tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18227310024586259522024-03-27T01:38:03.666-05:00LibLaura5Laura5http://www.blogger.com/profile/16241994420576904211noreply@blogger.comBlogger198125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1822731002458625952.post-4726296058398172922019-05-11T09:10:00.001-05:002019-05-11T09:10:54.081-05:00 Audiobooks in Car5<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Our daily commute together to school is about 30 minutes, giving us an hour together in the car every day. And our commute has always included stories.<br />
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We recently went down the rabbit hole of trying to remember as many of the audiobooks we have read together as we could. With some help from twitter and goodreads, we remembered over 100 books we shared, and we keep remembering more!</div>
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Thinking of each of these books stirs strong feelings.<br />
I know my love for many of them is greater because we read them together.</div>
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<i>Many, many thanks to the Hennepin County Library system and their collection of fabulous audiobooks that has always supplied our commute with great stories!</i>Laura5http://www.blogger.com/profile/16241994420576904211noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1822731002458625952.post-11630503940770312902018-10-22T05:05:00.000-05:002018-10-22T05:05:03.931-05:005 Questions with Susan Fletcher author of Journey of the Pale Bear<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"Once, she struck fear into the hearts of hardened soldiers, swam for leagues in the sea without stopping, withstood a hail of arrows, waged battle against pirates, rescued a boy who had come to love her, and was flaunted and prized by kings. Once long ago... when she and I were young."</i></span></b></h4>
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<i>Journey of the Pale Bear</i> was inspired by a real gift, a Polar Bear, given from the King of Norway to the King of England in 1251.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"><i>Tasked with feeding and cleaning up after the bear, Arthur’s fears slowly lessen as he begins to feel a connection to this bear, who like him, has been cut off from her family. But the journey holds many dangers, and Arthur knows his own freedom—perhaps even his life—depends on keeping the bear from harm. When pirates attack and the ship founders, Arthur must make a choice—does he do everything he can to save himself, or does he help the bear to find freedom?</i></span></blockquote>
The tender connection that grows between Arthur and the bear will certainly be echoed in readers' hearts. <i>Journey of the Pale Bear</i> is a perfect choice for animal lovers and fans of survival-adventure stories alike.<br />
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given as a gift to the King of England from the King of Norway in the mid 1200s
is fascinating on its own--at what point did you know that this idea should be
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</span></b>Right away, as soon as I read about that bear in Daniel Hahn’s book, <i>The Tower Menagerie</i>! I mean…a polar bear
swimming in the Thames River in medieval times? Irresistible! But, as often
happens, I didn’t really know how to frame the story. Where to begin? What
would the main conflict be? How could I put a kid at the heart of the story? I
mulled this over for a year or two…until one day, in a book store, I stumbled
upon José Saramago’s <i>The Elephant’s
Journey.</i> Instantly I realized that the bear’s journey from Norway to
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...are, for humans, some
of the most dangerous animals on Earth—and also some of the most spectacular
and beloved. (It’s a paradox!)<br />
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I had started out thinking that the bear would be a male, and that
Arthur and the bear, once they got comfortable with each other, would have a two-guy
adventure dynamic, sort of a road trip bromance. But the more I thought about
how dangerous young male polar bears are, the more uncomfortable I became with
that idea. It seemed less and less plausible that Arthur would have emerged
unscathed. Reluctantly, I changed the bear to a female, a mother who had
probably been separated from her cubs. What surprised me after that was
discovering that I had already put in some of the chemistry to make the
mother-cub dynamic work. From the get-go, I had Arthur humming to calm the
bear. To my astonishment, I found out, through later research, that polar bear
cubs make a sort of humming sound to their mothers! Also, from the very start,
I had had the bear reach a paw to the edge of the cage to press against
Arthur’s boot. I found out later that polar bears reach out their back paws to
touch their cubs as they sleep! Kind of spooky how that happened…but it made me
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somehow broader—bigger and more full of ideas than they had imagined—by the
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we share about ourselves and connect with each other.</span></b><b><span style="color: #9900ff; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> What is one book that has been
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When I was in fourth grade, my teacher read Beverley Cleary’s <i>Ellen Tebbits</i> to our class. Now, fourth
grade was the year for long division and, though I did my homework, I just
couldn’t seem to get it. I felt there must be something wrong with me. My
teacher obviously disapproved, and I got terrible grades on my math papers. But
listening to her read <i>Ellen Tebbits</i>…helped,
somehow. Because Ellen messed up in that book. She did some stuff she really
shouldn’t have done. But nobody gave up on her, and she made it through. And I
could tell that my teacher really liked Ellen, in spite of everything. It sort
of put my math troubles in perspective, and it made me feel that maybe everything
would all come out okay. So, sometimes people ask me why I put my characters in
so much trouble…and that’s kind of <i>it</i>.
