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		<title>Celebrate Picture Book Month!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:17:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Smoore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wendy Martin, fellow Missouri member of SCBWI, as well as many other authors and illustrators have banded together to make November Picture Book month.  Here&#8217;s why: The New York Times declared, “Picture Books No Longer A Staple for Children” in an article published in October 2010. The controversial article incited a barrage of responses from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Linda Sue Park&#8217;s A Long Walk to Water</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 03:29:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Smoore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I heard Linda Sue Park speak at the Kansas City, KS SCBWI conference a few weeks ago.  A Long Walk to Water is a great example of how great children&#8217;s literature changes lives.  Beyond a moving story (about which I knew almost nothing&#8211;and I consider myself well-versed in current events), Linda Sue Park&#8217;s novel does [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hilarious Middle Grade &#8211; The Strange Case of Origami Yoda by Tom Angleburger</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:28:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Smoore</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Friendship Stories]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who is the sage of the universe?  Who can you go to for wisdom when all around you is confusion?  Who can you trust?  Yoda, of course.  Tommy knows it, and his fellow sixth graders know it.  Maybe Yoda appears as an origami puppet on the finger of uber-nerd Dwight, maybe Yoda talks in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New YA for Twilight Lovers</title>
		<link>http://greatbooksforchildren.com/786/new-ya-for-twilight-lovers</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 23:08:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Smoore</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[YA (Young Adult)]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Matched by Ally Condie:  Dystopian YA romance.  Twilight meets The Hunger Games. Nevermore by Kelly Creagh.  Suspenseful YA romance.  Twilight meets Edgar Allen Poe. Great reads!]]></description>
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		<title>Dan Yaccarino&#8217;s New PB All the Way to America</title>
		<link>http://greatbooksforchildren.com/780/dan-yaccarinos-new-pb-all-the-way-to-america</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 01:12:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Smoore</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Picture Books]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I love Dan Yaccarino&#8217;s art style. Here&#8217;s his new book trailer:]]></description>
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		<title>For Kids Who Love History (or Wish they Could Fly)</title>
		<link>http://greatbooksforchildren.com/766/for-kids-who-love-history-or-wish-they-could-fly</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 18:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Smoore</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Historical Fiction]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Race for the Sky: The Kitty Hawk Diaries of Johnny Moore  (Simon and Schuster, 2003) is middle-grade historical fiction as it should be.  Author Dan Gutman takes the facts about Kitty Hawk and the Wright Brothers’ first flight, and weaves them into the journal entries of Johnny Moore, a boy who lived in Nags Head [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abby Carnelia&#8217;s One &amp; Only Magical Power</title>
		<link>http://greatbooksforchildren.com/755/abby-carnelias-one-only-magical-power</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 18:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Smoore</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Action/Adventure]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wouldn’t it be awesome to discover you had magical powers?  Like Harry Potter—one day living a completely normal, nothing special kind of life, and the next day—poof!  Off to Hogwarts. That’s exactly what happens to eleven-year old Abby Carnelia in Abby Carnelia’s One and Only Magical Power, a middle-grade novel by David Pogue (Roaring Brook [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas on Thanksgiving</title>
		<link>http://greatbooksforchildren.com/750/christmas-on-thanksgiving</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 18:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Smoore</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, the stores have been playing Christmas music since Halloween, so I suppose it&#8217;s well past time to review a Christmas book. Little Star, written by Anthony DeStefano and illustrated by Mark Elliott (WaterBrook, 2010), tells the story of the Christmas star.  This gentle picture book answers the question so many children ask, “Where is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Monsterly Halloween</title>
		<link>http://greatbooksforchildren.com/737/a-monsterly-halloween</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 00:19:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Smoore</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Holiday (non-Christmas)]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In honor of Halloween, check out  Mostly Monsterly by Tammi Sauer and illustratecd by Scott Magoon (Simon &#38; Schuster, 2010).  Monster Bernadette is &#8220;mostly monsterly. She lurche[s], she growl[s], she cause[s] mayhem of all kinds.&#8221;  Bernadette also has a soft side which gets her into big trouble when she goes to monster school. I met [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Legendary Amber Brown</title>
		<link>http://greatbooksforchildren.com/725/the-legendary-amber-brown-2</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:02:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Smoore</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Divorce]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In many a SCBWI conference, I have heard the name of Amber Brown, one of those unforgettable characters.  Likewise her creator, author Paula Danziger, who from what I can tell, was quite a character herself.  Paula Danziger has written over thirty books, several about divorce.  Amber Brown is Feeling Blue (G.P. Putnam&#8217;s Sons, 1998; this edition [...]]]></description>
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