Book Tour and Giveaway: My Way Home by Holly Heaton

 

Join us for this tour from Oct 21 to Nov 15, 2024!

Book Details:

​Book Title:  MY WAY HOME by Holly Heaton
Category:  Children's Fiction (Ages 3-7),  32 pages
Genre: Children's Fiction
Publisher: Holly Heaton
Release date:  August 11, 2024
Formats Available for Review: print-softback (USA and Canada) and ebook (MOBI for Kindle and PDF) internationally. 
Tour dates: Oct 21 to Nov 15, 2024
Content Rating:  G: The book follows Kit on a whirlwind of an adventure trying to reclaim a precious item and return it home all while facing external dangers.

Book Description:

​Enter the hidden realm of the Little Folk and follow Kit on a thrilling adventure. Can he reclaim an object precious to his people and return home to the Hollow Chestnut? Using his wits and environment, Kit embarks on this miniature odyssey through a lushly illustrated world.

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Meet the Author:

Whether through pictures, words, or her dad’s castoff camcorder, Holly has spent her life telling stories. She can usually be found chasing exciting bits of history and spending time with her husband, sons, and dog, Wesser, in metro Atlanta.
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Guest Post:

The Blank Page

There it looms: creamy, unblemished, forbidding.  A single strip of masking tape attaches the watercolor page to its stained board.

A noise from upstairs-- was that the washing machine?  Should I go switch the clothes to the dryer? 

No, I hear it sloshing away. Doing its job while I don’t do mine. I sigh, staring at the page; perched on my drawing desk, it glares back.

Do I need to answer a text message?  I retract twitching fingers. Stop that. Draw something.

I slump in my chair. Oh, the intimidation of the blank sheet. 

The feeling is much like writer’s block, but with the great drawback of not being able to easily delete whatever you might scrawl on the page to get your juices flowing. 

So, which aspect is more challenging, you might ask the author/illustrator? For me, definitely illustrating. I wrote and drew insatiably when I was young, but for about fifteen years I spent most of my artistic expression in needlework.  

In 2023 I threw myself into serious sketching again and began the illustrations for My Way Home.  My drawing hand and I are still getting reacquainted and are sometimes at odds, especially as I begin a new piece.

Once a drawing gets going, the experience is rapturous. I don’t want to stop, not for anything! Food can wait!  My bladder will forgive me later! 

But, at present, the blank page still looms.  

What to do? Well, much like writer’s block, the situation is best remedied by doing something else: something mindless, like laundry, dishes, or, best of all, taking a walk.  I remind myself that I can’t indulge in such diversions for too long, or I’ll find myself hiding from my tabula rasa in a pile of far-too-carefully-rolled socks.

But then, somewhere between scraping peanut butter off a toddler plate or waiting for my dog to find the precise blade of grass that deserves his urine, the spark comes. A wave of enthusiasm sweeps me back to the drawing desk and I’m at it, the pencil feverishly sketching the vague shapes in my mind.

This whole author/illustrator thing is a bumpy, exhilarating ride and I am grateful for the opportunity to relate some of my experience.  Please visit me from time to time, for as sure as there will always be housework and dogs to walk, I’ll have more stories and adventures to share with you!

Giveaway:

MY WAY HOME by Holly Heaton Book Tour Giveaway

My Review:

My Way Home is a fun and exciting adventure of Kit. It was entertaining being taken to a new hidden world of the Little Folk. I was captivated as I continued to take this journey with Kit and seeing what awaited him as I turned each page. I never knew what was going to happen and who or what he would encounter next. The creatures, people, and surroundings were fascinating to me. I loved the imagination of Holly Heaton and her ability for bringing this sweet tale to life. 

My Way Home is beautifully illustrated by the author herself, Holly Heaton. Her pictures are so colorful and vivid that can hold the youngest of readers attention. They are a wonderful addition to Kit's story. I adored seeing the visuals from page to page of all that Kit came across all throughout the book. 

I am giving My Way Home a very well deserved five plus stars. I highly recommend it for readers who are between the ages of three and nine years of age. I believe it would be a perfect placement on the shelves of public libraries and classrooms. I would be interested in reading more from the talented author, Holly Heaton, to see where else she will take her young readers. I thought this one was great.

I received a soft cover copy of Holly Heaton's My Way Home from the publisher, but was not required to write a positive review. This review is one hundred percent my own honest opinion.