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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It's 1991 in the small town of Leeville, Texas. High school graduation is finally within sight for Olivia Miller. Her friends know exactly what they're good at and what they want to do next, but Olivia's not so sure of herself. She's a shoe-in for the senior award "Most Likely to Never Figure Out What They Want To Do With Their Life". </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Cameron is the hot new guy at school, and he's a fabulous distraction for Olivia as she stresses over what she should do with her life after high school. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"His smile made my heart flutter, and for a moment I couldn't think of what to say or do. He had adorable dimples, and his teeth were straight and white behind full, kissable lips." </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">She's college-bound, that's non-negotiable, but she's clueless about the where, how, and what of it all. She's dealing with a critical and controlling father with high expectations. Can she trust him to pay for college if he doesn't approve of her choice of major? Most of all, she just wants to get away from home! </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">With Cameron's help and some guidance from others, she starts to break free of her need to please her dad. She's determined to be her own person and make her own choices, but can she ever get her dad and his judgmental comments out of her head? </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This is the first book in a series intended to be read in the following order: Olivia, On the Brink (Olivia Series, Book 1) Olivia, Finding Her Way (Olivia Series, Book 2) Coming Very Soon! Olivia, All In (Olivia Series, Book 3) Coming in 2016 Olivia, Altogether (Olivia Series, Book 3) Coming in 2016 </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 2;">I write fiction novel series - of the (mature) Young Adult / New Adult romance variety. But it's not all romance! There are interwoven themes of "coming of age", child/parent and family struggles, teen angst, and finding and practicing faith.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 2;">The teen years and early twenties are a tough time of figuring out who you are, what you stand for, where you want to go in life, etc. I write about characters finding their way through that critical time in their lives. Sometimes it's not pretty. Sometimes other people in their lives are helpful, but sometimes they're not, and a person has to figure out how to deal with that.</span></div>
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In this amazing story a young woman, Olivia has learned many coping skills. These skills were from having to live in a dysfunctional family life. She learned early in her life that her family was unlike other families. Then she herself made some bad choices that forced her to rethink the path she was was on. Thanks to her mentor, whom was also her boss, she was headed on a path to a bright future with God leading the way. </div>
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So much of this story stirred my heart for Olivia. Makes me feel very nostalgic. The author put so much emotion in the telling of "Olivia, On The Brink". So be ready for an explosion of feeling! Very inspirational with quotes from the bible. I am sure most of us can remember our first steps, so to speak, into adulthood. </div>
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Disclosure: I purchased a copy of this book for my reading pleasure. It came highly recommended to me by my daughter.</div>
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A war has been waging for centuries; a magical and technological battle between good and evil. This conflict will affect life everywhere, but not everyone is aware it exists. When twelve-year old Max Rigdon is sent to stay with his grandfather for the summer, he unwillingly enters the fight. </div>
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The day Max steps off the bus he is marked with an evil curse and immediately becomes the target of evil men and creatures with designs on ruling the universe. Not only does this curse cause Max physical pain but it allows his enemies to track and find him. He soon learns that the reason for this unwanted attention is because his grandfather is the keeper of a gateway; a powerful machine that makes travel to hundreds of strange unknown worlds possible. The enemy will do anything to gain possession of this power in their quest to control all worlds. </div>
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599; color: #b45f06; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From 2006-2009 she was a Royal Literary Fund writing fellow at U.E.A. She embarked on a book for adults which is still a work in progress.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599; color: #b45f06; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She loves the City where she lives - Norwich, in Norfolk. She also loves Brighton where she got married. Her daughter lives on a seafront flat in Brighton.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599; color: #b45f06; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She loves animals, gardening, art, theatre, cinema, reading, walking, cycling, gazing out of the window and Leonard Cohen. In another life she would like to be a dancer or an explorer/naturalist.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599; color: #b45f06; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Her eyes are green. Her favourite colour is green. Her cat is called Minnie Ha-ha. Her son Ben is a photographer.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 22px;"><b>Q: </b>How did you become a children's writer?</span><br />
