Fri, June 3rd, 2011
Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops
Posted by: Cindy Dobrez and Lynn Rutan
Cindy: The folks at Twitter sent me an email telling me that they’d missed me. Aw, shucks. So I was guilted into logging in and making a little chirp and then I scanned some of the tweets that had piled up. This gem was found amongst Neil Gaiman’s offerings: Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops. [...]
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Wed, January 26th, 2011
Masters of Disaster by Gary Paulsen
Posted by: Cindy Dobrez and Lynn Rutan
Cindy: ”Men, I have a great idea.” When Henry launches into one of his great ideas, Riley starts taking scientific notes and Reed starts wondering how bad he will smell after the execution of this latest idea! One of my favorite Gary Paulsen books is How Angel Peterson Got His Name. This new offering, Masters of Disaster [...]
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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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