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Claire Bobrow
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Reader. Writer. Art admirer. Friend of gardens and growing things. Indie bookseller. Debut board book: WHEN BUMBLEBEES GO TO SLEEP (Sourcebooks Aug 2025). Rep'd by Rachel Orr at Prospect Agency
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Cover of the forthcoming picture book COWBOYS AT THE BALLET, showing an illustration of a stage set designed to look like a Western landscape in dusty oranges with a dramatic sky and a corral fence. There are 3 dancers in Western garb dancing in the foreground.
September 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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When a Tree Falls, by Kirsten Pendreigh and Elle Boschinger, is an excellent one!
Cover illustration showing a fallen tree trunk in the forest with a bird, squirrel, and various plants and fungi on or near it.
August 4, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Hooray! When Bumblebees Go to Sleep is releasing August 5th! And @barnesandnoble.com is offering 25% off on pre-orders TODAY (July 11th) using the code PREORDER25. Don’t snooze on this excellent deal! 🐝🌼😊 #kidlitmegafeed #boardbook #bumblebee #lullaby
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Promotional graphic showing 25% off pre-orders at Barnes & Noble bookstore of the forthcoming board book When Bumblebees Go to Sleep. The cover illustration depicts a bumblebee snuggled up inside a purple dahlia flower with a starry night sky and full moon behind.
July 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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This artist, Sarah Jacoby, is also an incredibly gifted author/illustrator of picture books, including one of my all-time favorites, Forever or a Day. Magnificent! #picturebook #kidlit #art #illustration
Cover of the picture book Forever or a Day, by Sarah Jacoby, with an illustration showing 2 seated children in silhouette from behind, facing a large body of water, with a city and hills in the distance and a gorgeous sky drenched in sunset colors.
July 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Good morning #kidlitmegafeed 😊I’m thrilled to introduce you to the cover of Cowboys at the Ballet, my debut picture book, created with awesome illustrator #IlariaUrbinati and coming next March from Atheneum Books/Simon & Schuster. Yeehaw! #kidlit #picturebook #nonfiction #ballet #dance #cowboy
Cover of the forthcoming picture book Cowboys at the Ballet, with an illustration showing 3 dancers in Western wear on a stage decorated to look like a corral with wooden fences and a reddish-orange, earth-toned background that evokes the Western landscape.
July 9, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Yeehaw! Cowboys at the Ballet, my debut #picturebook, is coming next March, created with illustrator #IlariaUrbinati and published by Atheneum Books/Simon & Schuster. Available for pre-order now @ Barnes & Noble, 25% off July 8-11 with code PREORDER25. #kidlit www.barnesandnoble.com/w/cowboys-at...
Cover of the forthcoming picture book Cowboys at the Ballet: The Story of Choreographer Agnes de Mille, showing a stage with 3 dancers in Western wear against a backdrop of a corral with a wooden fence and hilly, earth-toned landscape behind.
July 9, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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I’m thrilled to share the cover of my debut #picturebook, created with super-talented illustrator #IlariaUrbinati! Please say hello to…Cowboys at the Ballet:The Story of Choreographer Agnes de Mille, coming from Atheneum Books/Simon&Schuster next March!! #kidlit #picturebook #dance #ballet #cowboy
Cover of the forthcoming picture book Cowboys at the Ballet: The Story of Choreographer Agnes de Mille. The cover shows an illustration of 3 dancers in cowboy and Western clothing dancing on a stage whose backdrop shows a corral with wooden fences set against a reddish-orange dry Western landscape and a dramatic sky.
July 8, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Hello friends! My first book is releasing next month & you can get 25% off all Barnes & Noble pre-orders from July 8th-11th! So buzz on over today to barnesandnoble.com for your copy of WHEN BUMBLEBEES GO TO SLEEP!! Art by the fab Natalia Vasilica. Thank you! 🐝 #kidlit #boardbook #bedtime #bumblebee
Cover image of the forthcoming board book WHEN BUMBLEBEES GO TO SLEEP showing an illustration of a night sky, full moon, stars, and a bumblebee snuggled up in a purple dahlia, ready to snooze.
July 8, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Here’s one snoozing in a dahlia in our garden. It’s such a fun thing to spot I wrote a book about it! Coming August 5th to a bookstore or library near you 😊🐝 #bumblebees #flowers #snoozing #kidlit
A bumblebee snoozing inside a yellow dahlia flower, with its little butt and legs sticking out. Cover of the forthcoming board book When Bumblebees Go to Sleep, showing a night sky with stars, the full moon, and a bumblebee snuggled up in a purple dahlia. Illustrations by Natalia Vasilica.
July 4, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Hello #Rose people! A mystery rose just bloomed in our garden. Based on old purchasing records, I believe it’s either Baronne de Prevost or Marchioness of Lorne. I’d love to identify it properly. Any thoughts? Thank you! #roses #gardening #flowers #bloomscrolling
Photo of a deep pink, many-petalled, old-fashioned rose in full bloom.
