What???? What's happening here, and why is Lisa attacking
RL Stine?
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Well, I'll get to that on a future blog. But first, even though I'm in New York at this very second, I still need to finish my blog about the wonderful
IRA Convention in Chicago, where I was a couple days ago.
Peepy got all technical and we Skyped into classrooms in Blue Springs, MO during Ruth Culham's symposium about writing, featuring
BOBBY VS. GIRLS (ACCIDENTALLY) and
ABSOLUTELY MAYBE . . .
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(That's my editor,
Arthur Levine; Ruth Culham, education expert/author; wonderful teachers, Tami Willimas and Linda Brock; Moi and Ruth's editor, Ray Coutu)
The convention floor was packed with publishers, including mine --
Scholastic. Wow! Take a look at the Scholastic Booth(s) . . .
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Scholastic Book Fair's superamazingdynamic
Robin Hoffman hosted the Readers Theater . . .
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(Robin's on the left, with 39 CLUES dudes
Gordon Korman and
Peter Lerangis)
After reading from
BOBBY VS. GIRLS, and doing a book signing, I roamed the convention floor. And LOOK at the famous authors Peepy and I ran into/ran after. There's
Holly Black,
Kirby Larson,
Kevin Henkes, and
Elizabeth Partridge with
Arthur Levine . . .
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It must have been some sort of Newbery Assembly, because we saw our friends,
Susan Patron and
Cynthia Kadohata . . .
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And we got to meet Newbery-ian
Rebecca Stead.
Here's our drawing of Rebecca when she won the Newbery and we
blogged about it, and the real Rebecca up close and in person!!!
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Scholastic President, Chairman and CEO
Dick Robinson said this to Peepy and Moi . . .
1) I love
these books, we need more like them!!!
2) Peepy and I are BFF!!!
3) Who wants Jell-O?!!!
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(Answer: #1)
Oh! And there's
Mitali Perkins, a Glue Animal,
Lauren Tarshis, who's also the editor of
STORYWORKS, and
Candace Fleming . . .
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Then there's this mystery author. It's 1) Snoopy, 2) Bill Shakespeare, or 3)
Neal Shusterman . . .
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The next day, we did a presentation, along with
Ruth McNally Barshaw, who not only plays musical instruments, but taught us how to draw . . .
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Okay then, so next blog we'll attempt to explain what
Jon Scieszka and
Christopher Paul Curtis are doing . . .
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But in the meantime, check out
READERGIRLZ Author of the Month!!!!!
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