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BECAUSE I'M NEW and LITTLE SOCK MAKES A FRIEND: Two Picture Books, One Giveaway

Sleeping Bear Press keeps sending me books! Here are two that young readers (and pre-readers) in your life will enjoy. BECAUSE I'M NEWWho would have thought of writing a book from the point of view of the new child in the family? Author-illustrator Brad Sneed, that's who. The title page shows a little boy peering out the living room… Continue reading BECAUSE I'M NEW and LITTLE SOCK MAKES A FRIEND: Two Picture Books, One Giveaway

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"What Else Do You Have?" A Conversation with Lisa Kline

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It Depends on Your POV

     Writers like to debate the relative merits of different POV's (point of views). Is a story best written from a first person, third person, or omniscient POV?         On a recent road trip with my husband, we visited Marietta, Ohio where I thought about an entirely different aspect of POV.… Continue reading It Depends on Your POV