Here's a new interview from my Grandma Yogini blog tour:
www.muffin.wow-womenonwriting.com
Here's a new interview from my Blink and Glow Book tour:
www.lisahaselton.com
There's a wonderful interview "Navigating the Whimsical World of Children's Literature with Author Raven Howell" which you can read here:
www.powerhouse-strategy.com
Lit Kids magazine interviewed me in 2024, you can read it here: www.litkidsmagazine.wixsite.com
My poem, Art Smart, was chosen among poems from the best poets worldwide for inclusion in the student video STEAM Powered Poetry contest 2026. FMI: www.steampoweredpoetry.com
The artist gets
a certain pleasure
when he finds
a hidden treasure
In boxes full
of dusty things
like nails and screws
and keys and rings.
In long forgotten
paperclips,
buttons, bolts
and checker chips.
Sutting, twisting,
using pliers,
tracing, lacing
bending wires
To form a sculpture...
Or perhaps
a new invention
from these scraps.
Bink and Glow won the International Impact Book Award, A Colorful Beginning won the Dragonfly Award, as well as Best Book Cover; from The Wishing Shelf Book Awards. Mattison Mouse Counts won Creative Child Magazine's Book of the Year Award. Earlier this year, my Book Trolls at Play recently won both the Moonbeam Children’s Best Book and The 2022 BookFest Award
My poems, Hearts are Found, A New Day, and I wonder can all be found in the anthology Radiant Verses published by Poetry Soup, November 22, 2024. My poems (haiku) were published in How Do You Haiku compiled by Danna Smith, released September 1, 2023.
The following poem, At the Museum, was published in Orbit Magazine
At The Museum
Dino bones,
Fossil stones,
Stars, Earth,
Planet's birth.
Mountian, sea,
History.
Museum's unlock
Mystery.
The following poem, Grinning Snowmen, was published in Cricket Magazine
Grinning Snowmen
Old man winter
Takes his time,
Temperatures
Still decline.
Now icicles like dragon’s teeth
and snow plows grumbling down our street
push thoughts of eary spring away
as snowmen grin
sersolved to stay.
A wonderful professional Story Time reading video of Jack and the Lean Stalk available on You Tube: here
We won a Best Book Finalist award for So You want a Puppy?, the prestigious Story Monsters Approval in Cultural Diversity for My Community as well as an honorable mention from Kids Shelf Books for the cover design, and The Mom's Choice Award honoring excellence! In addition, So You Want A Puppy was awarded First Place in the Little Peeps awards, and Eek! My Ink! won the Firebird Book Award for Best Children's Picture book as well as Best Inspiriational Children's Book.
