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Picture Books
How Carrot and Cookie Saved Christmas
Billy the Kid Dances His Heart Out
Billy the Kid Comes Home for Christmas
Billy the Kid Makes it Big
The Ninth Night of Hanukkah
The Three Little Guinea Pigs
Goatilocks
When Carrot Met Cookie
Ferocious Fluffity
Totally Tardy Marty
King of the Zoo
Dotty
Chicken Butt's Back
Chicken Butt!
Ninety Three In My Family
Chicken Bedtime Is Really Early
Early Readers & Chapter Books
Whale Quail Snail
The Lucky Dogs
Truth or Lie
Arnold and Louise
Craftily Ever After
Novels
White Bird: A Novel
The Festival of Lights
All Three Stooges
The Capybara Conspiracy
Aces Wild
When Life Gives You O.J.
Vintage Veronica
Visits
Resources

Erica S. Perl

About
Picture Books
How Carrot and Cookie Saved Christmas
Billy the Kid Dances His Heart Out
Billy the Kid Comes Home for Christmas
Billy the Kid Makes it Big
The Ninth Night of Hanukkah
The Three Little Guinea Pigs
Goatilocks
When Carrot Met Cookie
Ferocious Fluffity
Totally Tardy Marty
King of the Zoo
Dotty
Chicken Butt's Back
Chicken Butt!
Ninety Three In My Family
Chicken Bedtime Is Really Early
Early Readers & Chapter Books
Whale Quail Snail
The Lucky Dogs
Truth or Lie
Arnold and Louise
Craftily Ever After
Novels
White Bird: A Novel
The Festival of Lights
All Three Stooges
The Capybara Conspiracy
Aces Wild
When Life Gives You O.J.
Vintage Veronica
Visits
Resources
Everywhere, I tell ya! DC metro subway car coming home from seeing @alexedelman at @sixthandi? Check! #bananasofmyrun @metroforward
I am loving #abstractadvent2025. I particularly like how it inspires A to B to C thinking, and how each shape can go in so many directions (as seen by these examples from days when I felt inspired to do a bonus round). I also love seeing what everyon
Really enjoying #abstractadvent2025! Not too late to join us - take the plunge. @artpedagogy
Know someone (your partner, say?!) who likes to court disaster on the daily? Please add your person’s death-defying acts in the comments! #bike #bicycle #citybike #seriouslydude #bikingintrafficwithairpodsisjustplaindumb
I am overjoyed to share that Dolly Parton’s BILLY THE KID DANCES HIS HEART OUT, the third book in Dolly Parton’s BILLY THE KID series, is out today! In it, Billy falls in puppy love. Will he get his dance moves down and his confidence up?
Your assignment: take a few - or a lot of - minutes and draw something today. And tomorrow. And every day. Let @artpedagogy inspire you via #abstractadvent2025 and share (or don’t). Just do it.
Our family’s favorite night-before-Thanksgiving tradition! Many thanks to @shreve.elizabeth & @rustygreiff (and Lola, of course)
I gotta say, I was at the dermatologist today and the posters were EVEN WEIRDER. #doctorsoffice
Two dogs. Two very different takes on food.
(This is also a callback to a family joke. “Who’d want to eat Gloria’s food?”) @aarongoodisman
Cone-free time: brief but blissful. #coneofshame #coneofshameproblems
Want a rock? I can hook you up. Come to Wonderland Books at 10:30 am Saturday 11/22! Storytime, crafts, and a rocking good time. @wonderlandbookstagram
Psst! This needs to stay IN THE CONE. (Penny gets it.) #inthecone #coneofsilence #coneofshame #cone
Anyone else being driven crazy by the offensive stereotypes, one-dimensional characters, and terrible writing… yet unable to stop tuning in for more?!?! #askingforafriend #nobodywantsthis
No banana peel was involved, but an older lady fell off the curb across the street from me this morning. She’s at the hospital now, and I wish her a speedy recovery. Her last name is Sweet - if anyone in my neighborhood knows her, please contac
Last night’s classic film, The Apartment, starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine, condensed into four panels by @espscrawl’s crackerjack film review team. No spoilers! Watch it tonight!
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