The new flexfit caps are finally here!

Multi-color choices in each of the youth fit flex baseball caps. Featuring Jerry the Dog (narrator of The Tails Tales of Mr. Murphy), Little Chicken Charlie (main character in The Sky Is Falling) and the frog from Chocolate Covered Frog Legs. A perfect gift for your reader, teacher gift or yourself if you have a small head.

Adult size caps coming at the end of the week! $14 each and these three kiddoes thought they were "very cool"! Just go to my website, www.justinmatott.com and click on the books. If they are not posted email me at justin@justinmatott.com and I can send you a paypal invoice.

My Favorite YouTube video in a long time!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbxnfGvEojg


This will just make you smile! What an amazing celebration! Please pass it on!

WOW, what a month!

This month has cruised by. SO many things have happened and I haven't blogged about one of them! I wrote a book in the past three weeks called SWIM WIT DA FISHIES. I have never written something so fast and been so happy with it.

It is a funny chapter book all taking place under the sea. I am considering some research trips to Tahiti, Australia, Hawaii and beyond. I might need a research assistant to do some scuba diving and possibly take in much of the local colors, sights, sounds and tastes.

I am also gearing up to go on the Amazing Race. My team hasn't been accepted yet, but I am planning for it with positive intentions!

I hope YOUR summer is going well. Colorado is particularly beautiful this year because of an unusual amount of rainfall in June.

Cheers, Justin M

Speaking about gender differences soon... TEACHERS COME!

Please check out Kim Bevill's series on Gray Matters and Brain Basics. Kim is an expert when it comes to gender differences and teaching. A classroom teacher, now speaker and organizer of speakers, her website is worth checking out!


http://www.kimbevill.com/?q=node/39

The trap is ready to go again!

Took some time off, but opened the trap after seeing three squirrels nonchalantly eating in my garden this morning.... Greener pastures soon guys and gals!

This picture reminded me of a cage match of wrestling squirrels!

The trap was open for about an hour when it snapped shut. I went to the backyard to see my new captive and there it was... a pretty little robin. I opened the door and it hopped out, turned as if to say, "THANKS" and flew away! Pretty cool, eh?

A fortunate Man, I am!

Happy
Anniversary!
Here's to many more!


I've been married half my life,
To the world's most awesome wife!
She is my mate, my sons' mother
I would not wish for any other!

Contest at my fanpage on Facebook

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1016679907#!/pages/The-Works-of-Justin-Matott/213624096290?ref=ts

ALL YOU HAD TO DO WAS LOOK, THE LINK WAS PROVIDED ON THE CONTEST LISTING... HEH HEH, KEEP THAT IN MIND FOR THE NEXT CONTEST PEEPS!

Here are the answers to the contest posted exactly a year from now... Back to the future people, one of my favorite movies...

1. In When Did I Meet You Grandma? What kind of car is the grandma in on the end papers? PINK BUG

2. In Go Ask Mom, what is the name of the big, mean dog who torments
Gabe's dog? KILLER

3. In Benjamin Bailey Goes To The Zoo what is the "one thing I can't
tell?" ELEPHANT POOP

4. In Drinking Fountain Joe, what is Joe's "girlfriend's" name? YVONNE

5. In The Sky is Falling, what two characters constantly interrupt the
story? THE NARRATORS

6. What is Mr. Murphy's full name? (From The Tails Tales of Mr. Murphy) HERBERT VON MURPHY

A teacher who made an impact!

CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL STORY!
http://www.storyofmylife.com/User/user_suzy_story_view.aspx?storyId=3972&CategoryId=2019&UserId=154530

Recently I was interviewed for an online site that I felt had some relevance. I have been working on a book about teachers for teachers for some time now and somewhat casually brought up my sixth grade teacher (I am using his influence in book 4 of the Go Ask Mom series). Teachers can have an awesome impact, negative and positive, sometimes both. This particular teacher did in my life.

If you had a teacher who influenced you in a way that has shaped a bit of your life, send him or her a letter. Particularly the good ones. They love the encouragement of knowing they had a place of impact... I should know, I let my middle school social studies teacher know and a wonderful story came out of it (stay tuned) and I should further know because I used to listen to my parents (both teachers) talking about the students who "came back" to let them know what they had done to influence them. Also, I am married to a teacher and at the end of this past school year she had a small stream of high school students in her middle school classroom who came back to let her know they still thought of her. It makes a big difference!

Is it just me, or was that cloud looking back at me?

Last night, while working at my desk (pushed up to a window in my office) and writing about two boys in my Go Ask Mom series, lying on their backs talking about what they see in the clouds, I looked out to see this awesome sunset tinged cloud. I saw a face, do you?

Squirrel # 9 for summer '09

After days and days of rain and the trap being out of commission, I was
working in the garage, set the trap outside with NO bait...WHAM! COMES FROM THE BACK YARD--- Curious George Gets A New Home!