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Laura5http://www.blogger.com/profile/16241994420576904211noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1822731002458625952.post-22034656950256849802018-06-08T06:55:00.000-05:002018-06-08T06:55:12.655-05:00Episode 24 Melanie Heuiser Hill - PCS Reads <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Summer is almost here--I'm getting excited about my TBR pile for summer reading and Season 3 of PCS Reads! Head over to <a href="https://pcsreads.blogspot.com/2018/05/season-3-teaser-pcs-reads.html">PCSReads.blogspot.com</a> for a sneak peek of what's in store.<br />
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Number 13 is a one-eared fox groundling--part animal, part human--who has been living a life of serving and suffering at Miss Carbunkle's Home for Misbegotten Creatures for longer than he can remember. Despite having only one ear, he can hear beyond walls and begins to understand creatures others cannot. A new friend, a flightless bird groundling named Trinket, gives him a proper name--Arthur. Together they escape and embark on an epic adventure in the world beyond Miss Carbunkle's.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times";">Mira Bartók is an artist and writer, and the creator of <i>The Wonderling: Songcatcher</i>, the first book in an illustrated middle-grade fantasy series. As luck would have it, <i>The Wonderling </i>will also be a movie, directed by award-winning British director, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Daldry" style="color: #0b5394; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Stephen Daldry</a> (<i>The Crown, Billy Elliot, The Reader,</i>etc.), and produced by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_Title_Films" style="color: #0b5394; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Working Title Films</a> and Fox2000. (You can read more about the crazy book to movie deal <a href="https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-book-news/article/68009-a-magical-start-for-the-wonderling.html" style="color: #0b5394; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">HERE</a> and <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/bookmark/stephen-daldry-direct-fantasy-film-814332" style="color: #0b5394; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">HERE</a>). She is also the author of <i><a href="http://www.mirabartok.com/p/the-memory-palace.html" style="color: #0b5394; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Memory Palace</a></i></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times";">, a <i>New York Times</i></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times";"> bestselling memoir and winner of the<a href="http://bookcritics.org/about/" style="color: #0b5394; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">National Book Critics Circle Award</a> for autobiography. She has written numerous books on ancient and indigenous cultures for children (<i>The Ancient and Living Stencil Series</i>), and </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times";">her writing for adults has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, noted in <i>The Best American Essays </i></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times";">series and has appeared in many literary journals, magazines and anthologies.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman";"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman";">She lives in Western Massachusetts with her musician/producer husband </span><a href="http://dougplavin.com/" style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "times new roman"; text-decoration-line: none;">Doug Plavin</a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman";"> and their little bat-eared dog Sadie. </span> </span></span></div>
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<i>Things That Surprise You</i> begins the summer before middle school for Emily Murphy. Things with Emily's best friend Hazel have been changing ever since Hazel joined the field hockey team, things with her family have been evolving after her parents' divorce, and things with her sister have been the most difficult of all. Emily's sister Mina has been living at a treatment facility to deal with her anorexia.<br />
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<i>Things That Surprise You</i> perfectly captures the feelings of a sibling just outside the epicenter of a family emergency who is trying not to add to the damage by quietly internalizing emotional aftershocks. <span style="background-color: white;">This tenderly crafted and poetically written story filled with truth and hope will leave Emily Murphy firmly nestled in your heart.</span><br />
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There is truly something special about the idea of a lemonade stand. It is an idea that has ignited excitement and action in kids for decades. <i>The Lemonade Stand Cookbook </i>is a the perfect guidebook including information on finances, advertising, following the law, safety, and of course lots of delicious recipes and creative crafts.<br />
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As author Kathy Strahs explains at the start of <i>The Lemonade Stand Cookbook</i>, there may be specific laws in your area to follow about Lemonade Stands. Regardless this collection of simple and enticing recipes with easy to follow instructions for drinks, treats, snacks and crafts stands out as one to share with young makers and bakers.<br />
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This cookbook includes pictures, anecdotes and testimonials from a diverse group of girls and boys ages 5-11. Even details like using a range of skin tones in the illustrated images for instruction steps are not overlooked. Young readers are sure to see themselves and find inspiration in <i>The Lemonade Stand Cookbook</i>.</div>
