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5,900 | 0 | 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.; Title: Company's Coming: A Passover Lift-the-Flap Book (Picture Puffin Books) | [
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5,901 | 2 | Fran Leeper Buss, MDiv, PhD, is an award-winning oral historian and writer. Some of her works includeJourney of the Sparrows, La Partera: Story of a Midwife, andDignity: Lower Income Women Tell of Their Lives and Struggles. She lives in Tucson, Arizona, with her UCC minister husband, David Buss.; Title: Journey of the Sparrows | [
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5,902 | 0 | "What wrongdoer is any match for Cam Jansen, the girl with the amazing photographic memory?" ( Booklist) "An uncluttered plot, a clever heroine, clear language, and a dash of humor make for a zestful mystery."(School Library Journal)David A. Adler (www.davidaadler.com and www.camjansen.com) is the author of more than 175 children’s books. Before becoming a children’s book author, he taught math and science, and completed master’s degrees in marketing and economics. He lives in Woodmere, New York.; Title: Cam Jansen: The Mystery of the Dinosaur Bones (Cam Jansen) | [
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5,903 | 2 | Jennifer Plecas lives in Blue Springs, Missouri.; Title: Good Night, Good Knight (Penguin Young Readers, Level 2) | [
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5,904 | 1 | The best family entertainment in years. -- USA Today; Title: The Case of the Shipwrecked Tree #41 (Hank the Cowdog) | [
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5,905 | 2 | Jonathan London is the creator of twenty-three books about lovable and enduringly popular Froggy. He is also a poet and a novelist. Jonathan and his wife live in Graton, California.; Title: Count the Ways, Little Brown Bear | [
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5,906 | 2 | Rosemary Wells is the author of 120 books for children, including more than 40 about the beloved bunnies Max and Ruby. 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: Max Cleans Up (Max and Ruby) | [
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5,907 | 7 | In our Best Book citation, PW said, "A breathtaking interpretation gives the fairy tale new art-historical roots, with illustrations that daringly-and effectively-mimic the masters of Italian Renaissance painting." Ages 5-up. (Oct.) Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.Jacob Ludwig Karl, the elder of the brothers Grimm, was born in 1785, andWilhelm Karlin the following year. They both studied at Marburg, and from 1808 to 1829 mainly worked in Kassel as state-appointed librarians, Jacob also assisting in diplomatic missions between 1813 and 1815 and again in 1848. Both brothers had been professors at Gttingen for several years when in 1837 they became two of the seven leading Gttingen academics dismissed from their posts by the new King of Hanover for their liberal political views. In 1840 they were invited by Frederick William IV of Prussia to settle in Berlin as members of the Academy of Sciences, and here they remained until their deaths (Wilhelm died in 1859 and Jacob in 1863).Paul Zelinsky was born in Evanston, Illinois. He attended Yale University, where he took a course with Maurice Sendak, which later inspired him to pursue a career in children's books. Afterwards he received a graduate degree in painting from Tyler School of Art, in Philadelphia and Rome. Paul Zelinsky lives in New York with his wife, Deborah, and the younger of their two daughters.; Title: Rapunzel (Picture Puffin Books) | [
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5,908 | 13 | "The expressive watercolor illustrations have a cheery charm, and readers familiar with this ragtag band will enjoy their triumph."Remkiewicz's vividly colorful and animated signature illustrations will produce the same results that all Froggy fans enjoy?giggles, laughter, and fun. ("School Library Journal") The expressive watercolor illustrations have a cheery charm, and readers familiar with this ragtag band will enjoy their triumph. ("BCCB")Remkiewiczs vividly colorful and animated signature illustrations will produce the same results that all Froggy fans enjoygiggles, laughter, and fun. ("School Library Journal") The expressive watercolor illustrations have a cheery charm, and readers familiar with this ragtag band will enjoy their triumph. ("BCCB")Remkiewiczas vividly colorful and animated signature illustrations will produce the same results that all Froggy fans enjoyagiggles, laughter, and fun. ("School Library Journal") The expressive watercolor illustrations have a cheery charm, and readers familiar with this ragtag band will enjoy their triumph. ("BCCB")Remkiewicz s vividly colorful and animated signature illustrations will produce the same results that all Froggy fans enjoy giggles, laughter, and fun. ("School Library Journal") The expressive watercolor illustrations have a cheery charm, and readers familiar with this ragtag band will enjoy their triumph. ("BCCB")Jonathan London is the creator of twenty-five books about lovable and enduringly popular Froggy.  He is also a poet and a novelist. Jonathan and his wife live in Graton, California. Frank Remkiewicz has illustrated numerous books for children, including the popular Froggy books by Jonathan London (Viking and Puffin). He lives in Sarasota, Florida.; Title: Froggy Plays in the Band | [
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5,909 | 0 | PURPLE MOUNTAIN MAJESTIES Barbara Younger, illus. by Stacey Schuett. Puffin, $6.99 ISBN 0-14-230181-7. "How a trip taken by Katherine Lee Bates inspired the poem that became 'America the Beautiful' makes a quaint story," wrote PW. "The appealing folk art brims with period particulars as well as sprawling renderings of those natural wonders that well deserve Bates's tribute." Ages 3-8. (May) Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.; Title: Purple Mountain Majesties (Reading Railroad) | [
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5,910 | 2 | Grade 6 Up-Pete has nightmares about six childhood friends who are begging him to help them. Just as in real life, he is bound to a wheelchair and can't assist them as they scream out his name. Meena has begun to drink, smoke, and use drugs, and she stays to herself most times. What her friends and family don't know is that she is being molested by a family friend. Danny is fighting against using the drugs his psychiatrist has prescribed to "calm down." Jeremy has good looks and an attractive girlfriend, but his encounters with Josh are causing him to feel something else deep inside. Jane is considered a "brainiac," since she is obsessed with good grades. A terrible incident happened seven years ago to these teens that is causing all of them to experience nightmares, and the eerie aftereffects are spilling into their waking lives. This first installment in a seven-book series grips readers instantly. Several of the seven friends are introduced and highlighted as they experience real anguish and pain in their own dramas. The author gives subtle clues as to the pivotal event, but doesn't let the audience off even as the last word is read. Other cliff-hanging series, such as Francine Pascal's "Fearless" (Pocket), have the same intensity, but the situations in "Sevens" are achingly more realistic. Teens will clamor for each new installment to find out what happened to these engaging individuals.Jana R. Fine, Clearwater Public Library System, FLCopyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.; Title: Shattered (Sevens, Week 1) | [
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5,911 | 2 | Just the right doses of surprise and laughter to keep turning the pages. -- School Library JournalJudy Blume is the enduringly popular author of more than twenty books for young readers. Over 75 million copies of her books have been sold, and the Fudge books are timeless classics. Among Ms. Blume's many awards is the Margaret A. Edwards Award for Lifetime Achievement.; Title: Fudge-a-Mania | [
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5,912 | 0 | Roald Dahl (1916-1990) was born in Wales of Norwegian parents. He spent his childhood in England and, at age eighteen, went to work for the Shell Oil Company in Africa. When World War II broke out, he joined the Royal Air Force and became a fighter pilot. At the age of twenty-six he moved to Washington, D.C., and it was there he began to write. His first short story, which recounted his adventures in the war, was bought by The Saturday Evening Post, and so began a long and illustrious career.After establishing himself as a writer for adults, Roald Dahl began writing children’s stories in 1960 while living in England with his family. His first stories were written as entertainment for his own children, to whom many of his books are dedicated.Roald Dahl is now considered one of the most beloved storytellers of our time. Although he passed away in 1990, his popularity continues to increase as his fantastic novels, including James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, The BFG, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, delight an ever-growing legion of fans.Learn more about Roald Dahl on the official Roald Dahl Web site: www.roalddahl.com; Title: Dirty Beasts | [
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5,913 | 2 | "Byars has a gift for writing dialgue, and here she uses a spare, almost poetic style to craft an accessible story that grapples with life-altering issues."Betsy Byars began her writing career rather late in life. "In all of my school years, . . . not one single teacher ever said to me, 'Perhaps you should consider becoming a writer,'" Byars recalls. "Anyway, I didn't want to be a writer. Writing seemed boring. You sat in a room all day by yourself and typed. If I was going to be a writer at all, I was going to be a foreign correspondent like Claudette Colbert in Arise My Love. I would wear smashing hats, wisecrack with the guys, and have a byline known round the world. My father wanted me to be a mathematician." So Byars set out to become mathematician, but when she couldn't grasp calculus in college, she turned to English. Even then, writing was not on her immediate horizon.First, she married and started a family. The writing career didn't emerge until she was 28, a mother of two children, and living in a small place she called the barracks apartment, in Urbana, Illinois. She and her husband, Ed, had moved there in 1956 so he could attend graduate school at the University of Illinois. She was bored, had no friends, and so turned to writing to fill her time. Byars started writing articles for The Saturday Evening Post, Look,and other magazines. As her family grew and her children started to read, she began to write books for young people and, fortunately for her readers, discovered that there was more to being a writer than sitting in front of a typewriter."Making up stories and characters is so interesting that I'm never bored. Each book has been a different writing experience. It takes me about a year to write a book, but I spend another year thinking about it, polishing it, and making improvements. I always put something of myself intomy books -- something that happened to me. Once a wanderer came by my house and showed me how to brush my teeth with a cherry twig; that went in The House of Wingscopyright © 2000 by Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers. All rights reserved.; Title: Keeper of the Doves | [
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5,914 | 2 | Natalie Prior was born in November 1963. She has been writing compulsively since she was a child and became a full-time childrens author in 1992. Prior is the author of numerous books for many ages and has been published in more than 20 countries.Her work includes the internationally successful Lily Quench series, which has well over half a million copies in print, and which was broadcast on BBC Radio in 2006; The Minivers series; and picture books, including Pom Pomand The Paw. Natalie lives in Brisbane, Australia, with her husband, daughter, and two long-haired red miniature dachshunds.; Title: Lily Quench and the Dragon of Ashby | [] | Train |
