Carmela Coyle

http://www.carmelacoyle.com

Carmela LaVigna Coyle is an award-winning author of several picture books, including the popular Do Princesses Wear Hiking Boots? series illustrated by Mike Gordon. Her recent picture book, Wild Zoo Train, illustrated by Steve Gray is a Foreword Indies Silver Book Award winner for Picture Books/Easy Reader and a Colorado Book Award finalist.

Her hilarious story, The Tumbleweed Came Back, illustrated by Kevin Rechin, won the 2014 Colorado Book Award.

She has a degree in Elementary Education and Art. She is charmed by walks in nature, mindfulness, inventing recipes, amateur shutterbugging, tending her pumpkin patch, dabbling in watercolors, exploring new words, and, more often than not, thinking like a kid.

Her upcoming book, Do Princesses Become Astronauts? explores myriad empowering possibilities.

She lives out west in Colorado with her husband and pup, while her two children are off exploring their twenties.

Books by Carmela Coyle

Image of Do Princesses Wear Hiking Boots?
Image of Do Princesses Really Kiss Frogs?
Image of Do Princesses Scrape Their Knees?
Image of Do Princesses Count?
Image of Do Princesses Have Best Friends Forever?
Image of Do Princesses Make Happy Campers?
Image of Do Princesses Boogie?
Image of Do Princesses and Super Heroes Hit the Trails?
Image of Do Princesses Live in Sandcastles?
Image of Do Super Heroes Have Teddy Bears? (Do Princesses)
Image of Thank You Aunt Tallulah!
Image of The Tumbleweed Came Back
Image of Wild Zoo Train

Book Reviews by Carmela Coyle

Image of When I Am Bigger: Counting Numbers Big and Small
Author(s):
Maria Dek
Genre(s):
Children, 4–8, Picture Book

When I Am Bigger: Counting Numbers Big and Small

September 20, 2021
Reviewed by: 
Carmela Coyle

“three cheers for a counting book for the big(ger) kids!”

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Image of Moon Camp
Author(s):
Barry Gott
Genre(s):
Children, 4–8, Humor, Picture Book

Moon Camp

June 1, 2021
Reviewed by: 
Carmela Coyle

“Moon Camp is brilliantly implemented by Barry Gott as author and illustrator.”

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Image of Brookie and Her Lamb
Author(s):
M.B. Goffstein
Genre(s):
Children, 4–8, Picture Book

Brookie and Her Lamb

March 1, 2021
Reviewed by: 
Carmela Coyle

“pen and ink artwork at its finest with storytelling to match.”

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Image of Marsha Is Magnetic
Author(s):
Beth Ferry, Lorena Alvarez
Genre(s):
4–8, Picture Book

Marsha Is Magnetic

January 28, 2021
Reviewed by: 
Carmela Coyle

Marsha Is Magnetic by New York Times bestselling author Beth Ferry, of the delightful Stick and Stone fame, is a fun and lively addition to any STEM library.

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Image of How To Light Your Dragon (Life with Dragon)
Author(s):
Fred Benaglia
Genre(s):
Picture Book, 5-9, Children

How To Light Your Dragon

June 19, 2019
Reviewed by: 
Carmela Coyle

Hip-hip-hooray for the power of love! When a pet dragon’s flame goes out, a young pet dragon owner tries feverishly to figure out how to relight his dragon. Things are tough.

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Image of If You Give the Puffin a Muffin
Author(s):
Timothy Young
Genre(s):
Animals

If You Give the Puffin a Muffin

June 10, 2019
Reviewed by: 
Carmela Coyle

Little Puffin’s patience is again being tested in this rambunctious follow-up picture book to The Angry Little Puffin by Timothy Young.

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Image of Don't Wake the Tiger! (A Changing Faces Book)
Author(s):
Nathan Thoms
Genre(s):
Animals

Don't Wake the Tiger! (A Changing Faces Book)

March 14, 2019
Reviewed by: 
Carmela Coyle

Don’t Wake the Tiger begins right out of the gate as the tiger on the cover sleeps with eyes shut tight. A red sticker invites us to “Watch the faces change!” Intriguing.

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