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She founded </span><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><a data-content="http://www.burntcheesepress.com" data-type="external" href="http://www.burntcheesepress.com/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Burnt Cheese Press</a></span><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> in 2015. A former marketer with a Stanford MBA, Kathy entered the food world first as a blogger (</span><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><a data-content="http://www.paninihappy.com" data-type="external" href="http://www.paninihappy.com/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Panini Happy</a></span><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">, </span><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><a data-content="http://www.cookingontheside.com" data-type="external" href="http://www.cookingontheside.com/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Cooking On the Side</a></span><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> and </span><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><a data-content="http://www.sunnydaysgoodfood.com" data-type="external" href="http://www.sunnydaysgoodfood.com/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Sunny Days Good Food</a></span><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">) and later as a cookbook author (</span><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><a data-content="https://www.burntcheesepress.com/collections/books/products/the-8x8-cookbook-by-kathy-strahs" data-type="external" href="https://www.burntcheesepress.com/collections/books/products/the-8x8-cookbook-by-kathy-strahs" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The 8x8 Cookbook</span></a></span><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> and </span><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><a data-content="http://amzn.to/2ncgrKR" data-type="external" href="http://amzn.to/2ncgrKR" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">The Ultimate Panini Press Cookbook</a></span></span><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">). <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The 8x8 Cookbook</span> earned the Bill Fisher Award for Best First Book - Nonfiction at the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) Benjamin Franklin Awards in 2016.</span></span><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: xx-small;"></span></span><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: xx-small;">Kathy has been named one of the top Mom Food Bloggers by Babble.com several times. She is also a frequent cooking contest judge, including the Grilled Cheese Invitational in Los Angeles and the World Food Championships in Las Vegas.</span></span><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: xx-small;"></span></span><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: xx-small;">Kathy is a member of the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP), Les Dames d’Escoffier, San Francisco Professional Food Society, IBPA, and Northern California Independent Booksellers Association (NCIBA).</span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-size: xx-small;"> </span><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: xx-small;">Kathy, her husband Michael, and their two children live in the Silicon Valley.</span></span></blockquote>
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"I was feeling something I had never felt before,<br />a feeling I think I could call absolute triumph."</h3>
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Seventh grader Mango Delight enjoys track, Beyonce and hanging with her best friend, Brooklyn. An unexpected win for her on the track team seems to make her best friend jealous. Then Brooklyn gets an expensive new phone, and Mango feels a strange distance growing between them. When Mango accidentally breaks her friend's new phone, she suddenly finds herself the target of Brooklyn's plans for revenge.<br />
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<i>Mango Delight </i>is filled with realistic, complex, diverse characters. Readers will be drawn in by the drama of Mango's situation and find themselves rooting for her to be confident in who she is.<br />
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<b>Today author Fracaswell Hyman stopped by to answer my 5 questions. </b><br />
<b>Be sure to enter the giveaway for a copy of <i>Mango Delight </i>below the interview.</b><br />
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Laura5http://www.blogger.com/profile/16241994420576904211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1822731002458625952.post-75253895760656811922017-06-12T05:55:00.000-05:002017-06-12T05:55:02.351-05:005 Questions answered about Welcome to Wonderland #2: Beach Party Surf Monkey by Chris Grabenstein<div>
Chris Grabenstein's books, the <a href="http://chrisgrabenstein.com/kids/escape-from-mr-lemoncellos-library.php" target="_blank">Mr. Lemoncello's Library series</a> and his many series coauthored with James Patterson like <a href="http://chrisgrabenstein.com/kids/i-funny.php" target="_blank">I Funny</a>, <a href="http://chrisgrabenstein.com/kids/treasure-hunters.php" target="_blank">Treasure Hunters</a> and <a href="http://chrisgrabenstein.com/kids/house-of-robots.php" target="_blank">House of Robots</a>, are well loved in my library</div>
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<b>1. Is <i>Welcome to Wonderland #2: Beach Party Surf Monkey </i>part of a<i> </i>a series?</b><br />
