Books items on books for Children 224 Childrens Book 2012-02-06T21:23:56 bookie reader barry.david.adams@googlemail.com The Best Children's Books Daily Blog 2012-02-06T00:35:44

Tina Paul, Freelance Illustrator I was born in Perak, Malaysia in 1984. My love for art came at a very early age. As a child I was always drawing

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Charlotte's Web is about a sweet pig named Wilbur who avoids slaughter twice. The first time his savior is a girl named Fern. Later he's saved by Charlotte, a spider, and Templeton the Rat.

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Totally Bored Boris is a young boy bear with no particular interest at the moment. This book by Hans Wilhelm not only explains boredom but also shows how to beat it!

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A very polite bear can't find his hat, and he wants it back. In Jon Klassen's I Want My Hat Back, it seems like someone (wearing a hat!) has something to hide.

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Children's book reviewer Dimitrios Sokolakis is a Greek businessman with three daughters and, thus, an interest in children's books!

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In Me...Jane, Patrick McDonnell weaves images and words to make Jane Goodall's future in Gombe with the chimps seem practically pre-ordained. This touching book

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In Lane Smith's Grandpa Green, a boy introduces us to his great-grandfather by way of the grandfather's topiary garden and what the sculptures mean to him.

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Cindy Neuschwander's Mummy Math: A Geometry Adventure features two kids who get locked in a pyramid trying to help their scientist parents find an ancient pharaoh. Using Geometry

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Minli is a young girl intent on improving her family's fortune in Grace Lin's Where the Mountain Meets the Moon. Review. Searching for the Old Man of the Moon

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When Brittany Geragotelis was writing her YA novel Life's a Witch, she posted it chapter by chapter on Wattpad, an online community for sharing writing and getting feedback from readers. Gradually, she gained 13 million fans. But despite that and an active blog, YouTube presence, and proving her chops as editor of American Cheerleader magazine, [...]

255f0b4cc9bb6b412cbdd3626024c098 The Best Children's Books Daily Blog 2012-01-29T23:45:10

Chris Raschka's A Ball for Daisy is a wordless picture book telling the story of a dog whose prize red ball bursts. Kids will relate to both the joy and the sense of loss

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CARNIVAL OF CHILDREN'S LITERATURE is now up at Delightful Children's Books: January Carnival of Children?s Literature!

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You know it's essential these days that authors market their books, and social media is often the most cost-effective way of doing that. Now, Pay with a Tweet lets you utilize the value of your readers' social networks to spread the word about your new books. You create a button for your website or blog  [...]

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KD Novelties We offer a large selection of personalized books, personalized music and personalized photo DVDs where your child is the star of all of

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The new Caldecott Medal and Honor books were announced today. We haven't reviewed them YET, but we have the list! Order them from your library before everyone else does!

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Back in the early 1990s I worked part-time at a book package called Parachute Press, which was creating a new horror series called Goosebumps. The series' author, R.L. Stine, had begun his career as a humor writer, then found a wider audience with his YA horror series Fear Street. But no one had ever done [...]

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Alan's Visions My style is fairytale/fantasy, old school style. I work in both colour - watercolour and acrylic - and pen and ink, as well as pastel

19554211e943fb291164628b0393cde9 The Best Children's Books Daily Blog 2012-01-21T21:35:52

Hiding in the library from bullies, Nita Callahan happens on the self-help book, So You Want to Be a Wizard. Taking the Wizard's Oath, she soon finds herself on a list of local wizards.

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A family of bullies in search of booty descends on the town church in Barbara Robinson's The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

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Those of you who are Fightin' Bookworms (members of our CBI Clubhouse online community) know that in the two years since we've launched the site, we've amassed a huge amount of information on writing and publishing children's books. So much information, in fact, that it was getting unwieldy. So Jon's spent the last two months [...]

0c0b6b9d549967fe1ff86ccc8bdeb7bb The Best Children's Books Daily Blog 2012-01-17T22:56:56

This story by Tony and Brooklynn Langston is entitled The Dogs Don't Bite in Heaven. A father's story about what it's like in heaven

38d1627c9ce3f4b65a95c12092536842 The Best Children's Books Daily Blog 2012-01-16T18:51:21

Edward Gorey gives his visual spin on Hilaire Belloc's century-old Cautionary Tales for Children. Naughty kids

95ce34f29871bfa2859853994d576acb Write4Kids! 2012-01-12T09:06:21

Seth Godin, easily the smartest man in publishing today, has once again nailed it with his post Reading Isn't Dead, But It's Changing on his Domino Project blog. His point (and he's talking primarily of young adult books, but this really applies to all ages) is that the job of authors is to write what [...]

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Just Another Ordinary Day might seem a rather boring story...until the pictures tell you who the characters really are!

effd895a5a3ca481a969e2ec070d3a86 Write4Kids! 2012-01-10T09:56:57

When I critique middle grade and young adult fantasy manuscripts, I often find myself jotting notes like "Why is this character the one called to this adventure?" and "What's at stake here of monumental consequence?" A cornerstone of successful fantasy is seemingly ordinary teen and tween protagonists who save the world. Without that, you're just [...]

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