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1. Illustrator Saturday – New Pieces from 2012 featured Illustrators

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Barbara Johanson Newman was featured on …. Click Here to View.

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Sarah Dillard was featured on August 19th, 2012. Click Here to View.

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Roger Roth was featured on July 7th, 2012.  Click Here to View.

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Kirstie Edmunds was featured on August 4th, 2012. Click Here to View.

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Vin Vogel was featured on November 10th.  Click Here to View.

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Brian Bowes Ichabod’s Ride Home. He was featured on May 12th, 2012.  Click Here to View.

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Lisa Achin was featured on October 27th, 2012.  Click Here to View.

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This is from a new collection of black and white work that Leeza Hernandez created for a gallery show in September. It’s Oliver Twist! The title of this piece is “Please, Sir …” Leeza was featrued on June 30th 2012. Click Here to View.

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Jill Dubin featured on August 25th, 2012.   Click Here to View.

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Nancy Armo featured on April 28th, 2012.  Click Here to View.

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Kathleen Kemly was featured on April 7th, 2012.  Click Here to View.

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Tim Bowers was featured on July 28th, 2012.  Click Here to View.

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Ruth Sanderson was featured on March 17th, 2012.   This painting was from a two-day painting workshop Ruth taught on August 10th and 11th at the Norman Rockwell Museum.  Click Here to View.

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Kevin O’Malley was featured on April 21st, 2012.  Click Her to View.

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Kris Aro McLeod was featured on February 11, 2012. Click here to view.

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Sandra Salsbury was featured on March 24th, 2012.  Click Here to View.

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Betsy Snyder featured on …. art from a baby collection I did for Papyrus (inspired by her book HAIKU BABY. Click Here to View.

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Melissa Iwai featured on  October 13th, 2012.  Click Here to View.

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Gabrielle Grimard was featured on October 20th, 2012.  Click Here to View.

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Juana Martinez-Neal was featured on December 8th, 2012.  Click Here to View.

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Roberta Baird was featured on January 7th, 2012.  Click Here to View.

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Courtney Martin featured on January 14, 2012. Click Here to view.

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Nancy Cote was featured on June 2nd, 2012.  Click Here to View.

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Michele Noiset was featured on September 22nd, 2012 …  Click Here to View.

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Joanne Friar’s Christmas card for this year. She was featured on March 10th, 2012.  Click Here to View.

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Louis Bergeron was featured on May 26th, 2012. Click Here to View.

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Josée Bisaillon was featured on September 15th, 2012. Click Here to View.

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Roberta Angaramo featured on February 18th, 2012.   Click Here to View.

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Kelly Kennedy was featured on February 25th, 2012.  Click Here to View.

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Kathi Ember was featured on October 6th, 2012.  Click Here to View.

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Cheryl Kirk Noll was featured on September 29th, 2012.  Click Here to View.

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Lauren Gallegos was featured on November 3rd, 2012. Click Here to View.

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Jennifer Grey Olsen was featured on November 24th, 2012. Click Here to View.

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Casey Girard was featured on February 4th. Click Here to View.

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Hazel Mitchell featured on February 19th, 2012.  Click Here to View.

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Anne Belov was featured on June 23, 2012. Click Here to view.

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Elizabeth Stanton featured on May 19th, 2012.  Click Here to View.

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Susan Drawbridge was featured on May 5th, 2012.  Click Here to View.

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Sarah Brannen was featured on July 21st, 2012. Click Here View.

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Alik Arzoumanian was featured on June 16th, 2012. Click here to View.

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Sara Jane Franklin was featured on November 17th, 2012. Click Here to View.

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Wendy Grieb was featured on January 28th, 2012. Click Here to View. Above and below two sculpture Wendy did of two of the characters in her books.

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Jon Strommel was featured on September 8th, 2012.  Click Here to View.

