Whose Book Why, Its Toni Buzzeos Whose Tools! (Plus A Giveaway!)

Blog & website of children's book author Tara Lazar Whose Book? Why, it’s Toni Buzzeo’s WHOSE TOOLS?! (plus a  giveaway!) June 9, 2015 in Uncategorized Ooh, I’m all abuzz because I’ve got Toni Buzzeo on the blog today. Yes, THE NY Times Best-Selling picture book author of ONE COOL FRIEND (which also won a Caldecott Honor for David Small). Toni’s newest book is WHOSE TOOLS?, her first non-fiction title. I’d like to say, “I sat down with Toni and we chatted over Earl Grey tea  and frosted lemon cake,” but I can’t. Because we didn’t. I plopped  on the couch  nursing a sore knee and  Toni wielded tools while  emailing. (Quite the talent!) But we still had plenty of fun. And I can now call her my one  TOOL friend. Toni, WHOSE TOOLS? is your first foray into non-fiction. Where did the idea come from? I’m an elementary librarian by profession (though my writing career made managing a library in addition to speaking and writing too challenging). As a result, I’m a freelance librarian these days. What that means is that I do a fair