Today’s Picture Book Postcard is from Goldi-Fox of How To Hatch A Writer.
Learning to read may have felt like a breeze, but learning to write could ruffle a few feathers! It’s time to hatch a plan to turn your chickens into a flock of word-smithing wonders.
This award-winning team pairs up again in this witty sequel to HOW TO HATCH A READER! Now that your chickens are egg-cellent readers, they’ll want to learn to write as well… and you want to be prepared. First, get crackin’ by helping them form letters. Then walk them through spelling each and every word. When words turn into sentences and sentences to stories, they’ll be ready to spread their writing wings. That is, unless sneaky Goldi-fox gets in the way again.
Combining laugh-out-loud text with bright and cheerful illustrations, HOW TO HATCH A WRITER is perfect for classrooms, homeschooling families, or libraries and is certain to prompt a flurry of stories as super and silly as this one!
How To Hatch A Writer
Author: Kari Ann Gonzalez
Illustrator: Rachel Suzanne
Publisher: Gnome Road Publishing
Publication Date: September 9th, 2025
Fun Resources and Educational Materials: Educator Resource Guide
This story was written to celebrate the trials and triumphs of learning to write, and every moment in between.
– Author Kari Ann Gonzalez
About Author Kari Ann Gonzalez
Kari Ann Gonzalez is a children’s writer who loves tending to her tiny hobby farm and stuffing her little free library full of books. Her debut picture book HOW TO HATCH A READER won the Northern Lights Picture Book award for humor, while HOW TO HATCH A WRITER has been named Hot Off The Press by CBC, and Reviewer’s Choice on Midwest Book Review’s Children’s Bookwatch.
For more information, please visit Kari’s website at: www.karianngonzalez.com.
About Illustrator Rachel Suzanne
Rachel graduated from Birmingham City University with a First class honours in Visual Communication, specialising in illustration. She lives with her family, pet parrot Maggie and two cats. She enjoys creating work through the process of crossing traditional printmaking, digital art and experimental mark making.
Rachel loves to tell stories and bring characters to life. Her first picture book with Julie Fulton – Bears Don’t Eat Egg Sandwiches – was published in November 2017. Rachel illustrated Rochelle Hume’s first picture book – The Mega Magic Hair Swap – which is published in February 2019 and The Mega Magic Teacher Swap published in 2020. She is represented by Paul Moreton of the Bell Lomax Moreton agency.
Find out more about this illustrator here.
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