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5,700 | 0 | Kindergarten-Grade 2-In simple and predictable verse, Holub describes what happens when a household is overrun by invading felines. They run through the house wreaking pure havoc on couches, flowers, lamps, and anything else they can get their paws on. Soon, however, all of the cats are shooed out, but the two children begin to miss them and set out on a search. Once the creatures are found, the siblings realize the virtues of having them in the house. So, too, do the cats begin to appreciate the joys of human companionship. While the text seems to project the benign mischief, the illustrations draw a less clear portrayal. According to Davis's watercolors, the cats are attempting to trip a child, spill food, and damage furniture-not the sort of behavior that warrants an invite back into a house. The pictures themselves are nicely detailed. However, the pale yellow, teal, and brick orange used appear washed out and don't suit the frenetic commotion taking place. With its easy vocabulary and rhyming verse, Scat, Cats! is well suited for beginning readers. Nevertheless, with few surprises and a general lack of characterization, it falls short on creativity. Readers will find little enjoyment in the destructive actions of these cats and find a bit unbelievable the children's change of heart.Louie Lahana, New York City Public Schools Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.The reason I'm a children's book author/illustrator today is that I have a lot of determination. I practiced drawing and revised my stories over and over because I wanted nothing more than to do what I'm doing now--writing and illustrating children's books.I always knew I'd become an artist and studied art in college in Texas. After graduating from college, I became an Art Director at a graphic design firm. I moved from Texas to New York to work in children's publishing. I got a job as Associate Art Director in children's books at Scholastic, where I designed books and enjoyed working with editors and illustrators. This was excellent experience.I illustrated my first children's book in 1992 and soon began illustrating full time. I had always written stories, but I began completing manuscripts and mailing them out to publishers in the early 1990's. In 1996, I sold my first two manuscripts -- Boo Who? (Scholastic) and Pen Pals (Grosset & Dunlap) -- both published in 1997.Now I write and illustrate full time. It is a great job. When I think of a idea, I write it down so that whenever I finish one story I'll have a bunch of ideas waiting that I can begin working on next. I especially love reading and writing funny stories, weird stories, and animal stories.Books I've written and illustrated include:Cinderdog and the Wicked Stepcat Albert Whitman, 2001 (ages 4-8, picture book)Abby Cadabra, Super Speller, Grosset & Dunlap, 2000 (ages 6-8, easy reader)How to Find Lost Treasure in All Fifty States and Canada, Too Aladdin, 2000 (ages 8-12, NF)The Haunted States of America Aladdin, 2001 (ages 8-12, NF)Vincent Van Gogh: Sunflowers and Swirly Stars, 2001 Grosset & Dunlap (ages 6-9, NF)Happy Monster Day! Scholastic,1999Pen Pals Grosset & Dunlap, 1997 (ages 6-8, easy reader)Ivy Green, Cootie Queen Troll, 1998 (ages 7-9)Red, Yellow, Green What Do Signs Mean? Scholastic, 1998 (ages 4-8)Boo Who? A Spooky Lift-the-Flap Book Scholastic, 1997 (ages 1-6)Eek-A-Boo! A Spooky Lift-the-Flap Book Scholastic, 2000 (ages 1-6)Books I've written include:I Have A Weird Brother Who Digested A Fly, Albert Whitman, 1999 (picture book)Light the Candles, A Hanukkah Lift the Flap Book, Puffin, 2000The Garden That We Grew Viking/Puffin, 2001(ages 4-7, easy reader)The Pizza That We Made Viking/Puffin, 2001(ages 4-7, easy reader)Scat Cats! Viking/Puffin, 2001(ages 4-7, easy reader)Backwards Day, Scholastic, 2000Why Do Dogs Bark? Puffin, 2001(ages 6-8, easy reader)Why Do Cats Meow? Puffin, 2001(ages 6-8, easy reader)The Spooky Sleepover, Grosset & Dunlap, 1999 (ages 6-8, easy reader)Pajama Party Grosset & Dunlap, 1998 (ages 4-7, easy reader)Space Dogs on Planet K-9 Troll, 1998 (ages 7-10)Books I've illustrated include:Breakout at the Bug Lab Dial, 2001(ages 6-8, easy reader)Hector's Hiccups Random House, 1999Shadows Everywhere Scholastic, 1999Hot Cha-Cha! Winslow PressNo Fair! Scholastic, Hello MathThe 100th Day of School ScholasticTen Little Ballerinas Grosset & DunlapI Love You Mom TrollI Love You Dad TrollMy First Book of Sign Language TrollAnswers to questions people sometimes ask me:1. Where do you get your ideas?I get ideas many different ways. Sometimes, ideas just pop into my head. I also listen to and watch the people around me for ideas. I read to get ideas. I daydream to get ideas. When I get an idea, I write it down in an idea notebook, so I won't forget it. I think ideas are the easy part of writing. I get lots of ideas for books all the time. Developing them into a book with a beginning, middle and end is the difficult, time-consuming part. The idea is important, but an idea isn't a book until it has been developed into a story that works as a whole from start to finish.2. When and why did you decide to become an author and artist?I've been writing and reading stories all of my life. I didn't concentrate on writing children's books until around 1990. In 1991, I began regularly submitting manuscripts to publishers.I began writing because I had story ideas that I thought would make good books. I've always known I would become an artist--ever since kindergarten.3. Why don't you illustrate all of the books you write?I haven't had time to illustrate all of the books I write, but I've usually been very happy with the work of the illustrators who have illustrated my books. I wasn't happy with the art in a couple of books, but I don't think it's fair to try and control the artist, so I keep out of the artist's way as much as possible. I continue to illustrate books by other authors as well. I have just as much fun illustrating a book written by someone else as I do illustrating books I write. As long as the story is good, illustrating it is fun.4. Did you like school when you were a kid?Most of the time. I got bored during the summer, so I was glad when school started. I loved getting a new lunchbox and choosing what I would wear the first day. But then after about 2 weeks of school, I wished for summer again. I like to read and I made good grades, so school was mostly fun for me.5. How do you develop your characters and plot?I've usually already decided on a main charater and 1/4 to 3/4 of a plot before I start writing a story. I just write and work out the rest of the characters and plot as I go along. I have a college art degree, but have no formal training as a writer. I learn the rhythm and structure of stories by reading books and thinking about how they are structured. I also read instructional books about how to write.6. What is your favorite part about writing? Why?Getting an idea; finishing a book manuscript; getting an offer from a publisher; and seeing my book in a store are all big thrills. The process of writing is not always fun. But I'm driven to write, and time flies when I'm writing.7. How hard has it been to get your works published?It was hard to sell the first manuscript. Then in 1996, I suddenly sold three manuscripts in three months to Grosset & Dunlap and Scholastic.8. What are your favorite books besides the one(s) you have written?Spaceship Under the Apple Tree; Martha Speaks; The Giving Tree; A Friend for Dragon; Chrysanthemum; Ruby the Copycat; Marvin Redpost--Is He A Girl?9. What do you look for in a good book?Something I think is funny or a feeling I can strongly identify with. A good idea and a memorable plot and characters.10. Do you have kids or pets? Hobbies?No kids, but we do have a great cat, who thinks he's our child. For hobbies, I like to hike, bikeride, and read.Rich Davis lives with his wife, Angie, and two sons, Daniel and David, in a small Arkansas town.; Title: Scat, Cats! (Penguin Young Readers, Level 2) | [
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5,701 | 2 | Sarah Dessen is one of the most popular writers for young adults. She is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of many novels, which have received numerous awards and rave reviews, and have sold more than seven million copies. She lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, with her husband, Jay, and their daughter, Sasha Clementine. Visit her online at www.sarahdessen.com.; Title: Keeping the Moon | [
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5,702 | 0 | "I grew up on a dairy farm in a region known as Vermont's Northeast Kingdom, along with one sister and three brothers in an area our Scottish ancestors settled almost two hundred years ago."Since graduating from Johnson State College Vermont with majors in both art and athletic training, I have worked as a coach, trainer, energy auditor for the Extension Service, and mostrecently as Elderhostel Director and cross-country ski instructor at the Craftsbury Sports Center before turning to writing full-time."I have many passions. I am an athlete, naturalist, artist, and a writer, and all of the things I do are rooted in the Northeast Kingdom. I run five to ten miles each morning, cross-country ski, mountain bike, swim, and play tennis. I also played field hockey all across the country for many years. I love the outdoors, and study and sketch birds and wildflowers which are most often the subjects of my watercolor paintings. For the past seven years, my husband, Tom, and I have beenbuilding a timber-frame house. We both enjoy working with wood, and Tom shares my love of the land, sports and animals: we have a Morgan horse, five dogs, and eight cats. We lovegardening and have planted an orchard of old apple varieties. And I love histories and walking old cemeteries."My first children's book, The Canada Geese Quilt, grew out of my love andadmiration for my grandmother, Helen Urie Rowell, and a special quilt the two of us made together. My grandmother began quilting when she was in her sixties, and over the next fifteen years she made over 230 quilts. I designed about twenty of them. Most of them are of birds,wildflowers and starry skies, but one is of Canada geese -- and that inspired the book."My husband and I live in Albany, Vermont, where I am always at work on new books."copyright © 2000 by Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers. All rights reserved.; Title: The Night the Bells Rang (Puffin Chapters) | [
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5,703 | 7 | A forgotten door on an abandoned railway platform is the entrance to a magical kingdom--an island where humans live happily with mermaids, ogres, and other wonderful creatures. Carefully hidden from the world, the Island is only accessible when the door opens for nine days every nine years. When the beastly Mrs. Trottle kidnaps the Island's young prince, it's up to a strange band of rescuers to save him. But can the rescuers--an ogre, a hag, a wizard, and a fey--sneak around London unnoticed? Fans of Roald Dahl, Lewis Carroll, and E. Nesbit will delight in this comic fantasy. ; Title: Secret of Platform 13 | [
