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      SKATEBOARD MOM (Putnam, 2004) is about a boy who gets a skateboard for his birthday only to see his mom zoom off with it and become a skateboard goddess in the process. An excerpt:

       She didn't seem to hear me.
       Her eyes were kind of glazed.
       She kept saying, "AWESOME!"
       She was skateboard c r a z e d !

  Scroll down to see some of the fun illustrations artist JoAnn Adinolfi came up with for the book! 
  

 
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My second book SMASH! MASH! CRASH! THERE GOES THE TRASH was published in October 2006 with Margaret K. McElderry Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster.
 
SMASH!, a rhyming picture book about a day in the life of a trash truck, was illustrated by award-winning artist Will Hillenbrand. The reviews have been great! (Read all about them on my blog.)

My third book, CRITTER CAFE, will be published by McElderry/Simon & Schuster in June 2008. Lee White's illustrations are fantastic!
 
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"An awesome read!"--Copley News Service
"A delightful ode!" --Miami Herald
"Dynamic, quirky" --School Library Journal
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