Fri, September 25th, 2009
Sunny Boy!: The Life and Times of a Tortoise by Candace Fleming
Posted by: Cindy Dobrez and Lynn Rutan
Lynn: I have a woeful gap in my picture book knowledge, having spent most of my working years focusing on YA literature. Having grandsons and writing this blog is helping me to fill in the blanks and one of many delightful surprises is how many great YA authors also write wonderful picture books. In my [...]
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Tue, May 12th, 2009
What’s on YOUR Shelf of Shame?
Posted by: Cindy Dobrez and Lynn Rutan
Cindy: Okay, I admitted to not having read Nancy Werlin’s Edgar Adward-winning, multiple-starred-review novel Killer’s Cousin until just recently. What childrens or YA title is on your “shelf of shame?” Some of us spent waaaay too much time reading Nancy Drew books as a teen and missed out on some classics. A few years ago [...]
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Tue, May 5th, 2009
Killer’s Cousin by Nancy Werlin
Posted by: Cindy Dobrez and Lynn Rutan
Lynn: Any other re-readers out there? I confess to being a major re-reader most of my life. It is harder to do these days but I still love to revisit old favorites. Sometimes it can be disappointing but I am happy to say that I recently reread two Nancy Werlin mysteries and they are just [...]
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