Bookshelf Detective by Kim Tomsic: nonfiction

Bookshelf Detective by Kim Tomsic

A Tribute to Richard Peck

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Monday, May 8, 2023

The Elephants Come Home: A True Story of Seven Elephants, Two People, and One Extraordinary Friendship

Winner of the Keystone to Reading Award ! Winner of the Norman A. Sugarman Honor ! Nominated for the2023-2024 California Young Readers...

Saturday, January 9, 2016

Confessions from a First Grade Class: What Kids Want to Read in 2016

This week in first grade, my nephew learned about author/poet Tomás Rivera and how much he loved books. The homework assignment that fo...

Sunday, September 21, 2014

Cowboy Up! by Nancy Bo Flood reviewed by Kim Tomsic

COWBOY UP! (Boyd Mills Press, 2013) by Nancy BoFlood is crafted with a delightful mixture of verse and prose. Flood’s writing grabs the ...

Monday, April 15, 2013

The Long Awaited Pulitzer Winner in Fiction

Pulitzer Prize Winners 2013 The act of not naming a Pulitzer winner in the fiction category caused a bit a drama last year....

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About Me

Kim Tomsic: I’m a reader, writer, dreamer, believer, and lover of peanut M-n-Ms. My publishing heroes including Richard Peck, Bryan Collier, Ingrid Law, Meg Medina, Kate DiCamillo, Rebecca Stead, Nicola Yoon, Laurie Halse Anderson, Christina Soontornvat, Eliot Schrefer, Dianne White, and others! How my publishing career unfolded: It started with a love of reading. Next, I wrote a manuscript, joined the SCBWI, and a critique group. I read blogs, craft books (on plot, character, and structure). I attended conferences, hosted writer gatherings, subscribed to Writers Digest (and won a contest!). I wrote articles and studied craft. Five years later, I landed my first book deal!—dreams do come true! My debut book, The 11:11 Wish released in 2018 with HarperCollins. My debut nonfiction picture book, GUITAR GENIUS (illustrated by Brett Helquist), released in 2019 with Chronicle Books. The 12th Candle came next (HarperCollins). The Elephants Come Home hit bookshelves in 2021 (illustrated by Hadley Hooper) and has been internationally published and named to more than nine state reading lists! Comic artist, Mark Parisi and I co-wrote The Truth About 5th Grade (HarperCollins). It's on shelves now.

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