I’m delighted that you’ve stopped in for a visit. Did you know that we already have something in common? You love books, and so do I. That’s why everything on this web site has something to do with reading books, writing books, and sharing books with friends. Explore and enjoy!





Follow Me, Mittens
by Lola M. Schaefer, illustrations by Susan Kathleen Hartung, My First I Can Read Book, HarperCollins, May, 2007.

"Short, manageable repeated text, generous font and clear illustrations are hallmarks of a good offering for brand-new readers, and this one delivers on all counts."€

Kirkus, April, 2007

Mittens
by Lola M. Schaefer, illustrations by Susan Hartung, My First I Can Read Book, HarperCollins, May, 2007.

“Schaefer’s necessarily brief text is crisp and cogent, integrating dialogue in an accessible manner for new readers… a sweet, sturdy addition to the growing array of very first readers.”
–Kirkus, May 15, 2006

“This title would be good for easy-reader collections and could be used in toddler storytimes.”
–School Library Journal, June 2006

“The beautiful physical immediacy of the new pet story will draw emergent readers to this small My First title in the I Can Read series… Preschoolers will enjoy the realism of the kitten’s story as they recognize from their own experience how it feels to be a small creature in a giant world.”
–Booklist, April 15, 2006





Frankie Stein
by Lola M. Schaefer, illustrations by Kevan Atteberry, Marshall Cavendish, Fall 2007

Frankie Stein comes into the world on
a bright, sunny day.

He’s not at all like his parents.

They’re scary looking.
He’s cute.

They try to make him look like them.
They can’t.

But he does end up being scary
in his own way!

CELEBRATING

Loose Tooth

by Lola M. Schaefer, illustrations by Sylvie Wickstrom, HarperCollins My First I Can Read, 2004

Loose Tooth has won the Garden State Children’’s Book Award in the Easy Reader category for 2007
Arrowhawk
by Lola M. Schaefer, illustrations by Gabi Swiatkowska, Henry Holt and Company, 2004.

2006-2007 Young Hoosier Book Award for Picture Book

Receipient of the 2007 Nevada Young Reader Award for the Picture Book Category

2007 Missouri's Show Me Readers Award

Arrowhawk is the recipient of the 2005 Zena Sutherland Awards for Best Text, Best Illustration and Best Overall Picture Book. Students from the University of Chicago Lab School presented Lola and Gabi with the awards at a ceremony on April 25, 2006.

Winner of the 2006 Washington Children’s Choice Picture Book Award.

Selected as a 2005 Outstanding Science Trade Book for Students K-12. (a cooperative project of the National Science Teachers Association and the Children’s Book Council)

The Best Children's Books of the Year 2005 by the Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College of Education.
 
Cooperative Children's Book Center Choices 2005 from the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.





Radio Interview with Southern Adventist University

12/12/2006

Click here to listen to the audio file! (14.28 min)




Lola met Mittens at the Texas Book Festival in Austin in October, 2006.

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