Tammi Sauer is a full-time picture book author who has sold 35 picture books to major publishing houses (Bloomsbury, Disney, Hyperion, HarperCollins, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Penguin Random House, Scholastic, Simon & Schuster, and Sterling) and spoken at hundreds of schools and conferences. 

In our conversation, we celebrate her new picture book, The Underpants (Scholastic Press, 2022), and talk about as many of her wonderful books as possible, including Wordy Birdy, The Bear Came Back, her new book No Bunnies Here and her very first book, Cowboy Camp. Tammi shares her road to success, with tips for authors at different stages of their journeys.

Mel Rosenberg is a professor emeritus of microbiology (Tel Aviv University, emeritus) who fell in love with children's books as a small child and now writes his own. He is co-founder of Ourboox, a web platform with some 240,000 ebooks that allows anyone to create and share flipbooks comprising text, pictures and videos.

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