I have a new picture book out

and I'm doing a bunch of events next month

I have a new picture book out. It’s called Santa’s First Christmas, and it’s illustrated by Sydney Smith. If you’d like signed or personalized copies (“great for gifts”), you can order them through East Bay Booksellers. I’ll be signing a big batch of them soon, before I head out on book tour. (More on my book tour below.)

Preorder The First Cat in Space and the Wrath of the Paperclip

The third book in the First Cat in Space series comes out on November 5. If you preorder it and submit your receipt here, the publisher will send you five (five!) paperclips featuring characters from the First Cat in Space. Shawn (Harris!) designed the paperclips and I have to say they turned out really nicely. This offer applies only to people with a US mailing address.

(🇬🇧 Special “U.K. Readers Only” section, only read this section if you’re in the U.K.—You can get these paperclips if you preorder the book through Shelf Editions. Also, Jon Klassen and I are doing some events the U.K. in late November. We don’t really know where yet but maybe we’ll see you there.)

BOOK TOUR

I’ll be on the road for most of November, first on book tour with Shawn for The First Cat in Space Live! and then for Santa’s First Christmas by myself, while, I imagine, Sydney Smith will be making multiple visits to a day spa in Halifax.

Events are here. I’d love to see you!

POSTERS

Jon Klassen and I made a Millions of Cats poster, available here, to commemorate our post about Millions of Cats over on Looking at Picture Books, our Substack where we talk about how picture books work.

OK, that’s all for now!
Mac