<span style="line-height: 22px;"><b>A</b>: I married a lawyer who wanted to be an illustrator. He invented a character called JUGG and I thought if I could write a story about this character, my husband could illustrate it and we would live happily ever after. It didn't quite work out like that of course.....</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 22px;"><b>Q:</b> What makes a children's writer?</span><br />
<span style="line-height: 22px;"><b>A: </b>I often wonder about this. Many writers for children had unhappy childhoods and I sometimes think writing is a way of remaking one's childhood. The grown-up that you've become is taking care of the child that you were. In my case it might have been a case of arrested development. I began to go deaf at the age of five and became increasingly lost in my own world. (After university I was told that I was too deaf to teach the deaf, so I taught Shakespeare to the hearing instead, for twenty years).</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 22px;"><b>A</b>: People often assume that writing for children isn't serious. I think now that a few children's authors have made serious money, this perception has changed. But of course it is serious. Childhood is the most sensitive, intense, freshest period of life; children the most impressionable of readers. Whatever they read has a lasting effect. I often ask myself how 'serious' the world is. When I listen to the news - and the stuff grown-ups get up to. I think, now....if that was happening in a playground.... At the heart of every good children's story is something true.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 22px;"><b>A:</b> Yes and no. A lot of it is hard work. A lot of it is refusing to accept failure. But when a story suddenly comes right - which it often does years after it was started - that is a most wonderful feeling. So is the post in the morning when it contains the first rough illustrations of a new book. And then the book itself. It's like Christmas, several times a year.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 22px;"><b>A:</b> I wasn't brought up in a bookish household so didn't read that much as a child. I was too busy running wild. But I loved Grimm's fairy tales and Aesop's fables and my father read Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn to us. I can still hear him reading it. But the first book I loved with absolute passion was 'Macbeth' which I read when I was 17. It was like a door swinging wide open into a whole new world. Two of my favourite children's authors now are Maurice Sendak and Arnold Lobel.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 22px;"><b>A</b>: Everywhere. it's just a matter of learning to see them and catch them. Ideas are all around. It's all about taking notice of your own life, paying deep attention to even the smallest events.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 22px;"><b>A:</b> Well the sheer number of children's books - about 10,000 year in England alone - is a bit daunting. You ask yourself if there's room for any more. I also get depressed at the copycat nature of publishing. I'm not sure that originality always is what publishers are looking for. There's also too much cuteness for my liking. I write cute stories myself but this reflects what publishers accept rather than my range as a writer. But this really is a golden age of children's books and you can't expect to publish only the best.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 22px;"><b>A</b>: People often make this assumption because children's books are short. But this means every word has to earn its keep. It also means that form and pattern - the unspoken parts of the meaning -are very important. You can't just wait for it to happen. You have to make yourself available, sit on the chair, stare at the page. A lot of the time, nothing happens. Then, one moment, an idea drops into your head. I have a row of files on my shelves, numbered one to ten. They are all full of stories at different stages of progress. Sometimes, an idea that I had several years ago will suddenly take shape. You have to hang on to ideas so that your unconscious can work on them. I never discard. The tiniest scrap can become a good story.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 22px;"><b>A: </b>Yes.. I sometimes suspect that I live my life in such a dream that I'm not quite to grips with the real world - which seems mainly to be about football, making money, celebrity, soap operas. and household bills.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 22px;"><b>Q: </b>You recently published a book on Norwich Market. This was a strange departure for a children's writer. Whatever made you do it?</span><br />
