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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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Review: Coral Reefs by Jason Chin

| January 27, 2012 | 0 Comments
Review: Coral Reefs by Jason Chin

By Nina Schuyler, The Children’s Book Review Published: January 27, 2012 Coral Reefs By Jason Chin Reading level: Ages 5 and up Hardcover: 40 pages Publisher: Flash Point (October 25, 2011) Source: Publisher What to expect: Science, Nature, Biology, Marine life, Water

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Fancy Nancy Dress Up App

| January 20, 2012 | 0 Comments
Fancy Nancy Dress Up App

Make Nancy look extra fancy in this first-ever official Fancy Nancy game app!

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Everneath by Brodi Ashton

| January 19, 2012 | 0 Comments

Last spring, Nikki Beckett vanished, sucked into an underworld known as the Everneath. Now she’s returned—to her old life, her family, her boyfriend—before she’s banished back to the underworld . . . this time forever.

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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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Books for Courageous Girls

| December 23, 2011 | 1 Comment
Books for Courageous Girls

I’ve spent a bit of time searching for books with bold heroines and these are the ones I’ve found most entertaining and even a little humorous. Enjoy and please let me know which books you’ve found for the girls in your life.

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An Author, a Photographer & a Child’s Exciting Adventures

| December 22, 2011 | 0 Comments
An Author, a Photographer & a Child’s Exciting Adventures

Interview with the author and photographer behind Kiki & Coco in Paris—a child’s exciting adventures in the City of Light.

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Yona Zeldis McDonough: From Madame Alexander to Marilyn Monroe

| December 5, 2011
Yona Zeldis McDonough: From Madame Alexander to Marilyn Monroe

Yona Zeldis McDonough is the multi-talented author of many books for readers of all ages: fiction and non-fiction for adults and award-winning children’s books. She has most recently written the highly anticipated second book in her Doll Shop series, The Cats in the Doll Shop.

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Interview with Bestselling Author Annie Barrows

| November 14, 2011 | 0 Comments
Interview with Bestselling Author Annie Barrows

Annie Barrows is the enormously talented author of many acclaimed books including the Ivy + Bean series, The Magic Half, and The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society.

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Interview with Jacqueline Harvey the Mastermind behind Alice-Miranda

| November 6, 2011 | 2 Comments
Interview with Jacqueline Harvey the Mastermind behind Alice-Miranda

Jacqueline Harvey is the gifted author of the fabulous Alice-Miranda book series (Alice-Miranda at School was just released in the U.S. in April 2011), the Code Name series and an award-winning picture book called The Sound of the Sea.

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