This link to video of song from the movie is better - [but they disabled the embedding feature ]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ-uV72pQKI

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There's a great article by Gretchen Geser at throughthebooth

In it she talks about the business side of the Picture Book wall at bookstores and how writers can study it to learn about the market.

and then go here - to read about when she used the Picture Book form at her local bookstore

what Gretchen discovered

I try not to think of that morning in May of this year of 1851. It is muddled in my brain anyway, maybe because I choose to leave it muddled. I did not see it all, I tell myself. I was upstairs in my room in our rambling white farmhouse, sent upstairs by Papa, because I sassed Aunt Susan Elizabeth. She was Papa's aunt, getting on in years and in ( Read more... )

"The good writer develops his own voice, her own voice. You just can't do that if you don't listen to yourself. And the best way to listen to yourself is to read to yourself -- out loud. Listen for the cadence -- or the discordance. Listen for the beat -- and the offbeat. Listen for the rhyme and the reason. Sometimes, you'll hear the jarring word ( Read more... )

then read the book

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This is the first line and first paragraph from what MG novel ??  [ check back here tomorrow for the answer =) ]

I am eleven years old and I am invisible.

I am sitting at my desk, in my classroom, on a perfect autumn afternoon - Friday, October 19, 1962. My desk is in the farthest row, next to the windows. I squint into the sunshine and watch a ( Read more... )

Thank you Melodye newport2newport

for recommending this book-- I'm loving it and finding it hard to put down =)

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Ease into the Summer with this song =)

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My father didn't tell me how to live;
he lived, and let me watch him do it.

~Clarence Budington Kelland

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Richard Peck says we write by the light of every book we've ever read -

I've gotta keep reading- to keep writing better! =)