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5,704 | 2 | "An honest, realistic view of an important aspect of contemporary American life". -- The Horn Book"We're off to a better future".Felita's parents promise she will love the new neighborhood. Only Abuelita, her grandmother, understands how much Felita will miss her old block, and her best friend Gigi. But her new neighbors aren't nice at all. They taunt and tease Felita because her family is from Puerto Rico. When Felita's parents finally decide to move back to their old block, Felita is thrilled. Yet she soon finds that many things have changed while she's been away -- including herself.; Title: Felita | [
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5,705 | 7 | Eva Ibbotson, born Maria Charlotte Michelle Wiesner (19252010), was an Austrian-born British novelist, known for her children's books. Some of her novels for adults have been successfully reissued for the young adult market in recent years. For the historical novelJourney to the River Sea(Macmillan, 2001), she won the Smarties Prize in category 911 years, garnered unusual commendation as runner-up for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, and made the Carnegie Medal, Whitbread Award, and Blue Peter Book Award shortlists. She was a finalist for the 2010 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize at the time of her death. Her last book,The Abominables, was one of eight books on the longlist for the same award in 2012.Annabel Large is a published illustrator of childrens and young adult books. Her pictures have appeared in Which Witch? by Eva Ibbotson and White Fang by Jack London.; Title: Which Witch? | [
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5,706 | 2 | The premise is irresistible, and the suspense crackles. -- The Horn BookWilliam Sleator (19452011) was the author of numerous science fiction books for children and young adults, including Interstellar Pig, House of Stairs, and Blackbriar.; Title: Rewind | [
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5,707 | 0 | Barbara Maitland is a childrens book author. Her works include The Bookstore Burglar and The Bookstore Ghost.Nadine Bernard Westcott has illustrated more than 100 books for young readers, including I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly, Big Picnic, Down by the Bay, and Peanut Butter and Jelly, the latter of which she also wrote. Nadine lives in Nantucket, Massachusetts, and divides her time between illustrating and designing her own line of fabrics.; Title: The Bookstore Burglar (Penguin Young Readers, Level 3) | [
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5,708 | 1 | Jean Craighead George (1919–2012) was the author of more than 100 beloved books for young people, including the Newbery Award–winning Julie of the Wolves , the Newbery Honor–winning My Side of the Mountain, On the Far Side of the Mountain, and Frightful's Mountain .  She was a lifetime naturalist and a household name. Her website can be found at www.jeancraigheadgeorge.com.Frightful, the peregrine falcon, could not see. A falconer's hood covered her head and eyes She remained quiet and calm, like all daytime birds in the dark. She could hear, however. She listened to the wind whistling through pine needles. This wind-music conjured up images of a strange woods and unknown flowers. The sound was foreign. It was not the soft song of wind humming through the hemlock needles of home. Frightful was a long way from her familiar forest. Suddenly, an all invading passion filled her. She must go. She must find one mountain among thousands, one hemlock tree among millions, and the one boy who called himself Sam Gribley. The one mountain was her territory, the one tree was Sam's house, the perch beside it, her place. And Sam Gribley was life.Chapter One (In Which Frightful Takes Off) Frightful had not been quite two weeks old when she first saw Sam Gribley. He had lifted her from her nest on a cliff. Small as she was, she had jabbed him with her already powerful talons as he carried her to the ground. "I'm going to call you Frightful," he had said. "You're a raving beauty." Then he carried her to the gigantic hemlock tree on the mountain and into its hollowed-out bole. This was Sam's home. He fed her four and five times a day. He carried her on his gloved fist and talked to her. Before long, Frightful thought of him as her mother. He nurtured her like a peregrine falcon.. When she was older, Sam made a perch for her and placed it outside his tree. He taught her to fly to his hand. When she was full grown her took her hunting with him. By now, the memory of her parents was pushed far back in her mind. Sam was her family. At night and on winter days, Sam brought her inside the huge old tree. She perched on his rustic bedstead and warmed herself by the clay fireplace. On spring and summer days, she would sit on her perch outside and watch the birds, the butterflies, and busy Sam. Patiently, she waited for him to take her hunting. It was her greatest pleasure. She loved the sky. She loved the updrafts and coiling winds and she loved "waiting on," hovering above Sam until he kicked up game. Then she stooped, the wind singing in her feathers. Frightful was an excellent hunter who rarely missed. The food was shared. Their lives depended on each other. She must find Sam. Frightful crouched to fly. She could not see. She folded her gray-blue wings to her body and straightened up. Hooded and tethered, she had traveled with two strange men for several days. One of them had taken her from her perch beside the big hemlock tree. He had a deep jerky voice and a face like a condor's. She looked intently at him before he slipped the falconer's hood over her head. San had begged and pled with the man not to take her away, but he had pushed Sam aside and carried her down the mountain to a pick-up truck. A leather perch had been presented to her feet. She had stepped up on it as Sam had taught her to do. A door had closed and she was inside a camper on the truck. The motor rumbled and she was moving. A falcon Bell tinkled nearby. A sharp-skinned hawk had shifted his feet. A prairie flacon called out a single note. They, like herself, were sensing the direction of the moving pick-up - east, north east, east, then straight north. Several feedings later the second man put Frightful on a perch in the pine forest. The prairie falcon and the sharp-skinned hawk were there too. She could hear their bells tinkling. Although, they were birds who would readily attack her she was not afraid of them. Frightful was a peregrine falcon. She was faster and more agile that any other bird or beast the world around. Her long pointed wings, wide shoulders, and strong tapered body were sculptured by the wind, the open sky, and the nature of her ancestral prey-swift birds. Frightful sat calmly under her hood, turning the sounds in the pine forest into mental images. A song sparrow caroled. A cardinal chirped. They told her she was in a forest clearing edged with bushes where song sparrows and cardinals lived. A northern water thrush trilled. Frightful envisioned a dashing stream shaded by a majestic forest, the summer home of the northern water thrush. She heard the stream in the distance. It had many voices as it spilled down a stairway of rocks. Suddenly, the cardinal screamed an alarm.. A predator was approaching. The song birds stopped chittering. The forest became silent. Even the insects ceased stridulating. Frightful pulled her feathers to her breast. The enemy was low and coming toward her. The sharp-shinned hawk flew off his perch in terror. His bell tinkled. He was stopped by his leash that was knotted to a steel ring at the base of his perch and to the jesses on his legs. He jumped forward, fell back and beat the earth with his wings. A killing snarl colored the air red. An eastern woodland coyote had killed the sharp-shinned hawk. The killer, bird in her mouth, ran toward her pups in the woods. With a jerk, she, too, was stopped by the leash. She turned back and dug at the base of the perch until it toppled and fell. The next sound Frightful heard was the clink of the ring at the end of the leash bouncing over the ground. The sounds faded into the woods. A wind twisted Frightful's silky pantaloons of pin-striped feathers that hung down over her enamel-shiny legs. Her tail flicked. She was nervous. Human footsteps approached. Their sounds did not conjure up the image of the men she had been traveling with. Wary, she lifted her wings to fly. A hand touched the front of her legs and she stepped up on it as Sam had taught her to do. "Hello, Frightful." Her name, but not Sam's voice. The tone was soft like the call of a mourning dove. 'What are you doing here?" the voice asked and she recognize Alice, Sam's sister. In Frightful's mind's eye, she saw a rosy face with sea blue eyes and yellow hair. Frightful relaxed. Alice was family. She liked Alice, who ran and jumped. She also darted. Frightful liked movement. A spot in her eyes connected to many nerves gave her an instant focus on movement. Running, leaping Alice was a member of Frightful's home forest. Sam must not be far away. Frightful eased her grip on Alice's bare hand. She lifted her talons. "Frightful," Alice said softly. "You've got to get out of here." The young girl's voice conjured up images of the one mountain among thousands of mountains, the one hemlock tree among millions of trees - and Sam. "I'm cutting your jesses," she whispered. " You are surrounded by enemies! Fly, fly far away. "Fly away, Frightful! Sam is not allowed to have you. He has to have a falconer's license and he's too young to get one. Fly, Frightful! Fly far!" A quick slash of a knife and Frightful's jesses and leash dropped away. The hood was flipped off. And Frightful could see. "Fly!" Alice urged. Frightful saw the clearing before her and the leaves on the bushes, even the shiny needles at the tops of the pine trees. Her eyes were endowed with incredible vision. Alice tossed her into the air. Pulling on her powerful wings, Frightful sped to the top of the tallest pine and alighted on a slender twig. He large black-brown eyes observed the forest, the cascading stream, a town tucked in a steep valley, and rolling mountains as far as she could see. She turned her head almost all the way around, but could not see or sense the one mountain among thousands of mountains, the one tree among millions of trees. She must get higher. She flew. Strong wing beats carried her into a thermal, a column of warm air that rises from the sun heated ground in a spiraling bubble. She got aboard and circled upward a thousand feet. The view was still unfamiliar. To the northeast the rolling mountains ended in a steep escarpment. A waterfall plunged down it, falling two hundred feet to the ground. Beyond the escarpment stretched a valley almost obscured by industrial haze. Rivers threaded through it. Directly northward the rugged Adirondack Mountains stood in a green haze above the land. Frightful had not been fed for ten hours. She was desperately hungry. Her first act of freedom would be to hunt for herself. But the forest was not the habitat she knew. Sam had trained her to hunt in abandoned fields. She circled and waited for him. He did not appear. Frightful flew higher. A movement on the ground caught her eye. Alice was walking on a road that wound through the pine forest. Frightful pumped her wings once and plummeted earthward. When she was twenty feet above Alice's head she scooped her wings, dropped her secondary feathers and braked herself. She hovered, "waiting on" for the girl to kick through