5,915 | 2 | "Tales about stalling bedtime abound but none wag more cleverly than Rathmann's humorous picture book." -School Library Journal"Will enchant any child who has listened to a similar countdown to lights out." -Kirkus ReviewsCaldecott-medalist Peggy Rathmann was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, and grew up in the suburbs with two brothers and two sisters."In the summer we lolled in plastic wading pools guzzling Kool-Aid. In the winter we sculpted giant snow animals. It was a good life."Ms. Rathmann graduated from Mounds View High School in New Brighton, Minnesota, then attended colleges everywhere, changing her major repeatedly. She eventually earned a B.A. in psychology from the University of Minnesota."I wanted to teach sign language to gorillas, but after taking a class in signing, I realized what I'd rather do was draw pictures of gorillas."Ms. Rathmann studied commercial art at the American Academy in Chicago, fine art at the Atelier Lack in Minneapolis, and children's-book writing and illustration at the Otis Parsons School of Design in Los Angeles."I spent the first three weeks of my writing class at Otis Parsons filching characters from my classmates' stories. Finally, the teacher convinced me that even a beginning writer can create an original character if the character is driven by the writer's most secret weirdness. Eureka! A little girl with a passion for plagiarism! I didn't want anyone to know it was me, so I made the character look like my sister."The resulting book, Ruby the Copycat, earned Ms. Rathmann the "Most Promising New Author" distinction in Publishers Weekly's 1991 annual Cuffie Awards. In 1992 she illustrated Bootsie Barker Bites for Barbara Bottner, her teacher at Otis Parsons.A homework assignment produced an almost wordless story, Good Night, Gorilla, inspired by a childhood memory."When I was little, the highlight of the summer was running barefoot through the grass, in the dark, screaming. We played kick-the-can, and three-times-around-the-house, and sometimes we just stood staring into other people's picture windows, wondering what it would be like to go home to someone else's house."That story, however, was only nineteen pages long, and everyone agreed that the ending was a dud. Two years and ten endings later, Good Night, Gorilla was published and recognized as an ALA Notable Children's Book for 1994.The recipient of the 1996 Caldecott Medal, Officer Buckle and Gloria, is the story of a school safety officer upstaged by his canine partner."We have a videotape of my mother chatting in the dining room while, unnoticed by her or the cameraman, the dog is licking every poached egg on the buffet. The next scene shows the whole family at the breakfast table, complimenting my mother on the delicious poached eggs. The dog, of course, is pretending not to know what a poached egg is. The first time we watched that tape we were so shocked, we couldn't stop laughing. I suspect that videotape had a big influence on my choice of subject matter."Ms. Rathmann lives and works in San Francisco, in an apartment she shares with her husband, John Wick, and a very funny bunch of ants.copyright © 2000 by Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers. All rights reserved.; Title: 10 Minutes till Bedtime | [
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5,916 | 11 | Joan Holub has written and/or illustrated over 70 books for children, including the titles for the Who Was . . .? and What Was . . .? series.; Title: Dragon Dance: A Chinese New Year Lift-the-Flap Book (Puffin Lift-the-Flap) | [
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5,917 | 15 | "An excellent beginning to an elementary-school unit on oceans.  A lovely departure for the artist whose work usually makes readers laugh out loud." -Kirkus ReviewsG. Brian Karas was born in Milford, Connecticut. After graduating from Paier School of Art with highest honors, he worked as a greeting card artist at Hallmark Cards in Kansas City, Missouri. After three years he moved to New York and began freelancing as a commercial illustrator. His first illustrated book was published in 1983 (Home on the Bayou, which won the Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor), and he has since illustrated more than 50 books for children. His first book as an author-illustrator received a Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor in 1997.; Title: Atlantic (Rise and Shine) | [
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5,918 | 2 | Don Freeman was born in San Diego, California, in 1908. At an early age, he received a trumpet as a gift from his father. He practiced obsessively and eventually joined a California dance band. After graduating from high school, he ventured to New York City to study art under the tutelage of Joan Sloan and Harry Wickey at the Art Students' League. He managed to support himself throughout his schooling by playing his trumpet evenings, in nightclubs and at weddings.Gradually, he eased into making a living sketching impressions of Broadway shows for The New York Times and The Herald Tribune. This shift was helped along, in no small part, by a rather heartbreaking incident: he lost his trumpet. One evening, he was so engrossed in sketching people on the subway, he simply forgot it was sitting on the seat beside him. This new career turned out to be a near-perfect fit for Don, though, as he had always loved the theater.He was introduced to the world of children’s literature when William Saroyan asked him to illustrate several books. Soon after, he began to write and illustrate his own books, a career he settled into comfortably and happily. Through his writing, he was able to create his own theater: "I love the flow of turning the pages, the suspense of what's next. Ideas just come at me and after me. It's all so natural. I work all the time, long into the night, and it's such a pleasure. I don't know when the time ends. I've never been happier in my life!"Don died in 1978, after a long and successful career. He created many beloved characters in his lifetime, perhaps the most beloved among them a stuffed, overall-wearing bear named Corduroy.Don Freeman was the author and illustrator of many popular books for children, including Corduroy, A Pocket for Corduroy, and the Caldecott Honor Book Fly High, Fly Low.; Title: Gregory's Shadow | [
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5,919 | 2 | Natalie Prior was born in November 1963. She has been writing compulsively since she was a child and became a full-time children’s author in 1992. Prior is the author of numerous books for many ages and has been published in more than 20 countries. Her work includes the internationally successful Lily Quench series, which has well over half a million copies in print, and which was broadcast on BBC Radio in 2006; The Minivers series; and picture books, including Pom Pom and The Paw. Natalie lives in Brisbane, Australia, with her husband, daughter, and two long-haired red miniature dachshunds.; Title: Lily Quench and the Lighthouse of Skellig Mor | [
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5,920 | 1 | Winnie-the-Pooh is walking through the forest when he comes upon a hole. "If I know anything about anything," he says, "that hole means Rabbit. And Rabbit means Company. And Company means Food." Hurrah! But once Pooh goes through the hole and has some honey, will he ever be able to get out?; Title: Pooh Goes Visiting (Puffin Easy-to-Read) (Winnie-the-Pooh) | [
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5,921 | 0 | "What wrongdoer is any match for Cam Jansen, the girl with the amazing photographic memory?" ( Booklist) "An uncluttered plot, a clever heroine, clear language, and a dash of humor make for a zestful mystery."(School Library Journal)David A. Adler (www.davidaadler.com and www.camjansen.com) is the author of more than 175 children’s books. Before becoming a children’s book author, he taught math and science, and completed master’s degrees in marketing and economics. He lives in Woodmere, New York.; Title: Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Babe Ruth Baseball | [
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5,922 | 2 | "In this faithful retelling of the classic tale, Pinkney transports the heroine from Andersen's European setting to the bustling city streets and crowded tenements of early 1920s America," said PW in a starred review. "Pinkney's vision proves as transcendent as Andersen's." Ages 5-up. Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.Rachel Isadora began dancing at the age of eight. She trained at George Balanchine's School of American Ballet and has danced professionally. Rachel lives in New York City with her family.Rachel Isadora has illustrated many books set in the world of dance and theater, including Opening Night, My Ballet Class, Swan Lake, The Little Match Girl, and Ben's Trumpet, which received the Caldecott Honor Award and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Award.; Title: The Little Match Girl (Picture Puffin Books) | [
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5,923 | 2 | "The strong characters, rich detail, and well-articulated emotions, interspersed with Rachel's startling writing, make a powerful story that will resonate with many teens."Compelling and sympathetic... Koja plumbs not only Rachel's dark and darkly funny psyche, but also what it means to be human and to make connections of love and trust. ("Publishers Weekly") The strong characters, rich detail, and well-articulated emotions, interspersed with Rachel's startling writing, make a powerful story that will resonate with many teens. ("Booklist")Kathe Koja is the author of several novels for adults. Her work has been honored by the ALA, the ASPCA and with the Bram Stoker Award. Her books have been published in seven languages and optioned for film.  She lives in the Detroit area with her husband and teenage son.; Title: Straydog | [
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5,924 | 13 | "What wrongdoer is any match for Cam Jansen, the girl with the amazing photographic memory?" ( Booklist) "An uncluttered plot, a clever heroine, clear language, and a dash of humor make for a zestful mystery."(School Library Journal)David A. Adler (www.davidaadler.com and www.camjansen.com) is the author of more than 175 children’s books. Before becoming a children’s book author, he taught math and science, and completed master’s degrees in marketing and economics. He lives in Woodmere, New York.; Title: Cam Jansen: The Mystery of the Monster Movie #8 | [
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5,925 | 0 | 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, 1999 Shadows 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.Anna Divito lives in Unionville, New York.; Title: Why Do Birds Sing? (Penguin Young Readers, Level 3) | [
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5,926 | 0 | "[The Time Warp Trio's] tongue-in-cheek humor, laced with understatement and wordplay, makes for laugh-out-loud reading."The Time Warp Trio?s tongue-in-cheek humor, laced with understatement and wordplay, makes for laugh-out-loud reading. ("School Library Journal," starred review)[The Time Warp Trios] tongue-in-cheek humor, laced with understatement and wordplay, makes for laugh-out-loud reading. ("School Library Journal," starred review)[The Time Warp Trioas] tongue-in-cheek humor, laced with understatement and wordplay, makes for laugh-out-loud reading. ("School Library Journal," starred review)[The Time Warp Trio s] tongue-in-cheek humor, laced with understatement and wordplay, makes for laugh-out-loud reading. ("School Library Journal", starred review)[The Time Warp Trio?s] tongue-in-cheek humor, laced with understatement and wordplay, makes for laugh-out-loud reading. ("School Library Journal", starred review)Multiple award-winning author Jon Scieszka grew up in Flint, Michigan, the second oldest and the nicest of six boys. Jon went to school at Culver Military Academy in Indiana where he was a Lieutenant; Albion College in Michigan where he studied to be a doctor; and Columbia University in New York, where he received an M.F.A. in fiction. He taught elementary school in New York for ten years in a variety of positions. He is the author of many books for children including theNew York TimesBest Illustrated BookThe Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales(illustrated by Lane Smith), the Caldecott Honor bookThe True Story of the Three Little Pigs(illustrated by Lane Smith), andMath Curse(illustrated by Lane Smith). In addition to his work as an author, Jon also runs a web-based literacy program called Guys Read that is designed to encourage boys, particularly reluctant readers, to get involved with books. In 2008, Jon was named the countrys first National Ambassador for Young Peoples Literature, a joint effort of the Library of Congress and the Childrens Book Council. During his two-year role as Ambassador, he acted as a spokesperson for childrens literature, speaking to groups of parents, teachers, and children to encourage the importance of reading. You can visit Jon online at www.jsworldwide.com.; Title: The Not-So-Jolly Roger #2 (Time Warp Trio) | [
