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Book Review Wednesday: Soap, Soap, Soap
Shop Indie Bookstores Dulemba, Elizabeth O. Soap, soap, soap = Jabón, jabón, jabón. McHenry, IL: Raven Tree Press, 2009. Normal 0 0 1 349 1994 16 3 2448 11.1282 0 0 0 Soap, Soap, Soap, tells the...
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Book Review Wednesday: Picture Book Biographies Part 1
Thanks to those of you who have been nudging me to post on my blog again. Since there have been NO Book Review Wednesday’s for about a month, it is high time I get back to work. Get ready for a quick...
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Book Review Wednesday: Picture Book Biographies 2
This is the second installment of a book review and discussion of picture book biographies. The first one is here, if you’d like to read it or I can just catch you up. Because PB biographies are so...
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Book Review Wednesday: Soup!
Picture book month continues here at Book Review Wednesday, but first a word from our sponsors… Now back to our regularly scheduled program. When the temperatures cool it is a good idea to pull out the...
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Book Review Wednesday: One Cool Friend- One Cool Contest
Shop Indie BookstoresOne Cool Friend by Toni Buzzeo, Illustrations by David Small Last August, I was privileged to attend the LA SCBWI conference. Privileged because I was in the company of my idols:...
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Book Review Wednesday: Mooshka, A Quilt Story
Mooshka. Say it aloud. Mooshka. In that one word Julie Paschkis has captured a hug, and a kiss, and the comfort of a sibling’s love. Mooshka is the name of the unusual quilt who belongs to Karla, a...
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Book Review Wednesday: At the bookfair.
Well friends, Creative Chaos finally broke the 100 views mark on Monday’s post, The Children’s Book Industry, a gendered affair. Feel free to keep commenting there about your thoughts and ideas...
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Book Review Wednesday: Duck Sock Hop
There’s nothing I like better than getting a new book in the mail. Yesterday, I found this… Shop Indie Bookstores DUCK SOCK HOP Dial Books For Young Readers (2012) By: Jane Kohuth Illu: Jane Porter I...
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Book Review Wednesday: She Loved Baseball
Shop Indie Bookstores The picture book biography is a great way to get kids interested in history. (Previous reviews of PB Biographies here and here.) A good PB biography author needs a hook– a place...
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Member Monday: So others may read
Book worship is inherent in all of the posts here at Creative Chaos. The art and craft of the book as object is certainly part of this but more– it is about the unlimited possibilities and pleasure of...
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Muslim Author’s Book Named Among ‘100 Greatest Children’s Books’ of the Last...
I was so happy to see this wonderful news that I want to share it with all of you. Rukhsana Khan’s book BIG RED LOLLIPOP is on the New York Public Library’s Children’s Books 2012: 100 Titles for...
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Drawing again!
I’m so excited to be at my drawing table again. My most recent revision of my YA manuscript is safely with my agent, and I’m working on a new dummy for a picture book that she’s interested in. Here’s...
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2014 BOOKLIST ROUNDUP
This time of year I get a lot of requests for great gift suggestions for children’s and Young Adult books. The thing is, this year has been incredibly busy. My reading has included more nonfiction,...
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Happy Multicultural Children’s Book Day! #readyourworld Book Reviews
Happy Multicultural Children’s Book Day! Children’s reading and play advocates Valarie Budayr from Jump Into a Book and Mia Wenjen from Pragmatic Mom teamed up in late 2013 to create an ambitious (and...
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