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Filed under: authors and illustrators, inspiration, picture books Tagged: Gabrielle Grimard, Kathleen Kemly, Roberta Angaramo, Roger Roth, Ruth Sanderson, Sarah Dillard, Tim Bowers

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2. Art & Reference

As I was cleaning off my desk I can across an initial sketch from Gulliver's Travels. It was just a mere outline of where I wanted to go with the profile of Gulliver, but all I could see at this stage was Logan, who I used for a model. It got me thinking about how artists use reference material. So be sure to check out the links below. And Happy Birthday Logan!
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started as this...
 
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and came from this shot...

Here are some interesting links to a few artists that I admire, and how they use models, props, and photo reference. Plus, a little sneak peek into their studios. (For Ruth Sanderson click onto her name for an indepth "Artist at Work" page from her website.)

 

Ruth Sanderson 

 

 

Mike Wimmer

 

 

Christopher Bing 

 


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3. Highlights - a great (re)treat

I promised a little run down on my recent visit to Highlight's Foundation in Boyd's Mill, PA. It puts the TREAT in RETREAT. Here's one reason ...

 and here's another ...


Just in case we were feeling faint they fed us 3-4 times a day. And in between we were welcome to raid the pantry ... yee gads! Thankfully, all the top-notch food is locally sourced, cooked with care and healthfully. Which is good, because you wouldn't want to miss any of it! Especially 'Angel Poop' .. my fav dessert.

But there's more to Highlights than just good grub. If you've no idea what I'm talking about, here's a link to their website. They run fabby writing and illustrating workshops for the kidlit world at a wonderful facility in Pennsylvania. Highlights is allied to Boyd's Mill Publishers in Honesdale and the first day includes a tour if you get there a little early. Which I did. A day early because of flights (which they don't charge you for). I was collected from Scranton airport by a very nice chap called Bob. All the staff are very welcoming and helpful. It's a bit like being at a private country club for children's writers and artists, but with no boring golf or rubbish conversation at the bar.)


at Boyd's Mill ... some place to have your office ...


The Barn, where all workshops and meals take place. It's a beautiful building and very welcoming, with informal rooms to lounge around in and a big space for work and eating. Some nights we ate on the patio.



Attendees get to stay in cute little private cabins ... but I got to stay in the farmhouse, which I loved! 




The workshop I attended (Advanced Children's Illustrators) had a great faculty - Eric Rohmann - Ruth Sanderson - Kelly Murphy - Floyd Cooper ... plus guests including Neal Porter (Roaring Brook Press), David Wiesner, Donna-Jo Napoli. During the week, staff and editors from Boyd's Mill popped in and shared mealtimes with us, which was very nice and friendly.




Days start early with coffee at 7.30am, followed by breakfast (and 2nd breakfast if you want it!) then workshops at 9am until .... you want to stop in the evening. It was great to have several days to experiment, the wonderful atmosphere and secluded surroundings of the foundation make it a pleasure. After a day your fellow attendees feel like family. The everyday world is a memory.

I wanted for nothing while I was there. Wifi is available most everywhere (phone service is a little squiffy, but there are house phones you can use a calling card on, or get folks to call you back). If there is anything you need - then you just have to ask. Did I say I worshiped the kitchen staff ...?

There is nothing, however, to top sitting down with seasoned professionals and listen to their experiences, chat around the dinner table or next to the outdoor fireplace and hear about experiences on a personal level. With only 24 or so attendees it was great to really get to know each other in intimate surroundings.

If you are looking for a different experience from the usual hurly-burly of the conference circuit, I suggest you give Highlights a try. The cost of the workshops are truly reasonable given the level of attention and accommodation. They also offer scholarships to those who qualify.

I leave you with some photos as they speak more eloquently than I ...




 David Wiesner

 Neal Porter

 Eric Rohmann

Eric was my mentor for the workshop! Lucky me!

