Thanks to everyone who shared and shopped selections from our 2020 Recommended Picture Books List. For those wondering what books to give the older kids on your list… Check out these must-read 2020 books for Middle Grade / Young Adult Yes, there are many other titles out there. (Feel free to add them in the… Read more »
It’s a Book Baby Shower and YOU’RE invited! Today we’re celebrating this beautiful debut novel in verse: ALONE by Megan E. Freeman, entering into the world on January 12th, 2021. Proud publishing family: Aladdin / Simon & Schuster (see Q4) I’d say it’s a perfect excuse to add a new post to my series: What… Read more »
It’s PARTY time, friends. Gretchen McLellan’s latest picture book, NO PARTY POOPERS! (Little Bee Books / Illus. Lucy Semple) deserves a celebration and EVERYONE’S invited! “In line with [McLellan’s]…wordplay, Semple loads the bright, simply drawn illustrations with partying animals amid scenes of either imagined disaster or, at the end, festive conviviality… The paws-itive point here: …regarding… Read more »
Attention young writers with PUBLISHING DREAMS! This post is for you: 5 Questions with 22 year old #YA author, Elizabeth Tammi. Tammi’s novel, OUTRUN THE WIND, released in 2018 with Flux —when she was twenty years old! “What grew from two girls who could barely stand to talk to each other into a classic story… Read more »
In the intro of my guest teen blogger’s last post, the book review of Red Hood by Elana K. Arnold, she mentioned building a website for teens stuck in quarantine. Guess what? Within days of that review going up, QuaranTEEN successfully launched! After checking out what they had created, I invited Tori to share it… Read more »
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