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Lynn Plourde

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Lynn Plourde

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in Dexter, Maine, The United States
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I write kids' books--talk about a FUN job! I worked for 21 years as a speech-language therapist in Maine schools. When I got married, I got 3 & 4-year-old stepsons as part of my ready-made family. I read the boys picture books at bedtime. They fell asleep after 2 or 3 books, but I kept reading stacks and stacks of picture books and started to dream . . . maybe I could write picture books. I was already writing educational books (listening & speaking ideas for the classroom), but PICTURE BOOKS--that was different!

Different, and sloooooow! I had 13 years of rejections before getting my first book published, Pigs in the Mud in the Middle of the Rud, and I still get more rejections than acceptances--even after having more than 40 books publish

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Gonsalves created the art first and then Thomson added words/poems to the art, so the story and art were not as cohesive as I would have liked. Also the art and the text are very sophisticated so I think it would work best with Gr. 5 & up even though ...more
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Camp Sunshine is in Maine and I have friends who have gone to the camp for families with kids with cancer so it was nice to learn more about the camp--from the inside. Krosoczka was obviously moved and changed by this chapter in his life, which is in ...more
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When life gives you a pile of poop, you’re gonna get dirty—so you may as well roll with it.”
Lynn Plourde, Maxi's Secrets: (Or What You Can Learn From A Dog):

“Bad news is still bad news - even if you're expecting it.”
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“Sometimes all the energy you put into something you think matters doesn't matter one bit.”
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“The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“I missed 'em, sure enough, true and deep and hard, but the loving was stronger than the missing.--Joseph Johnson on p. 233 Some Kind of Courage”
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“It doesn't match anything you have."

Exactly, I think. This bracelet matches nothing in my wardrobe . . . Nothing in my life. The bracelet isn't anything like who I am; it's a bracelet for who I want to be.

Carolina on p. 189 of HOUR OF THE BEES by Lindsay Eagar”
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“Things are only impossible if you stop to think about them.”
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“She had on a spangled top that sparkled like fish scales. Her hair was very yellow. She looked like a mermaid in a bad mood.
(p. 82 RAYMIE NIGHTINGALE)”
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message 2: by Kathy

Kathy My daughter and I saw you on Learning Space today! We've really enjoyed the show and all of the time you and the teachers have given - it's been such a fun addition to our home schooling, and inspired my daughter to read Maxi's Secrets as well. :)


Sandra Thanks for friending me! :)


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