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5,927 | 0 | Ezra Jack Keats (19161983) is the Caldecott Medal winning author ofThe Snowy Day, which broke ground in 1962 as one of the first picture books for young children to portray a realistic, multi-cultural urban setting. Since its initial publication,The Snowy Dayhas come to be regarded as both a childrens classic and one of the most important picture books ever written/illustrated. Ezra Jack Keats legacy lives on in the popularity of his most famous character, Peterthe star ofThe Snowy Day,Whistle for Willie,Peter's Chair,A Letter to Amy,Goggles, and others. Visit the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation online atwww.ezra-jack-keats.org; Title: Hamster Chase (Penguin Young Readers, Level 3) | [
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5,928 | 2 | Grades 4-6--Sierra goes from wild horse to semi-tame in this story. She is accidentally separated from the rest of the horses, almost dies, but meets a young stallion that leads her to a Native American village. There a patient child accustoms her to humans and Sierra bears a foal, Rain. Each of the 12 chapters starts with Sierra's brief italicized reminiscences, followed by a third-person narration that fleshes them out. While there is much anthropomorphism, it is usually consistent with a horse's reality. However, the story line is only moderately compelling. Sierra's early life is rich with wild-horse behavior and herd interaction but the mare seems as much an observer as a participant. The other horses whose lives readers become involved with then disappear from the scene and children follow her almost reluctantly into her new life. The ending is not conclusive, but from reading about the DreamWorks film mentioned on the back cover (Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron), it is clear that Rain is a main character in the movie and that this story serves primarily to supply her background. With its handsome jacket illustration, it should attract horse lovers. Amy C. Laundrie's Whinny of the Wild Horses (Four Winds, 1990; o.p.) is a better story but movie fans will enjoy Sierra.Louise L. Sherman, formerly at Anna C. Scott School, Leonia, NJCopyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.Kathleen Duey is the author of numerous books for young readers, including the American Diaries series and the Survival series.; Title: Sierra (Spirit of the Cimarron) | [
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5,929 | 1 | Kathleen Duey has written over eighty books for children and young adults. Here well-known middle-grade series include American Diaries, Survival, and Hoofbeats. Her young adult novel Skin Hunger was a National Book Award Honor finalist. She lives in Fallbrook, California.; Title: Hoofbeats: Katie and the Mustang #4 | [
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5,930 | 1 | The best family entertainment in years. -- USA Today; Title: The Case of the Twisted Kitty #43 (Hank the Cowdog) | [
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5,931 | 2 | Joanna Johnston wrote books that often dealt with the achievements of women and of blacks, among them Together in America: The Story of Two Races and One Nation; A Special Bravery; and Paul Cuffee: America's First Black Captain. Her book Thomas Jefferson, His Many Talents won the Thomas Alva Edison Award for Excellence in 1962. She also worked as a staff writer for CBS Radio and Television in New York City, where she died in 1982. She had one daughter, Abigail.; Title: They Led the Way: 14 American Women | [
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5,932 | 11 | "[A] joyous celebration of friendship.Irresistible." --School Library Journal, starred reviewBorn in Fresno, California to Mexican American parents, Gary Soto learned the hard work ethic through his share of chores, including mowing lawns, picking grapes, painting house numbers on street curbs, and washing cars. His hard work paid off at California State University at Fresno, from which he graduated with an English degree, and later at the University of California at Irvine, where he earned a Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing.Gary Soto is an acclaimed poet, essayist, and fiction writer. The awards for this multi-talented author are many, ranging from the U.S. Award for International Poetry Forum in 1977 for his first published book of poetry, The Elements of San Joaquin, to a Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award in 1985 for Living Up the Street, his first published work of prose recollections. His short story collection Baseball in April, was named an American Library Association's Best Book for Young Adults, and he received the Bura Belpre Award for Chato's Kitchen. IHe has also received the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Children's Video for Pool Party, and was nominated for a National Book Award.His other credits include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the California Arts Council. Gary Soto is also one of the youngest poets to appear in the Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry. Several of his books have been translated into French, Spanish and Italian.Mr. Soto currently lives in Berkeley, California.; Title: Chato and the Party Animals | [
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5,933 | 7 | "[The Time Warp Trio's] tongue-in-cheek humor, laced with understatement and wordplay, makes for laugh-out-loud reading."The Time Warp Trio?s tongue-in-cheek humor, laced with understatement and wordplay, makes for laugh-out-loud reading. ("School Library Journal," starred review)[The Time Warp Trios] tongue-in-cheek humor, laced with understatement and wordplay, makes for laugh-out-loud reading. ("School Library Journal," starred review)[The Time Warp Trioas] tongue-in-cheek humor, laced with understatement and wordplay, makes for laugh-out-loud reading. ("School Library Journal," starred review)[The Time Warp Trio s] tongue-in-cheek humor, laced with understatement and wordplay, makes for laugh-out-loud reading. ("School Library Journal", starred review)[The Time Warp Trio?s] tongue-in-cheek humor, laced with understatement and wordplay, makes for laugh-out-loud reading. ("School Library Journal", starred review)Multiple award-winning author Jon Scieszka grew up in Flint, Michigan, the second oldest and the nicest of six boys. Jon went to school at Culver Military Academy in Indiana where he was a Lieutenant; Albion College in Michigan where he studied to be a doctor; and Columbia University in New York, where he received an M.F.A. in fiction. He taught elementary school in New York for ten years in a variety of positions. He is the author of many books for children including the New York Times Best Illustrated Book The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales (illustrated by Lane Smith), the Caldecott Honor book The True Story of the Three Little Pigs (illustrated by Lane Smith), and Math Curse (illustrated by Lane Smith).  In addition to his work as an author, Jon also runs a web-based literacy program called “Guys Read” that is designed to encourage boys, particularly reluctant readers, to get involved with books. In 2008, Jon was named the country’s first National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, a joint effort of the Library of Congress and the Children’s Book Council. During his two-year role as Ambassador, he acted as a spokesperson for children’s literature, speaking to groups of parents, teachers, and children to encourage the importance of reading. You can visit Jon online at www.jsworldwide.com.; Title: Sam Samurai #10 (Time Warp Trio) | [
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5,934 | 1 | Welcome back, you paragon of porkers! -- The Washington Post Book WorldWalter 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 Camping (Freddy the Pig) | [
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5,935 | 2 | "A beautifully written fantasy with luminous, richly hued artwork that is as evocative as the text...This is one egg that won't gather dust on your shelves." -School Library JournalM. P. Robertson lives in England.; Title: The Egg | [
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5,936 | 11 | "Charming and cheery, Wellington's story makes a great read-aloud."Monica Wellington was born in London and lived in Switzerland and Germany as a child. She has written and illustrated many books for young children, including Mr. Cookie Baker and Apple Farmer Annie. She now lives in New York City, where she teaches at the School of Visual Arts.; Title: Apple Farmer Annie | [
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5,937 | 2 | "This is a royal treat to soothe any beginning reader's blues and will inspire repeated readings." -School Library JournalJennifer Plecas lives in Blue Springs, Missouri.; Title: Get Well, Good Knight (Penguin Young Readers, Level 3) | [
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5,938 | 0 | Kathleen Duey is the author of many books for young readers, including books in the American Diaries and Survivors series, the Unicorn's Secret and Faeries' Promise series and the National Book Award finalist Skin Hunger. Originally from Colorado, she now lives in Fallbrook, California.; Title: Hoofbeats: Katie and the Mustang #2 | [
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5,939 | 18 | Dr. Nelly S. Toll came to America in 1951. She holds a master's degree in art and art history and education from Rutgers University, has studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, and received her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. She has exhibited her adult work widely and has taught both art and art history. Dr. Toll also holds a master's degree in counseling from Glassboro College and a degree in art therapy from Hahnemann University; she has combined both fields as a counselor working with young people. Her sixty-four watercolor paintings from the thirteen months she spent in hiding in Poland during World War II have been shown around the world. Eight ar in the permanent collection of the Yad Vashem Museum in Israel. She is also the co-author of a play based on her wartime experiences and the author of Without Surrender: Art of the Holocaust.; Title: Behind the Secret Window | [
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5,940 | 7 | "It is no illusion that this is a magical read." starred review -- Kirkus ReviewsBorn on January 30, 1924, in Philadelphia, storyteller Lloyd Alexander spent his childhood filling his imagination with fantasies about other lands and eras. For ten years of his writing career, Alexander wrote for adults, then changed gears and wrote fiction for young people. Alexander has received a Newbery Medal, a Newbery Honor Award, a National Book Award, and several IRA-CBC Children’s Choice Awards. He is also the author of many ALA Notable Children’s Books and School Library Journal Best Books of the Year.; Title: The Rope Trick | [
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5,941 | 0 | "This wacky combination of story and art is just right for newly independent readers who enjoy a good joke." (School Library Journal)Multiple award-winning author Jon Scieszka grew up in Flint, Michigan, the second oldest and the nicest of six boys. Jon went to school at Culver Military Academy in Indiana where he was a Lieutenant; Albion College in Michigan where he studied to be a doctor; and Columbia University in New York, where he received an M.F.A. in fiction. He taught elementary school in New York for ten years in a variety of positions. He is the author of many books for children including theNew York TimesBest Illustrated BookThe Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales(illustrated by Lane Smith), the Caldecott Honor bookThe True Story of the Three Little Pigs(illustrated by Lane Smith), andMath Curse(illustrated by Lane Smith). In addition to his work as an author, Jon also runs a web-based literacy program called Guys Read that is designed to encourage boys, particularly reluctant readers, to get involved with books. In 2008, Jon was named the countrys first National Ambassador for Young Peoples Literature, a joint effort of the Library of Congress and the Childrens Book Council. During his two-year role as Ambassador, he acted as a spokesperson for childrens literature, speaking to groups of parents, teachers, and children to encourage the importance of reading. You can visit Jon online at www.jsworldwide.com.; Title: Viking It and Liking It (The Time Warp Trio Book 12) | [
