On the Loose in Boston on Mayor Walsh’s suggested youth reading list

I was excited to learn today that Mayor Marty Walsh included On the Loose in Boston on his suggested youth reading list:

“If you’re looking for book recommendations, Boston’s Mayor Marty Walsh has you covered…”
Click here to read the article by Dialynn Dwyer at Boston.com.

More reception for On the Loose in Boston:

Review at Boston Mamas.com:
“Not only are the illustrations awesome, Stossel engages the reader with challenging searches for the Franklin Park Zoo animals artistically hidden among her drawings, and she entertains us with a rhyming plot that tickles the tongue with wonderful vocabulary.” Read more…

Recommended by Mommy Nearest Boston as one of “10 Books All Boston Kids Should Have on Their Shelves”
“One of the best books in the interactive “find-the-animals” genre happens to be set in Boston. An Atlantic magazine cartoonist, Stossel’s illustrations are elegant, colorful and highly detailed, making it extra fun for kids (and grown-ups) to find the animals that have been set loose from the Franklin Park Zoo only to hide throughout the city.”

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Click here for On the Loose in Boston at Amazon.

[MORE: On the Loose in Washington, DC, On the Loose in Philadelphia. Or click here to read graphic novel Starling at GoComics.com. Click here to visit the Starling Facebook page]

Starling on GoGomics.com

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I’m excited to report that starting today, my comic Starling will be serialized on GoGomics (online home of Peanuts, Calvin & Hobbes, Doonesbury, & many more). This is the link to the 1st installment from the beginning of the story. (It will update on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays).

Click here to read Starling at GoComics.com
Click here to visit the Starling Facebook page

Welcome to the Bad Mommy Zoo (Boston Globe cartoon)

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Click to see the rest of the cartoon.
Click to see the rest of the cartoon at the Boston Globe.
Also see: Mom Draws Powerful Cartoon in Response to Cincinnati Zoo Incident, by Caroline Bologna, The Huffington Post.

[BOOKS: Starling, On the Loose in Boston, On the Loose in Washington, DC, and On the Loose in Philadelphia]

We’re Off to Harvard Square: Local Artist’s Illustrations Get Second Life

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The first time Sage Stossel sat down to pen We’re Off to Harvard Square, she gave up. Stossel wanted to write and illustrate a children’s book, and figured the easiest way to go about doing so was to…
Continue reading the article by Emily Cassel at Scout Magazine…

[BOOKS: Starling, On the Loose in Boston, On the Loose in Washington, DC, On the Loose in Philadelphia, and We’re Off to Harvard Square.]

On the Loose in Philadelphia (Children’s Book)

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Cartoonist Sage Stossel created her “Find-the Animals” bestseller On the Loose in Boston in 2009, in which animals from Franklin Park Zoo escape and show up in settings from Fenway Park to Faneuil Hall. She followed it with On the Loose in Washington, D.C. in 2013, when the National Zoo’s animals got the same idea, and cavorted around our nation’s capital from the White House to Capitol Hill. Next stop? The City of Brotherly Love! Children will have hours of entertainment finding the Philadelphia Zoo animals in On the Loose in Philadelphia—whether a monkey at Independence Hall, a kangaroo at the art museum, or a hippopotamus at a Phillies game! Over 100 animals are hiding cleverly in favorite Philadelphia locations in this colorfully-illustrated rhyming picture book.

Recommended by Mommy Nearest Philadelphia as one of 10 Books All Philly Kids Should Have on Their Shelves.

[Click here to buy the book.]

Also visit the On the Loose in Philadelphia web site for Philadelphia pictures to print and color, ideas for things to do with kids in Philadelphia, and more.

(Also see On the Loose in Boston and On the Loose in Washington, DC, or the graphic novel Starling.)