Featured Children’s Book: Danny the Dragon

“This series fulfills a passion of mine to delight children and their families with some magic, the spirit of fun and imagination, which I feel really should be preserved in every child at all stages.”
Danny the Dragon author Tina Turbin
Praise for Danny the Dragon
I was very impressed with Danny the Dragon and the message that [...]

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Help schools by helping the poor – Washington Post (blog)


Richmond Times Dispatch
Help schools by helping the poor
Washington Post (blog)
In a review of the book for Forbes, Ravitch???s friend and colleague Chester E. Finn Jr. writes, She would undo most if not all of the ???structural???
Ravitch, unpredictable, still likes NCLB basicsWashington Post (blog)

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Children’s book authors to visit local libraries – Northern Virginia Daily

Children's book authors to visit local libraries
Northern Virginia Daily
"It's a little more exciting if the author who wrote the book is presenting it. [The children] can meet them and get their autograph.

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Youth Event: Meet and Greet: Megan Whalen Turner, author of A Conspiracy of Kings – San Jose Mercury News

Youth Event: Meet and Greet: Megan Whalen Turner, author of A Conspiracy of Kings
San Jose Mercury News
If you know you are coming, please write Megan@keplers.com. To miss this thief's story would be a crime. –Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books,

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‘House Rules’ challenges views of disability – Deseret News

'House Rules' challenges views of disability
Deseret News
What makes this author stand out is her stories and the characters who bring them to life. And Picoult continues that tradition in her latest book,

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RE: Discussing Book of Mormon anachronisms – OmniNerd (blog)

RE: Discussing Book of Mormon anachronisms
OmniNerd (blog)
Now awaiting peer-review. I present how others can find the evidence, even if I can't personally show it to them, just as the people investigating into

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BOOK REVIEW: Humanising the monster —by Dr Mohammad Taqi – Daily Times

BOOK REVIEW: Humanising the monster —by Dr Mohammad Taqi
Daily Times
The basic Arabic text booklet — Quaida Baghdadi — which all Muslim children from Kabul to Kolkata read as an Arabic primer, is mentioned as “Al-Quaida”,

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BOOK REVIEW: Humanising the monster —by Dr Mohammad Taqi – Daily Times

BOOK REVIEW: Humanising the monster —by Dr Mohammad Taqi
Daily Times
The basic Arabic text booklet — Quaida Baghdadi — which all Muslim children from Kabul to Kolkata read as an Arabic primer, is mentioned as “Al-Quaida”,

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Two NZ authors from different fields join forces (Scoop.co.nz)

Two New Zealand authors from very different fields are joining forces to create a unique book and they want your stories. This book will link challenging, inspirational, moving and joyful early experiences with key insights into the development of happiness …

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Niangua library board reviews fundraising, building plans (The Marshfield Mail)

Fundraising plans were among the items discussed at a recent luncheon meeting of the Vivian Stuber Memorial Library. In the absence of Chairwoman Mary Lee Peck, co-chairman Minnie Woodworth called the meeting to order and proceeded to review items that had been discussed at the last board meeting.

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DVD reviews: Special effects keep ‘2012′ from doom – Tribune Review

DVD reviews: Special effects keep '2012' from doom
Tribune Review
Allow Spike Jonze plenty of credit for what he did with Maurice Sendak's critically acclaimed children's book "Where the Wild Things Are.

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