Author: Anushka Ravishankar Illustrator: Kanyika Kini Publisher: Tundra Books 2012 I really love this book! The author has found a simple, fun and comical way to warn us about the ridiculousness and yes, the dangers of gossip. This book is a funny twist of broken telephone and village gossip gone funny. When Pandurang, the village [...]
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Author: Mark Pett and Gary Rubinstein Illustrator: Mark Pett Publisher: Sourcebooks Inc. 2011 What a perfectly perfect book, for all the wannabe perfectionists out there. This book quite perfectly illustrates and shows us that… EVERYBODY MAKES MISTAKES. Ahhhhh…how liberating! Yes, indeed! With each perfect day that went by, Beatrice Bottomwell (aka “The Girl Who Never [...]
Author: Amy Reichert Illustrator: Alexandra Boiger Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2012 This book is adorable! Told in first person, Violet takes us through a day at her mom’s office, and gives us many helpful tips to survive the day…such as, how to help the boss with his presentation, what to expect from the [...]
Author: Rogé Illustrator: Rogé Publisher: Tundra Books 2012 For some reason, dog books never seem to get old…This is a deliciously sweet book about Roger, the entrepreneurial canine who tries to fill a void in his life. His business successes enable him to embark upon a world- wide journey of self-discovery, only to realize that [...]
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Self-publishing enhanced eBooks gets easier every day. One new advance is the Vook publishing platform, a comprehensive, cloud-based tool that allows authors and publishers to turn any document into a professionally styled eBook, complete with embedded images, videos and other multimedia. Vook's platform then makes it easy to distribute the finished e-book to Amazon, iBooks [...]"Write to express, not to impress." These six words are the backbone of mystery writer Bernadette Pajer's advice for writers in a recent blog post. It's brilliant in its simplicity, and it works. Writing for young adults? Write to express, not to impress. Otherwise you'll come off as an out-of-touch adult trying to sound cool. [...]According to book industry experts, the hottest trend today is the young adult and children's market. Just look at the popularity of the Twilight series and the more recent Hunger Games trilogy. As a parent or adult, you have a wealth of experiences on which to draw making the children's book market the perfect place [...]
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