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Hey, This Sounds Familiar!

One of our editors at Lerner blogged about Don and me and our Follow That Food Chain series today over on the Lerner Publishing blog. Here’s the link. I’ll be posting there in the next couple weeks about the story behind our series. I was especially exicted to see the photo of us signing our books. [...]


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Heading to ALA

Yes, I am! In fact, I’m presenting there. And signing books (Lerner booth, Sunday 12:15). Come see me! Here’s the scoop on the presentation: Nonfiction Book Blast! Sunday, July 12, 2009 Convention Center Room W181 10:30 am to 12:00 pm ALA Annual Conference, Chicago wiki at http://nfbookblast.pbworks.com/ Track: Children & Young Adults; Literature & Collection [...]


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WARNING: Cute Baby Animal Video

In our Follow That Food Chain: a Mangove Forest book, we wrote about clouded leopards. They are so secretive that not much is known about them. They are also very much in danger of going extinct before we can even learn about them. But now two clouded leopard babies have been born at the Smithsonian’s [...]


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Out and About

Working full time in a school means it’s hard to visit other schools and events as an author. At least during the school year. But I’ve squeezed in a couple this spring.   Here I am at the WEMTA Authors Fair in Madison, Wisconsin. (That’s Kashmira Sheth next to me.) I attended as a media specialist, but [...]


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Write by Night

Eek! There’s an interview with Don and me about our Last Night for Dinner series in our local arts/entertainment newspaper, Volume One. It’s out now so you can pick it up when you’re out and about. Or go read it here. (But only if you promise to promptly erase any memory of what I look like in [...]


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Follow That Bookmark

So, our Follow that Food Chain books arrived a few weeks ago! And after two and a half years, we were thrilled to see our manuscripts in book form. We did a family happy dance and our kids even asked us to sign their copies. But then we get a mystery box today. Inside it: [...]


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