<span style="line-height: 22px;"><b>A: </b>Good question. A mixture of reasons: It seemed a good idea. Norwich Market is almost 1000 years old and a fascinating expression of identity. I thought it would be interesting to explore that. Also, although there is a special thrill in seeing your books translated into several languages, I wanted a more immediate connection with the city in which I live. The residency seemed a good opportunity. It was a bizarre experience, transforming my story stall into a sitting room and being taken for a fortune teller!</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 22px;"><b>Q:</b> What is the very best thing about writing for children?</span><br />
<span style="line-height: 22px;"><b>A:</b> Spinning your straw into gold. You take the ordinary stuff of life and transform it into something magical. Some of my funniest, lightest stories have come out of the most difficult things in my life. So everything that happens - or almost everything - is useful. If you haven't got a problem, you haven't got a story. Stories are never, ever, about everything being all right. They are a place where you can make things all right and this has a very transforming effect on life. The other best thing is working with illustrators. And meeting children. And seeing your words in Zulu or Hebrew or Japanese. And meeting other children's writers. And some wonderful editors who can press the right buttons. And seeing something completed. And the sheer lovely feel of a new book.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599; color: #b45f06; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In this buoyant picture book, Polly Dunbar illustrates the strange and wonderful things that happen when a little girl lets her creativity fly. It starts when Katie decides to liven up a gray day. She puts on her brightest clothes, takes hold of a paintbrush, and sets her imagination loose. "I certainly feel much brighter when I put on my best blue shoes," Polly Dunbar says. And readers are guaranteed to get a boost from what KIRKUS REVIEWS calls "a joyous cure for a case of the doldrums . . . exuberant, to say the least."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599; color: #b45f06; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With her next picture book, DOG BLUE, Polly Dunbar again builds on the theme of the power of creativity. In an engaging tale full of whimsy and humor, the author/illustrator introduces Bertie, a boy who loves dogs and the color blue--and finds a creative way to make his fantasies come true. "DOG BLUE was inspired by a little Dalmation puppet who lives in a blue shoebox with air holes in the top for 'breathing,' " Polly Dunbar says. "The story was written for Neil, his owner, who has blue eyes, a blue sweater, and like Bertie, loves dogs." With illustrations creating a feeling of "informal but elegant simplicity," says KIRKUS, DOG BLUE wins fans for its fetching artwork as well as its clever style.</span></div>
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Baby and friends all congregate in the kitchen at night when baby could not sleep. There the kitchen came alive with baby in her bakers hat they start making a cake . As they measure, stir, pour and bake they sing their actions into the the rhyme Pat-a-Cake Baby. Making one big mess in the process and enjoying themselves immensely.<br />
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Pat-a-Cake nursery rhyme has been a part of all of our lives. The author puts her own spin on this well know rhyme. I found the new rhyme entertaining and fun. The baby and her miniature baby helpers were so precious to see. I really liked the soft pastel colors used to create the illustrations. This is a picture book I will definitely be with my grandbabies. No doubt it will light up their eyes and make them laugh.<br />
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“Divorce” is a big word…especially for little kids. It’s hard for young children to understand what the word means, let alone how it will impact their lives—and it’s hard for us, as grown-ups, to explain it to them in terms they can fully comprehend.Nonetheless, when a child is involved in a family divorce or separation, it is crucial that he or she understands and embraces the changes… and this book will help you explain the transitions to your child.Family Changes is a delightfully informative children’s book that tackles a complicated topic in compassionate, child-friendly terms. Ideal for young minds aged four through eight, it features a colorful cast of fuzzy characters led by a young bunny named Zoey, who is struggling with her parents’ divorce and is riddled by important questions and feelings your child is likely to encounter.In addition to the heartfelt story at its core, Family Changes also offers parents, therapists, teachers, and caregivers valuable information on how to ease children through this significant life change. A comprehensive note to parents and a list of essential child-focused questions are provided to guide the adult and child, and are certain to be an asset to both children and adults involved in the divorce/separation process.