 



 Kelly Murphy

 Faculty Panel

 Portfolio Showcase







Toodles!
Hazel


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4. Illustrator Saturday – Ruth Sanderson

This week we have a real treat with Ruth Sanderson. If you don’t recognize the name, I am sure you will recognize her art.  Heck, you might even have last year’s Lenox Collector Plate with her artwork or collector’s plates with a Night Before Christmas theme around your house.

I got lost in her website for days, so you might want to stop by her site later when you have some time to browse.  I am going to do the best I can to show off her talents, but they are so many, it is going to be a challenge.

Ruth was born in 1951 in Monson, Massachusetts, where her two favorite place to play were the woods and the library.  In the woods she could imagine magical  creatures living in the tangled underbrush and if she was very, very lucky maybe catch a glimpse of one of them.

At the library. She could identify with characters that were brave and got to do exciting things. One of her treasured possessions was a battered copy of  Grimm’s Fairytales.

She fought over Black Stallion books with her best friend about who was going to be the first to read the next new adventure, when it came into the library.  After reading the stories they would gallop through the woods on their own imaginary stallions.

She decided she wanted a career in art. After spending a year at a liberal arts college where the art courses were all abstract, she transferred to the Paier School of Art, so she could take a combination of traditional drawing and painting courses and commercial courses as well.  Since she really wanted to make a living with art, she decided illustration was the  way to go. The modern fine art scene did not appeal  to her.  The illustrators she admired were Howard Pyle, N.C. Wyeth, Norman Rockwell and  Mark English.

When she graduated in 1974 from  the Paier School of Art in Connecticut, an agent in the children’s field took her on and  soon she was busy doing children’s illustrations.  After five years, she started to do some full-color covers. The books she read as a child, the Black Stallion series and the Nancy Drew  series were being put into paperback for the first time and she got the assignment for 18 covers in each series. She did some black and white picture books and an edition of The Little Engine that Could.

In the early eighties she struck out on her own without an agent and began to do a number of Golden Books and quite a few full color jackets for young adult novels.

She got her ”big break” into the “trade” market with the assignment to illustrate an edition of Heidi  with one hundred full color paintings. Up to this time she had only used fast drying mediums for assignments, such as watercolors, colored  pencils, airbrush and acrylics. Heidi had a one-year  deadline so she decided to paint it in oils, which had always been her  preferred medium. She went on to illustrate The Secret Garden and then her first fairy tale, The Sleeping Beauty, which was retold by Jane Yolen.”

In 1988 Jane introduced  her to Maria Modugno, the children’s book editor at Little, Brown, who expressed an interest in having her do a fairy tale for them, and gave her the opportunity to retell it herself. The Twelve Dancing Princesses took a year and a half of work and was published in 1990.

Rose Red and Snow White  was her next retelling for Little, Brown. She invented a dwarf. This was the first character that she painted in a realistic manner which was invented without reference materials.

Ruth has illustrated 80 books and has written

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5. Try a Little Tenderness

Stead, Philip C. A Sick Day for Amos McGee. Illus. by Erin E. Stead.Roaring Brook, 2010. Ages 3-7.

This year’s 2011 Caldecott went to a sweet, whimsical story of kindness. Amos McGee works at the zoo and sets aside time each day for the animals; he would play chess with the elephant, run races with the tortoise, sit with the shy penguin, lend a handkerchief to the rhino, and read to the owl. Then one day Amos gets sick and stays in bed. The lonely animals decide to take action; that afternoon they make their way to Amos’s home. Throughout the book, Erin Stead’s pencil and woodblock illustrations sprinkle humorous details guaranteed to make readers smile. My favorite is the double spread showing the animals riding the bus, while others will be charmed by the last illustration, showing the quiet penguin gazing at the moon while the others snooze away after a busy afternoon taking care of their friend.

