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Award-Winning Illustrator Marla Frazee & the Best Interview Ever

| January 30, 2012 | 0 Comments
Award-Winning Illustrator Marla Frazee & the Best Interview Ever

Marla Frazee is the award-winning author and illustrator of many celebrated bestselling books including The Seven Silly Eaters, Stars, The Boss Baby, Roller Coaster, and the Clementine series. Her acclaimed books All the World and A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever received the Caldecott Honor Award.

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Do Graphic Novels Qualify as Books?

| January 11, 2012 | 1 Comment
Do Graphic Novels Qualify as Books?

Back in the days when we drank gallons of Tang and ran wild in the neighborhood like dogs without leashes, these books were called comic books. Now they’re graphic novels and have fancy covers and binding so they don’t fall apart.

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Review: Wildwood Chronicles by Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis

| December 30, 2011 | 0 Comments
Review: Wildwood Chronicles by Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis

The soul of the book for me is the uncommonly bold heroine Prue who risks life and limb for her brother Mac and even puts her own parents to shame with her fearlessness.

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Review: The Woods by Paul Hoppe

| December 29, 2011 | 0 Comments
Review: The Woods by Paul Hoppe

A good story finds some way to surprise. In Paul Hoppe’s The Woods, the narrator, a small boy, has lost his bunny and can’t go to sleep without it. In the first pleasing surprise, the boy doesn’t look in the obvious places.

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Super Diaper Baby 2, Behind the Blankies

| November 22, 2011 | 0 Comments

Reading Level: Ages 7-9 Add this book to your collection: Super Diaper Baby 2: The Invasion of the Potty Snatchers Have you read this book? Rate it: [ratings]

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Dark Eden by Patrick Carman

| October 30, 2011 | 0 Comments

If you had the chance to change one thing about yourself, what would you be willing to give up in exchange?

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Halloween Crafts for Kids: 4 Spooky Activity Books

| October 27, 2011 | 1 Comment
Halloween Crafts for Kids: 4 Spooky Activity Books

Doodlers, explorers, young scientists, and craft enthusiasts, unite!

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“Scary School” by Derek The Ghost

| October 1, 2011 | 0 Comments
“Scary School” by Derek The Ghost

HarperCollins is proud to present SCARY SCHOOL by Derek Taylor Kent, a brand new series of three books for middle-grade readers (ages 9-12).

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Dan Gutman Discusses his “Baseball Card Adventures”, “My Weird School”, and New “Genius Files” Series

| September 26, 2011 | 0 Comments

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It’s the First Day of School…Forever! by R.L. Stine

| September 23, 2011 | 0 Comments

Add this book to your collection: It’s the First Day of School…Forever! Have you read this book? Rate it: [ratings]

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