Hi Everyone!
It’s July 5!
Only 6 days til Publication Day!!!
That’s less than a week!
(I’m just a teensy bit excited… can you tell?! 🙂 )
To keep myself from bouncing off the ceiling, I’ve got something fun to share with you today . . .
When your books go on a blog tour, you’re going to need a little entertainment! After all, there’s only so much “Are we there yet?” you want to endure!
To keep boredom from creeping in on the long trip, you can take side tours to the wonderful sites listed below and visit with the locals 🙂 You might even learn something fun while you’re there! If you comment on every post, you will definitely earn yourself a chance toward the Special Prize Raffle at the end of the tour! (The goody bag and signed books described on the kickoff post.) And if you share this, or any related post, item, photo, etc. on Social Media with the #whenyourbooks, each share will add to your chances to win Special Prize #2 at the end of the tour! (3 $25 Amazon gift cards up for grabs!)
7/1/17 – Susanna Leonard Hill – Blog Tour Kickoff
7/2/17 – Lauri Fortinos’s Frog On A Blog – Guest Post on Writing A Series PLUS a Giveaway!
7/3/17 – Jena Benton’s Of Tea And Mermaids Blog – Simply 7 Interviews with Susanna & Daniel PLUS a Giveaway!
7/4/17 – Lynn Davidson’s Polilla Writes Blog – LION book review and GAME
After the visits, you’ll probably need a snack! I always recommend a midmorning break for some sustaining chocolate, so help yourself!
Deep-Dish Double-Chocolate Breakfast Cookies
Recipe HERE at RunningWithSpoons
After that delicious and extremely healthful pick-me-up, you’ll probably want to watch a video!
So check out the World Premiere of the WHEN YOUR LION NEEDS A BATH Book Trailer! (And if you like it, give it a thumbs up! 🙂 )
Once the video is over, you’ll probably want to watch it again.
And again. . .
. . . and again . . . 🙂
But eventually you’ll want to try something new. And boy do I have something fun! A whole pack of LION activities! Coloring! A maze! A matching game! More coloring!
Here’s a sneak peek!
copyright Daniel Wiseman 2017 all rights reserved
Copyright Daniel Wiseman 2017 all rights reserved
The activity pages will be on my website soon… but I asked my brilliant web manager to wait to put them up until after today’s reveal.
All that fun coloring will make you wish you had a copy of the book! So hop on over to GoodReads and enter the giveaway for a signed copy!
Goodreads Book Giveaway
When Your Lion Needs a Bath
by Susanna Leonard Hill
Giveaway ends July 14, 2017.
See the giveaway details
at Goodreads.
Have fun visiting the other tour stops, watching the video, coloring, entering the giveaway, and eating chocolate cookies! And be sure to continue with us tomorrow for an author interview and giveaway at Lynn Davidson’s Polilla Writes, and on Friday and Saturday at Vivian Kirkfield’s Picture Books Help Kids Soar for reviews, giveaways, and a special Will Write For Cookies episode which you KNOW will include a delicious recipe! 🙂
Here’s the upcoming schedule:
Don’t forget to share this post (or participating bloggers’ posts, or the book trailer, or the giveaway, or the book covers, or reviews, or a photo of your child or class reading one of the books, or anything clever and related you think up) using #whenyourbooks! Every time you post with #whenyourbooks you get an entry in the end-of-tour raffle for 3 lucky people to win a $25 Amazon gift card!
Have a wonderful Wednesday, everyone!!! 🙂
Susanna Leonard Hill 
Adorable! Mom gave it a thumbs up and I give it 4 paws up. …..that could be because I’m fast asleep right now with my paws in the air, but whatever. Yay! We love that lion and that boy.
Love and licks,
Cupcake
Wow! Thumbs up and paws up? It doesn’t get better than that! Thanks, Cupcake, and mom, and have a nice nap 🙂
What a fun new book, Susanna. It looks fun! The trailer certainly is. Well done!
Thank you, Norah! SO kind of you! I am not the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree when it comes to technology, so I’m glad you liked the trailer! Now, to do one for ELEPHANT!
Oh yes!
So fun!
Thanks, Marla! 🙂
Super cute trailer!
I’m so glad you like it, Cathy! 🙂
Great activities! We couldn’t be more excited. Can’t wait!
Thanks, Joanne! Now, if only I could get the classroom guide together… but all in good time!
That trailer made me want to go watch all my favorite childhood cartoons. The book looks great and the activities will be a hit too. (Once I am finished with them.)
I’m so glad you like everything! That makes my day – and will make Daniel’s too, I know! 🙂
Yeah for book birthdays & blog tours!
Yes, Patricia! All we need it cake! 🙂
Love the book trailer! So fun!
Aw, thanks, Jen! So glad you like it! 🙂
Fabulous trailer, Susanna! Love the maze too! Great fun!
