Saturday, December 19, 2009

We have made it to 25!


Hip hip Hoor-exico! I'm sending out the first copy of Next to Mexico to:

Mass General Hospital for Children
55 Fruit Street
Boston, MA 02114-2621
(877) 543-764

My cousin Mary Jo is a nurse here. She is a saint, and she works with children who have cancer. As I type this, all of my "worries" don't even add up to a pile of sugar cookie crumbs.

Keep those posts coming.

Thursday, December 17, 2009

Ho ho ho, Merry Mexico!


This is the first annual Next to Mexico book giveaway! Leave a comment here, and for every 20 comments, I will send a book to a children's hospital as a gift. So far we have eight comments from eight cool and funny people (okay, I am one of those people but it still counts). Thanks, and keep them coming! Spread the word!

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Hello and help!


BREAKING NEWS: Five copies of NEXT TO MEXICO must be sent to needy children. And only YOU can get them there. For every 20 posts on my blog, I will donate one book to a children's hospital in the USA. But you must act fast! The books want to get there before Christmas (and if possible before the last night of Hanukah, which is in three nights!). Why the rush? To make it FUN. So hop to it.

Post a comment on this blog. Write about anything you want. Books that you like, why you like them, favorite snacks, etc. Lylice and Mexico eat quesadillas and fried ice cream in NTM. And there are also cookies. Flower-shaped cookies. But you already knew that, because you read the book.

Just post, and for every twenty comments, a book goes out to sick kids. In the book, Mexico has diabetes (but you already knew that). She would be able to identify with the children who'll be receiving the book when you post.

Write about school or work or your favorite music or website. A piece of news that you heard about that you thought was interesting. Lylice writes for the Suffragette Weekly Reader at school...okay, okay, I know YOU'VE already read the book, but after you post, pass the word on to someone you know who hasn't!

THIS JUST IN: the 100th commenter on this blog receives a FREE COPY of NEXT TO MEXICO. Get ON this, people. Details will follow, once we get to 100.

Post post post! Put a new book in the hands of someone very deserving.

Gracias and adios!

School visits and events


I know this is over 365 days late and many dollars short, but there is a new-ish baby involved in my life now! The following is just a few photos of NTM happenings over the last year.

Recent and not so recent NTM events:


Hanging out with some amazing high schoolers at Girls Leadership Institute after a performance of LYLICE and an NTM signing, summer of 2009.

Reading to 4th and 5th graders at Snyder Elementary in Las Vegas, NV.


Back to my hometown, winter 2009. Whoo-hoo!

Presentation at Joslin Elementary School in Austin, TX.


This was a part of the Texas Book Festival, fall 2008, and was my very first school visit.

Posters that made me cry (a good cry).


Joslin students proud of their work.

Book launch party at Books of Wonder, September 2008.


Beautiful Eva and Francesca. SO CUTE.

My friend Alex. She said she would do it. And she did.

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