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5,942 | 2 | "A winning biography of Mamie 'Peanut' Johnson...the true story of the underdog who succeeds despite tremendous odds." -BooklistMichelle Y. Green is a graduate of the University of Maryland College of Journalism and the Johns Hopkins University Masters Program in Writing. She teaches "The Art of Writing for Children," and two other courses at The George Washington University School of Continuing Education.Ms. Green is the author of A Strong Right Arm: The Story of Mamie Peanut Johnson, the true story of the first woman to pitch professional baseball in a men’s league. She is also the author of the award-winning children’s book series, Willie Pearl, a book about her mother set in a Depression-era coal mining town.Ms. Green lives with her two sons, Bryan and Evan, in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, where she roots for her favorite team, the Baltimore Orioles.; Title: A Strong Right Arm: The Story of Mamie "Peanut" Johnson | [
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5,943 | 0 | "The richly detailed illustrations, with the promise of an accompanying activity, hold alchemy of their own." -Kirkus ReviewElisa Klevenwrites and illustrates picture books because she's never outgrown a deep childhood urge to enter a magical world. To date, she has written and illustrated 13 books and illustrated 15 others, including herSchool Library JournalBest Book,Puddle Pail, which also features the crocodile brothers, Ernst and Sol; herNew York TimesBest Illustrated Book,Sun Bread;The Lion and the Little Red Bird; andThe Paper Princess. Elisa and her family and live in Albany, California.; Title: Sun Bread | [
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5,944 | 2 | "Tekavec debuts her perfectly pitched read-aloud, accompanied by Spengler's splendid pastel renderings, to create a package that will be used by storytellers, teachers, and most importantly kids, over and over again."-Kirkus ReviewsHeather Tekavec was born in Manitoba, Canada, but moved at a young age to British Columbia. After graduation, she returned to Manitoba for two years where she got her certificate in Christian Education, then completed her Early Childhood Education in Vancouver, BC. The preschool classroom is where Heather developed a love for children’s books.After taking a writing course through the Institute of Children’s Literature, Heather started her writing career with curriculum-based articles for preschool teachers. In 2002, she published her first picture book, Storm is Coming! A follow-up to it, What’s that Awful Smell? came two years later. Both books, published by Dial Books for Young Readers, were selected as IRA-CBC Children’s Choices. Book club and audio rights to the first have recently been bought by Scholastic. She has also written for older children, including her first YA Novel, The Cost of Passage (Herald Press 2004), and short stories for various magazines.Heather lives with her husband, her three daughters, and a pet rabbit in Langley, BC. She now works full time at home, but stays connected with children by teaching her daughter’s girl’s club and visiting schools to do author talks.; Title: Storm Is Coming! | [
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5,945 | 0 | Joan Holub is the author and/or illustrator of many books for children. She lives in North Carolina, where the famous groundhog Sir Walter Wally helps watch the weather at the Museum of Natural Sciences. You can visit Joan at www.joanholub.com.Anna Divito lives in Unionville, New York.; Title: Why Do Horses Neigh? (Penguin Young Readers, Level 3) | [
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5,946 | 1 | "This is storytelling at its best."—School Library Journal"For the seventh volume of the Redwall series, Jacques sticks to the tried-and-true formula action aplenty and a huge cast of woodland creatures that has won him such a dedicated following . . . A seemingly endless stream of cliff-hangers and dazzling combat winds its way through lovingly described forest feasts."—Publishers WeeklyBrian Jacques (redwallabbey.com) was born in Liverpool in 1939. He left school at age fifteen and found work as a docker, a truck driver, a policeman and a stand-up comic, all before turning his attention to writing. He wrote his first novel, Redwall, for the children at a school for the blind in Liverpool. Since 1986, his descriptive style of writing has captivated readers from age 8 to 80. His books have won international awards and acclaim and have been made into a TV series.; Title: The Bellmaker: A Tale from Redwall | [
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5,947 | 0 | David 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 Library Mystery | [
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5,948 | 2 | Joan Bauer is the critically acclaimed author of Newbery Honor and Christopher Award winner Hope Was Here.; Title: Stand Tall | [
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5,949 | 0 | Eric Carle is acclaimed and beloved as the creator of brilliantly illustrated and innovatively designed picture books for very young children. His best-known work, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, has eaten its way into the hearts of literally millions of children all over the world and has been translated into more than 25 languages and sold over twelve million copies. Since the Caterpillar was published in 1969, Eric Carle has illustrated more than sixty books, many best sellers, most of which he also wrote.; Title: Eric Carle's Dragons, Dragons | [
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5,950 | 0 | "Exciting and moving. [A] well-wrought fictional tale." (School Library Journal, starred review)Born and raised in New York City, Jane Yolen now lives in Hatfield, Massachusetts. She attended Smith College and received her master's degree in education from the University of Massachusetts. The distinguished author of more than 170 books, Jane Yolen is a person of many talents. When she is not writing, Yolen composes songs, is a professional storyteller on the stage, and is the busy wife of a university professor, the mother of three grown children, and a grandmother.Active in several organizations, Yolen has been on the Board of Directors of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America from 1986 to 1988, is on the editorial board of several magazines, and was a founding member of the Western New England Storytellers Guild, the Western Massachusetts Illustrators Guild, and the Bay State Writers Guild. For twenty years, she ran a monthly writer's workshop for new children's book authors. In 1980, when Yolen was awarded an honorary Doctor of Law degree by Our Lady of the Elms College in Chicopee, Massachusetts, the citation recognized that "throughout her writing career she has remained true to her primary source of inspiration--folk culture." Folklore is the "perfect second skin," writes Yolen. "From under its hide, we can see all the shimmering, shadowy uncertainties of the world." Folklore, she believes, is the universal human language, a language that children instinctively feel in their hearts.All of Yolen's stories and poems are somehow rooted in her sense of family and self. The Emperor and the Kite, which was a Caldecott Honor Book in 1983 for its intricate papercut illustrations by Ed Young, was based on Yolen's relationship with her late father, who was an international kite-flying champion. Owl Moon, winner of the 1988 Caldecott Medal for John Schoenherr's exquisite watercolors, was inspired by her husband's interest in birding.Yolen's graceful rhythms and outrageous rhymes have been gathered in numerous collections. She has earned many awards over the years: the Regina Medal, the Kerlan Award, the World Fantasy Award, the Society of Children's Book Writers Award, the Mythopoetic Society's Aslan Award, the Christopher Medal, the Boy's Club Jr. Book Award, the Garden State Children's Book Award, the Daedalus Award, a number of Parents' Choice Magazine Awards, and many more. Her books and stories have been translated into Japanese, French, Spanish, Chinese, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Afrikaans, !Xhosa, Portuguese, and Braille.With a versatility that has led her to be called "America's Hans Christian Andersen," Yolen, the child of two writers, is a gifted and natural storyteller. Perhaps the best explanation for her outstanding accomplishments comes from Jane Yolen herself: "I don't care whether the story is real or fantastical. I tell the story that needs to be told."copyright ? 2000 by Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers. All rights reserved.; Title: Girl in a Cage (Stuart Quartet) | [
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5,951 | 0 | "Pulse-pounding chase scenes, risky behavior, vivid descriptions, hidden treasure, and, best of all, plausible clues." -- Booklist, starred reviewCaroline Lawrencegrew up in Bakersfield, California, and claims that some of her ancestors were pioneers, teamsters and newspapermen. Caroline moved to England to studyclassics at Cambridge. After a decade of immersing herself in Roman history to write the Roman Mysteries series, Caroline is now mining the rich vein of American history during the tumultuous 1860s. She currently lives in London by the river with her history-loving husband.She is the author of the P.K. Pinkerton series.; Title: Roman Mysteries #1: Thieves of Ostia | [
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5,952 | 2 | PreS-Gr 2The affable canine teacher takes her kindergarteners on a neighborhood tour with stops at a bakery, fire station, post office, library, and park (for a picnic). Spanning the alphabet from Adam the alligator to Zack the zebra, rhyming verses and bright-hued illustrations reveal the adventures of the likable characters, and an appended search-for-the-shape feature adds to the fun.(c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted."In addition to reinforcing the alphabet, youngsters are asked to identify various shapes throughout the story . . . learning has never been more fun." (School Library Journal); Title: Miss Bindergarten Takes a Field Trip with Kindergarten | [
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5,953 | 0 | Don Freeman (1908-1978) was the author of the classic Corduroy picture books, among many others.; Title: Corduroy Writes a Letter | [
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5,954 | 11 | Gary Soto es poeta, ensayista y novelista. Sus libros han recibido muchos premios y elogiosas crticas. Too Many Tamales recibi el Booklist Editor's Choice. Baseball in April fue nominado como el mejor libro para jvenes y Chato's Kitchen como un libro sobresaliente, ambos honores otorgados por la Asociacin de Bibliotecarios Norteamericanos. Susan Guevara ha ilustrado numerosos libros para nios. Ha ganado dos veces el premio Pura Belpr al mejor libro ilustrado: por este libro y por Chato's Kitchen. Estudi arte en la Academia Real de Bellas Artes en Blgica y en la Academia de Arte de San Francisco.; Title: Chato y los amigos pachangueros (Chato (Spanish)) (Spanish Edition) | [
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5,955 | 7 | "[The] aliens are well-developed characters, and the action proceeds at a furious pace, almost FTL (faster than light)."The aliens are well-developed characters, and the action proceeds at a furious pace, almost FTL (faster than light). ("The Horn Book," starred review)[The] aliens are well-developed characters, and the action proceeds at a furious pace, almost FTL (faster than light). ("The Horn Book", starred review)William Sleator lives in Massachusetts and Thailand.; Title: Parasite Pig | [
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5,956 | 7 | "Springer excels at keeping the action and adventure in high gear, and she creates strong characters with clear motivations."Nancy Springer has published forty novels for adults, young adults and children. In a career beginning shortly after she graduated from Gettysburg College in 1970, Springer wrote for ten years in the imaginary realms of mythological fantasy, then ventured on contemporary fantasy, magical realism, and women's fiction before turning her attention to children's literature. Her novels and stories for middle-grade and young adults range from contemporary realism, mystery/crime, and fantasy to her critically acclaimed novels based on the Arthurian mythos, I AM MORDRED: A TALE OF CAMELOT and I AM MORGAN LE FAY. Springer's children's books have won her two Edgar Allan Poe awards, a Carolyn W. Field award, various Children's Choice honors and numerous ALA Best Book listings. Her most recent series include the Tales of Rowan Hood, featuring Robin Hood’s daughter, and the Enola Holmes mysteries, starring the much younger sister of Sherlock Holmes.Ms. Springer lives in East Berlin, Pennsylvania.; Title: Lionclaw: Tale of Rowan Hood (Rowan Hood (Paperback)) | [
