Check out the book trailer for My Dog Is The Best by Laurie Ann Thompson, illustrated by Paul Schmid (FSG, 2015).
From the promotional copy:
What do you get when you combine one energetic, enthusiastic little boy with his sleepy but tolerant dog?
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By Carmen Oliver
for Cynthia Leitich Smith’s Cynsations
In 2012, I was working on a nonfiction picture book project about white and black spirit bears in Canada and the boy Simon Jackson who was trying to save them from extinction.
At the same time, my daughter was in fifth grade and was given the awesome task of being a reading buddy to an incoming kindergartner.
Check out the book trailer for Little Tree by Loren Long (Philomel, 2015). From the promotional copy:
In the middle of a little forest, there lives a Little Tree who loves his life and the splendid leaves that keep him cool in the heat of long summer days.
Teen Julie
When I was six years old, my big sister pulled me aside and whispered in my ear.
“I learned a bad word today.”
I asked her, “Is it terrible?”
“It’s awful, horrible.”
I smiled gleefully.
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Check out the book trailer for Keepers of the Labyrinth by Erin E. Moulton (Philomel, 2015). From the promotional copy:
Courage is tested, myths come to life, and long-held secrets are revealed.
Lilith Bennette runs at midnight.
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From the team behind Mine! (Knopf, 2011)
Check out the book trailer for Uh-Oh! by Shutta Crum, illustrated by Patrice Barton (Knopf, 2015). From the promotional copy:
A charming summer story that’s just right for toddlers, from the team behind the critically acclaimed picture book “Mine.”
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Check out the book trailer for Counting Crows by Kathi Appelt, illustrated by Rob Dunlavey (Atheneum, 2015). From the promotional copy: Counting has never been this much fun or this jazzy!
Count along with the cool crows in this book trailer sung by Laurel Kathleen with music by Cooper Appelt.
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I remember the day I finished my first middle-grade novel, The Battle of Darcy Lane (Running Press, 2014), pretty vividly. I sat there for a minute, stared out the window of my office, and thought: “Now I need a new middle-grade idea.”
So I started to root around my brain for inspiration by asking myself the question,
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Paul Greci is the first-time author of Surviving Bear Island (Move, 2015)(author blog). From the promotional copy:
How did you approach the research process for your story? What was your greatest coup, and how did it inform your manuscript?
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Check out the cover for Mirrored by Alex Flinn (HarperTeen, fall 2015). From the promotional copy:
Mirror, mirror in my hand…
Beauty is the key to everything. At least, that’s how it seems to Violet—ugly,
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