Featured Author Spotlight: Cynthia Centerbar

Precocious Patty is rattled, she isn’t ready to go to a new school.

Tomorrow is precocious Patty’s last day of preschool, and she doesn’t feel ready for kindergarten. Her mum suggests she write a thank you note to her teachers. Will expressing her gratitude calm her back-to-school butterflies?

About the Author

Cynthia Centerbar is forever grateful to her teachers especially the ones who nurture and encourage her artistic visions. Host of the Just Pictures Book discussion group, her storyboards have been exhibited at the Worcester Art Museum. She loves drawing with pencils and cooking scrump-deli-cious food. Thank You Pine Street is her debut book and is inspired by the letter she helped her preschoolers compose when her family moved out of state.

“The book professionals at Outskirts guided me expertly through my debut picture book self-publishing experience. I’m an author/illustrator. After spending a frustrating amount of energy submitting queries, only to receive “great book, but not right for our list right now, send us more.” I decided to self-publish.

After researching several self-publishing presses, I selected Outskirts because the quality of their books was indistinguishable from books published by traditional houses.

I found the team I worked with to produce THANK YOU PINE STREET to be very knowledgeable about the picture book market and experienced with good picture book design. And am excited to be working with them again on my second book.”

Availability

Published by Outskirts Press in April 2025, this beautiful, full-color children’s book is available as a high-quality, casebound hardback for a 10% discount directly from Outskirts Press and the author’s webpage here. The book is also available through Amazon and Barnes & Noble, and just about anywhere else you buy your books.

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