From: Megan Murphy, Chair, The Friends Medallion:
Overview
Throughout the history of children’s literature, the best-loved stories usually center around themes of friendship–the Wizard of Oz and Charlotte’s Web and classic series such as Frog and Toad, George and Martha, and Winnie-the-Pooh embody that simple yet eternally-powerful theme.
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Jo Knowles on Jo Knowles: “I grew up in a small town in New Hampshire along with a menagerie of pets and people. I was never much of a reader, convinced I wasn’t any good at it. My sister, on the other hand, read constantly and could sometimes be persuaded to read out loud.
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Dominique Paul grew up in a Maryland suburb just outside of Washington, D.C., and received her BA in English from the University of Maryland, College Park. Currently, she lives in Los Angeles, where she will be directing an upcoming film based on her first novel, The Possibility of Fireflies (Simon &
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The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray (Delacorte, Dec. 26, 2007). From the promotional copy: “It has been a year of change since Gemma Doyle arrived at the foreboding Spence Academy. Her mother murdered, her father a laudanum addict, Gemma has relied on an unsuspected strength and has discovered an ability to travel to an enchanted world called the realms,
The Middle of Somewhere by J.B. Cheaney (Knopf, 2007). Twelve year-old Veronica Sparks is on a road trip across Kansas with her grandfather (a wind prospector) and hyperactive younger brother. Her attempts to take control of her own life are thwarted by her brother’s impulsiveness and her grandfather’s threats to take them all back home.
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Randi Hacker is the Education Outreach Coordinator at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, a job that is a synthesis of many of the other career tracks she has followed in her life: educator, editor, author, student of Chinese. Randi earned her BA in English Literature from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and spent the better part of her thirties working as the editor of The Electric Company Magazine published by Children’s Television Workshop.
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Meet Mary Newell DePalma, author-illustrator of The Nutcracker Doll (Arthur A. Levine, 2007), from BookPage.
The charmed lives of Gilded Age teens: an interview with Anna Godbersen by Heidi Henneman from BookPage. Anna is the author of The Luxe (HarperTeen, 2007). Here’s a sneak peek: “‘I had a fondness for the Edith Wharton-type of novel,’
Robert’s Snow is an online auction that benefits Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Over 200 children’s book illustrators have created art on individual snowflake-shaped wooden templates. The snowflakes will be auctioned off, with proceeds going to cancer research.
Auction 3 will begin accepting bids on Dec. 3 at 9 a.m. with a starting bid of $150 for each snowflake.
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Niki Burnham is the author of six books and two novellas for teenagers. Her first book for teens, Royally Jacked (Simon Pulse, 2003), was named a Teen People Pick. She has also written six romance novels for adults (under the name Nicole Burnham), winning the RITA award in 2004. Niki has a website and an active bulletin board at www.nikiburnham.com.
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Faerie Drink Forums will be sponsoring upcoming chats with authors as follows:
Dec. 1 to Dec. 8
Carrie Jones
Jo Knowles
E. M. Alexander
Dec. 9 to Dec. 15
A.W. Gryphon
J. M. Warwick
Heather Brewer
Dec.
