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BOOKS BY HOWITT
A Tale of Two Loves
Illustrated by Cheryl Morris
Che the Rat
Illustrated by Vicky Sio
A Tale of Two Loves is a story about a cat name Max who loves loves mice, but his other love, a little girl named Madeline, most certainly does not love love mice. This is a charming tale of love that can help parents talk to their children about the fact that not everyone loves what they love, but that maybe, like Max and Madeline, they can come up with a solution.
Che the Rat Lives in the New York Metropolitan Museum
The goal of this book was to create a wonderful tale for early readers about the adventures of a thinking rat that lived in the New York Metropolitan Museum. As these young readers wandered the museum halls with Che the Rat, they see art that is actually exhibited in the museum.
The hope was this would excite these young minds about both reading and art. While it did get a kind comment from the museum, they no longer had an in-house imprint. Alas! Still a lovely book.
Vicky Sio is from California. She enjoys hanging out with her dog on the couch. She is a concept artist and illustrator currently working in video games. Her favorite medium is oils. She recently starts to dabble in writing and hopes to illustrate her own comic/graphic novel someday. She would like to adopt a couple of alpacas and grow her own potatoes someday.
The Color of Friendship
Illustrated by Chris Fraser
It starts on a beautiful day. The sun is high in the sky. Ralph Dog, Petronella Mouse, who always wears a pink tutu, and Sunny Sunflower, who has the unusual ability to pull his roots out of the ground and walk, decide that they will give each other presents. The problem is they want to give each other presents that they want to have themselves. This leads to them becoming “white with fear” or “green with envy” or “blue with sadness”.
Chris’s illustrations breathe life into quirky characters and bizarre worlds that are humorous, absurd and bizarre. His style is cartoony yet complex and appeals to adults and children alike.
Chris works with free hand drawing, digital painting and vector art. He has completed two children's books and has numerous illustration commissions under his belt. He is also working on his own personal projects which can be viewed on instagram.
Under Construction
The Land of Loppview
About the book
L’Gee is a wonderful girl who has lived in a book since . . . well, she’s always lived in the book, The Land of LOPPVIEW. In this book, it is her job to always see other’s point of view and definitely not have one of her own. Life is good until one day she has a crisis and is completely discombobulated. What to do? Well, luckily, it turns out there are two brothers who live in a book called, On the Way to Grandma’s House, and they never ever ever see anyone else’s point of view. Perhaps if she can get them to come into her book, she can learn something from them.
About the illustrator
Nikki Kuras is an artist and illustrator based in Houston, Texas. She has always been passionate about drawing but first began to share her love of art with others through portraiture. Since then she's enjoyed making many types of art in mediums from watercolor to digital collage. What she loves most is bringing worlds of the imagination (her own and others') onto the page.
I had my class read this and it was agreed that this is a fun story with layers of important ideas to think about. A few the students pointed out: the cost of always agreeing with others point of view, the idea of liking yourself, the idea of how to listen to yourself and others and come up with a better idea.
- Vannesa T., 4th grade teacher
About Jeri Howitt
​Who hasn’t looked at the Berenstein Bears, or Roal Dahl and thought, I can do that? Really, how hard can it be? Shielded with the bravery of youth, I set out to become a children’s book writer. I was diligent and clueless. I specialized in stories which joyfully I thought were amazing. Looking back, they look remarkably inspired by existing children’s literature. But one must start somewhere, right?
This section is all about me as an author today. So, I suppose I should skip my birth and all the intervening years of my life and get to now. To quote Becca Rothfeld: “Other people’s loves are like other people’s dreams – boring and incomprehensible to observers.
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Reviews
This is a love story about what families do to help each other be happy. On top of that it is a cute book, a darn cute book
Vanessa - The Tale of Two Loves