Just Another Day In My Insanely Real Life by Barbara Dee (McElderry/Simon & Schuster, 2006)(excerpt). From the promo copy: “Twelve-year-old Cassie has a lot to cope with when her father moves ‘out of the picture.’ Her mom’s constantly working overtime, her teenage sister’s going AWOL, and her little brother seriously needs attention.
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Aliens Are Coming! The True Account of the 1938 War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast by Megan McCarthy (Knopf, 2006): a recommendation by Esmé Raji Codell from The Planet Esmé Book-A-Day Plan. Esmé also discusses her review philosophy, noting, “I try not to read reviews until after I experienced a book myself,
Julie Larios on Julie Larios: “I was born on July 8, 1949, which makes me a child of the first half of the 20th century. So my frame of reference is black-and-white television, Howdy Doody, Joseph McCarthy, JFK, Dallas, LBJ, Vietnam, Berkeley in the 60’s,
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Side Effects by Amy Goldman Koss (Deborah Brodie/Roaring Brook, 2006). From the promotional copy: “As if it doesn’t suck enough to have cancer, practically every time you pick up books or see movies where characters get sick, you know they’ll be dead by the last scene. In reality, kids get all kinds of cancers,
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Happy birthday to my husband, Greg Leitich Smith! Visit GregLSBlog to offer him cheers! Read an interview with Greg at Young Adult (+ Kids) Books Central.
This week Bookshelves of Doom offers a rousing recommendation of my upcoming YA gothic fantasy, Tantalize (Candlewick, 2007). She concludes: “I suspect that there will be a pretty serious clamor for a sequel.”
Extreme Animals: The Toughest Creatures on Earth by Nicola Davies, illustrated by Neal Layton (Candlewick, 2006). Humans are wimps, we’re told. We “can’t stand” cold, heat, live without food or water, and we have to have air to survive. But a handful of other earth creatures are pros and handling all of the above.
The 92nd Street Y Buttenwieser Library and the Jewish Book Council are co-sponsoring the Eighth Annual Jewish Children’s Book Writers’ Conference at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan (New York City) Nov. 19 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Featured speakers are: executive editor Deborah Brodie of Roaring Brook; executive editor Jill Davis of Bloomsbury;
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R.L. LaFevers on R.L. LaFevers: “I began writing when I was seven years old and penned my first poem an ode to my Madame Alexander doll. After that I wrote an ode to The Chronicles of Narnia, my favorite books at the time. Luckily, I quickly outgrew my Ode Stage and moved on to other genres.
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Cooking Up Reading: “providing these tasty connections between [picture] books and food.” “Each recipe is unique, many of them contributed by the authors of the books themselves.” The site includes safety tips and recipes.
See a sample recipe for Chocolate Chip Cookies associated with Edwina the Dinosaur Who Didn’t Know She Was Extinct by Mo Willems (Hyperion,
Calling Karen Halvorsen Schreck, author of Dream Journal (Hyperion, 2006) and Barbara Dee, author of Just Another Day in My Insanely Real Life (McEdlerry/Simon & Schuster, 2006)(excerpt). Please send me an email! Note: Read a review of Karen’s novel (as well as several other new books) from Magic Tree Bookstore.
