The Book of Turtles is a Sibert Honor Book. Sy and Matt (and his sainted wife Erin) flew out to the American Library Association convention in San Diego to receive the award, and even better, to be treated to a behind the scenes tour of the “herp house” at the San Diego Zoo. Those signs about “venomous snakes” have nothing to do with the librarians – we promise.
Guess who is talking turtles, and hummingbirds on New Hampshire Public Radio’s show, Something Wild? Yup, The Turtle Wrangler and Friend to All Good Creatures: Sy. Three episodes: Baby Blanding’s Turtle Hatchlings, Baby Hummingbirds, and the final act, a visit with Fire Chief and the artist Matt Patterson. If a turtle could hold a paint brush, he’d be Matt. Here’s the first episode.
And here’s the second episode.
And the third, about the snapping turtle Fire Chief.
The German edition of Secrets of the Octopus is out.
We did something we never do – we appeared together to talk about what it’s like to have two writers in the house. We had the great pleasure of being interviewed by our neighbor, Tricia Rose Burt, on her wonderful podcast, No Time to be Timid. I’ve been a listener since she started. Tricia is a gracious host and a good listener. You get caught up in her enthusiasm for her guests and all those Southern “y’alls.” Listen at Apple Podcasts, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/no-time-to-be-timid/id1619558493 or Spotify, or https://triciaroseburt.com/podcast/sy-montgomery-and-howard-mansfield-creating-a-writing-life
More Honor and Glory to Turtles. On Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell, is a finalist for the New England Independent Booksellers’ Association Nonfiction Award. See the list of finalists here.