Pippa's Night Parade Blog Tour (review & giveaway)

Pippa’s Night Parade 

By Lisa Robinson 

Illustrated by Lucy Fleming 

October 8, 2019 

Two Lions 

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Pippa’s wonderfully wild imagination is perfect for dreaming up wildly adorable creations. But at night, her imagination runs a little too wild. That’s when the villains and monsters and beasts sneak out of her storybooks to scare her. Pippa tries everything: from night-lights to triple knots to clever disguises. But when the baddies keep coming, she realizes she’ll need to come up with something new. To prepare for this battle, Pippa will have to use everything she’s got—especially that wild imagination. Ready or not, here she comes! 

Pippa’s awesome imagination is usually a great thing, except at night when it runs wild and conjures up scary things. What can fierce, smart Pippa do? Can she figure out how to use her imagination to make the scary things not so scary? 

Lisa Robinson’s Pippa’s Night Parade is a wondrously and wildly delightful picture book, about the power of imagination, creativity, and overcoming fears, starring a most lovable and unforgettable heroine! 

Robinson weaves together exciting and sweet storytelling, fun word choices, and pitch-perfect laughs to create a whimsically amusing tale that will charm little readers. Both Pippa and readers learn a valuable lesson about the power and wonder of imagination. Lucy Fleming perfectly captures Pippa’s wild world, through the most adorable, brightly colored, and sweetly detailed illustrations. 

Readers will fall in love with this magical story and the precocious Pippa, and will want to read Pippa’s Night Parade again and again! 

Lisa Robinson was born in Kampala, Uganda, to Peace Corps volunteers who later became world-traveling diplomats. When she was a child, her family moved frequently, so books became her best friends. She now works as a psychiatrist and writer. She holds an MFA in creative writing for young people from Lesley University. She is also the author of Pirates Don’t Go to Kindergarten!, illustrated by Eda Kaban, and has more books forthcoming. She lives in Massachusetts with her family and three cats. Learn more about the author at www.author-lisa-robinson.com, or on Twitter: @elisaitw. 

 Lucy Fleming, like Pippa, has a wonderfully wild imagination, which she uses to create illustrations for children’s books. She has illustrated more than twenty titles, including River Rose and the Magical Christmas by Kelly Clarkson and For the Beauty of the Earth by Folliott Sandford Pierpoint, which was a Junior Library Guild Selection. She is a graduate of the University of Lincoln in England. She lives and works in a small town in England with a cup of ginger tea in hand and her cat close by. Learn more about the illustrator at www.lucyflemingillustrations.com. 

Instagram: @illustratelucy 

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Pirates Don't Go to Kindergarten Blog Tour: review & giveaway

Pirates Don’t Go To Kindergarten 

By Lisa Robinson 

Illustrated by Eda Kaban 

August 1, 2019 

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Yo, ho, ho! It’s a mutiny against kindergarten! 

Pirate Emma is about to start kindergarten! But Emma’s not so sure she’s ready for a new captain and crew. Especially since Cap’n Chu—the roughest, toughest, awesomest preschool cap’n ever—is right down the hall. So Emma decides to head back to the preschool ship to see if she can stir up a mutiny against kindergarten! Is that what she really wants? Or does she just miss her beloved Cap’n Chu? Batten down the hatches, mateys, because the first day of school is going to be stormy! 

Pirate Emma is not so sure about kindergarten. Her new classroom is kind of neat, but just not the same without her awesome preschool teacher, Cap’n Chu. So what’s a pirate to do? Sail back to preschool, of course! Can Cap’n Chu and some of Emma’s new mateys help her come around to kindergarten? 

Pirates Don’t Go To Kindergarten is a charming, laugh-out-loud picture book with a helpful message. Lisa Robinson’s clever use of pirate lingo, her pitch-perfect voice, and sweetly relatable story will delight and captivate little readers. Transitioning from preschool to kindergarten can be daunting and hard, and Robinson explores this monumental time with whimsical humor and encouraging heart. Eda Kaban wonderfully brings the story to life through colorful, engaging illustrations, full of fun details and expressive characters.

With lively text, amusing word choices, entertaining illustrations, and an ever spunky heroine, Pirates Don’t Go To Kindergarten is a shipload of fun! 

Lisa Robinson was born in Kampala, Uganda, to volunteers of the Peace Corps who later became world-traveling diplomats. When she was a child, her family moved frequently, so books became her best friends. She now works as a psychiatrist and writer. She holds an MFA in creative writing for young people from Lesley University. Pirates Don't Go to Kindergarten! is her debut picture book, and she has more books forthcoming, including Pippa's Night Parade, illustrated by Lucy Fleming. She lives in Massachusetts with her scientist husband, two daughters, and three cats. Learn more at her website, or on Twitter: @elisaitw. 

 Eda Kaban was born and raised in Turkey. Her travels brought her to the United States, where she studied illustration. Her work can be seen in galleries from San Francisco to New York and in a variety of publications. Her recent children’s books include We Are Brothers, We Are Friends by Alexandra Penfold and Pink Is for Boys by Robb Pearlman. Her illustrations have been recognized by the Society of Illustrators, Creative Quarterly, American Illustration, and 3x3. She lives with her husband and their two Siamese cats in Oakland, California, where they continually water their plants too much. Learn more about the artist at www.edakabanstudio.com. 

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