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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
LOVE. That and books and puppies. Recipe for a great pair of events (thanks to @oldtownbooks @wonderlandbookstagram @thebookmommy @kitonlit @annainthecity & @amyjoyce_words!), and recipe for life according to @dollyparton @btkthefrenchie and your
Bundle up & venture out this Saturday (1/31) because BOOKS MAKE EVERYTHING BETTER! Join me at Old Town Books at 9:30 am & Wonderland Books at 11:30 am for storytime, singing (Dolly Parton taught me everything I know!), and Valentine crafts!
It pains me to write these words, but yesterday our beloved Clover came to the end of her road. We adopted her from Lucky Dog rescue on New Year’s Day, 2012, but we were the lucky ones. She was the best dog ever (apologies to Penny and Lucy, bu
Just can’t get enough of @pjlibraryinnewyork and the amazing Book Fair they threw at the @92ndstreety today! I led workshops in writing and making “practice pets” and kids and adults alike brought their creative energy, as these pix
This is Philippe Petit, one of my five orchids. A couple of months ago, he had exactly two leaves and his roots were negligible. I told him, “Look, dude, you have a month. Show me some sort of sign of life.” At the end of that month, noth
Join us for the PJ Library Jewish Children’s Book Festival! This Sunday 1/11/26 at the 92ns St Y in NYC. @pjlibrary @pjlibraryinnewyork @alan_silberberg @zibbyowens @themomclub212 @92ndstreety
I am so excited to join an incredible line-up of authors and illustrators at the first-ever Jewish Children’s Book Festival with PJ Library and 92NY on Sunday, January 11! I am leading three workshops featuring my book “When Life Gives Yo
Can’t make this up. Also, for the record: not my first sign confusion incident. @espscrawl
Laughter and light, as necessary as ever… if not more so. And may I just say: even though some of his humor is dark, @alexedelman is a ray of light. A true shamesh. Happy Hanukkah!
My parents’ menorah, which they made out of souvenir liquor bottles provided by @klm airlines. #diymenorah #diyhanukkah #hanukkah
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.
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