Looking for more kindness? For ages 4-7, try last year’s Caldecott winner, The Lion and the Mouse, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney, and, for Valentine’s Day, reach for Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch, by Eileen Spinelli. For older children, consider Tale of the Mandarin Ducks by Katherine Paterson and the Cinderella variations that focus on the protagonist’s kindness:  The Talking Eggs by Robert San Souci, Papa Gatto by Ruth Sanderson, and Gift of the Crocodile: A Cinderella Story by Judy Sierra. Also, see my December 27th post on being kind to animals.

What are your favorite children’s books featuring kindness? Please leave a comment!


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6. Gifts for Horse Lovers: Books About Horses

By Bianca Schulze, The Children’s Book Review
Published: December 10, 2010

This is our “Horse Lovers” fictional book list, hand selected for young horse enthusiasts.

An excerpt from My Pony by Susan Jeffers:

I want a pony.
I want a pony more than anything in the world.

Dust Devil
by Anne Isaacs (Author), Paul Zelinsky (Illustrator)

Reading level: Ages 5-9

Hardcover: 48 pages

Publisher: Schwartz & Wade (September 14, 2010)

Source of book: Publisher

Publisher’s synopsis: Here is the thrilling, thigh-slapping companion to Swamp Angel, the beloved Caldecott Honor–winning picture book.

Swamp Angel has a reputation as the greatest woodswoman and wildest wildcat in all of Tennessee. But when she grows too big for that state, she moves to Montana, a place so sizeable, even Angel can fit in. It’s there that she wrestles a raging storm to the ground and, at its center, finds herself a sidekick—a horse she names Dust Devil. And when Backward Bart, the orneriest, ugliest outlaw ever known, starts terrorizing the prairie, seems like Angel and Dust Devil may be the only ones strong enough to stop him.

Children will be captivated by the beauty and exaggerated humor of Paul Zelinsky’s American primitive–style paintings and the wit and energy of Anne Isaacs’s unparalleled storytelling. Here is an original folktale starring an extraordinary gal who is as feisty as she is funny and as courageous as she is kind.

Add this book to your collection: Dust Devil


Black Beauty

by Sharon Lerner (Author), Susan Jeffers (Illustrator)

Reading level: Ages 6-8

Hardcover: 40 pages

Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers (September 22, 2009)

Source of book: Publisher

Publisher’s synopsis: A stunning picture-book introduction to the first famous fictional horse!

Anna Sewell’s classic Black Beauty comes vividly to life in this 40-page picture-book adaptation by Sharon Lerner. Follow the famous stallion as he meets many masters, from Squire Gordon, whose wife Black Beauty saves nearly at the cost of his own life; to the cruel Nicholas Skinner, who drives horses to death; and finally to a reunion with Joe, the kind groom he knew as a colt. Caldecott Award winner Susan Jeffers illustrates this beloved tale with lush watercolor drawings guaranteed to delight and enchant children.

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7. Brand new: Ruth Sanderson’s Mother Goose

Every year brings new collections of Mother’s Goose rhymes—some re-envisioned in modern contexts, others harkening back to a more classic interpretation. Ruth Sanderson’s new collection falls into the latter category, and offers a pretty, romantic backdrop of illustrations for an extensive gathering of nearly 70 nursery rhymes, plus a handful of poems with poets attributed (like “The Purple Cow”) that all fit together beautifully. An introduction provides interesting background information on Sanderson's selection and illustration process, and reminds us that “repeating the verses makes learning to speak a great game.” Thus, Sanderson has featured rhymes simply and directly with single stanzas and colorful illustrations that make the verses accessible and memorable for the very young child. Images of children in pinafores and knickers alongside delicate fairies and whimsical trolls, in settings of inviting meadows and forests, add a quaint and magical element. I probably don’t have to share a sample Mother Goose rhyme since these are so widely familiar, but I was pleased to find a new “Mary” rhyme to accompany the familiar “Mary had a little lamb.” At least, it was new to me!

Mary Had a Pretty Bird

Mary had a pretty bird,

Feathers bright and yellow;

Slender legs, upon my word,

He was a pretty fellow.

