A few weeks back I posted a review in our Perfect Picture Book Friday series of the first book Matt illustrated, THE NEW GIRL…. AND ME. I had so many comments on this post on my Facebook page from people … Continue reading
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Blog: Miss Marple's Musings (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Our resident children’s book reviewer is back with a fantastic review of a new and exciting series. Get ready to fall in love with Humphrey.
Friendship According to Humphrey (Book 2)
In book 2, Class 26 gets another class pet and everyone is paying more attention to him (the frog) than Humphrey. Plus how could he become friends with a frog with its bug out eyes and really icky skin? When the class writes poems. most of them write about you know who.
…This book was read and reviewed by Piper, an adorable 9-year-old girl. We can’t wait for more reviews from this insightful and brilliant reviewer! We also can’t wait to find out what further adventures await Humphrey.
Thanks, Piper!

Blog: Alice's CWIM blog (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Links to SCBWI TEAM BLOG Keynote Interviews...Today blogger Lee Wind offers a great interview with Holly Black, one of the terrific keynote speakers for the upcoming SCBWI Annual Summer Conference. (She is also featured in the 2010 CWIM!) Lee has recently joined Twitter so add him to your follow list--he'll be blogging and tweeting along with the rest of us from the L.A. event August 7-10.
If you haven't, also check out Paul Yoo's interviews with keynoters Ingrid Law and Betty Birney. There will be more interviews with SCBWI conference keynote speakers from TEAM BLOG between now and the event which I'll link you to when they are posted.
(And for those of you who still may be thinking about registering for the event but haven't yet, read Suzanne Young's post featuring feedback from three first-time conference goers.)
Thanks for sharing this with everyone, Alice!
And Paula's non-human to non-human interview with the author of "Humphrey" is awesome!
Namaste,
Lee