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The book identifies and normalizes young children’s feelings, concerns, and questions about parental divorce. Feelings of sadness, anxiety, loss, confusion, and anger are highlighted for the child via safe adults, peers, and fantasy. The book emphasizes that with young children, moving between play, process, and fantasy is a therapeutically effective mechanism to ‘work through’ anxiety-provoking content.Family Changes also serves as a guideline for adults in terms of what to expect developmentally, emotionally, and cognitively from young children. It provides adults with specific statements, questions, and content related to separation and divorce that facilitates a developmental and normative understanding of the child’s concerns and feelings.The aim of the book is not to offer a magical solution or even resolution at the end of the story. Rather, the ending of the story suggests that understanding and coping with divorce is likely to be a longer-term developmental process, and not a one-time conversation.
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e06666;">Azmaira H. Maker, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist, author, and speaker who has been working with children, parents, and families for twenty years. Dr. Maker specializes in child development, parenting, and psychotherapy and has extensive experience working in hospitals, schools, clinical agencies, and nonprofit organizations. She has also taught and supervised graduate and undergraduate students in child development, child therapy, play therapy, family therapy, parent guidance, trauma, and loss, and has published several research and theoretical articles in scientific, peer-reviewed professional psychology journals. She brings a wealth of experience working with divorcing families to Family Changes, which is certain to educate, enlighten, and empower children and parents.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's Mouse's first night at Miss Moon's Moonlight School but she is shy, too shy to even say hello. Luckily, with help from Miss Moon and her new friends Bat, Cat, and Owl, a game of hide-and-seek makes Mouse feel right at home. </span></div>
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Simon Puttock has written several children’s books, among them a winner of a Scottish Children’s Book Award. He has lived in New Zealand, Trinidad, Australia, England, and Barbados. Now he lives in Edinburgh, Scotland. </div>
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Ali Pye has wanted to be an illustrator ever since she was little, when she drew stories and stuck the pages together to make little books. But it took her a few years and a stint as a copy editor before she started drawing professionally in 2010. She lives in London.</div>
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School was ready to start, but when Miss Moon called the role Mouse did not answer. Everyone looked around and did not see Mouse. Where was Mouse? Surely she would not miss the first night of Moonlight School.
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We know some children are shy and have a hard time being in a new place with strangers. Mouse is one of those children. This sweet story is a lesson in overcoming fears, making new friends, along with obeying your parents, who often say, "Always be polite and follow the rules".
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Loosely following a child's daily routine, this charming and beautifully illustrated book celebrates all things toddler. Richly detailed scenes, cute characters, and rhyming text assure that even the youngest of children will join in, and adults will take pleasure in the colorful illustrations, however many times they're asked to read! </span></div>
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Sally Symes has designed, written, and illustrated many books with numerous talented partners. She lives in England with her husband, two children, and Bumble the cat. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Pretty babies and animals with funny sunny faces kept a big smile on my face and filled my heart with happy feelings as I turned each page of this darling picture book. </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>There is an explosion of happiness on every page. It is a</b></span><b style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> celebration of life that exudes love. </b><b style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> It's a book everyone from the very young to very old will enjoy. </b><b><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I can't wait to share this book with my grandkids.</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; text-align: left;">The team must come together and find a task that will fit Zachary without interfering with their own fun. On the way, they acquire a flag that will unite them as both friends and crew. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">Named to Kirkus Reviews' Best of 2012 for her first book, award winning author Carole P. Roman started writing as a dare from one of her sons. Using an imaginary game she played with her grandson as a base, Captain No Beard was born. It has followed with four more books to the series.