Grow a Pizza Garden released

My latest book, Grow a Pizza Garden, is now available for purchase! What is it about? Learn how to grow toppings for pizza and make a fresh, homemade pizza. This step-by-step gardening guide will help children learn how to successfully grow tomatoes, basil, oregano, peppers, and onions. They will then learn how to make pizzaContinue reading “Grow a Pizza Garden released”

New Book Coming Soon

I’m delighted to announce a new book I wrote and illustrated: Grow a Pizza Garden! Summary: Learn how to grow toppings for pizza and make a fresh, homemade pizza. This step-by-step gardening guide will help children learn how to successfully grow tomatoes, basil, oregano, peppers, and onions. They will then learn how to make pizzaContinue reading “New Book Coming Soon”

Kid’s books about fruits and vegetables

Need some suggestions on fun and educational children’s books, pertaining to the topic of fruits and vegetables? Here’s a list of eight books following the fruit and vegetable theme. Eating the Alphabet: Fruits & Vegetables from A to Z by Lois Ehlert introduces a large variety of fruits vegetables for all the letters of theContinue reading “Kid’s books about fruits and vegetables”

2019 Holiday Sales from Split Seed Press

Holiday shopping is upon us and books make perfect gifts. What am I? Fruits, What am I? Vegetables, and Tree Verse are on sale via my online bookstore: https://aerbook.com/store/author_john_benzee. Use coupon code FRUITCAKE to get 15% off your order. (ends 12/23/2019) Tree Verse eBook edition is also discounted 50% at all major online retailers: https://books2read.com/u/4j1rzoContinue reading “2019 Holiday Sales from Split Seed Press”

A 2019 Purple Dragonfly Book Award Winner

I’m excited to announce that my latest picture book, What am I? Fruits has won 1st place for the food-related category in The Purple Dragonfly Book Awards run by Story Monsters. The awards recognize and honor “books that are original, innovative and creative in both content and design” that are geared toward children. For aContinue reading “A 2019 Purple Dragonfly Book Award Winner”

Tulsa Book Review: What am I? Fruits

Tulsa Book Review gave a 5 star review to What am I? Fruits. Here’s the review in its entirety: What a fun way for preschoolers and early graders to learn about the fruits they eat while picking up some additional language skills. Drawn upon these three dozen tinted pages are colorfully drawn fruits with theirContinue reading “Tulsa Book Review: What am I? Fruits”