the fields and scare up the game as Sam would have done. Alice did not look up. Her eyes were on the road. Presently, she came out of the forest into open farmland. Frightful's eyes sought movement. This was the country she and Sam had hunted. Tipping one wing, she moved effortlessly over an abandoned field. She waited o for Alice. But Alice did not come into the field. She stayed on the macadam where nothing lived. She was in a hurry. Breaking into a run, she dashed around a bend, just as a yellow, white and brown dog with long ears and droopy eyes left his hide-out in a culvert. He saw Alice run past him. Crouching, he pulled his tail between his legs and dropped out of sight in the daisies. He had been beaten as a pup and was terrified of people. He was thin, but not skinny, for he lived quite well on the mice and rabbits in the field. The farmer who saw him from time to time called him Mole. Every time he lifted his gun to shoot the dog, Mole disappeared in the ground. The man had Mole pegged for the killer of his chickens. Mole slipped silently through a thistle patch. A pheasant burst up. Frightful rocketed earthward. She struck the bird a mortal blow and dropped with it to the ground. Instinctively, she covered the food with her wings to hide it from other predators. She plucked but did not eat. She was waiting for Sam. Mole smelled the dead pheasant and lifted his head above the thistles. Alice was gone and seeing no other humans, he followed the scent of the game. Suddenly, he burst upon, not just a pheasant, but also Frightful. Frightful lifted her feathers and threatened him. Then, holding the heavy bird in one foot, she beat her wings and skimmed over the thistles. Sh gained height and sped away and up. Like a lightening bolt, a red-tailed hawk swept under her and, upside down, grabbed the pheasant in his talons. Frightful was pulled a short distance before she opened her feet and let go of the food. Four crows flew out of the woods and chased the red-tailed hawk. Two crows saw Frightful. They turned away from the red-tailed hawk and, cawing frantically, dove at her. Frightful flew into the leafy shelter of a maple tree growing along a fence row. "Come harass the falcon," the raucous crows called to each other. The message traveled swiftly and crows came flocking to the tree. Two dozen gleefully pestered their enemy. Frightful ducked the black bombers until she could stand them no longer. Taking flight, she sped around the barn and into t pine tree at the edge of a woodlot. She alighted close to the tree trunk, where her dark feathers and striking black head would bled with the bark. The crows did not see her and returned to their nests. The excitement of the hunt and chase had tired Frightful. She rubbed her head on her broad shoulder, fluffed her breast feathers and rested. Her lower lids moved up over her eye and met the upper lids. The image of the one hemlock tree among millions filled her mind's eye and then faded. She was asleep. Frightful awoke as the morning sun brought color to the tops of the trees. Still ravenously hungry, and growing weak from lack of food, she left the pine and circled above an alfalfa field. A mouse came out of its den and chewed on a grass seed. Frightful threw up her wings and dropped. She never completed the stoop. The male red-tailed hawk shot out of the woodlot. Wings pumping, he was on a bullet straight path for Frightful. His mate sped to his left. Frightful saw the hawks coming, maneuvered her wings, and shot herself up into space like a rocket. High above the red-tails, she looked down. Now she had the advantage. She was above them. To all birds anything overhead is a threat. The hawks beat a fast retreat to the woods. The female lit on a bulky stick nest where four nestlings huddled. Frightful had been in the territory of two devoted parents who were defending their young against a falcon. Frightful put distance between them by climbing higher. A mere speck in the sky she took a reading on the polarized light of the sun. The rays vibrated in lines that told her the direction. She sensed the one mountain among thousands, the one tree among millions - and Sam. She must go there. Mindful of the red-tail hawks, she flew north to get beyond their territory before heading for the mountain. In moments she was looking down on the escarpment and waterfall. They touched a memory of the right world for a peregrine, a memory as old as her species' time on earth. Drawn to the cliff and the waterfall she flew lower and lower. On the top of the escarpment stood Alice. She was under a spruce tree, staring up at it. Frightful soared toward her. Two goshawks, the lions of the woodland birds, suddenly dropped out of the trees and dove at Alice. They skimmed over the blond head and climbed skyward. In the top of the spruce tree sat four young goshawks. Alice was discovering, even as Frightful had, the fury of parents protecting their young. Alice shinnied up the tree truck, grabbed a limb, and climbed toward the nest tree. The female goshawks rose, dove, and rose again, her huge feet with their black talons poised to grab her flesh. Alice swung an arm and fended her off. "Alice! Duck!" Sam's voice. Frightful's world was suddenly right. Sam was here. The two would go hunting. She would catch their breakfast and he would hold her on his hand and feed her. He would talk and whisper to her. She waited for his three note whistle that meant, "Come to me." There was no whistle. "Come down, Alice," Sam Shouted. "No," Alice shouted back. The girl climbed on. She broke off the dead limbs, pushed back live ones, and wiggled upward. Near the nest the male goshawk struck Alice's backpack a pwerful blow, nearly knocking her out of the tree. Sam leaped to the lowest limb and climbed. The huge female goshawk dove at him. He held out his foot to fend her off. Her talons slashed his moccasin. Frightful swept down from the sky and perched in an oak tree, waiting for Sam to go hunting. Alice climbed into the bulky nest. She picked up a baby goshawk and tucked it into her backpack. "Sam can't have a falcon," she said to the bird. "But you are a hawk. You'll love Sam" Quickly she scrambled over the edge of the strong, revamped crow's nest and started down the tree. Sam saw her coming and climbed down too. He jumped to the ground. A moment later Alice dropped beside him. The raging goshawks attacked again. Sam pulled Alice into the shelter of the woods. The goshawks followed screaming, until the two enemies disappeared under a clump of mountain laurel. Then the goshawks saw Frightful. They attacked her head on. She twisted, confusing them, and climbed swiftly out of their reach. When Sam and Alice came out of the woods, the winged lions bombed them again. Taking advantage of this, Frightful dropped over the edge of the escarpment. The goshawks did not see her. She landed on a rock that stuck out from the cliff and shook the excitement out of her feathers. Behind her was a cave. She walked into its shelter, then out. It was comfortable and safe, but she was too weak from hunger to stay there. A day and a half had passed since she had eaten. Stepping to the edge of the rocky overhang she looked for food. She saw a movement on the cliff. Sam was standing under a jutting overhang not far from her. With one powerful stroke of her wings she was above him. "Cree, cree, cree, car-reet." She called. This was her mane for Sam Gribley. "Did you hear that?" Sam exclaimed to Alice. "Frightful," she shouted. "No other bird but Frightful uses my peregrine name." He stepped to the edge of the ledge and looked up. "Frightful!" he called. She scooped her wings back them forward and hung above him. "Cree, cree, cree, careet," she called. "She's free, Alice," Sam cried. "she's not dead. I was sure she was dead." No whistle told Frightful to alight on Sam's hand. She waited for this command, sculling her wings. An updraft carried her higher. She looked down. Still Sam did not call her to his hand. And because he had trained her so well, she could not alight without his whistle. Confused, she let herself ting upward on a thermal, peeling off at a great height. Then she flew out over the valley. She must hunt for her life. But she could not. Sam was her mother. She needed him. He needed her. She turned back. This time she hovered before his face. "Cree, cree, cree, careet," she called. "Hello, yourself, Frightful. Hello, hello." "Call her down, Sam," Alice screamed. "Whistle for her." He did not. Frightful flew higher - waiting. Another draft of warm air swept up the escarpment, struck her open wings, and ringed her up again. She rode this thermal to the top, where the air was cool and could not lift her any higher. Closing her wings to her body, she dropped headfirst almost a thousand feet, braked, and waited ten feet above Sam. Again her did not call her. A strong wind gusted. Frightful tipped one wing steeply, turned, and glided with the flow out over the valley. Above the Scohaire River turbulent air waves tossed her up, down, and sideways. She closed the slots between her flight feathers and maneuvered the bumps like a mogul skier. "Cree, cree, cree." One of her own species was calling her. She turned her head and saw a male peregrine flacon. The tiercel caught up with her then passed beneath her, flying upside down. He was so close she could hear this contour feathers buzz in the wind. "Chup, chup." He flew on his back again. He rolled in loops then once more on his back. He took her talons in his. "Chup." Although the time on peregrine courtship was over, and other males and females were feeding young, this male was seeking a mate. Frightful found herself responding to him. Holding her wings steady, she followed him on a steep descent. Vortices of air spiraled out from her wing tips, sending golden hemlock pollen twisting in circles. Then she saw Sam at the top of the spruce tree. He was returning the little goshawk to its nest. Frightful turned back. Chup chases her. He made an awe-inspiring loop and cruised upside down beneath her. Gently he held her talons again, and a new feeling brightened Frightful's mood. 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5,709 | 2 | Now You're Cooking with GasTwo new books about food, one devoted to the eating and digestion of food and the other to its preparation, give kids new and colorful ways to think about nutrition. Food Rules! by Bill Haduch, illus. by Rick Stromoski, appeals to the third grader in everyone, with food jokes hidden in the margins and vocabulary such as "gloppy" and "shoveling" as a synonym for eating. Behind this conversational style lies a wealth of information. Concluding with an index and glossary, this book breaks down complicated ideas, such as amino acids and cholesterol, into easy-to-digest pieces. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.Gr. 4-7. How can you not indulge in a book that tells you all about food, from why you eat it to how you eliminate it? The pages are overstuffed with clear definitions; peppered with bright, amusing cartoon illustrations; and include such recipes as "Cockroaches Trapped in a Rain Gutter." In an extremely well-organized format that combines the right amount of nutritional information with historical, anecdotal, and humorous facts, the fast-paced, often irreverent text quickly grabs its readers. Rick Stromoski's vivid pastel cartoons are Fred Flintstone--silly without being distracting; indeed they highlight and emphasize the words. Kids will recognize their own eating habits and they will undoubtedly be fascinated to read about the ultimate consequences. Whether they're browsing the pages or looking for facts, they will have so much fun that they won't even know they're learning. Includes glossary and recipes. Karen SimonettiCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved; Title: Food Rules! The Stuff You Munch, Its Crunch, Its Punch, and Why You Sometimes Lose Your Lunch | [
