Jimmy Jonny Brownie Stays Up All Night
Jonathan is Bing Puddlepot, the author of Jimmy Jonny Brownie Stays Up All Night (illus. Sherwin Schwartzrock), a book about a boy, bedtimes and natural consequences. After a long night, Jimmy Jonny finally gets what he’s wished for — a chance to skip bedtime altogether. With imaginative adventures throughout the night and amusing repercussions the next day, this picture book helps children figure out bedtimes on their own. You can find more about this book at Puddlepot.com.
This book was honored as the Foreword Magazine Book-Of-The-Year Finalist, and received a silver Benjamin Franklin Award by the Independent Book Publishers Association.
Works in progress.
One of the benefits of being in two writing groups is that you do a lot of writing. I have a YA and middle grade novel, over two-dozen picture book manuscripts, as well as another middle grade novel on the way.
The YA novel Karakuri follows the mixed-culture kids at a theater school who all have reasons to hate Tokyo’s unblinking surveillance. But when a prank against the system goes wrong, one of their own is arrested. It’s then that 16-year-old Velour convinces the others to follow her on a jailbreak demonstrate the weaknesses of the surveillance technology. The risks could not be bigger. Fail, and they’ll lose the only country they’ve ever known.
The Contraption of Elsewhen is a middle grade novel about a 10-year-old girl who has a strange ability to find things. The skill leads her to a flying machine that’s hiding on the edge of her small town. She quickly realizes she’s not just meant to find the airship, but where the airship needs to return, 150 years after it was left behind.