The sweetest notes he always sang,

Which quite delighted Mary;

And near the cage she’d always sit

To hear her own canary.


From: Sanderson, Ruth. 2008. Mother Goose and Friends. New York: Little, Brown, p. 56.

Picture credit: www.goldenwoodstudio.com

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8. Shadow Music by Julie Garwood


Cover Image In her newest historical romance, Garwood takes us to the Scottish Highlands where a beautiful girl is about to be wronged and avenged.  Princess Gabrielle of St. Biel has led a life of privilege and when it is time for her to marry, she does so willingly and happily.  But her husband is murdered on the eve of her wedding and a few days later she is branded as a whore.  When she is banished from all she holds dear she is not fearful, but soon fate hands her a new deck.  She will stay in the home of Colm MacHugh and he will marry her.  She is, of course, at first resistant, but, again of course, comes to love him.  Meanwhile, there are evil men afoot intent on doing Gabrielle harm.  Her new protector saves the day and all live happily ever after.  Typical historical romance, but that is exactly what I like about it.  You know exactly what you are going to get. 

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9. Everlasting by Kathlenn E. Woodiwiss


 is stuck between a rock and a hard place.  At first feted because many believe her family will be showered with land and titles by the king, Abrielle is hard put to decide if all the young men want her for her money or herself, but when the king does not grant her family anything, soon Abrielle is left without a suitor in sight.  It depends on her, however, to save her family from ruin; even if it means marrying a despicable man in order to do it.  Then there is Raven Seaburn, a mesmerizing Scott who occupies too much of her mind.  There is the usual cross purposes where she doesn’t think he likes her and he thinks she wants to marry the other man.  But after a few deaths, war, and some talking all is made right.  This is an engrossing novel and shows the time period without relying too heavily on the history aspect.  while elements of the time are incorporated into it, the story does not revolve around the politics of the time. 

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10. Dark Rival by Brenda Joyce

In her latest Masters of Time book, Joyce introduces Allie Monroe, a young woman of 25 who can heal just about anything.  But dark forces want to use her powers for evil and it is up to Royce to stop them.  What they didn’t plan on was falling in love.  In a tragic accident, Royce is killed and so Allie begs Aidan (another warrior) to take her back to 1430.  Royce is none too pleased to see her and Allie will have to use all her wiles to show him she really does love him while staying away from the evil that stalks her.  An intriguing look at time travel, this is a new look at historical, fantasy romance. 

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11. The Honorable Marksley by Sherry Lynn Ferguson

The Honorable Marksley (Avalon Romance)

In this rather convoluted tale, Richard Marksley is conned into covering up one of his cousin’s mistakes yet again.  It is never really clear why he agrees though.  His cousin has supposedly ruined a proper young lady while posing as Richard.  So now his aunt insists that Richard do the honorable thing and marry the girl.  But Hallie Ashton is hiding a secret that she does not want Richard to find out.  So though the two are at odds, both start to see how perfect they are for each other.  Amidst lots of drama they do get married, but all is not solved by that.  This is a more sedate romance book and entirely proper in terms of the intimate moments portrayed.  I would not hesitate to recommend it to a young teen who is interested in reading romance. 

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12. Bride for a Knight by Sue-Ellen Welfonder

Jamie Macpherson has come back home after many years away because of his brothers’ deaths.  Something foul is afoot and he is determined to know what is going on.  His father is seeing his brothers’ ghosts and everyone is acting strangely.  Then there is the agreement to marry a neighboring laird’s daughter.  That turns out to be a gift from the gods.  Set in the 14th century, this historical romance transcends the typical highland romance fare usually offered up by authors by adding a touch of magic to the mix.  I hesitate to call it magical realism, but it treads the line between the fantastic and the everyday.  A well told tale.

