Monthly Archives: January 2018


Meet the Illustrator of Zachary and the Great Potato Catastrophe

Giulia Lombardo: The Illustrator Behind Zachary and the Great Potato Catastrophe What I find really exciting about being an author of children’s picture books is the chance to collaborate with different illustrators and artists from all over the world, and in Zachary’s case, an illustrator who hails from the city […]


Zachary’s Story: How It All Began

I can tell you this much— I had no idea rats ate potatoes. But that soon changed when a friend told me about the case of the disappearing potatoes in their bakeshop. This is how it went down. One morning, the baker discovered that all his potatoes had disappeared. All […]


Zachary and the Great Potato Catastrophe is here!

Happy 2018! I am thrilled to start this year with  the launch of my latest children’s picture book Zachary and the Great Potato Catastrophe. It’s a story about a clever little rat named Zachary, who lives under the floorboards of a small bakery. For a time, Zachary has quite the ideal […]