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NEW VOICES: OPENING THE BOOK WITH…CHRISTOPHER HEALY
Meet Christopher Healy, author of the uproariously funny THE HERO’S GUIDE TO SAVING YOUR KINGDOM (read an excerpt here!). In case you missed yesterday’s post about the book, be sure to check it out for some words from Christopher’s editor, Jordan Brown, along with a downloadable activity for the book. And now, let’s Open the [...]
NEW VOICES, A WORD FROM THE EDITOR: THE HERO’S GUIDE TO SAVING YOUR KINGDOM
Now that May is here, it’s officially summer, right? Well, it’s at least right around the corner, and you know what that means . . . a new round of New Voices! We’re excited to start off the summer leg of our program with a spotlight on debut author Christopher Healy. His book THE HERO’S [...]
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TAKING A TRIP TO TLA 2012
Inquiring minds want to know… are you going to the Texas Library Association annual conference next week? We’re packing our bags (with warm-weather clothes! hello 80 degrees!) for Houston and we honestly couldn’t be more excited. We LOVE Texas and we love this conference– and this year we’re bringing some super cool folks with us. [...]
SUMMER OF THE GYPSY MOTHS
We’re very excited about Sara Pennypacker’s fantastic new middle-grade novel coming this month, SUMMER OF THE GYPSY MOTHS. The journals are loving it, too: “Deliciously intense and entertaining. . . . A suspenseful, surprising novel of friendship and family.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Pennypacker skillfully meshes the poignant and the comedic [in this] richly layered tale [...]
Z IS FOR MOOSE
A is for Apple. B is for Ball. C is for Cat. D is for Moose. Hey, wait a second… that’s not right! Poor Moose has to wait for M, but he’s too excited. When will it be his turn? Is it his turn yet? How about now? Will it EVER be his turn? And [...]
TIGER LILY AND “TRUE LOVE”
We are all utterly captivated by TIGER LILY, an incredibly imaginative and textured story– a retelling of Peter Pan, but centered around that very captivating and really quite mysterious creature, Tiger Lily. Jodi Lynn Anderson, national bestselling author of Peaches, agreed to tell us a little more about how and why she was able to [...]
Dìa! TODAY AND EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR
ALSC is now the national center for El dìa de los niños/El dìa de los libros (Dìa, for short). Dìa’s vision is to spread “bookjoy” every day by linking children from all languages and cultures with books and celebrating together across the country on April 30th. The Dìa mission is for every community to celebrate, [...]
CLASS ACTS
We’re doing something really fun and new this coming Fall (we know, it’s just barely getting nice out and here we are, already fast-forwarding…) to get our tween authors out in schools and bookstores: it’s called Class Acts, and terrific author duos are going out on the road to compete (with the help of the [...]
PRETTY CROOKED, PRETTY AWESOME GUEST POST
Today we have a guest post from Elisa Ludwig, author of PRETTY CROOKED, which goes on sale tomorrow! PRETTY CROOKED is the first in a three-book series, a modern day “Robin Hood,” featuring loveable and smart teenage heroine Willa, who steals from her privileged friends, gives gifts to the disenfranchised students at her prep school, [...]
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