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5,710 | 2 | Pat Ross is a children's book author whose works include Hannah's Fancy Notionsand M & M and the Halloween Monster. Marylin Hafnerwas born in Brooklyn, New York. She illustrated many well-loved children's books, including Jack Prelutsky's It's Christmas and It's Halloween, as well Hanukkah! by Roni Schotter and A Carnival of Animals by Sid Fleischman. She lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for 30 years before her death in 2008.; Title: M & M and the Mummy Mess | [
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5,711 | 2 | A lyrical meditation on the Rumplestiltskin story with an expanded plot and a singular psychological slant. -- Kirkus ReviewsLove, pride, magic, greed, and revenge-a wonderful read. -- BooklistDonna Jo Napoli is the author of many books for children and young adults includingThe Magic Circle, Zel, and Stones in Water. She has won numerous awards, including the Golden Kite Award and the Sydney Taylor Award for Stones in Water. She lives in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.; Title: Spinners | [
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5,712 | 1 | Available for the first time in paperback, Freddy the Pig stars in two adventures. In the first, fresh from reading about Sherlock Holmes, Freddy is drafted to solve several disappearances on Bean farm. In the second, the porcine hero and his friends escape the drafty barn for a vacation in sunny Florida. Ages 9-12. (July) Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.Walter R. Brooks was an American writer best remembered for his short stories on Mister Ed the talking horse and children's books, particularly those about Freddy the Pig and other anthropomorphic animal inhabitants of the "Bean farm" in upstate New York. Kurt Wiese illustrated over 400 books, nineteen of which he also wrote, before his death in 1974.; Title: Freddy the Detective | [
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5,713 | 2 | Amy Goldman Koss is also the author of The Ashwater Experiment and The Girls.; Title: How I Saved Hanukkah | [
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5,714 | 2 | "Readers ... will enjoy the silliness".-- School Library JournalMEET THE GADGET WHIZ.Kelly Sparks has forty-three inventions to her credit -- and she's only in third grade! Just name a problem, and in no time Kelly will come up with a gadget to solve it. But when Albert Einstein Jones walks into Kelly's class, he becomes Kelly's stickiest problem yet! Albert's been to Young Inventor's Camp, and he's determined to prove who the real gadget whiz is. This is sure to be a mastermind fight to the finish!; Title: The Gadget War (Puffin Chapters) | [
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5,715 | 8 | Ian Fleming (1908-1964) is best known as the creator of the world's most famous spy, James Bond. Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang, Fleming's only children's book, was written towards the end of his life for his young son, Caspar. It was first published in 1964 and was later turned into a much-loved film and, more recently, a successful stage production.; Title: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang | [
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5,716 | 2 | Praise for Mary On HorsebackWellss realistic yet poetic prose perfectly captures the dichotomy of the majestic beauty of Appalachia and the harsh realities of mountain life. . . . This ones a gem.School Library Journal"Wells's careful attention to the details and hardships of mountain living authenticates these achingly real accounts, as she spells out both the enormity of Breckenridge's challenge and the triumph of even the smallest victories. McCarty's finely crafted drawings, based on actual photographs, add to the historical accuracy and elegance of the volume."Publishers Weekly"Wells has proved herself an outstanding creator of picture books. Here, she shows her versatility as she brings creativity and word mastery into a longer work. This is a fabulous family read aloud."Children's LiteratureRosemary Wells(rosemarywells.com)is the author of 120 books for children, including more than 40 about the beloved bunnies, Max and Ruby, who star in their own television show on Nick, Jr. She travels all over the country as a tireless advocate for literacy. Wells was born in New Jersey to a playwright father and ballet dancer mother who encouraged her artistic bent. She worked as an art director and designer before illustrating her first book. She is the mother of two grown daughters, Victoria and Marguerite, and grandmother to four girls.; Title: Mary On Horseback: Three Mountain Stories | [
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5,717 | 2 | "Bruchac explores what it means to be Native American in a modern society through the perceptive first-person narrative of 11-year-old Chris Nicola," said PW. Ages 8-12. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.Joseph Bruchac is a highly acclaimed children's book author, poet, novelist and storyteller, as well as a scholar of Native American culture. Coauthor with Michael Caduto of the bestselling Keepers of the Earth series, Bruchac's poems, articles and stories have appeared in hundreds of publications, from Akwesasne Notes and American Poetry Review to National Geographic and Parabola. He has authored many books for adults and children including Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two, Skeleton Man, and The Heart of a Chief. For more information about Joseph, please visit his website www.josephbruchac.com.; Title: The Heart of a Chief | [
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5,718 | 1 | Available for the first time in paperback, Freddy the Pig stars in two adventures. In the first, fresh from reading about Sherlock Holmes, Freddy is drafted to solve several disappearances on Bean farm. In the second, the porcine hero and his friends escape the drafty barn for a vacation in sunny Florida. Ages 9-12. (July) Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.Walter R. Brookswas an American writer best remembered for his short stories onMister Edthe talking horse and children's books, particularly those aboutFreddy the Pigand other anthropomorphic animal inhabitants of the "Bean farm" inupstate New York. Kurt Wiese illustrated over 400 books, nineteen of which he also wrote, before his death in 1974.; Title: Freddy Goes to Florida | [
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5,720 | 0 | Leon Garfield was a British novelist, born in 1921. He is best known for children's historical novels, though he also wrote for adults. He wrote more than thirty books including Shakespeare's Stories - retellings of Shakespeare's plays for children, and he won many awards including the Guardian Award and the Carnegie Medal. He died in 1996, aged 74.; Title: Puffin Modern Classics Smith | [] | Train |
5,721 | 0 | Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) used her memories of growing up with her sisters when she wrote the perenial favorite Little Women. Dinah Dryhurst died in 1999 after illustrating many books for children.; Title: Little Women (Puffin Classics) | [
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5,723 | 11 | Set in China in 1900s the story of a young girl who defied tradition by refusing to have her feet bound and in doing so changed the course of her life forever.Book Details:Format: PaperbackPublication Date: 10/1/2003Pages: 154Reading Level: Age 10 and Up; Title: Ties That Bind, Ties That Break | [
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5,725 | 3 | Praise for The Legend of Spud Murphy and The Legend of Captain Crow's Teeth: 'The funniest book of the year. A mini-masterpiece' - Daily Mail 'Plenty of full-on belly laughs' - Sunday Times 'Cracking' - Disney's Big TimeEoin Colfer, the second of five brothers, was born and raised in Wexford, in the south-east of Ireland. Artemis Fowl, his first book featuring the brilliant young anti-hero, was an immediate international bestseller and won the WHSmith 'People's Choice' Children's Book of the Year and the Children's Book of the Year at the British Book Awards. This is Eoin's third book for younger readers.; Title: The Legend of the Worst Boy in the World. Eoin Colfer | [] | Train |
5,726 | 2 | Cathy Cassidy is one of the UK's top-selling children's authors. She was an art teacher, a magazine editor and an agony aunt before becoming a full-time writer. She has worked at Shout magazine and previously at Jackie. Cathy tours extensively around the UK - meeting over 10,000 young readers in 2012. She has twice won the prestigious 'Queen of Teen' award. Cathy lives in Merseyside with her husband, two dogs and a cat. For all the latest on this best-selling author go to www.cathycassidy.com; Title: Scarlett | [
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5,727 | 0 | Chris Bradford has trained in karate, kickboxing and samurai swordsmanship. He earned his black belt in Zen Kyo Shin Taijutsu, the secret fighting art of the ninja. Before writing the Young Samurai series, he was a professional musician and songwriter and has performed for HRH Queen Elizabeth II. You can learn more about Chris Bradford and his books at www.youngsamurai.com.; Title: The Way of the Warrior (Young Samurai) | [
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5,728 | 0 | Right on target for beginning readers. -- School Library JournalDavid A. Adler is the author of more than 175 childrens books, including the Young Cam Jansen series. He lives in Woodmere, New York.; Title: Young Cam Jansen and the Baseball Mystery | [
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5,729 | 1 | Sue Bentley is the bestselling author of the bestselling young fiction series Magic Kitten, Magic Puppy, Magic Ponies and Magic Bunny. Her books have sold over 2 million copies in the English language. She has met and loved many cats, dogs and horses, and each one has brought a special kind of magic into her life. Sue lives in Northamptonshire.; Title: Magic Puppy the Perfect Secret | [
