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Kate Feiffer

Kate Feiffer is a writer, a filmmaker, and a mother. She is the author of the picture books No Go Sleep!; President Pennybaker; But I Wanted a Baby Brother!; The Wild, Wild Inside; Which Puppy?; My Mom Is Trying to Ruin My Life; and Double Pink; and... Read full bio

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Q. What is your motto or maxim?
A. Aspire for dessert.
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My life in 8 words: "Good sense of humor. Terrible sense of direction."
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    3. The Wild, Wild Inside book trailer
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    5. But I Wanted a Baby Brother! trailer
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    7. Author Kate Feiffer discusses her book "Which Puppy?"
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Signed by Zelda will be released on May 14, 2013 in Trade Paperback
May 14, 2013
Signed by Zelda is now available in Trade Paperback
May 14, 2013
Double Pink will be released on January 01, 2013 in Trade Paperback, eBook
Jan 01, 2013
Double Pink is now available in Trade Paperback, eBook
Jan 01, 2013
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Double Pink
Aug 17, 2012
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Chapter 1 from Signed by Zelda
Jul 06, 2012
No Go Sleep! will be released on June 12, 2012 in eBook
Jun 12, 2012
No Go Sleep! is now available in eBook
Jun 12, 2012
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Signed by Zelda
May 03, 2012
Signed by Zelda will be released on April 24, 2012 in Hardcover, eBook
Apr 24, 2012
Signed by Zelda is now available in Hardcover, eBook
Apr 24, 2012
Signed by Zelda will be released on April 24, 2012 in eBook
Apr 24, 2012
Signed by Zelda is now available in eBook
Apr 24, 2012
No Go Sleep! will be released on March 06, 2012 in Hardcover
Mar 06, 2012
No Go Sleep! is now available in Hardcover
Mar 06, 2012
President Pennybaker will be released on January 03, 2012 in Trade Paperback, eBook
Jan 03, 2012

Kate Feiffer Revealed

Kate Feiffer Q. What is your motto or maxim? A. Aspire for dessert. Q. What is your favorite occupation, when you’re not writing? A. Making documentaries Q. How would you describe perfect happiness? A. Having dinner on the beach with my family on a balmy summer evening. Watching the sun go down and knowing that the next day's headlines will read "World Peace." Q. What’s your fantasy profession? A. Lounge singer Q. If you could be any person or thing, who or what would it be? A. E.B. White Learn more about Kate Feiffer

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NYC.gov, April 24, 2013
...and composer/lyricist Andrew Lippa into a Broadway musical. He has illustrated four children’s books for his daughter Kate Feiffer, and in the spring of next year, will have a new picture book of his own, Rupert can Dance, a story of a dancing cat. In...
Vineyard Gazette, February 19, 2013
...Kate Feiffer lights up New York. Ms. Feiffer’s book My Mom Is Trying to Ruin My Life was adapted for stage and first appeared at the Vineyard Playhouse. Last weekend...
Huffington Post Canada, January 30, 2013
...to 4 $10.99, available at a href="http://www.bookmanager.com/1158929/?q=h.tviewer&using_sb=status&qsb=keyword&qs=9780316181013" target="_hplink"mabelsfables.com/aMy Side of the Car (Kate Feiffer) It should come as no surprise that parents and children...
Broadway World, January 25, 2013
...MY MOM IS TRYING TO RUIN MY LIFE, a new family musical comedy. The musical, with book by Kate Feiffer and MJ Bruder Munafo, music by Paul Jacobs, lyrics by Sarah Durkee, is based on the acclaimed picture book MY MOM IS TRYING TO RUIN MY LIFE, by Kate...
East Hampton Star, December 14, 2012
...his children’s book watercolors keep getting bolder and his eye-candy tastier. The Southampton cartoonist and his daughter, Kate Feiffer, have done it again with “No Go Sleep!” (Simon & Schuster, $16.99). “It” being a picture book as one is...
Cleveland Live, November 8, 2012
...Shorter days call out for some fine, new bedtime stories. Sweet dreams . . . No Go Sleep! Kate Feiffer & Jules Feiffer "One night when the stars were out and the moon was bright, a baby said, "No go sleep!" This familiar battle wages in many families...
PublishersWeekly.com, September 25, 2012
...began to happen, Juster recalled, and one day a beautiful white building appeared in the apple orchard. Author Kate Feiffer, daughter of illustrator Jules Feiffer, summed up her relationship with the Carle museum in a few words: I love it. She also...
NYC.gov, April 24, 2013
...and composer/lyricist Andrew Lippa into a Broadway musical. He has illustrated four children’s books for his daughter Kate Feiffer, and in the spring of next year, will have a new picture book of his own, Rupert can Dance, a story of a dancing cat. In...
Washingtonian.com, January 2, 2013
...a newspaper in Germany come all the way to our house in Texas,” he recalls. Children’s author Kate Feiffer got a call from her editor the morning after Obama’s victory speech. “She said, ‘What do you think about the puppy? Do you think...
East Hampton Star, December 14, 2012
...his children’s book watercolors keep getting bolder and his eye-candy tastier. The Southampton cartoonist and his daughter, Kate Feiffer, have done it again with “No Go Sleep!” (Simon & Schuster, $16.99). “It” being a picture book as one is...
Vineyard Gazette, December 13, 2012
...from either mixed heritage or mixed messages; we celebrate Christmas and Hanukkah with widely divergent measures of each. Kate Feiffer made a wonderful documentary about this subject, but here’s my story and, to paraphrase Tolstoy, “All Jewish...
Cleveland Live, November 8, 2012
...Shorter days call out for some fine, new bedtime stories. Sweet dreams . . . No Go Sleep! Kate Feiffer & Jules Feiffer "One night when the stars were out and the moon was bright, a baby said, "No go sleep!" This familiar battle wages in many families...
School Library Journal, October 9, 2012
...will never be finished.� That?s what it?s like trying to meet everyone.� This year I met Kate Feiffer officially and then managed to have a singularly awkward talk with Lane Smith that was entirely my own fault.� Sweet man that he is, he saw me...
PublishersWeekly.com, September 25, 2012
...began to happen, Juster recalled, and one day a beautiful white building appeared in the apple orchard. Author Kate Feiffer, daughter of illustrator Jules Feiffer, summed up her relationship with the Carle museum in a few words: I love it. She also...