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“If you are going to be a ballerina, you have to do more than wear a tutu and dream about dancing,” the narrator of Anne Marie Pace’s new picture book, “Vampirina Ballerina,” tells readers. It’s a lesson Vampirina Ballerina is learns throughout the story-and one that my own daughter, Kayley, is learning this fall as well ( Read more... )

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"We are at our best with good and healthy routines."--Newbery Honor-winning author Gary D. Schmidt, SCBWI Los Angeles, via author Kimberly Sabatini ( Read more... )

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