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5,731 | 7 | The Borrowers own nothing at all; they live in the secret places of quiet old houses - behind the mantelpiece, inside the harpsichord, under the kitchen clock. Everything they have is borrowed from the 'human beans', who don't even know they exist. Arrietty's father, Pod, is an expert Borrower - he can scale curtains using a hatpin and bring back a doll's teacup without breaking it. Girls aren't supposed to go borrowing but as Arrietty is an only child her father breaks the rule. But then Arrietty makes friends with a boy - a 'human bean' - and from that moment danger is never far away for, above all else, they must avoid the great disaster of 'being seen'. The "Borrowers Afield": The Pod family escape to the fields where their cousins live, but it's a long and dangerous journey. At last they find a new home and adapt to country life. The "Borrowers Afloat": Homeless again, Arrietty looks forward to a life away from the dark country cottage, to one full of sunshine. The "Borrowers Aloft": The family are now living in the model village of Little Fordham - a complete village tailored to their size. All they have to do is avoid being seen by the visitors, but one night the owner of a rival village comes with a cardboard box ready to catch them ..."The Borrowers Avenged": Pod, Homily and Arrietty have managed to escape with the help of Spiller. They move into the old rectory where they live happily until the Potters come looking for them. After a horrifying encounter in the church, the Potters get their just desserts and the Borrowers can live peacefully once and for all. Poor Stainless: Young Stainless, a Borrower boy, goes missing on a mission to borrow some parsley and an enormous search ensues.; Title: The Complete Borrowers | [
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5,732 | 0 | Fleeing from the evil Sir Philip Morton, Peter Brownrigg finds himself on the wrong side of the law. On the run to London he meets Kit and the two decide to stick together. But a chance discovery endangers their lives and soon Peter is deep in murderous plots, secrets and even treason. Set in the turbulent days of Elizabeth I, this classic story of danger and intrigue conjures up a world of mystery, twists and turns and thrilling action.; Title: Cue for Treason (Puffin Modern Classics) | [
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5,734 | 3 | This is a cane toad's hilarious quest to discover the true meaning of Christmas! Limpy has a dream. A dream in which cane toads and humans live happily together. Surely this time Limpy will be able to show humans how nice cane toads can be? After all, it is Christmas. And isn't Christmas a time of peace and goodwill to all men? And cane toads?; Title: Toad Surprise | [
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5,735 | 1 | Sue Bentley is the bestselling author of the bestselling young fiction series Magic Kitten, Magic Puppy, Magic Ponies and Magic Bunny. Her books have sold over 2 million copies in the English language. She has met and loved many cats, dogs and horses, and each one has brought a special kind of magic into her life. Sue lives in Northamptonshire.; Title: Magic Kitten #8 Glittering Gallop | [
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5,736 | 13 | Charles Lamb (1775-1834) was an English essayist, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, which he produced along with his sister, Mary Lamb.; Title: Tales from Shakespeare (Puffin Classics) | [
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5,737 | 12 | Michael Rosen, the self-proclaimed # 1 Roald Dahl fan, is a broadcaster, children's novelist and poet and the author of 140 books. He was appointed as the fifth Children's Laureate in the UK in June 2007 and held this honor until 2009. Quentin Blake has illustrated over three hundred books, including most of Roald Dahl's children's books. He lives in London.; Title: Fantastic Mr. Dahl | [
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5,740 | 1 | Lynley Dodd graduated from the Elam School of Art in Auckland with a diploma in Fine Arts, majoring in sculpture. She went on to teach art before taking a break to start a family. She began to work as a freelance illustrator and collaborated with author Eve Sutton on My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes. There was no looking back as Lynley went on to write and illustrate her own books for children. Exuberant artwork and bouncy rhymes come together perfectly in books like Slinky Malinki and Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy. As well as being a visual delight, these are some of the most rewarding books for children and adults to read out loud.; Title: Hairy Maclary Sit (Hairy Maclary and Friends) | [
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5,741 | 8 | Tove Jansson was born in Helsingfors, Finland, in 1914. Her mother was a caricaturist who designed 165 of Finland's stamps and her father was a sculptor. She studied painting in Finland, Sweden and France, and subsequently became a book illustrator. Her extraordinary illustrative style is seen as a design classic the world over. Originally written in Swedish, the Moomintroll books have been translated into over 40 languages and adapted for television, film, radio and opera. Tove Jansson lived alone on a small island in the gulf of Finland, where most of her books were written. She died in 2001.; Title: Comet in Moominland (Moomin's Fiction) | [
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5,742 | 2 | Helen Oxenbury has charmed generations of children with her award-winning illustrations. She has won the Kate Greenaway medal and the Nestle Smarties Prize and her numerous books include We're Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. She lives in London with her husband, the author and artist, John Burningham. Peter Bently went to ten different schools around the world and studied languages at Oxford University. He started writing for children soon after becoming a parent and now lives in Devon, close to the moors and the sea, with his wife, Lucy, and their children Theo (alias King Jack) and Tara.; Title: King Jack and the Dragon | [
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5,743 | 2 | Jan Pienkowski was born in Warsaw in 1936. After creating his first book at the age of eight, Jan went on to excel in his chosen field of design, working in such diverse areas as television, theatre and greetings cards. Published in 1968, A Necklace of Raindrops was the first of several wonderful collaborations between Jan and Joan Aiken - and it was also the very first book Jan illustrated. For over forty years, he has also worked on the Meg and Mog books. He has since twice won the Kate Greenaway Medal for Illustration, and has created many instantly recognizable classics.; Title: Meg and Mog Meg Goes To Bed | [
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5,744 | 0 | “A work of positive genius, as radiant all over with intellectual light as the sky of a frosty night with stars.”—The Atlantic MonthlyJoseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was born in India, although educated in England. He was a prolific writer and recognized as a genius. In 1907 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. His many books for children include Just So Stories and The Jungle Book.; Title: Kim (Puffin Classics) | [
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5,745 | 1 | Dick King-Smith served in the Grenadier Guards during the Second World War, and afterwards spent twenty years as a farmer in Gloucestershire, the county of his birth. Many of his stories are inspired by his farming experiences. He wrote a great number of children's books, including The Sheep-Pig (winner of the Guardian Award and filmed as Babe), Harry's Mad, The Hodgeheg, Martin's Mice, The Invisible Dog, The Queen's Nose and The Crowstarver. At the British Book Awards in 1991 he was voted Children's Author of the Year. In 2009 he was made OBE for services to children's literature. Dick King-Smith died in 2011 at the age of eighty-eight.; Title: The Hodgeheg | [
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5,746 | 0 | "Holland is a superb historian who knows his stuff."  —Daily TelegraphJames Holland is the author of numerous historical nonfiction titles and the Jack Tanner fiction series, and presented Battle of Britain: The Real Story on BBC2.; Title: Duty Calls: Dunkirk | [
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5,747 | 10 | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was born in Edinburgh where he qualified as a doctor, but it was his writing which brought him fame, with the creation of Sherlock Holmes, the first scientific detective. He was also a convert to spiritualism and a social reformer who used his investigative skills to prove the innocence of individuals.; Title: The Great Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Puffin Classics) | [
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5,748 | 0 | You know what today is, don't you? Today is a very special day! Today is the kind of day that only comes once a year! Today is the kind of day that deserves a big, fun party! Today is bad Kitty's birthday! Enjoy Kitty's chaotic birthday fun in this highly-illustrated laugh-out-loud chapter book.; Title: Happy Birthday, Bad Kitty | [
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5,749 | 2 | Peg Kehret was born in Wisconsin, grew up in Minnesota, spent fourteen years in California, and now lives with her husband in Washington State. They have two grown children, four grandchildren, one dog, and one cat.Peg's novels for children are regularly recommended by the American Library Association, the International Reading Association, and the Children's Book Council. She has won many state "young reader" or "children's choice" awards. Peg's characters are ordinary kids who find themselves in exciting situations and who use their wits to solve their problems. There is usually humor as well as suspense in her books. A long-time volunteer at The Humane Society, she often uses animals in her stories.Before she began writing books for children, Peg published plays, short stories, articles, and two books for adults. She is a frequent speaker at conferences for librarians and teachers.At the age of twelve, Peg had polio and was paralyzed from the neck down. Because she can remember that experience and her year of recovery so vividly, she finds it easy to write in the viewpoint of a twelve or thirteen year old. Most of her main characters are that age. Her autobiography, Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio, won the Golden Kite Award from the Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators, and the PEN Center USA West Award for Children's Literature.When she is not writing, Peg likes to watch baseball, bake cookies, and pump her old player piano.; Title: Cages | [
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5,752 | 2 | Dolly Parton, award-winning singer, songwriter, actress and producer, brings her skills to picture books for the first time. Have you ever been tickled pink, green with envy or maybe just plain blue? "I am a Rainbow" is a colorful upbeat picture book that encourages children of all ages to think about their feelings.; Title: I Am a Rainbow | [
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5,753 | 3 | Giles Andreae is an award-winning children's author and has written both fiction titles and bestselling picture books, such as Pants and The Lion Who Wanted to Love. He has won the Federation of Children's Book Award and the Booktrust Early Years Award, but he is probably most famous as the creator of the phenomenally successful Purple Ronnie, Britain's favourite stick man. Giles lives in Notting Hill with his wife and four children.; Title: Sir Scallywag and the Golden Underpants | [
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5,754 | 0 | "A fantastic adventure that floors the reader on page one and keeps them there until the end." —Eoin Colfer, author, Artemis FowlChris Bradford has trained in karate, kickboxing and samurai swordsmanship. He earned his black belt in Zen Kyo Shin Taijutsu, the secret fighting art of the ninja. Before writing the Young Samurai series, he was a professional musician and songwriter and has performed for HRH Queen Elizabeth II. You can learn more about Chris Bradford and his books at www.youngsamurai.com.; Title: The Ring of Water (Young Samurai) | [
