We'd already been excited that a couple of our books were soon to be read out as part of a new YouTube channel for kids.😊 After email discussions yesterday, it now looks like the whole Top of the Wardrobe Gang picture book series have been invited to be placed for sale as Read Aloud editions, as part of a very good looking children's app on the iTunes Apple store! 😊😊 We are hoping this will get our books seen by lots more young children, and we will keep you posted! 🌟🌟🌟❤️❤️❤️ I've given the gang the task of designing their own series illustration, while I finish off the print editions for "The Bear Cub And The Ducklings"... To any young fans waiting for Book 2 in our new Ragnar Rabbit series, we promise that we are about to start illustrating that book next! ❤️ A quick #RhyPiBoMo note from Odd Sock:M's now taken me to the library, and I've picked 20 picture books to read as part of Rhyming Picture Book Month! (Don't tell M, but some of them aren't rhyming stories; I just liked the look of them!)
It's going to take me a while to read all this lot, but Burton Bear has kindly offered to help me turn the pages, as most of them are bigger than me! We are still also looking out for YouTube videos to watch of great Rhyming Picture Books being read. We all voted for our 2 favourite rhyming picture books from the ones we looked at last week, and the 2 below, Iggy Peck Architect, and Rosie Revere Engineer, both by Andrea Beaty, were the winners! Bye for now! Love Odd xxx A note from Odd Sock...Hi everyone!
We've just hit publish on the eBook version of our TENTH rhyming picture book, and I promised M that I would finally start writing a few blogposts again. As this April is also the third annual Rhyming Picture Book Month event, I thought I'd join in with the pledge and help M read 2 rhyming picture books each day. If anyone wants to join in the fun, then #RhyPiBoMo also has daily blogposts about rhyming picture books. You can find them here on Angie Karcher's blog. => https://angiekarcher.wordpress.com As I didn't want to re-read our old favourites, and our UK library sadly seems to lack many rhyming picture books, I've just been exploring YouTube. I discovered there are lots of old classics (including many Dr.Seuss books we've never seen before) as "read aloud" versions. They allow you to also read each page for yourself if you just turn the volume off and press pause as each page is revealed. Not as "hands on" as a trip to the library, but a handy modern day option when looking for 2 new rhyming picture books to read each day! 🌟 In honour of this year's Day 1 RhyPiBoMo blogpost, I thought we should check out Dr.Seuss' VERY FIRST rhyming picture book, "To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street".🌟 My verdict: Good rhyming fun, and great Dr. Seuss illustrations. You can view it on YouTube here... => http://youtu.be/8w1Wn6AVRe4 🌟"Marvin K.Mooney Will You Please Go Now!" is a second Dr. Seuss book we'd not read before. This one is a fairly short and simple picture book, but it also has some great zany Dr. Seuss illustrations.🌟 Here's the YouTube link in case anyone else wants to read or listen to this one. => http://youtu.be/2ZJP_rHnVhk Bye for now Love Odd Sock
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from Melinda 😊❤️ Hi everyone
This is just a quick note from Oscar Rabbit to let you know that I'm working on Odd Sock, and I hope to have her blogging again soon. We are just starting to make changes to our website, as we've been so busy writing and illustrating books this year that we haven't done much with it for ages. Please bear with us while we make much needed improvements. Bye for now Oscar Hi everyone! I can't believe that I've not blogged yet in December! I think my New Year's resolution needs to be to blog more often... We've had a very exciting month so far, and are all looking forward to Christmas Day - it's only a few nights away now! I've had fun helping to decorate the Christmas tree! I've helped to wrap presents and write our Christmas cards... And I've had some lovely cards and presents from my wonderful Twitter pals! (M told me off for already opening my presents, though. She says I should have waited until Christmas Day...) We've also been working on our next books. We plan to write two series of picture books. One series will be written in rhyme, which we are really happy about, as we LOVE writing in rhyme! I've been posing for M and PD Monkey to draw me for the new books! We've also been doing lots of experimenting with how we want the pictures in our new books to look. We think we might do something like this for one series. (We like the idea of bold stripes!) While the first page of our rhyming books will be something like this! Wishing you all a VERY HAPPY CHRISTMAS! Love from Odd, M and all of the Top of the Wardrobe Gang! xxx Hi everyone, Odd Sock here! This is a very quick post, as I'm in charge of today's free promotion for my Christmas book, and have lots of things to do! Here I am in my new Mission Control tent! (I got it from "Build-a-Bear" as a present from M, and I love it!) And here are the details of our official book launch event and free eBook giveaway! I can't put a nice button link to the book on here using the iPad, but you can find one near the top of our books page on this website, or at the top of the front page of the site. I'll also try writing the link here, to see what happens... Bye for now! Love, Odd xxx Hi everyone, Odd Sock here again! I'm ever so excited at the moment! The shiny copies of our new Christmas book arrived from Amazon yesterday! We are holding a giveaway of the eBook, and a competition to WIN one print copy from 31st November - 2nd December. Click on our Facebook link on the front page of our website to join in. M has put me in charge of making things for it. I've already done some colouring pages, but am now thinking of other Christmas "Top of the Wardrobe Gang" things that people might like... Here are a few of my colouring pages. What do you think? I'll add them all to our website later on. As tomorrow is THANKSGIVING over in the US, I've also been thinking of all the things I'm thankful for this year. I'm so thankful for my friends, and my family. I'm also thankful for all the amazing places I have been to, people I have met, and things that I have learnt. When M let me go with her to the Scottish Highlands earlier this year, I never imagined how much fun it would be. My second adventure of the year, and of my young life, was with M in Wales. Much more tiring than my Scottish Adventure, but just as much fun! This summer brought my biggest adventure yet. We went to the amazing tiny English island of Lundy, in North Devon. I'll soon be writing my next book about that trip. We had wonderful warm weather, and I spent a whole week wandering around the island and exploring. Two climbers I met have even named a new rock climb on the island after me! By the time we went to Spain in October, M was starting to realise that I was now always going to appear (and be begging to come) whenever I saw her packing her bags! I loved going on my first trip in an airplane! And I found lots of places to go exploring in Spain too! I've got so many things to be thankful for this year, and so many memories to treasure from it. Wishing all of our US friends a HAPPY THANKSGIVING! Love from, Odd Sock & the Top of the Wardrobe Gang xxx |
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AuthorsThe Top of the Wardrobe Gang: Oscar Rabbit, PD Monkey, Odd Sock, Burton Bear, Terry Tiger (TT), Burton Bear; helped by Melinda Kinsman Archives
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