Author Updates

Now through Monday, December 2nd: Order a hardcover or paperback book from my Etsy shop, and I'll include three free coloring pages (as shown in the photo) with your order! No promo code necessary.

Happy Halloween from your friendly Michigan children's book author. Our chickens carved this jack-o-lantern, believe it or not!  We simply peeled the areas we wanted them to peck, and then set the full pumpkin in their chicken coop. They pecked and pecked until nothing remained but this spooky face!

Egg laying is in full swing! Look at these hard-boiled beauties and their many colors. Hooray for backyard chickens! Learn to raise your own backyard chickens with my children's book, Bawk Bawk in the Backyard , available on Etsy.

My kids are back to school here in Michigan, which means it’s time for my Ultra Mega Chicken Post! Meet our gorgeous hens and see how we transformed our old wooden play structure into a one-of-a-kind chicken coop. I went through five hundred photos to find the best pics for this post. Whew!  This time of year always inspires me to reflect on my life, when summer break ends and my children return to school. I spent thirteen years with a child by my side as a stay-at-home mother of three. While they grew, I grew. It was a remarkable chapter in my parenting journey, one I will forever cherish.  Now that all of my children are school age, I pursue passion projects during the school year while they’re at school. I have several in mind for this school year and am eager to get started!  If you need me, I’ll be in the art studio, the garden, or the chicken coop. Or maybe I’ll be snuggled up with a book or daydreaming while I look out the window. In any case, I will be working to ...

I had the privilege of being accepted into the local author fair at the Chelsea District Library as part of the town's Sounds & Sights event. Unfortunately, Sounds & Sights had a poor turnout this week due to the heat and rain which moved most of the activities indoors. If you missed me in the library on Thursday,  you can still find my books on Etsy: https://celinamariechase.etsy.com It was fun getting to know the other authors and handing out free coloring pages to the little ones who made it to the fair!

Sharing the joy of chicken keeping with the Kindergarteners at Community Day Care this morning. Special thanks to the Washtenaw County Farm Bureau for donating my book to the school!  This will be my last author visit for a while, as I work on a number of other projects and get ready for my kids to be home from school this summer. It was fun!