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">Motivated by her love of yoga, Roman has written a book that not only teaches four poses, but shows how easy and accessible yoga can be.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">She has just finished the first of six books in a groundbreaking new nonfiction series about culture around the world. "If You Were Me and Lived in..." combines her teaching past with her love of exploration and interest in the world around us.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Captain No Beard had his hands full with the antics of their new pirate, Zachary. Zachary is working hard to be a team mate but he just keeps failing at everything. Captain and the other shipmates assigned him different tasks to no avail. Then by pure luck the Captain finds the perfect assignment for Zachary. A very important assignment all his very own.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #674ea7;">Very cute book showing how important it is to have team work which means to be supportive of each other. Definitely not making making your team mate feel inferior. The author always has the Captain pulling things together for the good of all. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #674ea7;">Love the new Swabbie, diaper clad baby Zachary! He is a real cutie pie, I mean handsome pirate. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #674ea7;">Can't wait for more adventures into the imagination of Captain No Beards and his growing shipmates!</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;"><b>Ken Spillman</b> is an award-winning author whose work spans the genres of history, novels for young adults and children, short fiction, poetry, scriptwriting and criticism. He is the author of 20 books including Blue, an acclaimed novel for teenagers. Spillman’s work is represented in many anthologies, and the US reference Contemporary Authors has compiled a detailed entry on his career.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e; font-size: large;">Jake's mess reminds me of my youngest daughter's good intents at cleaning her room. Jake had some brilliant ideas for organizing his things that ended up overwhelming his good intentions. Thankfully his family and friends knew Jake meant well and was not just being mischievous. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e; font-size: large;">Just reading the story I became overwhelmed for poor little Jake! With some children a few suggestions and overseeing the project with patience seems to be the key. Making it fun using some of their ideas meets with rewarding success!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e; font-size: large;">From my own experience I especially found sorting through the childs clothes and toys while they were at school, boxing the stuff up for donations was of great help in cutting down a stressful situation. This kept my children from having to make monumental decisions. They never even seemed to notice anything was missing. If they did notice I simply explained why it was donated or discarded. My children are now wonderful parents with children of their own!</span></div>
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<strong>Title: </strong>Sammy Steals the Show (a Bird Brain Book) | <strong>Author: </strong>Emlyn Chand | <strong>Illustrator: </strong>Noelle Giffin | <strong> Publication Date: </strong>May 28, 2014 | <strong> Publisher:</strong> Evolved Publishing | <strong> Pages: </strong>56<strong> | Recommended Ages: </strong>3 to 8<strong></strong> </div>
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<strong>Book Description: </strong>Sammy is a talented young cockatiel who loves to sing out of his open apartment window for all of Australia to hear. One day, he watches a reality singing competition with his human friend, Lisa, and knows that if he could just audition, he would surely win.
What follows is a masterful escape, an eventful journey to the Sydney Opera House, and an audition the crew of "Sing Your Heart Out" will never forget. Will Sammy take home the title of Australia’s next rising star, or will he find something more important along the way?
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From an early age, <strong>Emlyn Chand</strong> has counted books among her best friends. She loves to hear and tell stories and emerged from the womb with a fountain pen grasped firmly in her left hand (true story). Her affinity for the written word extends to absolutely every area of her life: she has published fiction across multiple genres, oversees and contributes as both an editor and an author to the <em>Novel Publicity Guides for Writing & Marketing Fiction</em> series, and loves the written word so much, she even married author <em>Falcon Storm</em>! Don’t forget that she is the founder and president of Novel Publicity too.</div>
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The book that changed Emlyn’s life is <em>Harold and the Purple Crayon</em> by Crocket Johnson. It opened her eyes to the world that could exist if only she was willing to create it—a lesson she has never forgotten. Maybe that’s why she loves writing her <em>Bird Brain Book</em> series for children so much!
Emlyn’s first novel, <em>Farsighted</em>, won the prestigious Writer’s Digest Self-Published Novel of the Year award in 2012 for the YA category. She now writes most of her fiction under her real name, Melissa Storm.
