07/20/10--I can announce my newest book, Princess Peepers Picks a Pet! It's coming out March 2011! I'm so excited! Oh, and other fabulous things are afoot for my little princess! Stay tuned!
05/27/10--Princess Peepers will be featured in the June issue of Scholastic Book Clubs catalog, Honeybee for preschoolers. Check it out on the last page for Summer Recommended Reading! YAY Peepers! June 2010 Honeybee
05/20/10--Had a fun Skype visit with a school from Arkansas! I'm so impressed with technology these days. Felt like I took a trip to their school from the comfort of my home! COOL!!!
05/07/10--Great visit in Granite Bay! Check out this welcome!
   <----That's the dog from the endpage of Multiplying Menace! WOW!
04/16/10--Had a wonderful school visit in LA! What a great group of smart kids. And they welcomed me with banners all over the cafeteria. How nice!
03/04/10--Check it out! Princess Peepers is in a new Scholastic Book Clubs flier--Firefly April issue on pg. 9. You may order it from the site if you have a parent code: Firefly Order Form
03/03/10--Just had a fun school visit in Plumas Lake! What a joy to see 250 kids at a time sit still, all wide-eyed and watch me do my thing! Amazing! Speaking is as fun as creating stories. SO happy to be able to do it!
02/22/10--A very nice blog and a chance to win Princess Peepers was posted on Clara Willow Clark's blog:Meet Pam Calvert. Thanks, Clara!
11/13/09--I will be at the Barnes and Noble book fair in Modesto, CA at 7:00 pm! Can't wait! Our Lady Fatima school students will be there in their Princess Peepers finery (and a few princes as well in some wacky peepers!) I'll post pictures on my blog! If you're out and about on Friday night in Modesto, stop by!
9/24/09-- Good news! Princess Peepers was picked up by Scholastic Book Clubs. It will be in the Kindergarten/First grade flyer in the October issue. Look for it when your child comes home with it! The paperback will only be $4. Or better yet, order from the website here--remember to ask your elementary school for their code: Seesaw Order Form
6/05/09--I have a new blog!
5/22/09--Just got through with two school visits at Lone Tree! The kids were wonderful! And I used my new Princess Peepers presentation. I received so many compliments but the greatest was watching the children roll on the floor with laughter. Can't wait to do that one again!
4/3/09--The sequel to Princess Peepers was accepted! Princess Peepers Picks a Pet will be coming out in the spring of 2011!!
12/20/08--I was interviewed by the California Readers website. Check it out! California Readers: Pam Calvert Also, Princess Peepers has been recommended for the Nevada Young Readers Award! There are about fifty other picture books recommended but it means that a child or librarian nominated it. What an honor!
11/20/2008--Went to a school visit in Nevada City. What a lovely bunch of kids!
10/21/2008--Princess Peepers was nominated for the Cybils 2008 Award: Fiction Picture book What an honor!
09/11/08--Multiplying Menace just received a nice review from the National Library of New Zealand. Check it out! Create Readers: Multiplying Menace
07/29/08--Princess Peepers just received a great review by Kirkus Reviews. You may read part of it on their website or see the full review here.
06/20/08--Princess Peepers is about to be here! You may pre-order it now at any online bookstore website. Here's a link to it on amazon with the search inside feature.PRINCESS PEEPERS! If your little girl loves dress-up, glitter, and glam, this is a book for her! Check it out!
03/07/08--Here is a podcast about Multiplying Menace done by a student of the author of the blog Open Wide, Look Inside and The Miss Rumphius Effect. They are studying how to incorporate math literature into the elementary classroom. Wonderful job and thank you!
01/25/08--Just got through editing the mechanicals for Princess Peepers! It's going to be an amazing book for little girls!!!
11/07/07--Had fun doing a school visit. The children were so well behaved and loved all my books including the snippet I showed them of Princess Peepers!
03/10/07--Another school visit went very well. California has such smart students. It's great to know that children today love math! What a joy!
03/01/07--Preparing to do another school visit in Folsom with Empire Oaks Elementary for their Read Across America celebration! I'm very honored to speak at this event!
02/16/07--Just did a two-day school visit at Carl Sundahl Elementary in Folsom, California. The kids were SO bright and wonderful! What a great visit!
11/22/06--Just received an offer for a fiction humorous picture book by Marshall Cavendish! Just in time for Thanksgiving. Thank you, Lord!!!
9/05/06--I have finished a new Clue School Kids mystery by Innovative Kids.
3/31/06--There's an activity guide for Multiplying Menace. Press this link: Activity Guide
3/23/06--We just got word that we'll be moving to the Sacramento, California area this summer! We should be there for the next four years. I'm really looking forward to being a California girl!
2/24/06--Book Signing success! I had my very first book reading/signing at the Bookmark Library at Laughlin AFB. There were many children in attendance! We had so much fun! If you want to see more pictures, just press this link to my blog--Book Signing
2/9/06--Multiplying Menace: The Revenge of Rumpelstiltskin is here! I can't believe how well it is selling already! It sold out of the hardcover on amazon for a little bit. Now they have more in stock. Wow! It's also out in paperback. Whoopie!
I made the front page of my hometown newspaper! How fun! Here's a link:
Del Rio News Herald--Sunday, July 31, 2005
My fiction story, Bread, Biscuits, and Pandas is here! It's about a little girl who visits her aunt in Guam. Auntie Ernestina's garden is not what Maria expected--it's even better! It's on page 30 in the August 2005 issue of Highlights for Children! Hooray! If you don't get Highlights, go to your local dentist's office. Tee hee! | 
