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This book is phenomenal! The pictures and quality of the pages are outstanding, and its uniqueness makes it that much more special! I hope as my little boy grows, this book will help him realize just how loved and special he really is! Personalized Book by barbara. Personalized Book by Amy. Definitely a forever keepsake! Personalized Book by Dana. I am half way on these books. First of all they are very expensive!!! Not sure why so much when there is not really much to them.

They are cute and some are better than others. Need to come out with more options New books! I See Me Editor's Note: Thank you for your feedback. We are always working to improve the quality of our products and add more titles. Personalized Book by Patty. Just gave my granddaughter this book for her 1st birthday and it brought tears to everyone's eyes! The words and illustrations were so beautiful! Just having family names in the story even the dog made it one of the most precious gifts!

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I would definitely tell a friend! Personalized Book by Karen C. Gave this book to my Granddaughter, age 2. She absolutely loved it. I would recommend this book to anybody. Personalized Book by Leslie Frank. I love this book. Bought it for my grandson. When I read it on line it made me cry. I think he will always treasure it. Personalized Book by Crystal. Personalized Book by Karyn Long. My 2 year old granddaughter absolutely loves this book. In the past, when reading books to her, she always asked, "Where'S Bliss? Will definitely buy another one soon.

Personalized Book by Korey L. Just received the book in the mail and I am very satisfied. I ordered it for my friends daughter. The quality of the book is excellent. I loved how you could personalize it and all other loved ones names. I'm sure baby Kacey will love it! Personalized Book by Jamie. I am still waiting on my book I ordered over a month ago. The shipping company lost it. After I contacted the company they said they would reprint and send out. Hoping I get it by christmas as this is a very special present for my expecting sister. Unfortunalely we had some issues wiht FedEx this yeat.

We are glad you were able to contact customer service and get the reprint done! Personalized Book by Laurie. Personalized Book by Megan Molleron. I love this book and the story my only wish was that it had more people to add that love the baby. I think it allowed 7 or 8 they really should make it up to 12 or 10 at least.

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Personalized Book by Irene. Who Loves me is a perfect gift. I was more than happy when I received it. High quality, well made--excellent quality. Personalized Book by Kristen. It was a perfect and special gift that he can have forever and I was beyond thrilled with it. I will definitely be ordering more books!

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Personalized Book by Deb. Bought it for our 1st grand baby and although she is too young to know if she likes it her parents LOVE it and so do we - can't wait to read it to her! Personalized Book by Troy. This is the third and fourth book I have ordered. They are great and were well received by my children and grandchildren. They want me to read the books to them when I visit.

Personalized Book by Jeannie Messantonio. We ordered this personalized book for our most cherished first grandson Peyton. It is so wonderful, including all the people who love him in our family. Personalized Book by Valerie. I also had a "who loves" book made absolutely fantastic. What a beautiful way to keep reminding bub how so many people truly love him. Personalized Book by Donna K. Even though I ordered the book for our 9 month old grandson, it still made me cry the first time I read it. Personalized Book by Marti. LOVED the book; truly a memorable, wonderful creation.

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Thank you for this special beautiful book. Personalized Book by Libby MacDuffee. I ordered this book for my Great Niece who is two. It is adorable and such a wonderful and unique gift! No one in my family had seen this or thought of this idea, so I was the creative Great Aunt who sent a unique and very welcome gift! Personalized Book by Bonnie. Thank you so much. You will make Christmas so fun and memorable when I give these books to my grandchildren!!!! I will definitely purchase from your company again!!!!

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The book was darling and the quality was great. Perfect for what I was wanting to make for my grandson. Personalized Book by Ingrid. I ordered this book for my Godson and love it! I thought it looked really nice online and it's even more beautiful in person. Personalized Book by Carol. Personalized Book by Terri. I ordered this book for my grandaughter's 3rd birthday. It is adorable and will make a darling keepsake.