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5,957 | 2 | "Spot is one of the essential experiences of childhood." (Parents magazine)Eric Hill (www.funwithspot.com) left school when he was 15 and took up cartooning while working as a messenger at an art studio. He created Where's Spot? as a bedtime story for his two-year old son. It was published four years later, and the rest is history. Eric Hill passed away in July 2014.; Title: Spot's Baby Sister | [
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5,958 | 2 | "Satisfyingly entertaining!" -- Publishers WeeklyGrace Dent is a regular contributor to British teen magazines such as CosmoGIRL! and Mirror, as well as a columnist for the Guardian and More! magazine.; Title: LBD: It's a Girl Thing | [
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5,959 | 0 | The tone is gentle and the illustrations are, as usual, first-rate. -- School Library JournalTomie dePaola was born in Meriden, Connecticut, in 1934 to a family of Irish and Italian background. By the time he could hold a pencil, he knew what his life's work would be. His determination to create books for children led to a BFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, and an MFA from the California College of Arts & Crafts in Oakland, California.It drove him through the years of teaching, designing greeting cards and stage sets, and painting church murals until 1965, when he illustrated his first children's book, Sound, by Lisa Miller for Coward-McCann. Eventually, freed of other obligations, he plunged full time into both writing and illustrating children's books.He names Fra Angelico and Giotto, Georges Rouault, and Ben Shahn as major influences on his work, but he soon found his own unique style. His particular way with color, line, detail, and design have earned him many of the most prestigious awards in his field, among them a Caldecott Honor Award for Strega Nona, the Smithsonian Medal from the Smithsonian Institution, the Kerlan Award from the University of Minnesota for his "singular attainment in children's literature," the Catholic Library Association's Regina Medal for his "continued distinguished contribution," and the University of Southern Mississippi Medallion. He was also the 1990 United States nominee for the Hans Christian Andersen Medal for illustration.Tomie dePaola has published almost 200 children's books in fifteen different countries. He remains one of the most popular creators of books for children, receiving more than 100,000 fan letters each year.Tomie lives in an interesting house in New Hampshire with his four dogs. His studio is in a large renovated 200-year-old barn.- He has been published for over 30 years.- Over 5 million copies of his books have sold worldwide.- His books have been published in over 15 different countries.- He receives nearly 100,000 fan letters each year.Tomie dePaola has received virtually every significant recognition forhis books in the children's book world, including:- Caldecott Honor Award from American Library Association- Newbery Honor Award from American Library Association- Smithson Medal from Smithsonian Institution- USA nominee in illustration for Hans Christian Andersen Medal- Regina Medal from Catholic Library Associationcopyright © 2000 by Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers. All rights reserved.Tomie dePaola was born in Meriden, Connecticut, in 1934 to a family of Irish and Italian background. By the time he could hold a pencil, he knew what his life's work would be. His determination to create books for children led to a BFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, and an MFA from the California College of Arts & Crafts in Oakland, California.It drove him through the years of teaching, designing greeting cards and stage sets, and painting church murals until 1965, when he illustrated his first children's book, Sound, by Lisa Miller for Coward-McCann. Eventually, freed of other obligations, he plunged full time into both writing and illustrating children's books.He names Fra Angelico and Giotto, Georges Rouault, and Ben Shahn as major influences on his work, but he soon found his own unique style. His particular way with color, line, detail, and design have earned him many of the most prestigious awards in his field, among them a Caldecott Honor Award for Strega Nona, the Smithsonian Medal from the Smithsonian Institution, the Kerlan Award from the University of Minnesota for his "singular attainment in children's literature," the Catholic Library Association's Regina Medal for his "continued distinguished contribution," and the University of Southern Mississippi Medallion. He was also the 1990 United States nominee for the Hans Christian Andersen Medal for illustration.Tomie dePaola has published almost 200 children's books in fifteen different countries. He remains one of the most popular creators of books for children, receiving more than 100,000 fan letters each year.Tomie lives in an interesting house in New Hampshire with his four dogs. His studio is in a large renovated 200-year-old barn.- He has been published for over 30 years.- Over 5 million copies of his books have sold worldwide.- His books have been published in over 15 different countries.- He receives nearly 100,000 fan letters each year.Tomie dePaola has received virtually every significant recognition forhis books in the children's book world, including:- Caldecott Honor Award from American Library Association- Newbery Honor Award from American Library Association- Smithson Medal from Smithsonian Institution- USA nominee in illustration for Hans Christian Andersen Medal- Regina Medal from Catholic Library Associationcopyright © 2000 by Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers. All rights reserved.; Title: Now One Foot, Now the Other | [
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5,960 | 0 | Multiple award-winning author Jon Scieszka grew up in Flint, Michigan, the second oldest and the nicest of six boys. Jon went to school at Culver Military Academy in Indiana where he was a Lieutenant; Albion College in Michigan where he studied to be a doctor; and Columbia University in New York, where he received an M.F.A. in fiction. He taught elementary school in New York for ten years in a variety of positions. He is the author of many books for children including theNew York TimesBest Illustrated BookThe Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales(illustrated by Lane Smith), the Caldecott Honor bookThe True Story of the Three Little Pigs(illustrated by Lane Smith), andMath Curse(illustrated by Lane Smith). In addition to his work as an author, Jon also runs a web-based literacy program called Guys Read that is designed to encourage boys, particularly reluctant readers, to get involved with books. In 2008, Jon was named the countrys first National Ambassador for Young Peoples Literature, a joint effort of the Library of Congress and the Childrens Book Council. During his two-year role as Ambassador, he acted as a spokesperson for childrens literature, speaking to groups of parents, teachers, and children to encourage the importance of reading. You can visit Jon online at www.jsworldwide.com.; Title: Hey Kid, Want to Buy a Bridge? #11 (Time Warp Trio) | [
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5,961 | 0 | "[The Time Warp Trio's] tongue-in-cheek humor, laced with understatement and wordplay, makes for laugh-out-loud reading."The Time Warp Trio?s tongue-in-cheek humor, laced with understatement and wordplay, makes for laugh-out-loud reading. ("School Library Journal," starred review)[The Time Warp Trios] tongue-in-cheek humor, laced with understatement and wordplay, makes for laugh-out-loud reading. ("School Library Journal," starred review)[The Time Warp Trioas] tongue-in-cheek humor, laced with understatement and wordplay, makes for laugh-out-loud reading. ("School Library Journal," starred review)[The Time Warp Trio s] tongue-in-cheek humor, laced with understatement and wordplay, makes for laugh-out-loud reading. ("School Library Journal", starred review)[The Time Warp Trio?s] tongue-in-cheek humor, laced with understatement and wordplay, makes for laugh-out-loud reading. ("School Library Journal", starred review)Multiple award-winning author Jon Scieszka grew up in Flint, Michigan, the second oldest and the nicest of six boys. Jon went to school at Culver Military Academy in Indiana where he was a Lieutenant; Albion College in Michigan where he studied to be a doctor; and Columbia University in New York, where he received an M.F.A. in fiction. He taught elementary school in New York for ten years in a variety of positions. He is the author of many books for children including theNew York TimesBest Illustrated BookThe Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales(illustrated by Lane Smith), the Caldecott Honor bookThe True Story of the Three Little Pigs(illustrated by Lane Smith), andMath Curse(illustrated by Lane Smith). In addition to his work as an author, Jon also runs a web-based literacy program called Guys Read that is designed to encourage boys, particularly reluctant readers, to get involved with books. In 2008, Jon was named the countrys first National Ambassador for Young Peoples Literature, a joint effort of the Library of Congress and the Childrens Book Council. During his two-year role as Ambassador, he acted as a spokesperson for childrens literature, speaking to groups of parents, teachers, and children to encourage the importance of reading. You can visit Jon online at www.jsworldwide.com.; Title: It's All Greek to Me #8 (Time Warp Trio) | [
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5,962 | 0 | Kathleen Duey is the author of many books for young readers, including books in the American Diaries and Survivors series, the Unicorn's Secret and Faeries' Promise series and the National Book Award finalist Skin Hunger. Originally from Colorado, she now lives in Fallbrook, California.HoofbeatsKatie and the MustangBook Oneby KATHLEEN DUEYPUFFIN BOOKSMy childhood memories are set to hoofbeats: a fog-softened gallop on a lonely morning; the joyous clatter of friends pounding down the Canal Road; a measured, hollow clop of a miles-to-go July afternoon; the snow-muffled hoofbeats of wintertime; the squelching rhythm of a close race with a rainstorm. These books are for my dear friends, the horses of my childhood—Buck, Ginger, Steve, and Cherokee Star.Thank you all.Table of ContentsCHAPTER ONEThe stinkweed made me sick. The two-leggeds who drove me from my herd and my home starved me a long time before I would eat it, but, in the end, I had no choice. I am too sick and too weak to fight the ropes. But the sickness will not last. . . .I was hiding from Mrs. Stevens that day. It was cold in the barn, though not bitter, not too bad for early February. We’d had one warm snap that hatched a few flies, then it had stormed again. There were dirty banks of snow along the roads.I pulled my jacket tighter around my shoulders. It was too big—it was a castoff from Mr. Stevens—but my dress was getting too small. It was about worn-out. The blue homespun was faded and stained, and one sleeve had a long, mended tear. I didn’t care about any of that as much as the way it pulled across my back.It was just past sunrise. I had done my early chores—the milk was poured into the cooling can, the milk bucket washed. Mrs. Stevens insisted on that, every day. The minute the milk was poured out, the bucket had to be scrubbed with soap in the tin basin. Every two days, I had to change the wash water.I sighed. I knew I should go back to the house and begin the real work of the day. I just didn’t want to.“My uncle Jack hasn’t written me,” I explained to Betsy. “But people say it can take a year or more.” I smiled, remembering my tall, handsome Uncle Jack with his dark hair and light blue eyes—and his grin.I took a long breath, and my dress rubbed against the welts on my back. They weren’t that bad; in a few days they’d be gone. But they hurt. My throat ached, and then, all of a sudden, my eyes stung. I pressed my lips together, hard. I did not want to cry. No amount of tear shedding was going to change Mrs. Stevens’s temperament.She had willow-switched me the day before . . . she was convinced I’d taken a spoon from her mother’s silver service set. I hadn’t. What would I want with a spoon?Hiram Weiss was the only other possible suspect, though, and no one would ever think he had taken it. I liked Hiram. He didn’t talk very much, but he always nodded and smiled at me. He was from back east somewhere. Mrs. Stevens had told me he’d had some bad luck back there. She hadn’t said more. I think she didn’t know anything more. Hiram was tight-lipped. But everyone liked him; no one bothered him. He was as big as they come—broad and tall and heavy—plenty old enough to have a wife and children, but didn’t have either. Mrs. Stevens always complained of the amount he ate at her table—but not to his face. Good farmhands were not so easy to find with everyone at loose ends deciding to pick up and go west.