I’m so glad you like them, Julie! 🙂
Congratulations–your new book babies look adorable. And the trailer is great!
Aw, thanks, Buffy!!! 🙂
I LOVE this trailer! I am so excited to read the book!
So glad! Yay! 🙂
Thanks for the lesson on setting up a Blog Tour. Brilliant. Obviously a lot of work, but one thing about picture books, you have 2 years to plan it!
Hahaha! So true! But you’re assuming I’m organized enough to plan ahead 🙂 I’m afraid I’m an eleventh hour kind of gal! 🙂
Fun. Fun. And more fun! That’s what I like! Congrats on the release!
Thanks so much, Donna! *I* am certainly having fun – I hope everyone else is too! 🙂
Great trailer, Susanna! The kids will love your maze and coloring page, too. I’m having such fun following your blog tour!!
Thanks, Teri! 🙂 I so appreciate you following along!
Color sheets, mazes and trailers, oh my! Thanks for sharing all these wonderful nuggets of wisdom.
My pleasure! Thank you for following along so enthusiastically! 🙂
I am LOVING all the blog stops! And now I can have chocolate breakfast cookies????? Best day ever! Plan on making those this week and enjoy them while I work on my “homework”. Heck, I might even color the lion myself 🙂
See, these are the benefits of hanging out at my place, Debbie! There is always plenty of chocolate and high jinx and shenanigans around here! 🙂
Such a busy Blog Tour for the month of July, Susanna. It’s time to celebrate.
I first viewed the trailer on Instagram. Watching it again, makes me excited to read your new series.
~Suzy Leopold
It IS a busy month, Suzy! But so exciting and fun 🙂 I’m so glad you liked the trailer! 🙂
Congrats Susanna!
Enjoy all this celebration!
Thanks, Sue! I am enjoying it more than I can tell you – I feel so lucky!
Your excitement is bubbling over and getting me excited about doing more writing myself. I am thrilled for you. Three books! The trailer is adorable.
Thanks so much, David! You’re so very kind! And I hope you’ll do more writing yourself – you are so good at it!
My mistake… three books coming out in one month! I forgot about the third one. Wowsers! Congratulations again, Susanna!
Best, Becky
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Thanks, Becky! 🙂
Dang! You have a busy summer ahead of you. Congrats x infinity, my friend!
And, yeah, I dig that book trailer.
It’s the absolute best kind of busy *I* can think of! 🙂 You’re going to be in the same boat pretty soon!!! Glad you like the trailer 🙂
Oh, I love that kinda busy, too. And I can’t think of anyone I would rather see so happily busy.
Aw, shucks! You’re so sweet, Mike! 🙂 I am so looking forward to your books and your chance to do the hoopla! 🙂
Woohoo! And you’re off and running! LOVE the book trailer! Gave it a big thumbs up!
Oh, thank you SO MUCH, Jilanne!!! 🙂
I tell ya, me and this comment section have issues, but I’ve gathered that the issue is on my end and I need to figure some things out.
Anywho, lurking and seeing all the great things you have going on has been fantastic. I really enjoyed the book trailer and wish you huge success with your releases 🙂
Aw, thanks, Angela! I’m sorry my comment section is so ornery for you! I appreciate your continued attempts! I guess my next book as to be WHEN YOUR CHIPMUNK… any ideas? 🙂
Susanna you have the best events EVER!! I love the way you’re introducing your books. Okay, so besides the summer camp, I also do my literacy and music program, and my cooking with literacy. So I’m thinking these chocolate cookies have to be on the menu before camp is over. I cannot, CANNOT wait to share your new stories with my early learners. I am glad I finally get a chance to visit all of the stops on this blog tour To say I am proud of you is not enough. This is wonderful. And the way you share news is fabulous. Oh I said that already didn’t I. Well, I mean it. Okay, on to visit the other blogs. Woo Hoooo! .
Thanks so much, Pam, for everything! I’m so glad you’re enjoying the tour. I hope you like the cookies 🙂 and you’re so sweet to be excited about sharing my books with your early learners. I SO hope they will like them! Thanks so much for your kindness and support! ❤
I just finished watching the trailer–I love it too! The music is purrfect! Thanks for the recipe too. I have it up and put the ingredients on my grocery list.
Thanks, Danielle! I’m so glad you like it! I’ve just finished the ELEPHANT one and am suffering anxieties over whether it’s good enough…! I think I should put you in charge of testing all the recipes that show up on the tour since you seem like someone who likes to cook! 🙂
Glad you are having such a happy and successful blog hop tour. Love the book trailer — well done!
Thanks so much, Pat! You are sweet to follow along and I’m so glad you like the trailer!
That trailer is like Major Motion Picture quality!!! Loved it!