children's books | children's books
May.19.2010
My guest post this week,
So You Killed Off the Parents In Your YA/Middle Grade Book? C’mon, You Know You Did It. Eight Ways the Law Affects Teen and Children’s Stories
talks about why you need the law even when writing children's and teen books. Because the parents are so often absent due...
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May.05.2010
By Adele Griffin and Lisa Brown
"... if you love children's literature, you cannot kill animals just because they taste good on a bun. There's more than a bit of hypocrisy involved in urging children to empathize with pandas and polar bears and bunnies and ducks in books and at a distance and...
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Apr.18.2010
It was the first book that was all mine and I slept with it under my pillow. All the other books in the house belonged to Mom or were shared with my brother and sister, neither of whom cared anything about reading or books, not then, not when I was ten and they were eight and five. My sister was...
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Apr.16.2010
My favorite anecdote from Beverly Cleary's autobiography A Girl from Yamhill is about the time a teacher asked her grade school class to write about a favorite book character. She had so many beloved characters that she couldn't choose just one and ended up writing a story where all her favorite...
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Apr.15.2010
Two Remarks on Children’s Books:
1. I have been collecting, enjoying and at times studying, children’s books all my life. Well, from age three, thanks to my mother who taught me to read. I have 3000 of them (now - I gave about 900 to the library before we left Los Angeles). I love them with a...
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Apr.14.2010
Four years ago, when I was single, I decided once and for all to prove that online dating would never work, that I'd never find a man I could love and trust. It did not appear possible to find an honest, good-quality guy that way. No way. I'd tried it before, played at it and went through the...
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Apr.14.2010
If you'll be in the Orlando/Celebration, Florida area the weekend of April 24, be sure to swing by the Great American Pie Festival at Lakeside Park. I'll be there, reading my children's book An Apple Pie For Dinner (with a little help from my kiddo-friends in the audience), at 5 pm on Saturday...
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Apr.14.2010
My favorite children's book? Well that's an impossible question. Children's books are often grouped en masse into their own genre, shoving picture books, early readers, middle grade novels and teen fiction willy-nilly into a great big undifferentiated pile. I mean, really, how does one...
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Apr.14.2010
Wow! My favorite children's book? How is it possble to pick one book? As a former School Library Media Specialtist, I can't pick just one, so even though it's cheating, here is a list fo some of my favorites. A list of *all* my favorites would take too long<g>.
Young Adult
The Harry Potter...
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Apr.14.2010
I love reading. In fact, reading is one of the distractions that gets in the way of my writing. When I have a free moment, I’m often torn between the need to write – creating the raw product, and my love of reading – consuming the finished product. As a little girl, I loved trips to the library. I...
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