“I’m sure Mrs. Stevens lost her own ding-dang spoon,” I said. I took a breath and opened my mouth to tell Betsy more about it, to tell her how Mrs. Stevens had scowled at me when I insisted I hadn’t taken anything of hers, how she had sent me down to the creek to cut the willow switch. But that wasn’t what came out. What came out was this:“It was all over in three weeks.”Betsy wasn’t looking at me as I spoke. She never did. I cleared my throat. “The fever was wildfire fast. Everyone says so.”I paused while the familiar pain in my throat got worse. I couldn’t even whisper the rest of it, about the fever that had taken Mama and Pa and Tess. It had been almost three years ago, and I could still barely even think it. I longed to wake up one morning and have it not be true. But every morning I woke up—and it was.Betsy shifted her weight. She turned her head to look at me, chewing her cud. Then she switched her ropy tail and stamped one hind hoof. A half-dozen chilly flies rose an inch from the straw, then settled again. They were too cold to fly any farther. I pulled in a long, slow breath of barn dust and hay smell.“On the funeral day,” I said quietly, “I just sat in the parlor while neighbor women fussed over the food.”I stopped to breathe in and out slowly, long enough to keep myself from crying. Then I went on. “Mrs. O’Reilly, Mrs. Gleason, and Mrs. Wittmann came from their farms. I hated the smell of their cooking in Mama’s kitchen. I just hated them for being in there at all.” I tacked the last part on in a near whisper.I had been six years old when the fever hit. Mrs. O’Reilly, Mrs. Gleason, and Mrs. Wittmann: I could barely picture their faces now—nor the faces of their children—even though I had gone to church with all of them. I hadn’t seen any of them even once since that day. The Stevenses were not Irish nor Catholic—they weren’t anything at all. So we never went to the little church that had no priest but still held prayer meetings.I looked out the big double doors at the shade tree outside and sighed. I was twenty miles or more from my parents’ farm in Cedar County. I had never asked to go back, and Mr. Stevens had never offered to take me. But Mama and Pa and Tess were buried on a ridge behind the house my father had built. So maybe the farm I had been born on still belonged to my family. In a way, maybe it was still my real home.I cried a little. I was used to crying. But then I hushed so I could listen for the sound of the front door. If Mrs. Stevens caught me idling, she’d make me scrub down her porch floors with sand, or lime the privy, or something just as bad.When I had first come, she had often twisted a strand of my hair around her finger and smiled, saying it was the color of fresh field corn. But things had changed within a month. I had never been able to figure out why. Maybe she had thought I would think of her as my mother—she had no children of her own. But I didn’t. I couldn’t. My mother had laughed all the time. She had enjoyed sunrise and making bread and playing with my sister and me.After that first month, Mrs. Stevens seemed angry with me most of the time. It was even worse now. After my last bath she had all but pulled my tangled curls out of my scalp, she had brushed my hair that hard.“I was so relieved when Mr. Stevens said he’d take me in,” I whispered to Betsy. “I was so afraid no one would—all the closest neighbors had big families they could barely feed. I know they all thought this was best for me, but now . . .”The old cow flopped her ears and stared at nothing, her jaw working steadily. She was a Jersey milker and she had a simple life. Daytime was for eating, nights were for sleeping. She stood still when I milked her morning and evening. She was glad to see me when her bag was full and heavy. In between, she paid less attention to me than a tree stump would have. Sometimes I envied her.I sighed. The horses were more polite about listening, but they were all out of the barn this morning. Mr. Stevens had hitched Delia and Midnight to the buggy and gone to town, and Hiram had the draft horses dragging the sledge over the half-frozen ground down by the creek.Last year’s cornstalks were still standing, dried and brown—Mr. Stevens had let them go last fall because of an early wet spell. Hiram Weiss had said once that Mr. Stevens hated farming. He surely wasn’t very good at it. Yet he always seemed to have money, and I wondered more than once where it came from.Hiram was a grand farmer, but he didn’t have his own farm any more than I did. He told me once that New York City, where he’d lived for a while, was full of people who couldn’t find enough work to eat and that Scott County, Iowa, was a paradise compared to what was going on back there.I liked Hiram. He had first come around asking for work the year before the fever took my family. He reminded me a little of my father, but younger. Pa was quiet, but he liked to hear other people talk about when to plant and how to store grain and everything in between. My mother had liked cooking for guests when we had enough to go around. So we’d had neighbors sitting on our porch once or twice a month—whenever anyone came by our place on their way to Davenport for dry goods or salt or to visit the courthouse.Mrs. Stevens almost never had a caller. Mr. Stevens got in the buggy and went visiting on his own whenever he needed a conversation—sometimes he went all the way to Davenport—but he almost never took his wife. And I was sure he never once thought about taking me along, even though he knew I had written five letters to my uncle Jack over the past year and desperately wanted an answer to arrive at the Davenport post office. Mr. Stevens barely noticed me unless I did something wrong.“I’ll milk early tonight if I can,” I said to Betsy. She flicked one floppy funnel-shaped ear.I heard a familiar mewling behind me as I picked up the milk bucket. I glanced over my shoulder and made my voice sound like I was astonished. “Tiger? What do you want? Milk?” Tiger didn’t understand the joke.The cat stretched, arching her back and her long tail. She listened to me sometimes, but only so long as I scratched her ears. If I stopped, she would stalk away, her knees stiff and her tail twitching.“Katie!”I jumped, my heart slamming at my ribs.Mrs. Stevens has a voice like a branch scraping a tin roof when she raises it to shout—and she sounded close. She was coming up the barn path. Why hadn’t I heard the front door shut?I smoothed my dress where it hung below my coat, trying to think what excuse I might give. I had finished hanging the laundry and had split stove-wood for the next day an hour quicker than usual just to warm myself up. But that wouldn’t matter. Here I was, sitting idle and with nowhere to hide.“Katie Rose!”I stood up and ran three steps to snatch a pitchfork from its wall hooks. It was a silly ruse. Hiram kept the stalls clean and the aisles swept. What chore could I pretend to be doing with a pitchfork?But then the door swung wide; I blinked at the sudden glare. There was an old, spreading ash tree outside, but the shade was broken by a shaft of early morning sunlight. With the sun behind her, Mrs. Stevens looked golden, like an angel. Then she stepped inside the dim barn, and she was a pinch-mouthed farmwife again.“Katie! Whatever do you do out here?”I knew better than to answer. Any explanation would be the wrong one, especially the truth. Talking to a cow?“I asked you a question.” Mrs. Stevens put her hands on her hips.I just stood there, my eyes down.Mrs. Stevens sighed. “Daydreaming and mooning again? Do you think that’ll get the chores done? Perhaps a few hours of real work would cure you of idleness. Or maybe a long stand in the corner.”My whole body went stiff. I hated standing in the corner worse than extra chores or even getting a whipping. She knew it.Mrs. Stevens suddenly tilted her head. “Oh my,” she breathed. “He’s early.”Then I heard it, too: faint hoofbeats and the distant grating of metal-shod cartwheels. Mr. Stevens was coming home.Mrs. Stevens had turned to face the barn door. Now she spun around and made a motion like she was shooing hens. “Hurry!”I almost smiled. I was afraid of her. But she was afraid of him. Mr. Stevens never struck his wife, but he shouted and cursed sometimes if he saw her idle. And he took pride in her never talking back to him, ever. I had heard him brag about it to Hiram. When he shouted at Mrs. Stevens, she would shrink in on herself for days afterward. But she never seemed angry at him, only at herself—and me.“Sssst!” Mrs. Stevens hissed again, glaring. “Come on, girl, come on!”; Title: Hoofbeats: Katie and the Mustang #1 | [
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5,963 | 2 | A good pick for sparking pretend play and maybe even an occasional embrace. (School Library Journal)Children will have fun looking at the detailed pictures that show the busy boy æat workæ and charmingly portray the relationship between him and his toddler sister. (Booklist)Christine Kole MacLean is the author of Mary Margaret and the Perfect Pet Plan and Even Firefighters Hug Their Moms.  She lives in Holland, Michigan.; Title: Even Firefighters Hug Their Moms | [
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5,964 | 10 | Lawrence David is the author of several picture books and two long, long grown-up books (without pictures). He has never eaten any cupcakes that gave him superpowers, but he hopes to one day. He lives in New York City, where he is always on the lookout for villains, monsters, school bullies, and licorice.; Title: The Most Evil, Friendly Villain Ever (Horace Splattly, the Cupcaked Crusader) | [
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5,965 | 1 | 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 and the Ignormus | [
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5,966 | 0 | * "A funny, fast-moving, endearing book that [readers] will lap up!"--Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewJohn D. Fitzgerald was born in Utah and lived there until he left at eighteen to begin a series of interesting careers ranging from jazz drummer to foreign correspondent. His stories of The Great Brain were based on his own childhood in Utah with a conniving older brother named Tom. These reminiscenses led to eight memorable Great Brain books. John D. Fitzgerald also wrote several best-selling adult books, including Papa Married a Mormon. He died in Florida, his home of many years, at the age of eighty-one.; Title: The Great Brain (Great Brain, Book 1) | [
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5,967 | 2 | "An extraordinary book, one no reader will fail to find compelling and unforgettable."An extraordinary book, one no reader will fail to find compelling and unforgettable. ("Booklist", starred review)Eleanor Coerr (1922-2010) is the author of many books for young readers, including Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes and Mieko and the Fifth Treasure.; Title: Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes (Puffin Modern Classics) | [
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5,968 | 2 | "This sixth story about Turtle and Snake will be a hit with those who already know and love these friends..." (School Library Journal)Kate Spohn is also the author and illustrator of Turtle and Snake at Work and Turtle and Snake Go Camping.Kate Spohn is also the author and illustrator of Turtle and Snake at Work and Turtle and Snake Go Camping.; Title: Turtle and Snake's Day at the Beach (Penguin Young Readers, Level 2) | [