June 9, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Here’s Bermuda’s Kathleen for #RoseWednesday —hands down our most popular rose with the bees. Bumblebees and honeybees can’t seem to get enough. The flowers start pale apricot, then go pale pink and finish dark pink, similar to Rosa mutabilis. #flowers #bloomscrolling #roses #nature #gardening
Photo of a honeybee on the pale apricot bloom of a Bermuda’s Kathleen rose. The older blossoms in the background have faded to pale pink and dark pink.
June 4, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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For #FlowerFriday, here are the 2 roses in our garden most-beloved by bees of all stripes: Bermuda’s Kathleen and Clytemnestra. A couple of oddballs perhaps, but they’re practically indestructible, very vigorous and healthy, and a total delight. #roses #gardening #bloomscrolling
A bee on a Clytemnestra rose, which is pale pink with touches of apricot, and has a boss of deep golden stamens. A bee on a Bermuda’s Kathleen rose, which starts out pale apricot, then turns pale pink, and then finally deep pink before fading. It reminds me of Rosa mutabilis, but with much smaller flowers.
May 30, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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I missed #RoseWednesday, so Friday will have to do! Here’s New Dawn, the first rose to receive a patent. It got off to a slow start in our garden (I could barely dig a hole, thanks to neighboring roots), but after a few years, it’s finally hitting its stride. #roses #gardening #flowers
Close-up photo of the rose New Dawn, a pale pink, multi-petaled beauty surrounded by lots of unopened buds.
May 30, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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‘Gentle Hermione’ rose for #RoseWednesday. It might have the most enticing fragrance of all our roses? The overall plant form is graceful and willowy, and the blossom color is a beautiful luminescent pink. Highly recommend this one! #roses #bloomscrolling #flowerreport
Photo of an open blossom of the rose ‘Gentle Hermione.’ The color is a gorgeous luminescent pink, and the leaves are a matte, mid-green.
May 21, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Our Emily Brontë rose is hitting its stride for #RoseWednesday. Happy #bloomscrolling! #rose #flowers
Close-up photo of an Emily Brontë rose, a many-petaled, very ruffly bloom in pale pink with a slightly peachy center.
May 14, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Rose ‘Madame Alice Garnier,’ a happy rambler scrambling up the garden fence (and threatening to swallow it…).
#rose #bloomscrolling #flowers
Photo of the rose Madame Alice Garnier, a small-flowered, many-petaled, peachy pink rambler, in full bloom.
May 13, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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I learned how to make focaccia!
Photo of homemade focaccia with olives and rosemary, sitting on a cooling rack.
May 9, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Vanessa Bell—an artist, a revolutionary, and a rose.
Photograph of a single bloom of the rose ‘Vanessa Bell’ in a clear glass bud vase. This multi-petaled rose has white outer petals and a creamy yellow center. If buttercream frosting were a rose, this would be it. And the fragrance is divine.
April 28, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Woohoo! Presale opportunity for my debut board book with Natalia Vasilica! B&N Rewards and Premium Members get 25% off from April 23-25, and Premium members get an extra 10% off. Be sure to use code: PREORDER25 #BNPreorder #boardbook #kidlit #bees #bedtime

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Cover of the board book WHEN BUMBLEBEES GO TO SLEEP, showing an illustration of a sleepy bumblebee resting inside a large purple flower with a night sky and a prominent full moon in the background.
April 23, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Happy Earth Day. Here’s to the flowers! #gardening #flowers Clematis montana ‘Alba’
Close-up photo of Clematis montana ‘Alba’ flowers, which have four bright white petals and a boss of yellow stamens in the center.
April 22, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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California Ninebark shrub in the garden. The lime-green leaves add a lift to shady spots. #gardening #natives
Close-up photo of the blooms on a native California Ninebark shrub—clusters of tiny white flowers with golden-yellow eyes, arranged in “puffballs” (kind of like Spirea). The foliage is a beautiful pale lime green. Maybe “chartreuse” is a more accurate description?
April 21, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Ours bloomed yesterday! I love this beautiful iris—and it smells fantastic.
Photo of an Iris pallida flower, lavender purple with white veining and a golden yellow signal.
April 9, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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The rose ‘Munstead Wood’ isn’t messing around.
Close-up photo of a newly sprouted rose stem, pinkish green in color, which is covered in sharp, spiny thorns that are reddish-pink in color.
April 4, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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If you like your #bloomscrolling to include a few #insects…voilà!
Close-up photo of a yellow-petaled daffodil with a frilled orange cup with ants crawling on it. Close-up photo of small black beetles crawling all over a bright yellow-petaled daffodil with a slightly darker yellow-orange cup.
March 24, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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Lake County, CA
Black & white photo of a lake with bare trees in the foreground and wooded hills behind.
March 22, 2025 at 10:40 PM