The Birth of an Award-Winning Story: A Talk with Author Kathy Price
Poet Kathy Price published her first children’s book, The Bourbon Street Musicians, in 2002.
Books
How Do They Do That? An Idea to a New Book
Book designers and illustrators are artists who decide how each page of a book is going to look. Book designers also create covers.
Book Review: Button Girl
Once upon a time, before buttons were born, people used thorns, sticks and bones to keep their blouses on and their trousers up.
Book Review: 100 Things Guys Need To Know
What’s an appropriate way for boys to resolve conflicts and handle stress? Shouldn’t guys have the right to show their emotions?
Book Review: Heat
You know that kid in Little League who can throw what seems like 800 miles per hour? Michael Arroyo, the lead character in Mike Lupica’s book Heat, is that kid.
Book Review: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
This story about four girls who learn to live apart for the first time is impossible to put down.
Book Review: Chew On This
Did you know that chickens are sometimes thrown against walls as a form of slaughter?
Book Review: Salamaca's Journey
Sharon Creech’s book Walk Two Moons is the tale of Salamanca, a free-spirited girl who travels from Ohio to Idaho with her eccentric grandparents in hopes of bringing her mother, who left their family, back home.
Leo’s Family Secret
“Fog boy,” Leo’s family calls him, because he is always daydreaming. Head in the clouds, he imagines that he is a famous actor, a Nobel prize-winning scientist, and most of all, that he is respected by his noisy, chaotic family.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: Harry Grows Up
Finally! After months of waiting, at 12a.m. on July 16th, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was out!