I was very happy with it. Personalized Book by Donna. I order this for a first birthday The illustrations are beautiful and the story line was lovely. I ordered the "Who Loves Me? Everyone, young and old, who read the book was awestruck! Needed customer service and the rep provided stellar service!

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Personalized Book by Erik M. Bought this for both of my girls. I have a 2 and a 3 year old and my 3 year old loved it and loved to see her photo in her very own book. My 2 year old was not as excited but still loves to see the pictures and listen to it being read to her. Personalized Book by Christina.

I ordered this for my nephew for his baptism and it was loved by all of our family! Very cute book and I was able to include a lot of family members. Personalized Book by Rhonda. I'm showing it off to all my friends. Have always been extremely satisfied with your products, but so far, this is my favorite!

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And can't believe how fast it arrived. Personalized Book by Veronica B. Personalized Book by Mary Frey. Personalized Book by Nancy. I absolutly loved this book. It said it would be here in 2 weeks which was close to my nephews birthday, however I got it in 1 week. I was so happy. Then it was pointed out that I had the month wrong -: So I called I see me and they helped me get another copy even tho it was after his birthday I was very happy, the people were very friendly and helpful.

Personalized Book by Laura. I got this book for my daughter for Easter. I can't wait until I can read it to her, she is going to love it!! Personalized Book by CarlaS. Bought this book for my Granddaughter's first birthday. The quality is exceptional. I will be ordering again: I still haven't received my product. It's going on 2 weeks. Please contact customer service immediately.

Shipping to Canada typically takes weeks because it is an international shipment coming from the US. Personalized Book by Kelly R. Personalized Book by Anna. I gave this book for Baptism and I included all the family members in it. The pages are colorful, well made, and lets the little one know that they are so loved! I will continue to purchase books as they really make the child feel so special. Personalized Book by Rose. Ordered for my first grandchild and can't wait to read it to him!!!

Arrived in a timely fashion and was a big surprise for my son and daughter-in-law. They love this book too!! Personalized Book by Elizabeth Corr. I ordered this book for each of my granddaughters for their first birthday. Their parents love them and I know the girls will cherish them. When I received the books, one arrived without my granddaughter's photo. I contacted customer service and a new book arrived within a week. This company provides a quality product and their customer service is outstanding!

Personalized Book by Emily. The message and illustrations are beautiful and the personalization makes it that much more special. Personalized Book by Nana Col. I ordered this for my Granddaughter Lucia Grace. These are such Beautifully written books that Lucia will cherish for many many years Shipping is quick and I can't wait for more Grandchildren to order for Thank You for a first class gift. Personalized Book by Stoutgreyhounds. Chose this book for a child with an unusual name.

She can never find anything with her name on it, so this was a big hit. The book is good quality and nice content but definitely on the high price side. Personalized Book by carla chodkowski. Ordered this for my granddaughter for her 1st birthday coming in Nov. Our side of the family lives miles away and don't get to see her as much as we would love to.

Hope she will know that we all love her very much! Personalized Book by Kelly. This is the cutest book. My 5 year old son will love it. I can't wait to give it to him! Personalized Book by Connie. I bought it for my granddaughter. I wish I could afford to buy more. The 10 dollar coupon that was sent with the book was a big help when I bought the coloring book. Personalized Book by Tracy Schuermann. My grandson loves looking at the illustrations!! The are so colorful and I think it's neat that you can have any name added to the wording!!

Personalized Book by Rebekah S. Bought this book for a grand child. They were extremely happy with the book. Well worth the money! Personalized Book by R from Wa. It's the second book I have ordered. It is the cutest book and such a nice personal gift to give. Personalized Book by Cindy. Personalized Book by Rebecca Soltes. I bought this book as a Christmas present for my mom to read to my son. It's an adorable rhyming story that reinforces who loves your child, nephew, sibling, etc. I was also extremely impressed by the quailty of the book itself.

