On this particular day, we had settled in with Miss Rumphius, magnificently written and illustrated by the late Barbara Cooney.
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Maggie Stiefvater is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the novels SHIVER, LINGER, and FOREVER. Her novel THE SCORPIO RACES was named a Michael L. Printz Honor Book by the American Library Association, while Publishers Weekly selected Maggie’s THE RAVEN BOYS as a Best Book of the Year. She is also the author of LAMENT and BALLAD.
There are many outstanding books coming out in 2014 that I’ve added to my To-Be-Read List. A lot of the books that I want to read are from Debut Authors and several New-to-Me authors, but most of the books I am featuring today are by authors whose previous books left a lasting impression on me that I can’t wait to get my hands on their next title.
As a child, Angela Dominguez loved reading books and making a mess creating pictures. She’s delighted to still be doing both professionally.
POPCORN, the perfect snack, but maybe TOO perfect if you pop TOO much! See what happens next in this fully illustrated popcorn adventure for children ages 3 – 8!
Everyone’s taste is different, of course, but my favorite fairy tales are ones that are irreducibly strange. When I was drafting my new novel, The Glass Casket, I kept thinking back to the fairy tales that appealed to me as a child. They were often lesser-known Grimm tales, the ones that had not been sanitized—their strangeness muted by a series of cheerful bowdlerizations.
I honestly thought it’d take about a year to write a full-length novel, I’d sell it, have money in the bank, and be off and running. The truth was that it took seven and a half years to sell my first book—a YA novel, A BLUE SO DARK. I drafted THE JUNCTION OF SUNSHINE AND LUCKY in ’05, at the end of a make-or-break period.
Reading is essential to a child’s development in today’s world and helps spawn the greatest of talents—imagination and creativity.
A child and his or her father go out at night, in the deep winter woods near their farm, to see if they can spot any owls. John Shoenherr’s wintery, realistic illustrations are so exquisitely moonlit and lovely, and the story is so profoundly quiet and reverent, that a deep feeling of peace has always descended over us each of the million times we’ve read it.
If you know Sylvester and the Magic Pebble or The Amazing Bone, then you’re already familiar with William Steig’s delightfully watery illustrations and refreshingly literate text. This book is no exception, and it is a joy in every way.