Kentucky Book Festival How To Read With Your Kids

A huge thank you to the Kentucky Book Festival and Kentucky Humanities for including me and BEARS MAKE THE BEST WRITING BUDDIES, Illustrated by Jean Claude in the panel “How to Read With Your Kids.” My fellow panelists author Jessica Young and author Rita Lorraine Hubbard were joyful and fed off their jubilant and thoughtful […]

Carmen’s Guest Appearance on Capstone Publishing Virtual Book Club

I had the distinct honor of being interviewed by the incredible Shannon McClintock Miller, the Innovation Director of Instructional Technology and Library Media at Van Meter Community School in Van Meter, on the Capstone Publishing Virtual Book Club this month. To see her blog post on her blog The Library Voice about our episode together […]

Pro-Tips for Online Author Visits – Cynsations Guest Post

I recently contributed to the guest post “Pro-Tips for Online Author Visits” compiled by author/illustrator and roving Cynsations reporter Linda Joy Singleton for NY Times bestselling award-winning children’s and YA author Cynthia Leitich Smith’s popular industry kidlit blog CYNSATIONS.  Sneak Peek: “Carmen Oliver: One of the ways that I ask teachers to prepare for our […]

International Day of Forests & ReadAloud A Voice for the Spirit Bears

Today, March 21, 2020 is International Day of Forests and I’m excited to be participating in a twitter party from 1pm EST to 4pmEST with Lindsey Carmichael and Darren Lebeuf! Lindsey has prepared everything you need to know about how to participate right here: https://www.lecarmichael.ca/2020/03/international-forest-day-twitter-party/ I hope you’ll play along and enter to win free […]

World Read Aloud Day 2020

It was a real pleasure to SKYPE and chat with 2nd grade students in the Van Meter School District to celebrate World Read Aloud Day in 2020! I was honored to be asked to talk about the BEARS MAKE THE BEST BUDDIES series with everyone and read my newest book BEARS MAKE THE BEST WRITING […]