Hot New Summer Reads For Kids

Online, June 7, 2014 (Newswire.com) - Are you ready for summer? Here's one suggestion to keep the kids entertained during those long, hot summer months. Join Purple pie press's reading challenge. First, download a free copy of Tip & Oliver: BFFs during Purple pie press's Kindle Countdown Deal, June 7 - 14, 2014. Next, share Tip & Oliver: BFFs with your 4 - 8 year old. Then visit http://www.juliekrantz.wordpress.com/ for further suggestions for summer reading and activity pages.

Tip & Oliver: BFFs is available at http://www.amazon.com/Tip-Oliver-childrens-friendship-feelings-ebook/dp/B00HDYLD9I.

Julie Krantz is Purple pie press's featured author of the month. Funny, frank and affable, Ms. Krantz often describes herself as one of those kids who headed to the library for a good time. A budding author at age thirteen, she published her first article in the Riverton News about her school's new vending machine.

An award-winning author (2008 recipient of a SCBWI Letter of Merit, 2006 DAC Emerging Artists Grant, and a 2000 First Place in Children's Writing from Carteret Writers, Inc.), Ms. Krantz writes poetry and fiction. She also illustrates her own picture books. Active in various print and online forums, her work can be found in Spider Magazine, the SCBWI National Bulletin and Amazon. Her two latest picture books, Isabel Plum: Ichthyologist and Tip & Oliver: BFFs were published in January, 2014.

In addition to writing, Julie Krantz has raised four children and enjoys hiking, camping, shopping, knitting, and blogging. She also enjoys visiting schools for workshops, talks and reading presentations.

STELLA BELLAROSA: Tales of an Aspiring Teenage Superhero is Ms. Krantz's first novel. Tip & Oliver: BFFs is the first of her new series of Tip & Oliver Books for Young Readers.
Visit Ms. Krantz's Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/juliekrantzbooks) and blog (http://www.juliekrantz.wordpress.com/) to learn more about her poetry, non-fiction and book reviews. Visit http://www.amazon.com/JulieKrantz/e/B00996YNZ4/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1 to purchase her books.