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5,755 | 7 | The designer of Bob the Builder, creator of Frankenstein's Cat and Raa Raa the Noisy Lion, and the author/illustrator of numerous children's books, Curtis Jobling lives with his family in Cheshire, England. Early work on Aardman's Wallace & Gromit and Tim Burton's Mars Attacks led to him picking up his crayons in 1997 to design the BAFTA winning Bob. The animated series of Frankenstein's Cat, based upon Curtis's book of the same name, picked up the Pulcinella award for Best Children's Show at the 2008 International Cartoons On The Bay festival in Salerno, Italy. His noisy new preschool show, Raa Raa, can be seen on CBeebies, while his original paintings and prints sell in galleries the world over. Although perhaps best known for his work in TV and picture books, Curtis's other love has always been horror and fantasy for an older audience. Wereworld is his first novel. www.curtisjobling.com; Title: Wereworld: Rise Of The Wolf | [
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5,756 | 1 | Eric Carle's "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" is one of the bestselling picture books of all time, with over 33 million copies sold worldwide to date. This gorgeous new interactive format lets babies and toddlers join in the fun as the plush caterpillar finger puppet literally wriggles his way through the holes in each page, munching and crunching through foods before transforming into a beautiful butterfly! Count along and identify colors in this perfect first introduction to a picture-book classic.; Title: Very Hungry Caterpillar Finger Puppet Book | [
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5,757 | 2 | "A big hit with reluctant readers and anyway looking for a funny book." - School Library Journal. "Perfectly pitched wit and believably self-centered hero..." - The New York Times; Title: Diary of Wimpy Kid. The Last Straw (Diary of a Wimpy Kid) | [
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5,758 | 0 | "A fantastic adventure that floors the reader on page one and keeps them there until the end." —Eoin Colfer, author, Artemis FowlChris Bradford has trained in karate, kickboxing and samurai swordsmanship. He earned his black belt in Zen Kyo Shin Taijutsu, the secret fighting art of the ninja. Before writing the Young Samurai series, he was a professional musician and songwriter and has performed for HRH Queen Elizabeth II. You can learn more about Chris Bradford and his books at www.youngsamurai.com.; Title: The Ring of Fire (Young Samurai, Book 6) | [
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5,759 | 7 | Charlie Higson started writing when he was ten years old, but it was a long time before he got paid for doing it. On leaving university he was the singer in a pop group (The Higsons) before giving it up to become a painter and decorator. It was around this time that he started writing for television on Saturday Night Live. He went on to create the hugely successful comedy series The Fast Show, in which he also appeared. Other TV work includes Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased ) and Swiss Toni. He is the author of the bestselling Young Bond books, and The Sacrifice is the fourth book in his current horror series, The Enemy. Charlie doesn't do Facebook, but you can tweet him @monstroso.; Title: The Sacrifice (The Enemy) | [
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5,760 | 3 | Allan Ahlberg, a former teacher, postman, plumber's mate and grave digger, is in the super-league of children's writers. He has published over 100 children's books and, with his late wife Janet, created such award winning picture books as EACH PEACH PEAR PLUM and THE JOLLY POSTMAN - both winners of the Kate Greenaway Medal. He has also written prize-winning poetry and fiction and lives in Sussex.Andre Amstutz studied art and design at Brighton School of Art and worked in animation as well as advertising. He illustrated several children's books including the Fast Fox, Slow Dog series, some of the Happy Families titles and Monkey Do (Walker).; Title: Funnybones: a Bone Rattling Collection | [
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5,762 | 2 | Jan Pienkowski was born in Warsaw in 1936. After creating his first book at the age of eight, Jan went on to excel in his chosen field of design, working in such diverse areas as television, theatre and greetings cards. Published in 1968, A Necklace of Raindrops was the first of several wonderful collaborations between Jan and Joan Aiken - and it was also the very first book Jan illustrated. For over forty years, he has also worked on the Meg and Mog books. He has since twice won the Kate Greenaway Medal for Illustration, and has created many instantly recognizable classics.; Title: Meg Comes To School (Meg and Mog) | [
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5,763 | 1 | Lynley Dodd graduated from the Elam School of Art in Auckland with a diploma in Fine Arts, majoring in sculpture. She went on to teach art before taking a break to start a family. She began to work as a freelance illustrator and collaborated with author Eve Sutton on My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes. There was no looking back as Lynley went on to write and illustrate her own books for children. Exuberant artwork and bouncy rhymes come together perfectly in books like Slinky Malinki and Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy. As well as being a visual delight, these are some of the most rewarding books for children and adults to read out loud.; Title: Hairy Maclary and Zachary Quack (Hairy Maclary and Friends) | [
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5,764 | 0 | Chris Bradford has trained in karate, kickboxing, and samurai swordsmanship. He earned his black belt in Zen Kyo Shin Taijutsu, the secret fighting art of the ninja. Before writing the Young Samurai series, he was a professional musician and songwriter and has performed for HRH Queen Elizabeth II.; Title: The Ring of Earth (Young Samurai, Book 4) | [
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5,765 | 7 | Charlie Higson started writing when he was ten years old. After university he was a singer and painter and decorator before he started writing for television. He went on to create and star in the hugely successful comedy series The Fast Show. He is the author of the bestselling Young Bond books, and The End is the final book in his current horror series, The Enemy. Charlie doesn't do Facebook, but you can tweet him @monstroso.; Title: The Fallen (The Enemy) | [
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5,768 | 5 | Jacob Ludwig Carol Grimm (1785-1863) and Wilhelm Carl Grimm (1786-1859), universally known as 'the brothers Grimm', were born in the German state of Hesse. Their ambition was to collect traditional tales in order to preserve Germany's heritage. They published two volumes in 1812 and 1814 which include some of the best-known fairy tales of all time, such as 'Tom Thumb' and 'The Elves and the Shoemaker'.; Title: Grimms' Fairy Tales (Puffin Classics) | [
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5,769 | 16 | Janet and Allan Ahlberg were one of Britain's most successful artist/author teams. From 1975 until shortly before Janet's death in 1994, they created many acclaimed picture books. Allan taught for some years before becoming a full-time writer and Janet studied Graphic Design and became an illustrator. EACH PEACH PEAR PLUM and THE JOLLY CHRISTMAS POSTMAN were both Greenaway Medal winners. PEEPO! won the Best Books For Babies Award in 1985. Allan Ahlberg lives in Leicestershire.Allan Ahlberg, a former teacher, postman, plumber's mate and grave digger, is in the super-league of children's writers. He has published over 100 children's books and, with his late wife Janet, created such award winning picture books as EACH PEACH PEAR PLUM and THE JOLLY POSTMAN - both winners of the Kate Greenaway Medal. He has also written prize-winning poetry and fiction and lives in Sussex.Janet Ahlberg, along with Allan Ahlberg, created some of the world's most popular picture books, including EACH PEACH PEAR PLUM and THE JOLLY CHRISTMAS POSTMAN, both winners of Greenaway Medals, and THE BABY'S CATALOGUE, inspired by their daughter Jessica. Janet died in 1994.; Title: Peepo! | [
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5,771 | 2 | Rachel is a writer, illustrator, printmaker and eternal optimist. She trained in Graphics at Kingston University, winning prizes for her typography, followed by an MA in Printmaking at UWE. Her award-winning stationery range, The Bright Side, now totals over 100 cards, giftwrap and homeware. It is sold by independent gift retailers throughout the UK. Rachel lives in Bristol.; Title: Mine | [
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5,772 | 2 | Cathy Cassidy wrote her first picture book for her littlebrother when she was eight or nine and has been writing fabulous stories eversince. Cathy is the bestselling author of Dizzy, Driftwood, Indigo Blue, Scarlett, Sundae Girl, Lucky Star, GingerSnaps, Looking-GlassGirl, Broken Heart Club, theChocolate Box Series (including CherryCrush, Marshmallow Skye, Summer's Dream, Coco Caramel, Sweet Honey,Fortune Cookie and Life is Sweet), and Love From Lexie, the first instalment in the Lost and Found series. Cathylives in Merseyside with her family, and of all the many jobs she's had she loves writing best - it's the perfect excuse to daydream, after all! For all the latest on this best-selling author go to www.cathycassidy.com; Title: Gingersnaps | [
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5,774 | 0 | "Plenty of action. . . sharp dialogue and swift characterisation. The whole is intelligently structured so that this is absorbing and thoughtful as well as tense and exciting."  —Daily Telegraph on Blood of HonourJames Holland is the author of numerous historical nonfiction titles and the Jack Tanner fiction series, and presented Battle of Britain: The Real Story on BBC2.; Title: Duty Calls: Battle of Britain: World War 2 Fiction | [
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5,775 | 2 | Cathy Cassidy wrote her first picture book for her littlebrother when she was eight or nine and has been writing fabulous stories eversince. Cathy is the bestselling author of Dizzy, Driftwood, Indigo Blue, Scarlett, Sundae Girl, Lucky Star, GingerSnaps, Looking-GlassGirl, Broken Heart Club, theChocolate Box Series (including CherryCrush, Marshmallow Skye, Summer's Dream, Coco Caramel, Sweet Honey,Fortune Cookie and Life is Sweet), and Love From Lexie, the first instalment in the Lost and Found series. Cathylives in Merseyside with her family, and of all the many jobs she's had she loves writing best - it's the perfect excuse to daydream, after all! For all the latest on this best-selling author go to www.cathycassidy.com; Title: Driftwood | [
