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Oct.10.2012
Host Youngjoo Ahn and Caie Kelley interview Ellen Hopkins, the #1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning author of eight young adult novels, including Crank, Glass, Fallout, and Perfect, as well as the adult novel Triangles. Hopkins’ second adult novel Collateral will be published in November...
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Oct.02.2012
I shared previously about the book that Anita Silvey edited, Everything I Need to Know I Learned from a Children’s book, and also shared a video of her discussing the book. Toward the end of the video, she shares a story from a conference that took place in Texas. An 11-year-old girl walked up to...
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Oct.01.2012
If anniversary is the right way to describe this current week. It can be looked at both ways, I suppose. It is great to fight against any attempt to ban books. It is disheartening to still have to do this in this day and age. But they say things don't change all that much, and there will always be...
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Sep.26.2012
I love children’s books and lately amongst the various other reading that I am nibbling away at, I am also weaving in several children’s picture books and books about children’s books.
One of the books I am currently reading is Everything I Need to Know I Learned from A Children’s Book: Life...
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Sep.25.2012
First of all, this is very personal. You're you in a moment in time with things in you that you can't discover without the right book's help, so picking the right book matters a great deal.
There's only one way to pick the wrong book--have someone whose taste you...
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Sep.24.2012
Oh, the evil, dark Red Room. How I've learned to mistrust its seductive lure.
Red Room is the best of writing and the worse of writing. It's a vicious time suck.
See, it goes like this. I post something. Then I click on connections to see what my neighbors have written. Then I see...
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Sep.18.2012
At last I can confess. My name is Raissa. I'm 36 years old and I'm a YA addict. But I'm in good company. I just read a survey that showed 55% of US adults 30-44 years old purchase YA for themselves. Not for their children, other relatives or students. They read it for their own pleasure.
There are...
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Sep.18.2012
Read any lately? Sure you have. I'm currently reading Murder on the Rocks, by Karen MacInerny, and I've ordered a new memoir about Julia Child, called, Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child. Looking forward to that, and I also want to read Ian McEwan's new novel, Sweet Tooth. I'm a sucker for...
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Sep.17.2012
(Originally posted at jamespatterson.com.)
James is on a mission to turn kids all across the nation into passionate, literate, and inspired readers. If you're looking for tips on how to excite your kids about books, start here, and check back for a new one each week.
DON'T LEAVE THE BURDEN...
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Sep.09.2012
"Smuggled words" is the theme of this afternoon's poetry reading in Hoboken, near Antwerp. Eight poets: Bart Stouten, Peter Holvoet-Hanssen, Richard Foqué, Peter Theunynck, Lebuin D'Haese, Roger Nupie, myself, Frank De Vos (the organizer) and Michaël Van Den Bril will each read for around seven...
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