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Susan Katz
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Although I lead a very exciting life (Only yesterday, for example, I was leading a plumber down the basement stairs when the light went off. In the darkness, I descended seven steps at once, careened across the cellar, and crashed into a shelf of cardboard boxes, creating the first avalanche ever to occur on my road.), I have nonetheless managed to remain blog-less.
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Oh, Theodore!
by Susan Katz (Goodreads Author), Stacey Schuett    3.80 avg rating — 66 ratings
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2007
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Snowdrops for Cousin Ruth
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1998
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Looking for Jaguar: And Other Rain Forest Poems
by Susan Katz (Goodreads Author), Lee Christiansen 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
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2005
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2 editions
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A Revolutionary Field Trip: Poems of Colonial America
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2004
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Mrs. Brown on Exhibit: And Other Museum Poems
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2002
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When the Shadbush Blooms
by Carla Messinger, Susan Katz (Goodreads Author), David Kanietakeron Fadden 3.82 avg rating — 28 ratings
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2007
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Fish Story (Children's Books)
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updated Jan 16, 2009 03:22pm
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an extra poem written while I was writing THE PRESIDENT'S STUCK IN THE BATHTUB, based on a mishap during the Eisenhower presidency when Nixon was his vice president
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Will this be the last book in the Tony Hill/Carol Jordan series? Jack Vance, a convicted serial killer from an earlier book has escaped an is exacting brutal revenge on the people who helped to put him behind bars. And if that isn't enough for Hil...
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I'd give this book ten stars if I could. It's the sort of three-hanky book I really love because the grief in it is earned and deep and true and sinks into the reader's heart. For anyone who grows weary of shallowness, busyness, profit margins, and n...more |
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| One of my earliest memories is of hiding under the seat in a movie theater, terrified by Margaret Hamilton's version of the Wicked Witch of the West. I should have had this book back then! In a refreshingly unique portrayal of Elphaba, the real perso...more | |
“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
― W. Somerset Maugham
― W. Somerset Maugham
“You write not for children but for yourself. And if by good fortune children enjoy what you enjoy, why then you are a writer of children's books.”
― Arthur Ransome
― Arthur Ransome
“I am almost inclined to set it up as a canon that a children's story which is enjoyed only by children is a bad children's story.”
― C.S. Lewis
― C.S. Lewis
“Good stories are not written, they are rewritten”
― Phyllis A. Whitney
― Phyllis A. Whitney
“The world is not divided up into bits and classified for those from four to six, from six to eight, from eight to twelve and so on through our three score and ten years, with a special bit for octogenarians, but the same world for all of us, undivided, its riches spread out for us to choose from according to our ages in spirit rather than our ages in years”
― Dorothy Lathrop
― Dorothy Lathrop