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The #2 may have given it away... <i>Welcome to Wonderland #2: Beach Party Surf Monkey</i> is the second book in the Welcome to Wonderland series. Last year <i>Welcome to Wonderland #1: Home Sweet Motel </i>introduced readers to P.T. Wilkie (named after P.T. Barnum) who lives at the Wonderland Motel--"a motel with a lot of wacky decorations and tons of incredible stories but not too many paying customers."</div>
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<b>2. What if I read book #2 before reading book #1?</b><br />
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Book #2 is its own outrageously ridiculous story. This time P.T. and his friend Gloria have a plan to convince the Hollywood producers of <i>Beach Party Surf Monkey </i>to film their movie at the Wonderland Motel--a movie featuring teen celebrities and you-tube superstar, Kevin the capuchin monkey. They hope it will cement Wonderland Motel as a tourist destination and keep them from having to sell to their new neighbor Mr. Conch of Conch Reef Resort, the guy who ordered bulldozers to demolish their old neighbors, and the guy who wants to bulldoze Wonderland.<br />
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Reading #2 first will probably end up making you want to read book #1... and then you might feel like reading book #2 again, so in a way reading #2 first could maximize your reading time for outrageously ridiculous P.T. Wilkie tales.<br />
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Book #1 did just win the <a href="https://www.scbwi.org/2017-golden-kite-and-sid-fleischman-awards-announced/" target="_blank">2017 Sid Fleischman Humor Award</a>.<br />
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Also it says it's outrageously ridiculous right in the book:<br />
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And you can see for yourself and read the first five chapters of Book #2 <a href="http://chrisgrabenstein.com/kids/PDFs/beach-party-surf-monkey1.pdf" target="_blank">here</a>:<br />
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<b>5. Will there be a book #3?</b><br />
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Yes! <i>Banana Shack Shake Up</i> is coming in January 2018.<br />
This summer readers can enter the <a href="http://chrisgrabenstein.com/kids/beach-party-surf-monkey-summer-reading-contest.php" target="_blank">"Fun in the Sun Summer Reading Contest"</a> to have a character in book #3 named after them and earn a chance for their school to win a virtual visit.<br />
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<i>5 Worlds: The Sand Warrior </i>is the beginning of an epic quest that unites three kids Oona Lee--a clumsy sand-dancer with a destiny, An Tzu--a musically magical boy from the poorest of slums who is slowly turning invisible, and Jax Amboy--a beloved Starball player with a big secret. Together they embark on a magic adventure connecting 5 worlds.<br />
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<i>"One by one the five great beacons went dark and the Gods were gone. And none would ever again light the shining Beacons, save a Warrior of Sand, crowned with living fire..."</i></blockquote>
<i><br /></i>This series is destined to have well worn covers and never enough copies in my library. To start the word of mouth among readers in your life, hand <i>5 Worlds</i> to fans of Kazu Kibuishi's <i>Amulet</i> or Faith Erin Hick's<i> Nameless City</i>.<br />
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You may know that <a href="http://liblaura5.blogspot.com/p/why-5s.html" target="_blank">I like to watch for 5s in kidlit</a> and always enjoy a good <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/fivespotting" target="_blank">#fivespotting</a>.<br />
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So the first book in the 5 Worlds series had me intrigued right from the start with its beautiful swirly 5 on the cover.<br />
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While the 5 in <i>5 Worlds: The Sand Warrior </i>may have initially caught my attention, it was the following 5 things that made me a serious 5 Worlds fan:<br />
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1. Truly lucious artwork<br />
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2. Sand dancing!<br />
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3. Controlling plants with music!<br />
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4. An epic magical adventure that has already captivated the readers in my life<br />
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5. The promise of more in <i>5 Worlds: The Cobalt Prince</i><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-dba9b860-46cd-11e1-ef38-5fac8107d1d9"><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.5pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.5pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When I was in third grade I read </span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.5pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">HARRIET THE SPY </span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.5pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and life as I knew it was never the same! Harriet was a WRITER!! And </span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.5pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.5pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> was a writer (even back then). I didn’t live in a big exciting city like she did, but I totally understood her need to observe the world and comment on it in her own way. She was funny, she faced heartache, and she was brave (something I never was … so she became my role model for having guts). Here’s what I learned from Harriet M. Welsch: WRITERS TAKE CHANCES. Best advice I every got! I actually go back to that book and flip through it every now and then. I still laugh out loud! And I still consider Harriet a friend. </span></span><br />
