SKYPE!

I started my SKYPE touring today with a couple great chats - with schools in Maine and Texas.

If you're interested, the details are all on the home page.

Here are some nice pics that Madeline (from St. Thomas Squinas in Dallas) took from today's talk.

Smiling

Got some great news this week!

MINRS is up for the CLA book of the year!

And its also been nominated in not one, but TWO categories in the TOME Student Literacy Society book awards in Georgia!

And, after an amazing visit to Manitoulin Island this week, I got home and the nice folks at Simon and Schuster sent me a present!

There’s a great study guide that the good folks at Simon and Schuster have set up at the site for the series, minrs.ca.

http://pages.simonandschuster.ca/minrs/melmingcorp

There’s also a silly trailer video I made that’s up on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuUodKBySIs

If the kids have any questions, I’d love to answer them. They can tweet me anything. They can also write me, or email me or contact me HERE.

Neil 3-D

About a year ago I made a clay bust of Neil Flambé's head... but never finished it.

Decided this was the week.

Postcards! Doodles!

The great folks at Simon and Schuster make up postcards for my latest books.

I've been signing them all day, and always put a free doodle on there as well!

I pass them out when I do my school visits (more info on that HERE).

Neil Flambé #6 - Neil Flambé and the Duel in the Desert - is in bookstores February 23rd!

Baseballogy

My book Baseballogy gives kids an introduction to the history, rules, stats and more of baseball.

Today (Jan 31) is Jackie Robinson's birthday. This is an infographic of how the game changed after 1947.

The book was just named an Ontario Library Association Best Bet for 2016!

Song AND Joke explained!

One month countdown!

Neil Flambé and the Duel in the Desert comes out in in ONE MONTH!

This is the 6th book in the series.

Neil finds himself in Arizona, searching the desert for a lost gold mine.

Neil is being chased by an evil crazed sheriff named Joe Aprende. (I was doing school visits in Phoenix and Chandler a couple of years back and visited the Kyrene Aprende school - and they made me promise to name a character after them!)

I always open and close the Neil books with maps or postcards from the place they visit. Larry doodles all over them. Here's the endpaper version.

You can find out what all those doodles mean on February 23rd.

So, maybe a giveaway to celebrate.

I've got an original version of from the cover (see below) to give away. All you have to do is tag me on twitter (@kevinarts) or instagram (@sylvesterartwork) with the hashtag #NeilCactus

Bonus points if you add a pic of you reading an earlier book from the series.

I'll pick a winner on the book birthday for #6.

Cheers!

Kevin