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5,776 | 7 | A thriller full of spectacular effects uardian --GuardianAlex Scarrow used to be a rock guitarist, then he became a graphic artist, then he decided to be a computer games designer. Finally, he grew up and became an author. He has written a number of successful thrillers and several screenplays, but it's YA fiction that has allowed him to really have fun with the ideas and concepts he was playing around with designing games. Alex lives in Norwich.; Title: TimeRiders: The Pirate Kings (Book 7) | [
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5,777 | 7 | Hattie B is inspired by a little girl called Harriet, who once asked 'where do unicorns and dragons go when they're unwell?' Her mum, Lindsay Taylor, and their friend, Suzanne Smith thought long and hard and suddenly realised - a magical vet of course! With this twinkle of an idea they met the writer Claire Baker and together they created the Kingdom of Bellua - and the pen name Claire Taylor-Smith.; Title: The Hattie B Magical Vet Unicorn's Horn Book 2 | [
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5,778 | 16 | Tove Jansson was born in Helsingfors, Finland, in 1914. Her mother was a caricaturist who designed 165 of Finland's stamps and her father was a sculptor. She studied painting in Finland, Sweden and France, and subsequently became a book illustrator. Her extraordinary illustrative style is seen as a design classic the world over. Originally written in Swedish, the Moomintroll books have been translated into 34 languages and adapted for television, film, radio and opera. Tove Jansson lived alone on a small island in the gulf of Finland, where most of her books were written. She died in 2001.; Title: Moomin's Little Book of Opposites | [
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5,780 | 6 | Beatrix Potter is one of the world's best-loved children's authors of all time. From her first book, The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902) she went on to create a series of stories based around animal characters including Mrs Tiggy-winkle, Mr Jeremy Fisher and Tom Kitten. Her humorous, lively tales and beautiful illustrations have become a natural part of childhood. A source of inspiration was the Lake District where she lived for the last thirty years of her life as a farmer and conservationist.; Title: Peter Rabbit | [
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5,781 | 5 | EDITH NESBIT was a mischievous child who grew up into an unconventional adult. With her husband, Hubert Bland, she was one of the founder members of the socialist Fabian Society; their household became a centre of the socialist and literary circles of the times. E. Nesbit turned late to children's writing. Her first children's book, THE TREASURE SEEKERS, was published in 1899 to great acclaim. Other books featuring the Bastable children followed, and a series of magical fantasy books, including FIVE CHILDREN AND IT also became very popular. THE RAILWAY CHILDREN was first published monthly in the LONDON MAGAZINE in 1905, and published as a book in 1906 and has been in print ever since.; Title: The Phoenix and the Carpet (Puffin Classics) | [
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5,782 | 16 | Tove Jansson was born in Finland in 1914. She began her career as a cartoonist and drew her first Moomin in the 1930s, just for fun. In 1945 he became a character in a children's story. Tove became world-famous for her Moomin books which began with Comet in Moominland in 1946. She received many prestigious awards, including the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal. She died in 2001, aged 87.; Title: Moomin's Touch and Feel Playbook | [
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5,784 | 1 | Founded in 1865 by a bookseller, the British publisher Frederick Warne & Co. built its reputation publishing childrens books with authors like Edward Lear, Kate Greenaway, Walter Crane, and Beatrix Potter the creator of Peter Rabbit. Since becoming a division of Penguin in 1983, Warne has acquired many other classic book properties including Cicely Mary Barkers Flower Fairies in 1989 and Eric Hills Spot in 1993. Today, Warne continues to publish beautifully produced editions of their original works, lively spin-offs, and leveled readers.; Title: Nutkin on the Run! (Peter Rabbit Animation) | [
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5,785 | 8 | Cicely Mary Barker was born in Croydon, South London in 1895 and died in 1973. She found international acclaim as an artist with her delightful Flower Fairies books the first of which, Flower Fairies of the Spring, was printed in 1923.; Title: Flower Fairies of the Winter | [
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5,786 | 1 | Lynley Dodd graduated from the Elam School of Art in Auckland with a diploma in Fine Arts, majoring in sculpture. She went on to teach art before taking a break to start a family. She began to work as a freelance illustrator and collaborated with author Eve Sutton on My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes. There was no looking back as Lynley went on to write and illustrate her own books for children. Exuberant artwork and bouncy rhymes come together perfectly in books like Slinky Malinki and Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy. As well as being a visual delight, these are some of the most rewarding books for children and adults to read out loud.; Title: Hairy Maclary Shoo! (Hairy Maclary and Friends) | [
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5,787 | 16 | Janet Ahlberg, along with Allan Ahlberg, created some of the world's most popular picture books, including EACH PEACH PEAR PLUM and THE JOLLY CHRISTMAS POSTMAN, both winners of Greenaway Medals, and THE BABY'S CATALOGUE, inspired by their daughter Jessica. Janet died in 1994.; Title: BABY'S BIG BOX OF LITTLE BOOKS SET OF 9 CHUNKY BOARD BOOKS | [
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5,788 | 7 | Alex Scarrow used to be a rock guitarist, then he became a graphic artist, then he decided to be a computer games designer. Finally, he grew up and became an author. He has written a number of successful thrillers and several screenplays, but it's YA fiction that has allowed him to really have fun with the ideas and concepts he was playing around with designing games. Alex lives in Norwich.; Title: Timeriders the Infinity Cage Book 9 | [
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5,790 | 7 | The designer of Bob the Builder, creator of Frankenstein's Cat and Raa Raa the Noisy Lion, and the author/illustrator of numerous children's books, Curtis Jobling lives with his family in Cheshire, England. Early work on Aardman's Wallace & Gromit and Tim Burton's Mars Attacks led to him picking up his crayons in 1997 to design the BAFTA winning Bob. The animated series of Frankenstein's Cat, based upon Curtis's book of the same name, picked up the Pulcinella award for Best Children's Show at the 2008 International Cartoons On The Bay festival in Salerno, Italy. His noisy new preschool show, Raa Raa, can be seen on CBeebies, while his original paintings and prints sell in galleries the world over. Although perhaps best known for his work in TV and picture books, Curtis's other love has always been horror and fantasy for an older audience. Wereworld is his first novel. www.curtisjobling.com; Title: Wereworld Storm of Sharks Book 5 | [
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5,791 | 5 | Lauren Child is one of today's most talented and innovative children's writer/illustrators. Winner of the Nestle Smarties Book Prize and the Kate Greenaway Medal, she is best known for creating the characters Clarice Bean and the BAFTA-award-winning Charlie and Lola. She is co-creator of The Princess and the Pea and Goldilocks and the Three Bears.; Title: The Princess and the Pea | [
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5,793 | 1 | Dick King-Smith served in the Grenadier Guards during the Second World War, and afterwards spent twenty years as a farmer in Gloucestershire, the county of his birth. Many of his stories are inspired by his farming experiences. He wrote a great number of children's books, including The Sheep-Pig (winner of the Guardian Award and filmed as Babe), Harry's Mad, The Hodgeheg, Martin's Mice, The Invisible Dog, The Queen's Nose and The Crowstarver. At the British Book Awards in 1991 he was voted Children's Author of the Year. In 2009 he was made OBE for services to children's literature. Dick King-Smith died in 2011 at the age of eighty-eight.; Title: The Sheep Pig | [
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5,795 | 5 | Roger Lancelyn Green was born in 1918 and lived in Oxford and at his family home in Cheshire, which the Greens had owned for more than 900 years. He loved storytelling and was fascinated by traditional fairy tales, myths and legends from around the world. He was a professional actor, a librarian and a teacher. His retellings include Egyptian, Greek and Norse legends, plus a retelling of Robin Hood. He also wrote many books for adults, including a biography of his friend C. S. Lewis, creator of the The Chronicles of Narnia. Roger Lancelyn Green died in 1987.; Title: The Tale of Troy (Puffin Classics) | [
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5,797 | 2 | Phil Earle was born, raised and schooled in Hull. His first job was as a care worker in a children's home, an experience that influenced the ideas behind Being Billy. He then trained as a drama therapist and worked in a therapeutic community in south London, caring for traumatized and abused adolescents. After a couple of years in the care sector, Phil chose the more sedate lifestyle of a bookseller, and now works in children's publishing. Phil lives in south-east London with his wife and children, but Hull will always be home.1Theres a saying that I hate.I know it shouldnt bother me like it does, because its only a saying.A sentence.Six words. Five of which are one syllable long.Im sure there are more irritating phrases; in fact, I know there are.For example, my skin itches every time Sinus hides his hideous lack of tact behind his beloved:Youd rather hear it than be deaf.... Or my late, great, flatulent granddads only pearl of wisdom:Pull my finger.... Believe me, if he ever uttered those fateful words to you in an enclosed space, it was time to leave. Quickly.The reason I hate this other saying so much is because of the number of times its rolled out in front of me, like the heavenly answer to my (to date) underwhelming existence.Good things come in small packages.Okay, its out there, burning my throat with vomit at its very utterance. But at least I dont have to say it again.Have you ever heard a cornier, glibber, more patronizing sentence in your life?What does it mean? It has no substance, no subtext, nothing.All it is, is a gargantuan, ironic pat on the head from people who really want to tell you that your life as a short person is going to be packed with woe and anguish.Come on, people. If thats what youre thinking, then give it to me straight. I have broad shoulders (for my size).I reconciled myself to my height, or massive lack of it, long ago. Long before I started junior high and couldnt reach my locker, well before being mistaken for a nursery-school kid as I started my final year of elementary school.Its how its always been, no alarms and no surprises.When I look in the mirror I see a short kid, or the top of a short kids head, anyway.And I think Id deal with it even better if people didnt keep ramming that sentence down my throat.Ive heard it so often in the last two years that Ive started obsessing over it, trying to prove the theory wrong with cold hard facts.I want to blow their lame words clean out of the water and say (in the ridiculous squeaky voice that came with my stupidly small body) ... HA! SEE?? I will always be a clumsy feckless failure, not the big package you claim I am.Let me give you an example. In fact, let me give you loads of them.Heres a carousel of famous small people, and all of them, deeply flawed.Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (18641901)Painter, printmaker, innovator, short-ass.So short was Toulouse that he turned to alcohol to drown his sorrows, inventing a lethal cocktail called the Earthquake, which he took to hiding in his specially adapted walking cane.By the age of twenty-nine he was pickled in booze and rife with unseemly disease, and by the age of thirty-six, well, he was dead.Toulouse was one of the success stories--at least he left behind the legacy of his work, unlike this next mob.Genghis Khan, Pol Pot, Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler: a collection of tyrants not bettered in ancient or modern history, and not one of them more than five foot nine inches tall.Talk about small-man syndrome.Makes me wonder (for like a millisecond) whether I should consider a life in politics. They might have been hideous tyrants, but I bet they were tyrants with women hanging off them. And I dont mean their mothers. Mind you, I bet Genghiss mom was a lot more easygoing than mine.Its not just historical short dudes who were losers either. Look around now and its hard to find a positive role model. I mean:Tom Cruise (nose)Prince (The Purple Perv? Theyd never have dared to call him that if he were taller.)Diego Maradona (singlehandedly cheated England out of the 1986 World Cup)The Ewoks (ruined what would have been the best movie trilogy of all time)I could go on, fill another page or two at least, but youd get the wrong idea about me. Im not bitter. It might read like I am, but Im not, honest.When opportunity comes my way, I try to take it.Even if that means grabbing the nearest stepladder and leaning precariously from the very top rung. If thats what it takes, then fine--Im up for it.My problem is that every time I try, every time I reach up and try something new, the stepladder topples over in the most public way possible, and I topple with it.The bruises might fade, but my reputation doesnt.To everyone who knows me Im Tiny Charlie from the Chinese takeout place. Clumsy, klutzy Charlie Han, who should know better but never learns.And thats the bit that stings way worse than being labeled a shortie.Because if theres a saying I do believe in, its this:Everyones good at something.I do believe that.I do.I have to.Because the alternative just isnt worth thinking about.All I have to do is work out what my something is.The thing that turns me from an Ewok to ... I dont know, Yoda?Yep, Yoda. Id settle for that in a second. A millisecond, even.Despite the ears. Despite the green.So thats it. Until I find my thing, Im channeling one hundred percent pure, unadulterated Yoda.Find it I must. My calling it is.Note to self: Drop the Yoda-speak. Girls wont go for it.2I breathed deeply, nerves prickling beneath my costume.Dont be a clown, I told myself. It wasnt the most demanding role, after all. No time onstage with Romeo or Juliet; no lines or interaction either--well, apart from with the lifeless body of Mercutio as I dragged him offstage. Couldnt imagine Id be troubling the reviewers with the complexity of my performance.I waited for Matty Dias to stop milking Mercutios death, figuring my birthday would come around by the time he stopped writhing around, calling for his mommy (I didnt remember that part in the original text).I wasnt jealous of him, though. I hadnt expected to find my name next to a main part when I ducked through peoples legs to read the cast list pinned to the bulletin board. It wouldve been a brave move to give a part to someone who sounded like they were addicted to helium.Id hoped to bag a part with a name, though, rather than just Body Dragger Number Two. Id run to the library to see what the script said it involved but couldnt find a reference anywhere. Even Google threw up a blank. I knew then that it was going to be the bittiest bit part, the sort they offer up to the talentless kids, you know, just so they feel involved. There seemed little point in begging for a promotion to BD Number One.... It didnt take me long to get over it; it was a foot in the door, after all. A stepping-stone.I just had to make sure I didnt fall over it.As the lights finally dimmed on Mercutio, I adjusted my hat (which, like every bit of my costume, was way too big) and strode purposefully to center stage. Wiping a single imaginary tear from my cheek (my own exquisite addition to the role), I gripped the fallen warrior underneath the shoulders and leaned back, expecting his body to slide across the stage, just like it had in the dress rehearsal.Except nothing moved.I pulled harder, my body arching further, yet it was like Mercutio had been replaced by the deadest of weights.Whispers started to roll from the audience, followed by chuckles that only grew louder with every useless tug I made.What are you doing? hissed the resurrected corpse.Arent you supposed to be dead? I squeaked back quietly, though it must have come out as a stage whisper, as the first four rows threw back their heads and laughed.I tried to figure out what was stopping us, finally catching sight of his sword, wedged between floorboards, pinning him to the stage.Its your sword, its--Just pull, you idiot!So I did, and after several monumental efforts the blade finally dislodged itself, sending both the corpse and me skidding backward across the stage.I fought to stay upright, but with Mercutios weight on top of me I delivered the most ungraceful dance ever witnessed on any stage. The Royal Ballet it wasnt.There was a gasp from the audience as we thudded against a pillar, the biggest reaction thered been all evening, and for a split second I wondered if Id accidentally created a bit of real theater.But then I felt the pillar wobble behind me, accelerating quickly into a tilt. You see, the pillar was actually a pretty pivotal bit of the set, beneath Juliets balcony, so if it fell, well, the odds were the balcony would too.... Matty Dias was way ahead of me in his structural assessment, fully alive now as he ran, screaming, for the wings.I followed him quickly as the pillar hurtled toward the stage, watching in horror as the balcony started to shake.To make it worse, the stage lights were now back up, ready for the next scene. I saw Romeo (Robbie Bootle, our schools most popular student) stride center stage, lost in his own grief, completely unaware that if the balcony fell hed be the next person to be mourned.I had to do something, so I dashed behind the balcony to see the entire set lurching precariously forward. The stage weights holding it all in place were rapidly becoming dislodged, the main rope that anchored it at the middle unraveling cartoon-style.Without thinking, I sprinted for the rope and leapt on it. If I could retether it, then everything would hold still and Romeo wouldnt die quite yet or quite as literally.It was the right idea--of course it was. At least, it was if you were of normal size and weight. But my impact on the rope was minimal, like a fly landing on an elephant, hoping to stop him from thundering on.Within a second I knew it wasnt going to work, and as the balcony whooshed forward and I impersonated Tarzan on a vine, it was clear I could save either myself or the hapless Romeo. I may not be a coward, but Im not an idiot either. With one final graceless movement I crumpled to the ground, shouting as I fell.Jump, Romeo! Jump!!I doubted he heard me above the cacophonous din created by the tumbling timber and three hundred terrified audience members.All I could do was roll into a ball and hope for the best.The fair city of Verona looked more like the battlefields of Baghdad.Splintered scenery jutted from the stage at unusual angles, and the stage lights swung perilously over the audience, highlighting that the damage wasnt restricted to the set.There in the front row of the audience, spreadeagled on the laps of the mayor and his wife, lay the love-struck Romeo, his chin savaged by the medal on the dignitarys tie clip.No one moved at first, not even me (though I allowed myself to gasp for air in relief). The mayors wife had taken the brunt of the blow, but she showed little emotion. She simply sat there, frozen, hand suspended in the air, still clutching her bag of malted milk balls. Robbie had a lot to thank her love of chocolate balls for. It had given him the softest of landings.His head wasnt quite so cushioned. The tie clip had gouged a jagged hole in his chin that was spraying blood all over the mayors suit. Mom would have had a fit if shed seen it. Blood is murder to clean, apparently.I wandered to the front of the stage, leaning forward as I asked, You all right, Robbie?Drop the curtain! came the cry from the wings, which might have made me giggle if I hadnt been in so much trouble.It was a bit late for that. Three hundred square feet of red velvet was not enough to hide this carnage, not unless they were going to drape it over the audience as well.The curtain fell anyway, swooshing into me with such force that it almost knocked me on top of Robbie. Fighting its folds as it enveloped me, I decided that now might be the right time to make a quick exit. It wouldnt take anyone long to put two and two together and spell Charlie Han.I scuttled, crablike, toward the wings, head down, best not guilty face plastered on, but just as my feet hit the shadows my own name assaulted my eardrums.It shouldve been a moment, the moment, the one to define me--after all, Id dreamed of hearing Carly Stoneham call my name since the start of junior high.Although in those fantasies she was calling it playfully, with a chuckle, as if Id said something dazzling and witty.She certainly wasnt bellowing it at me, every letter packed tight with rattlesnake venom.I think its fair to say she wasnt in character anymore, unless Juliet actually turned out to be a kickass hit girl, hellbent on avenging Romeos minor chin wound.She still looked pretty, though, even if her immaculately braided hair was as big a casualty as Robbie. Incandescent rage clearly suited her.What did you do that for? she yelled.Do what? I hoped she was as forgiving as she was pretty.Let go of the rope like that! You knew it was anchoring the balcony in place.My cheeks flushed with shame. I couldnt help it. The weight of it was lifting me up. If I hadnt let go, Id have gone flying.Well, better that than let it fall on Robbie. If he hadnt been so athletic, it would have crushed him.Hes all right, though, isnt he? I cringed at the sight of him, chin still erupting. Hes a center forward--divings second nature.My lame attempt at humor was met with a volcanic look.No, hes not all right. Hell probably have to go to the emergency room for stitches and the mayors wifes gown will need dry-cleaning. Mrs. Gee has canceled the play and now Im never going to go out with him, am I?I felt for her, really I did. So much so that without a thought for myself, I volunteered to save the day by taking on Robbies part. 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