My Books

My Substitute Teacher is a Chicken
My newest book was hatched as I started my post-marketing career as a newly minted substitute, working in a variety of schools. 
My Substitute follows Abby Hoozit as her new substitute teacher, Mrs. Gluck, does very little teaching, and a whole lot of "buk-ing" as her second-grade class falls into chaos.
Abby is absolutely convinced that her new substitute was born as an egg, and supports Mrs. Gluck as she runs amok in the school. 
The book was partly created as a reaction to my first picture book for kids, Pablo Penguin, Apprentice to Pirates. As I shared Pablo with a class of second-graders in my hometown, One of the students asked why I'd chosen a penguin as my lead character. Before I could reply, she continued, "a chicken would have been funnier". I couldn't argue with her logic.