Today on the mixed-up files I’ve posted an interview with Kami Kinard. Check it out and enter to win a copy of her new book – The Boy Problem – a great middle grade book!
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Writing Process Blog Tour
Jennifer Ellis, author of A Pair of Docks (a clever time travel novel – highly recommended), and the newly released In the Shadow of the Mosquito Constellation just tagged me in a series of blog posts about the writing process. Here’s how My Writing Process Blog Tour works: once tagged, you answer four questions about the writing process […]
Minne & Moo: Hooves of Fire
Title: Minnie & Moo: Hooves of Fire Author and Illustrator: Denys Cazet Publisher: Creston Books Reviewer: Yolanda Ridge ISBN: 987-1-939547-08-8 Minnie & Moo, the bovine stars of numerous picture books, finally return to the 9 to 11 year-old market; more than ten years after their first chapter book, Seven Wonders of the World, was published by Atheneum. In […]
Happy Earth Day!
Plastic, Ahoy!
My friend, Patricia Newman, has a new book out that is perfect for Earth Day! Check out my review on the Authors for Earth Day facebook page. Plastic, Ahoy! is aimed at students in grades 4-8. But it’s also an interesting and important read for anyone who uses plastic – in other words, […]