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5,969 | 0 | "...youthful narration, convincingly childlike sensibility, and irrepressible spirit." (Booklist)Tomie dePaola was born in Meriden, Connecticut, in 1934, to a family of Irish and Italian background. His determination to create books for children led to a BFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, and an MFA from the California College of Arts & Crafts in Oakland, California. His particular way with color, line, detail, and design have earned him many of the most prestigious awards in his field, among them a Caldecott Honor Award for Strega Nona, the Smithsonian Medal, the Kerlan Award from the University of Minnesota for his "singular attainment in children's literature," the Catholic Library Association's Regina Medal for his "continued distinguished contribution," and the University of Southern Mississippi Medallion. He was also the 1990 United States nominee for the Hans Christian Andersen Medal for illustration, and received the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for lifetime contribution to children's literature in 2011.DePaola has published almost 200 children's books in 15 different countries over the past 30 years. Among his most well-known titles are the Strega Nona series, 26 Fairmount Avenue, and The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush.DePaola lives in an interesting house in New Hampshire with his four dogs. His studio is in a large renovated 200-year-old barn.; Title: Things Will Never Be the Same (26 Fairmount Avenue) | [
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5,970 | 2 | Action-packed from the seemingly innocent beginning to the satisfying end. (School Library Journal)David A. Adler (www.davidaadler.com and www.camjansen.com) is the author of more than 175 children’s books. Before becoming a children’s book author, he taught math and science, and completed master’s degrees in marketing and economics. He lives in Woodmere, New York.; Title: Cam Jansen: the Mystery at the Haunted House #13 | [
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5,971 | 0 | "The harsh unloveliness of inner-city streets is forgotten in the brilliant paintings, which form a backdrop for a tender story of spontaneous unselfishness."The harsh unloveliness of inner-city streets is forgotten in the brilliant paintings, which form a backdrop for a tender story of spontaneous unselfishness. ("The Horn Book")Ezra Jack Keats (19161983) is the Caldecott Medal winning author ofThe Snowy Day, which broke ground in 1962 as one of the first picture books for young children to portray a realistic, multi-cultural urban setting. Since its initial publication,The Snowy Dayhas come to be regarded as both a childrens classic and one of the most important picture books ever written/illustrated. Ezra Jack Keats legacy lives on in the popularity of his most famous character, Peterthe star ofThe Snowy Day,Whistle for Willie,Peter's Chair,A Letter to Amy,Goggles, and others. Visit the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation online atwww.ezra-jack-keats.org; Title: Louie | [
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5,972 | 0 | Anthony Horowitz is perhaps the busiest writer in England. He has been writing since the age of eight, and professionally since the age of twenty. He writes in a comfortable shed in his garden for up to ten hours per day. In addition to the highly successful Alex Rider ongoing series of books, he has also written episodes of several popular TV crime series, including Poirot, Murder in Mind, Midsomer Murders, and Murder Most Horrid. He has written the television series Foyle's War, which aired in the United States, as well as the libretto of a Broadway musical adapted from Dr. Seuss's book, The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. He penned the script for the film The Gathering, which was released in 2003, starring Christina Ricci. Horowitz has also written the Diamond Brothers series.; Title: The Falcon's Malteser (Diamond Brother Mysteries) | [
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5,973 | 2 | Hits just the right note. . . . Carlsons style works well to address fear without inspiring it. (School Library Journal)Bouncy, colorful illustrations are simple and strong. . . . This will be a title that can be used for discussion with young children about their fears. (Kirkus Reviews)Nancy B. Carlson, OD Professor of Optometry New England College of Optometry Boston MADan Kurtz, OD, PhD Professor of Optometry The New England College of Optometry Boston, MA 02115; Title: There's a Big, Beautiful World Out There! | [
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5,974 | 0 | * "J. D. is ready to apply all the tricks he has learned . . . As amusing as the exploits of his brainy older brother!"--School Library JournalJohn D. Fitzgerald was born in Utah and lived there until he left at eighteen to begin a series of interesting careers ranging from jazz drummer to foreign correspondent. His stories of The Great Brain were based on his own childhood in Utah with a conniving older brother named Tom. These reminiscenses led to eight memorable Great Brain books. John D. Fitzgerald also wrote several best-selling adult books, includingPapa Married a Mormon. He died in Florida, his home of many years, at the age of eighty-one.; Title: Me and My Little Brain (Great Brain, Book 3) | [
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5,975 | 1 | Spot is one of the essential experiences of childhood. (Parents Magazine )Eric Hill (www.funwithspot.com) left school when he was 15 and took up cartooning while working as a messenger at an art studio. He created Where's Spot? as a bedtime story for his two-year old son. It was published four years later, and the rest is history. Eric Hill passed away in July 2014.; Title: Spot's First Christmas (color) | [
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5,976 | 2 | Fun for beginning chapter book readers. (School Library Journal)Suzy Kline, the author of nineteen previous Horrible Harry books and four books about Song Lee, lives in Willington Connecticut with her husband, Rufus. Suzy and Rufus have been married for thirty-eight years. They met in the state where they both grew up: California. Suzy grew up in Berkeley and Rufus in Sacramento. Suzy graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a degree in European history. She met Rufus at the Davis campus while attending that campus for a year. They got married and lived in different places, including Canada, before settling into Connecticut, the state they now call home.Suzy taught in 5th and 6th grades at Shannon Elementary School in Richmond, California for 3 years, and 2nd and 3rd grades at Southwest Elementary School in Torrington, Connecticut for 24 years before retiring this past June. She now enjoys writing full-time and visiting schools and libraries. The couple share their home with two cats, Teeter and Hoag. They have two daughters, Jennifer and Emily, and four grandchildren: Jake, Kenna, Gabby and Saylor. A fifth grandchild is due in September, 2006. Suzy's mother just turned 96. She dedicated her most recent book, Horrible Harry Takes the Cake to her.Suzy and Rufus enjoy attending UConn football and basketball games, and Suzy uses the UConn library as a reference for her writing facts. ; Title: Horrible Harry and the Holidaze | [
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5,977 | 11 | "Brett gives her trademark, exquisitely detailed art a Western flair..." (Publishers Weekly, starred review)With over thirty four million books in print, Jan Brett is one of the nation's foremost author illustrators of children's books. Jan lives in a seacoast town in Massachusetts, close to where she grew up. During the summer her family moves to a home in the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts.As a child, Jan Brett decided to be an illustrator and spent many hours reading and drawing. She says, "I remember the special quiet of rainy days when I felt that I could enter the pages of my beautiful picture books. Now I try to recreate that feeling of believing that the imaginary place I'm drawing really exists. The detail in my work helps to convince me, and I hope others as well, that such places might be real."As a student at the Boston Museum School, she spent hours in the Museum of Fine Arts. "It was overwhelming to see the room-size landscapes and towering stone sculptures, and then moments later to refocus on delicately embroidered kimonos and ancient porcelain," she says. "I'm delighted and surprised when fragments of these beautiful images come back to me in my painting."Travel is also a constant inspiration. Together with her husband, Joe Hearne, who is a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Jan visits many different countries where she researches the architecture and costumes that appear in her work. "From cave paintings to Norwegian sleighs, to Japanese gardens, I study the traditions of the many countries I visit and use them as a starting point for my children's books."; Title: Armadillo Rodeo | [
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5,978 | 1 | An action-packed tale of daring, determination, and dedication. (School Library Journal)Young readers will cheer the heroic dog on in this satisfying outdoor adventure. (Kirkus Reviews)Robert J. Blake was born and raised in New Jersey. As a boy he made "tons of drawings" and used up thousands of crayons. He says, "I even did a huge crayon mural on our hallway that was not artistically appreciated by my parents."Sharing one large room with two older brothers was "total chaos," he recalls. "We had lots of animals - dogs, ducks, hamsters, gerbils, guinea pigs, lizards, turtles, snakes, birds, fish, and even two flying squirrels. And, oh yes, a tarantula. I think my parents were afraid to come up to our room."Mr. Blake now resides in New Jersey with his wife and son. He works in his studio, a renovated barn on his property. Mr. Blake says, "I would like to paint in every state in the United States and in every country in the world.""I hope my books lend the reader a feeling, and emotion, a new point of view, a new way to look at something that they might not have experienced otherwise."Robert J. Blake was born and raised in New Jersey. As a boy he made "tons of drawings" and used up thousands of crayons. He says, "I even did a huge crayon mural on our hallway that was not artistically appreciated by my parents."Sharing one large room with two older brothers was "total chaos," he recalls. "We had lots of animals - dogs, ducks, hamsters, gerbils, guinea pigs, lizards, turtles, snakes, birds, fish, and even two flying squirrels. And, oh yes, a tarantula. I think my parents were afraid to come up to our room."Mr. Blake now resides in New Jersey with his wife and son. He works in his studio, a renovated barn on his property. Mr. Blake says, "I would like to paint in every state in the United States and in every country in the world.""I hope my books lend the reader a feeling, and emotion, a new point of view, a new way to look at something that they might not have experienced otherwise."; Title: Akiak: A Tale From the Iditarod | [
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5,979 | 1 | "Raglin's sturdy pen-and-ink pictures, which soar above their cartoon styling, are electric with fun." (Booklist, starred review)Bob Hartman lives in England.Tim Raglin lives in Independence, Kansas.; Title: The Wolf Who Cried Boy | [
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5,980 | 15 | An absorbing visual feast. (Kirkus Reviews)Another beautifully illustrated animal fantasy... children will savor the gorgeous, animal-packed spreads. (Booklist)Graeme Base is one of the world’s leading creators of picture books. Animalia received international acclaim when it was first published in 1986, and it has achieved classic status with worldwide sales of more than two million copies. Base’s most recent picture book, The Water Hole, an ingenious fusion of counting book, puzzle book, storybook and artbook, has been published in Australia, the USA, Canada, Italy, France, Denmark and the UK. Base lives in Melbourne with his artist wife Robyn and their three children.; Title: The Water Hole | [
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5,981 | 0 | 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, 1999 Shadows 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.Anna Divito lives in Unionville, New York.; Title: Why Do Snakes Hiss?: And Other Questions About Snakes, Lizards, and Turtles (Penguin Young Readers, Level 3) | [
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5,982 | 2 | "A great guide with practical advice and creative ideas for those who face a similar situation." ( Children's Literature )Craig M. Hatkoff is an American philanthropist and author from New York City. He is a co-founder of the Tribeca Film Institute and the Tribeca Film Festival. He is also the author of several bestselling childrens books, written with his young daughters, including the #1 New York Times bestselling bookOwen & Mzee: The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship, and Good-bye Tonsils!Marilyn Metshas been working as an illustrator, art director, and graphic designer for more than 25 years. She has illustrated and collaborated on numerous children's books, and her work has garnered many awards and nominations, including a nomination for the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbons Illustrator's Award in 1998 for her work onCameron and Me.Juliana Hatkoff is the daughter of philanthropist and author Craig Hatkoff and has written many childrens books with him, including Winters Tail, Leo the Snow Leopard, and Good-bye Tonsils!; Title: Good-bye Tonsils! (Picture Puffin Books) | [