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When one big-eyed chick fails to yank its prize worm from the ground, it’s time to bring in a friend—and then another, and another. But if adding a rooster to the crew still doesn’t do the trick, could it be that a worm isn’t always what it seems? Each turn of the page brings a new number and a new rhyme in this delightful debut from both author and illustrator. </div>
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age range: 2 yrs - 5 yrs</div>
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<b>Jan Whiten </b>spent her early years at a tiny rural school with one room and one teacher for all grades. Her love of reading children’s books led her to write her own stories, and Chooky-Doodle-Doo is her first book. She lives in Australia.</div>
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One then a total of five little chooky chicks working so hard to pull a worm from the ground. Then they enlist the rooster to help them pull. </div>
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I thought these little chicks were so cute and very determined to have this worm out of the ground. They also showed great teamwork! It reminds me of the old saying, "Try and try again!".</div>
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Award-winning author and illustrator Ashley Spires has created a charming picture book about an unnamed girl and her very best friend, who happens to be a dog. The girl has a wonderful idea. "She is going to make the most MAGNIFICENT thing! She knows just how it will look. She knows just how it will work. All she has to do is make it, and she makes things all the time. Easy-peasy!" But making her magnificent thing is anything but easy, and the girl tries and fails, repeatedly. Eventually, the girl gets really, really mad. She is so mad, in fact, that she quits. But after her dog convinces her to take a walk, she comes back to her project with renewed enthusiasm and manages to get it just right. For the early grades' exploration of character education, this funny book offers a perfect example of the rewards of perseverance and creativity. The girl's frustration and anger are vividly depicted in the detailed art, and the story offers good options for dealing honestly with these feelings, while at the same time reassuring children that it's okay to make mistakes. The clever use of verbs in groups of threes is both fun and functional, offering opportunities for wonderful vocabulary enrichment. The girl doesn't just "make" her magnificent thing -- she "tinkers and hammers and measures," she "smoothes and wrenches and fiddles," she "twists and tweaks and fastens." These precise action words are likely to fire up the imaginations of youngsters eager to create their own inventions and is a great tie-in to learning about Science, Technology, Engineering and Math.</div>
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<b>Ashley Spires</b> grew up in Tsawwassen, BC and after stints living in Toronto and Saskatoon, she now lives in Ladner, having made an educated decision to never move from BC again. She is the creator of the Binky The Space Cat series of junior graphic novels, which have earned her numerous awards, including the Silver Birch Express and the Hackmatack. Her picture books, including Larf, Small Saul and The Most Magnificent Thing, are known for providing readers, young and old, with a good laugh.<br />
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A darling little girl decides she along with her dog will make a magnificent thing. She creates many things but in her minds eyes they are all wrong. She becomes so very frustrated and angry. Then she gets a magnificent idea for the most magnificent thing!</div>
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You must see it for yourself. It is MAGNIFICENT!</div>
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This little girl is one determined little inventor. How gifted she is to be able to create something so useful. Even her rejects were found to be useful to others.</div>
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<strong>Title:</strong> Luna's Lost Ball (Shiloh and Friends | <strong>Author: </strong>R.A. Milnes II |<strong> Publication Date:</strong> April 30, 2015 |<strong> Publisher: </strong> Independent |<strong> Pages: </strong>36 |<strong> Recommended Ages: </strong>3 to 8<br />
<strong></strong><strong>Summary: </strong>Luna is a Labrador retriever and she has lost her most favorite ball. Follow Shiloh and her friends in a tale of friendship, teamwork, sharing, and reward as they help Luna find her lost ball.<br />
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<a href="http://www.booksbyben.com/about-1.php" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Ben Woodard" class="alignleft wp-image-23077" src="http://motherdaughterbookreviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Ben-Woodard-236x300.jpg" height="254" width="200" /></a><span id="freeTextContainerauthor4337426">A spellbinding storyteller of high adventure, <strong>Ben Woodard</strong> has walked the Great Wall of China, hiked in Tibet, and climbed to 18,000 feet on Mt. Everest. And recently learned to surf in Hawaii.</span><br />
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There is terrible smell on Frog Pond and it is coming from Bubbles. His friends insist he stops this horrible smell. They suggest he change his diet to no avail he still had foul smelling bubbles. Will they shun him from the pond? He is very sad and suffering not only from stinky bubbles he felt no self respect for himself. </div>
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