It's a hard cover, with cute illustrations. I received it A LOT earlier than expected. This is the second time I have ordered a book for my two girls and once again, I am thrilled with my purchase! I bought it as a Christmas gift for my neice's newborn and everyone thought it was the cutest gift. They all loved it. I was very pleased with the book, the delivery It arrived within 1 week and the price. Pirate Emma is about to start kindergarten. So Emma decides to sail back to preschool and stir up a mutiny against kindergarten.

Is that what she really wants? Batten down the hatches, mateys, because the first day of school is going to be stormy! My daughters loved their preschool teachers and had a hard time saying goodbye to them. When I want to process something with my kids, I look for a book to use for discussion. So I decided to write one. What did you think when you saw how Eda Kaban brought your story to life? I was so impressed with her vision for the book.

I love how she made Emma such an expressive, lively, assertive character. What also amazed me was how Eda handled the interplay of fantasy and reality. Every time Emma leaves her kindergarten classroom and runs back to the preschool classroom, Eda portrays Emma as swimming through the ocean. This creates a delightful visual refrain. It was a long haul. Soon after that, I signed with my agent Alyssa Eisner Henkin. I was picturing her doing a Tarzan swing while I was illustrating the interiors.

She has such a big and strong character that I thought she should be doing something big and dynamic on the cover as well. I originally had her swinging on a rope in a pirate scene rather than kindergarten but our art director and editor had the input to have her in a classroom setting to tie up the concept more strongly.

And with that feedback, the cover sketch came together. What was your process for developing this distinctive and spunky pirate girl? I fell in love with Emma the moment I read the manuscript. I could visualize her spunky attitude and I started sketching her out right away. I could see myself as a kid in her so it was easy to get into character and animate her in different poses. I created a lot of rough sketches. Luckily everyone loved the designs when I presented her. I spent 4 hard working years at art school.

Next big challenge was breaking into the industry. About a year after art school, I signed with my current agent and only a week after that, I was offered my first book deal. Leave a comment below for a chance to enter—one entry per person, please. A winner will be chosen soon! November 6, in Picture Books Tags: The story was a crowd-pleaser, and several editors expressed interest and invited me to follow up with a submission.

In , one of those editors took the manuscript to her editorial meeting, and then to acquisitions. She was extremely enthusiastic about the story, and I felt confident a contract offer was on the horizon. But that was not to be. I was thrown by the emotional roller coaster of being so close to making my first sale, then having it fall apart, but I refused to give up on the story. I continued submitting it and bringing it to conferences for awhile, but eventually my focus shifted to new stories and new submissions.

I never stopped loving it. Fast forward to I was grateful for the opportunity. I gladly contributed a story for the project and actively participated in the promotional events for the book. During my time in the booth, I got to know some of the folks at Graphic Arts and familiarized myself with their regionally-focused list.

I wish I had a manuscript with a regional theme that I could submit to them. Over the course of the next year, I continued wishing that I had a book that was a good fit for Graphic Arts. Not surprisingly, wishing did not make it so. I challenged myself to replace the pirate character with a different character, and the idea of a cowboy soon came to mind. I, too, disagreed with the assessment that only boys would be interested in a Pirate Potty book, but this time as I re-read those words, a new question emerged: What about a cowgirl?

I found myself immediately transported to a time when my college-aged daughter was in grade school, and her wardrobe included a bright pink pair of cowgirl boots. I paged through old photos and found the one I was looking for: A photo of my daughter dressed-up for her western-themed grade school carnival.

And all of a sudden and about a dozen years later I had two potty stories I loved, one with a decidedly western theme. I identified several publishers that might be a good fit for Cowgirl, and I developed a submission plan. Graphic Arts Books was at the top of the list. They loved that story, too. Dawn loves to travel and has visited thousands of potties across the Pacific Northwest and around the world.