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13. Beyond Seduction by Stephanie Laurens

Typical historical romance.  Tee latest in the Bastion club series by Laurens.  Fluffy fun and not too serious. Gervase, an earl, keeps getting called back to his estate by mischief his sister’s are causing.  They don’t want him to find a wife in London and so keep breaking things to keep him at home.  Once he promises to look for a bride closer to home they back down.  Enter neighbor Madeline who has taken care of her three brothers since her fathers death many years before.  She is seen as off hte market and more of a man, but Gervase sees past that to the woman beneath.  Enter illicit passion and a cold ruthless thief and voila you have a story. 

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14. Slightly Dangerous by Mary Balogh

The last of the Bedwyn stories and the one that I have been looking forward to the most.  This is the story of the Duke of Bewcastle who, up until this book, has been portrayed as a cold, arrogant man with little feeling for his siblings (except at rare moments when he can’t seem to help himself)  It is obvious that he has been deeply hurt and needs love.  Enter Christine Derrick, a widow and person who lives life to the fullest.  Disasters seem to follow her everywhere and Wulfric seems to be the one who is always saving her.  Despite himself he seems to be falling for her.  So he offers for her to be his mistress.  She is appalled and tells him so.  More time passes and they are thrown together in a lot of different ways.  Is Wulfric’s heart thawing or will he always have ice for a heart? 

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15. Slightly Scandalous by Mary Balogh

Another of the Bedwyn’s but Freyja Bedwyn, the older sister, is a little bit more rough and tumble than Morgan.  Freyja goes to Bath to escape the birth of the son of her formerly betrothed neighbor.  She meets a veritable rapscallion and proceeds to have the time of her life with him.  Meanwhile, Joshua Moore thinks he will be bored to tears in Bath, but after meeting Freyja knows that is not going to happen.  They decide to enter into a fake engagement on a lark, but soon it looks like it might become all too real.  That is if the Duke of Bewcastle, Freyja’s brother,  has anything to say about it.  I don’t care as much for Freyka as I did for her siblings; she is a little too rough around the edges, but it is a good story.

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16. Slightly Tempted by Mary Balogh

So I am on a Bedwyn kick and this is another of Balogh’s tales about the infamous Bedwyn family.  In this one Lady Morgan, the youngest of the Bedwyns, travels to Brussels and becomes embroiled, if only peripherally, in the Battle of Waterloo.  Her beloved brother Alleyne lost, she finds herself adrift and alone save for the Earl of Rosthorn who takes her of her and see she makes it safely home.  Of course this causes all sorts of scandalous talk (historical romance during 19th century England tends to have lots of scandal) and just when Morgan and the Earl seem to be out of trouble they fall headlong back into it again.  This is a thoroughly unconventional family and there is a lot of secret rendezvous happening. 

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17. Enslaved by Hope Tarr

Definitely not as trashy as it sounds.  This was a good historical romance about a young boy and girl, both orphans but not related, who are separated when they are young.  He vows to find her, she waits….etc etc etc.  They finally do meet up but both have changed in ways the other could not have envisioned.  Yet now there is…..a spark.  And so begins a lovely little drama which ends up precisely where you think it will.  But along the way there are a few snags and secrets that have to come to light. 

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18. Slightly Married by Mary Balough

Colonel Aidan Bedwyn makes a promise to a dying officer to tell said officer’s sister the news of his death and to protect her.  Upon arriving to do so, Aidan finds a motley household filled with lame ducks, well except for Eve Morris.  Eve, though shocked at her brother’s death, refuses help from Aidan.  However, Aidan discovers that she will be tuned out of her house, along with her assorted lame ducks, unless she marries in 4 days.  So he proposes to do just that.  And she accepts.  They expect to marry for convenience and never see each other again afterwards, but Aidan’s brother, Duke Wulfric Bedwyn, has other ideas  Soon Eve is being introduced to the ton and learning about her husband in new and interesting ways. 

 A fluffy fun read.  Just the thing after a long week.  And there are more about the Bedwyns!  I just love that, don’t you?

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