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    LaRue Across America: Postcards From the Vacation | Book Spotlight

    Bianca SchulzeBy Bianca Schulze2 Mins Read Ages 4-8 Animal Books Picture Books
    LaRue Across America: Postcards From the Vacation | Book Spotlight
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    Book Spotlight: LaRue Across America: Postcards From the Vacation
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    LaRue Across America

    LaRue Across America: Postcards From the Vacation

    Written by Mark Teague

    Ages: 4-8 | 40 Pages

    Publisher: Scholastic | ISBN-13: 978-0545342360

    What to expect: Travel, Adventure, Dogs, Friendship

    Ike’s plan for a peaceful cruise with Mrs. LaRue are thwarted when their neighbor, Mrs. Hibbins, falls suddenly ill. Mrs. LaRue suggests that she and Ike care for her cats while Mrs. Hibbins is in the hospital, inviting them along on the cruise. But cats aren’t allowed, and Mrs. LaRue decides to take them all on a week’s vacation of road-tripping. Ike is beside himself and quickly takes up his pen to tell us why!

    Join award-winner Mark Teague on this romping road trip across America. Readers can follow along on the maps of the U.S. that span the endpapers. Teague drives us to the story’s satisfying conclusion, and we are left with one profound question: Can cats and dogs really be friends?

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    About the Author

    Mark Teague is an award-winning children’s book author and illustrator whose books include DEAR MRS. LARUE: LETTERS FROM OBEDIENCE SCHOOL, the 2002 Book Sense Illustrated Book of the Year; DETECTIVE LARUE: LETTERS FROM THE INVESTIGATION; LARUE FOR MAYOR: LETTERS FROM THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL; FUNNY FARM; and PIGSTY. He is also the illustrator of the NEW YORK TIMES bestselling How Do Dinosaurs series by Jane Yolen. Mark lives in Hudson Valley, New York, with his wife and daughters.

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    Bianca Schulze is the founder of The Children’s Book Review. She is a reader, reviewer, mother and children’s book lover. She also has a decade’s worth of experience working with children in the great outdoors. Combined with her love of books and experience as a children’s specialist bookseller, the goal is to share her passion for children’s literature to grow readers. Born and raised in Sydney, Australia, she now lives with her husband and three children near Boulder, Colorado.

    41 Comments

    1. Anne on March 15, 2011 5:20 pm

      Love books in a little different format – postcards sound like a lot of fun!

      Reply
    2. Karen on March 15, 2011 5:39 pm

      I would love to win this for my kids….thanks for the chance!

      Reply
    3. Staci A on March 15, 2011 6:47 pm

      We love the other titles from Mark Teague! We’d love to read this one too!

      Reply
    4. Linda Kish on March 15, 2011 8:46 pm

      This would be good for my great niece and nephew.

      lkish77123 at gmail dot com

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    5. Dominque on March 16, 2011 6:51 am

      My one year old and two year old love story time at night this would be a good add! We would love to win this book for our collection!

      Reply
    6. Christine W on March 16, 2011 7:13 am

      I know that my grandson and I would enjoy reading about LaRue through the postcard format.

      Thank you,

      Christine W
      [email protected]

      Reply
    7. Christine W on March 16, 2011 7:24 am

      I tweeted about this giveaway http://twitter.com/#!/ossmcalc/status/48026211884081152

      Thank you,

      Christine W
      [email protected]

      Reply
    8. Christine W on March 16, 2011 7:33 am

      I tweeted about this giveaway http://twitter.com/#!/ossmcalc/status/48028765296672768

      Thank you,

      Christine W
      [email protected]

      Reply
    9. Amber Beckler on March 16, 2011 7:42 am

      I would love to win this so that I can read it to my grandchildren. The love to read about dogs. LaRue is so cute !

      Reply
    10. Cherie J on March 16, 2011 7:51 am

      I would love to win this for my kids. This would be a great book for my son to read for his summer reading program. Thanks for the chance to win a copy.

      Reply
    11. Line on March 16, 2011 8:00 am

      I would love to win this book! Please enter me in the giveaway!

      Reply
    12. Tara Lazar on March 16, 2011 8:08 am

      We love LaRue and Mark Teague in our house! He’s even a magnet on our fridge (LaRue, not Mark!) LOL. Thanks for the opportunity to win!