Learn more at dawnprochovnic. You may have seen some garbled gobbledygook like this:. Covers in general are always a challenge—a lot of questions go through my mind. Because this book features a circus school, I knew that I wanted the cover to reference vintage circus memorabilia in some way—a nod to the past, but with a modern update. So I went back to the drawing table and I decided to take a more decorative approach.

One thing I noticed in my research was a consistent use of graphic patterns and simple shapes. Once the publisher approved of my second attempt, everything was pretty easy at that point—I arranged the elements around the central focus, the blackboard, and passed my artwork off to the folks at Tundra after I was finished for them to add the title.

Although covers generally go through a lot of back and forth, I am so happy with where it ended up. I wanted the end result to hint at the exciting nature of the story inside, so hopefully it does just that! I knew I wanted the interior to use a lot of black and white elements, so that was easy to nail down.

I had originally chosen a yellow and blue color, but we decided to add pink into the mix to round it out—basically the primary colors but with a twist. Did you go to the circus as a kid? What was your favorite part of the circus? I went to the circus once as a kid with my mother and three sisters. I remember being really excited to see the performances, but my favorite part was actually the costumes. I loved that everyone looked different, but at the same time they were all part of a big family.

There were a lot of patterns and colors in interesting combinations which is always something I have tried to incorporate into my own illustration work. I still love looking at old images of the circus for inspiration, there is a lot of great design that was used to promote the circus during those early years.

Melissa, you did a stupendous job on the cover! Thanks for showing us your process to get there! You can pre-order now… online or via your local indie…and if you do, leave a comment telling me so. October 30, in Picture Books Tags: I meant to have Stacy on the blog then to talk about her newest book. But the website went down, I had conferences and school visits, and my plans were sunburned to a crisp.

EARTH was not pitched as a series. When we sold the book to Henry Holt, it was a two-book deal but the only requirement for book 2 was that it needed to be funny nonfiction. Once EARTH was a finished book, we knew we had something special, and the publisher wanted to do more. And I wanted to do more! I just wish scientists would make up their collective mind! But I recently read about a new study that wants to change the planet definition again currently, the IAU—International Astronomical Union—sets the rules and that would allow Pluto back into the group.

For now, I will say Pluto is a dwarf planet and a loyal dog to Mickey. EARTH emerged from the wreckage of a failed project. My critique group hated it. I was trying to tell a story about time and how humans are here for just a blink in geological terms. When I talked to my publisher about doing more books, I pitched Sun, Moon, and Mars—all are extremely interesting.

I would have had a hard time making that choice. If you could be any planet, star or other object in the universe, who would YOU be? Moon is a bit too familiar.

Mars is the right balance of mysterious and recognizable. They'll have to figure out how to stop bickering before the killer makes them his next victims. Crick Francis found his true love at the age of 8: But Crick is sure he'll never be good enough for Deacon, and Deacon is too painfully shy to admit his own attraction. When they finally come together as adults, a misunderstanding leads Crick to make an impulsive decision that could tear them apart forever.

Michael Warner has been dead inside ever since he lost his lover in a car crash. Their young daughter, too, is mourning her other father. But Michael begins to wake up when he meets Rebecca O'Neill, a former actress who's dealing with her own devastating losses. But her dream job is jeopardized when she falls for rugged footman Mack Danvers — after all, the help mustn't get involved with each other. Francine Rivers retells the Biblical story of Hosea, setting it in Gold Rush California and turning the Old Testament prophet into a sympathetic rancher who heeds a divine calling to marry an abused prostitute.

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She just wants to have a little fun with studly young cop Hunter Anderson. Neither of them sees a future together Elizabeth Petre, the daughter of a prime minister, is a perfect Victorian wife, but her charms are lost on her cold, indifferent husband. Determined to win him over, she asks for lessons in seduction from the notorious Ramiel, who calls himself the Bastard Sheikh. At first enraged by her request, Ramiel eventually takes on the task, with the aid of The Perfumed Garden , a classic collection of Arabic erotica.

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