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<i>"Nine on an island, orphans all, any more, the sky might fall."</i></h3>
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<i>Orphan Island</i> by Laurel Snyder pulled me in from the very first page. It begins with the ringing of a bell, and we learn that Jinny's life on the perfect island with the other 8 orphans is a about to change. The small green boat with a new orphan has arrived again. Every arrival on the island also means a departure--the Elder orphan, Jinny's best friend Deen, must leave. Now Jinny is the Elder with the newest, youngest arrival "her Care."<br />
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<i>Orphan Island</i> has a beauty in the language that begs you to linger paired with a story that compels you to race ahead. Since finishing I find my mind wandering back to the magic of the island. This is a book to treasure and share with many readers.<br />
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Today Author Laurel Snyder stopped by to answer my 5 questions.<br />
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Framed! by James Ponti is the first book in a fun and fast-paced mystery series about two friends Florian and Margaret who solve mysteries using T.O.A.S.T (the <u>T</u>heory <u>o</u>f <u>A</u>ll <u>S</u>mall <u>T</u>hings). I flew through <i>Framed! </i>and an early copy of book #2 <i>Vanished!</i> and have found myself T.O.A.S.T.-ing ever since.<br />
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Today Author James Ponti stopped by to answer my 5 questions.<br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As a side note, I do love the name they use for the French editions. My request was that the acronym be something silly or food-related and the translator came up with GRATIN - </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Guide de Recerche et Analyse de Tout Indice Negligeable</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. So, in France, it literally is cheesy. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9900ff; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2. After I read Framed! I found myself starting to use T.O.A.S.T. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I use T.O.A.S.T. all the time, although now it’s usually a case of me looking for ways that Florian and Margaret can use it in the books. That is the hardest part of writing these mysteries because they use it all the time and I want to make the examples varied and different. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For me the entire series is about Florian and Margaret’s friendship. The foundation of that friendship is that Margaret sees in Florian all that is special that everyone else, including Florian, overlooked. She understands him better than anyone ever has. And while Margaret is more socially skilled and a star athlete, she has zero interest in being popular, which she sees as superficial. She is about substance and Florian sees in her the far more important characteristics that make her amazing. I think that’s the same dynamic of the relationship I have with my wife who I met in college nearly thirty years ago. So that’s probably a big part of the inspiration. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As to their individual character traits, Florian borrows pretty heavily from my son and me. Awkward on the surface, but a friend for life. Clever, but sometimes too clever for his own good. While Margaret is a mix of what I imagine my wife was like in middle school combined with the confidence, athleticism, and intelligence I see as a hallmark of the current generation of girls. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I LOVE Washington, D.C. I have ever since I was a kid and have taken countless trips there. I also feel like the city belongs to all of the people, so it’s relatable to readers everywhere. As a writer of kid mysteries, however, Washington is a treasure trove. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There is an endless stream of international characters who pass through the city. There are oddities, such as the law that makes embassy grounds a foreign country. There is a superb mass transit system, which allows my characters access to the entire city without having to call their parents for a ride. And, perhaps best of all, there are so many iconic cultural institutions that provide settings that are both practical and meaningful. So I get to set the mystery in </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Framed!</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> around the National Gallery of Art among masterpieces of French Impressionism. And I get to set book 2, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Vanished!</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, which brings along its own history and symbolism.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As to the process, I’m a firm believer in research and try to be thorough. The characters in the book go to Alice Deal Middle School, which is in fact a real school in Washington. I work in conjunction with the school and try to go there once a year so the kids feel ownership in the books. They tell me about their lives and show me around the school so I can get that part right.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I also travel around the city looking for settings and talking to people at these various institutions. For example, the Kennedy Center gave me a behind the scenes tour as I was writing </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Vanished! </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This not only helped me create a more vivid setting but it also sparked plot points for the mystery.</span><br />
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