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5,983 | 2 | Kadir Nelson is the acclaimed illustrator ofMoses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to FreedomandHenry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad, both Caldecott Honor Books. His other titles includeWe Are the Ship, a Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal winner and Coretta Scott King Award recipient, andHeart and Soul: The Story of America and African-Americans.; Title: The Village that Vanished | [
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5,984 | 2 | "Be prepared to laugh out loud." (Kirkus Reviews); Title: Timothy's Tales From Hilltop School | [
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5,985 | 2 | Alternately cocky, funny and maudlin, [this novel] gets its appeal from PipÆs unnervingly convincing teenage voice. (The Washington Post)First-time novelist Jaye Murray is a social worker who lives in New Rochelle, New York.; Title: Bottled Up | [
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5,986 | 0 | Enthralling . . . It is not often that a book can tell a breathtaking story, offer useful lessons on life, and paint a lively cultural backdrop. Alexander has done all that, and more. (Booklist, starred review)Born on January 30, 1924, in Philadelphia, storyteller Lloyd Alexander spent his childhood filling his imagination with fantasies about other lands and eras. For ten years of his writing career, Alexander wrote for adults, then changed gears and wrote fiction for young people. Alexander has received a Newbery Medal, a Newbery Honor Award, a National Book Award, and several IRA-CBC Childrens Choice Awards. He is also the author of many ALA Notable Childrens Books and School Library Journal Best Books of the Year.; Title: The Remarkable Journey of Prince Jen | [
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5,987 | 0 | Downright hilarious . . . Children will love this book. (School Library Journal, starred review)Taback puts a new house on the market and hits the nail on the head with this boisterous rollicking version. (Booklist, starred review)Simms Taback grew up in the Bronx and graduated from Cooper Union. He has worked as an art director and a graphic designer, and has taught at the School of Visual Arts and Syracause University. He has illustrated many children's books, including I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly (Viking), Spacy Riddles, Snakey Riddles, Buggy Riddles, and Fishy Riddles (all written by Katy Hall and lIsa Eisenberg, Dial).His work has won many awards, including the Caldecott Honor Award Medal for I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly and a New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book.A father of three and grandfather of three, Mr. Taback lives with his wife in Willow, New Yorkcopyright ? 2000 by Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers. All rights reserved.; Title: This Is the House That Jack Built | [
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5,988 | 13 | A spirited slice of Latin American culture. -- Booklist ; Title: Fiestas: A Year of Latin-American Songs and Celebrations | [
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5,989 | 0 | Full of history, danger, courage and raw survival, this compelling novel by acclaimed author Joseph Bruchac is certain to have [readers] on the edge of their seat, start to finish. (The Dallas Morning News)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 Winter People | [
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5,990 | 2 | Polacco again elegantly embroiders a patch from the fabric of her own life in a moving tale that demonstrates the importance of family legacies. (Publishers Weekly)Patricia Polacco(www.patriciapolacco.com) is the belovedNew York Timesbestselling author and illustrator of over fifty picture books. She visits as many as two hundred classrooms in a single year, not only speaking but listening to the hundreds of children that she meets. Grateful for what teachers have done for her, she is also a popular keynote speaker celebrating teachers everywhere. She lives in Union City, Michigan, where she enjoys speaking to the myriad children who come to visit her and the famous meteor, the object of one of Patricia's best-known stories.; Title: Betty Doll | [
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5,991 | 2 | Cinderella fans will find much to like in dePaolas original twist, infused with Mexican warmth and color. (Publishers Weekly)A true tour de force. (School Library Journal)Tomie dePaola was born in Meriden, Connecticut, in 1934, to a family of Irish and Italian background. His determination to create books for children led to a BFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, and an MFA from the California College of Arts & Crafts in Oakland, California.His particular way with color, line, detail, and design have earned him many of the most prestigious awards in his field, among them a Caldecott Honor Award forStrega Nona, the Smithsonian Medal, the Kerlan Award from the University of Minnesota for his "singular attainment in children's literature," the Catholic Library Association's Regina Medal for his "continued distinguished contribution," and the University of Southern Mississippi Medallion. He was also the 1990 United States nominee for the Hans Christian Andersen Medal for illustration, and received the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for lifetime contribution to children's literature in 2011.DePaola has published almost 200 children's books in15 different countries over the past 30 years.Among his most well-known titles are the Strega Nona series, 26 Fairmount Avenue, and The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush.DePaola lives in an interesting house in New Hampshire with his four dogs. His studio is in a large renovated 200-year-old barn.; Title: Adelita | [
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5,992 | 2 | Charming, yet by no means flawless, Agnes is a heroine nearly everyone can embrace. (Publishers Weekly, starred review)Kathleen O'Dell was named a Publishers Weekly Flying Start Author for her much-praised debut novel, Agnes Parker . . . Girl in Progress. She's also the author of the young-adult novel Bad Tickets. She lives with her husband and sons in Glendale, California.; Title: Agnes Parker . . . Girl in Progress | [
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5,993 | 2 | The fast-moving plot, sympathetic characters, and moments of humor keep the story humming along to its satisfying conclusion. (Booklist)Eva Ibbotson, born Maria Charlotte Michelle Wiesner (1925–2010), 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 novel Journey to the River Sea (Macmillan, 2001), she won the Smarties Prize in category 9–11 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.Kevin Hawkes is the author and illustrator of The Wicked Big Toddlah and The Wicked Big Toddlah Goes to New York, and is the illustrator of many well-loved books for young readers including Imagine That:! How Dr. Seuss Wrote the Cat in the Hat, Library Lion, My Little Sister Ate One Hare, My Little Sister Hugged an Ape, And to Think That We Thought That We'd Never Be Friends, The Road to Oz, Velma Gratch, and The Way Cool Butterfly. He lives in Gorham, Maine.; Title: Not Just a Witch | [
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5,994 | 2 | At once exuberant and poignant, Potters cunningly crafted first novel [is] a memorable debut. (Publishers Weekly, starred review)Ellen Potteris the author of more than ten books, including the bestselling Olivia Kidney series and the award-winning novelsSlob, The Kneebone Boy, andThe Humming Room. Her most recent series for boys,Otis Dooda: Strange but True, is a Cybils Award nominee. Learn more about Ellen at ellenpotter.com.Peter Reynolds is an author and illustrator of childrens books and the founder of the educational media company FableVision. The books he has illustrated include Huck Runs Amuck!, Olivia Kidney, and What to Do If an Elephant Stands on Your Foot. He lives in Dedham, Massachusetts.; Title: Olivia Kidney | [
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5,996 | 0 | "[The Time Warp Trio's] tongue-in-cheek humor, laced with understatement and wordplay, makes for laugh-out-loud reading."The Time Warp Trio?s tongue-in-cheek humor, laced with understatement and wordplay, makes for laugh-out-loud reading. ("School Library Journal," starred review)[The Time Warp Trios] tongue-in-cheek humor, laced with understatement and wordplay, makes for laugh-out-loud reading. ("School Library Journal," starred review)[The Time Warp Trioas] tongue-in-cheek humor, laced with understatement and wordplay, makes for laugh-out-loud reading. ("School Library Journal," starred review)[The Time Warp Trio s] tongue-in-cheek humor, laced with understatement and wordplay, makes for laugh-out-loud reading. ("School Library Journal", starred review)[The Time Warp Trio?s] tongue-in-cheek humor, laced with understatement and wordplay, makes for laugh-out-loud reading. ("School Library Journal", starred review)Multiple award-winning author Jon Scieszka grew up in Flint, Michigan, the second oldest and the nicest of six boys. Jon went to school at Culver Military Academy in Indiana where he was a Lieutenant; Albion College in Michigan where he studied to be a doctor; and Columbia University in New York, where he received an M.F.A. in fiction. He taught elementary school in New York for ten years in a variety of positions. He is the author of many books for children including theNew York TimesBest Illustrated BookThe Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales(illustrated by Lane Smith), the Caldecott Honor bookThe True Story of the Three Little Pigs(illustrated by Lane Smith), andMath Curse(illustrated by Lane Smith). In addition to his work as an author, Jon also runs a web-based literacy program called Guys Read that is designed to encourage boys, particularly reluctant readers, to get involved with books. In 2008, Jon was named the countrys first National Ambassador for Young Peoples Literature, a joint effort of the Library of Congress and the Childrens Book Council. During his two-year role as Ambassador, he acted as a spokesperson for childrens literature, speaking to groups of parents, teachers, and children to encourage the importance of reading. You can visit Jon online at www.jsworldwide.com.; Title: Summer Reading is Killing Me! (Time Warp Trio, No. 7) | [
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5,997 | 2 | Brett, known for her intricate designs and her engaging artwork, outdoes herself in this story set in modern-day China. (Booklist, starred review)The elegance of the illustrations gains a touch of whimsy as Brett hides some surprises in the distant mountains. (Publishers Weekly)With over thirty four million books in print, Jan Brett is one of the nation's foremost author illustrators of children's books. Jan lives in a seacoast town in Massachusetts, close to where she grew up. During the summer her family moves to a home in the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts. ; Title: Daisy Comes Home | [
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5,998 | 11 | This delightful twist on the classic song (with loads of fun sound effects) is a must for do-it-yourself children. (School Library Journal, starred review)A terrific idea measured and mitered to a tee, building a perfectly crafted book. (Kirkus Reviews)Lisa Shulman is the author of several picture books, includingThe Matzo Ball Boy and The Moon Might Be Milk. Shelives in Northern California with her husband, twin daughters, and the world's friendliest dog and cat.Ashley Wolff is the author and/or illustrator of over 55 childrens picture books includingI Love My Mommy Becauseand I Love My Daddy Because, Stella and Roy Go Camping, Me Baby, You Baby, The Wild Little Horse, Who Took the Cookies from the Cookie Jar?, I Call My Grandma Nanaand the belovedMiss Bindergarten Series.Her books have won numerous state and national awards.; Title: Old MacDonald Had a Woodshop | [
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5,999 | 2 | Kids will laugh even as they recognize the standoffs and the affection. -- Booklist; Title: Digby and Kate and the Beautiful Day (Easy-to-Read, Puffin) | [
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