      Reply
    13. Sheyla on March 16, 2011 8:33 am

      Oh how I love Mark Teague books, I would love to win this, so please enter NLBA in the drawing.

      Blessings,

      Reply
    14. Susan Kennedy on March 16, 2011 9:53 am

      I have several other postcard books. Sounds like a great one to add to the stack to encourage young writers.

      Reply
    15. Marie on March 16, 2011 10:11 am

      My kids would love this — interactive books are always so much fun!

      Reply
    16. Mary Jane Ransom on March 16, 2011 11:57 am

      Children in K-5 are very attracted to the Mark Teague books.

      Reply
    17. Kathy on March 17, 2011 10:02 am

      I would love to win this for my granddaughter. She is crazy about dogs and would love LaRue.

      Reply
    18. Stephanie M on March 17, 2011 2:06 pm

      I would love to win this for my classroom. Thanks for the giveaway.

      smccar1 at hotmail dot com

      Reply
    19. Isabelle on March 18, 2011 2:43 pm

      Nice book!

      Reply
    20. mrsshukra on March 18, 2011 6:50 pm

      Please count me in!

      Reply
    21. mrsshukra on March 18, 2011 6:52 pm

      Twitter follower and tweeted: https://twitter.com/#!/mrsshukra/status/48924706199449600

      Reply
    22. Betsy on March 23, 2011 4:44 pm

      Good looking book.

      Reply
    23. Kumba on March 25, 2011 2:46 pm

      Would love to win this!

      Reply
    24. Simone on March 26, 2011 5:02 pm

      We love Mrs. Larue!!!

      Reply
    25. Yvonne on March 31, 2011 6:35 am

      I would love to share this with my library pre-readers story groups.

      Reply
    26. Wehaf on April 3, 2011 9:36 am

      This looks so adorable!

      Reply
    27. apple blossom on April 7, 2011 3:14 pm

      sounds like a cute book please include me thanks

      ABreading4fun [at] gmail [dot] com

      Reply
    28. Joanna Boudreax on April 7, 2011 7:54 pm

      Thank you for a chance to win!

      Reply
    29. Marci J on April 8, 2011 4:59 am

      looks great!

      Reply
    30. Robyn on April 8, 2011 3:22 pm

      My Great Pyrenees and I are involved with a Children Reading to Dogs Program and our readers would love LaRue Across America.

      Reply
    31. Beth Thompson on April 8, 2011 7:28 pm

      Mark Teague has found as delightful an animal series as Eileen Cronin’s Farmer Brown’s farm animals. I’m looking forward to being able to reading this book to my 1st and 2nd grade students who are “reading around America” this year as they also learn library skills. What a delight to have a chance to win a copy!

      Reply
    32. Anagha on April 9, 2011 9:09 pm

      I have a little sister who would totally love this!

      Reply
    33. Mozi Esmes Mom on April 11, 2011 6:21 am

      Would love this for my daughter!

      janemaritz at yahoo dot com

      Reply
    34. Katie on April 11, 2011 7:17 pm

      Would love to win this – the La Rue books are great!

      Reply
    35. amber on April 12, 2011 4:33 pm

      I love these books!! I’d love to win this!

      Reply
    36. Nancye Davis on April 12, 2011 8:38 pm

      My daughter is a booklover and would absolutely LOVE this book! She also LOVES anything to do with dogs. Thanks for the chance!

      nancyecdavis AT bellsouth DOT net

      Reply
    37. Nancye Davis on April 12, 2011 8:39 pm

      I follow you on Twitter
      @NancyeDavis

      nancyecdavis AT bellsouth DOT net

      Reply
    38. Nancye Davis on April 12, 2011 8:40 pm

      Tweet! Tweet!
      @NancyeDavis

      http://twitter.com/#!/NancyeDavis/status/58010704602595328

      nancyecdavis AT bellsouth DOT net

      Reply
    39. Bianca Schulze on April 13, 2011 9:22 am

      The two winners of the LaRue giveaway are (very lucky):

      Staci A: We love the other titles from Mark Teague! We’d love to read this one too!

      Christine W: I tweeted about this giveaway

      Reply
    40. Ruth Jozwiak on April 13, 2011 6:02 pm

      We’d like LaRue to send us his postcards

      Reply
      • Bianca Schulze on April 13, 2011 7:27 pm

        Me too!

        Reply
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