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A blog entry featuring Eric Carle

I don’t regularly follow many blogs, but I do receive a weekly e-newsletter about the children’s book publishing industry. I…

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Book Cover Controversy

http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6672790.htmlFor people interested in this sort of thing, there is a controversy brewing over a book cover. In short, the…

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Because I am Furniture by Thalia Chaltas, copyright 2009

Trapped in a masquerade of normalcy, Anke struggles to figure out her role in her dysfunctional family. She lives in…

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The Year the Swallows Came Early, by Kathryn Fitzmaurice, copyright 2009

Writers and editors often talk about the importance of the first sentence and the first page. If a story doesn’t…

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The Year the Swallows Came Early, by Kathryn Fitzmaurice, copyright 2009

Writers and editors often talk about the importance of the first sentence and the first page. If a story doesn’t…

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Savvy by Ingrid Law, copyright 2008

Thirteenth birthdays in the Beaumont family are a big deal, though not for any of the usual reasons. When they…

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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows, copyright 2008

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Shark Girl by Kelly Bingham, copyright 2007

In this spare and beautifully-written novel in poems, Kelly Bingham captures the agony of loss and the triumph of the…

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Peeled, by Joan Bauer, copyright 2008

Hildy Biddle is a teen with a nose for the truth, and there is a rotten apple in Banesville, New…

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A Thousand Never Evers by Shana Burg, copyright 2008

Recently, my friend Anne Bustard recommended this book, not only because it’s well-written and an excellent story, but because she…

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