Deborah's comments
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The American Girl series might be a little "young" for some 14 year olds? FEVER 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson might work.I don't know if you would be comfortable recommending "adult" books, but at that age my girls enjoyed some books that were marketed for adults but worked for teens just as well, like THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES (assuming the early 1960's is "historical" to a 14 year old!), GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING, or THE RED TENT.
Debbie
Thanks Val! The avatar is from a picture that my daughter drew many moons ago (which I colored).Hope you like AGGIE & BEN - if you do, there is a sequel due out next year.
Ha! Well, some day we will all get nostalgic when we pick up one of our books that has traces of slobber on it...Kate - you never said what the name of you book is! Congratulations.
Fortunately, it's very easy these days to get educated about the publishing business! There are lots of wonderful resources out there, especially with the internet. My favorite book for getting started is THE COMPLETE IDIOT'S GUIDE TO PUBLISHING CHILDREN'S BOOKS by Harold Underdown; he has a website as well, called "The Purple Crayon", at http://www.underdown.org/I have a list of other great resources that I've found useful over the years, on a page at my website: http://www.deborahfreedman.net/resources...
Hope this helps!
Debbie
AGGIE AND BEN, by Lori Ries and illus. by Frank Dormer is a new and charming book about a boy and his dog.
I wonder how many passionate readers began by eating books?
We love Philadelphia Chickens at my house too, in part because my girls' piano teacher sings the Belly Button song! But when they were little they liked Doggies the best.
Yikes, I could go on forever too! But I will just add ten to the already great list going here:William Steig
Quentin Blake
David Small
Lane Smith
Simms Taback
Douglas Florian
Stephen Gammell
Henrik Drescher
Uri Shulevitz
Lisbeth Zwerger
Yikes, I could go on forever too! But I will just add ten to the already great list going here:William Steig
Quentin Blake
David Small
Lane Smith
Simms Taback
Douglas Florian
Stephen Gammell
Henrik Drescher
Uri Shulevitz
Lisbeth Zwerger
Thanks Meg! My book is called SCRIBBLE, and came out in May.
Hi, I'm Debbie, an architect who loves to read children's books - I still hang around at my kids' elementary school library, even though they are teens now, just to talk books with the librarian (and, o.k., raid her wonderful collection)! I am most interested in picture books (just recently published my 1st), but also read some middle grade and YA. Right now I'm trying to catch up on classics I've missed, and read a few hot new titles. Looking forward to sharing with everyone -
Ooh, I have to find these books at the library. THE PLANT SITTER especially, because I loved the HARRY books as a kid. My sibs and I also loved a book called GIANTS COME IN DIFFERENT SIZES, by Jolly Roger Bradfield, about an island kingdom with hamburgers growing on it that is put under a cloud by an evil wizard, so all of the hamburgers die. Also, WHAT JIM KNEW, by Mary Ann Hoberman, is about the funny things that kids believe, like "Jim knew..." that if he closed his eyes, no one could see him, etc.
