A lovely feature from the Maine Department of Education on Hancock Grammar School’s recent Literacy Night. Read the full article here:
A nice feature article from The Portland Press Herald about the Bath Book Bash, a festival celebrating children’s book authors and illustrators in Bath, Maine each September! Read the article here: https://www.pressherald.com/2022/09/14/bath-book-bash-brings-readers-authors-together/
Want to hear about making The Traveling Camera from author, illustrator, editor, and publicist? Listen to our conversation with Kirsti Call and Kim Chaffee on the Picture Book Look! https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/picture-book-look/ep61-the-traveling-camera-d3_MINRpHGb/
A great conversation with Taylor from Island Readers and Writers about The Traveling Camera!
https://forewordirw.podbean.com/e/author-alexandra-hinrichs/
A lovely feature article from School Library Journal came out last week, highlighting The Traveling Camera as a great pick for exploring portraits of American history with middle grade and young adult readers. Click to read!
The start of 2018 is as good a time as any to post about awards from 2017! Thérèse Makes a Tapestry won a Bronze PubWest Book Design Award in the Children’s/Young Adult Book, Illustrated category, as well as a 2017 Outstanding Achievement award from the Wisconsin Library Association. Hip hip hooray! 
I am delighted to learn that Thérèse Makes a Tapestry is included in CCBC Choices 2016. I spent many hours in the Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC) during my library school days, poring over copies of CCBC Choices, and flopped on the floor reading piles of children’s books. It is truly an honor to have my own book included in such a thoughtfully curated collection!
Conversations LIVE host Cyrus Webb invited Renée Graef and me on his radio show. He asked such thoughtful questions. Take a listen!
“This fictionalized account sparkles with detail […]. Through careful prose and detailed illustration, the book reveals the steps involved in creating delicate tapestries that appear as vibrant today as they did over 300 years ago.” – Literary Kids
I love getting to answer fun questions (what literary character would YOU vacation with?), and I had the chance to do that for The Children’s Book Review in a “My Writing & Reading Life” feature. Read the questions and my answers here. Check out illustrator Renée Graef’s feature, “Illustration Inspiration.”