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Aug 20, 2010
1 min

Boston Area Mockingjay Release Parties

Attention Hunger Games fans: Those of you who haven’t already pre-ordered on Amazon, can get your copy of Mockingjay at local bookstores...

Jul 26, 2010
1 min

Book Review: Prizefighter en Mi Casa by e. E. Charlton-Trujillo

This book was amazing. Well-written, exciting, scary, heart-warming, and troubling at times. I lived in Houston, Texas until I was eight...

Jul 12, 2010
2 min

Book Review: The Game by Diana Wynne Jones

(spoiler alert) I picked this book up at the library when I was there looking for something else completely. I’ve been wanting to read...

Jul 5, 2010
2 min

Book Review: Uglies by Scott Westerfield

Anyway, the book is about a young girl named Tally who is living in a post-apocalyptic future where everyone gets major reconstructive...

Jun 17, 2010
2 min

Kindle 2 — My Reading Stats One Year Out

Here are my stats (made easier by Goodreads–I might have to add a new bookshelf for e-books): Books I actually purchased from the Amazon...

May 24, 2010
2 min

Kid’s Medical Book review: Autism and Me: Sibling Stories by Ouisie Shapiro

Autism and Me: Sibling Stories by Ouisie Shapiro is a book of testimonials from children about what it’s like to have a sibling with...

May 17, 2010
2 min

Book review: The Secret in the Old Attic (Nancy Drew #21)

It did not. The description in the beginning of the book: “Nancy Drew races against time to unravel the clues in a dead man’s letters.”...

May 10, 2010
1 min

Brontë sisters action figures!

This is just too cool not to share. Make sure to watch towards the end to see the Brontësaurus in action! #charlottebronte #emilybronte...

May 3, 2010
2 min

Kid’s Medical Book Review: ABC Doctor: Staying Healthy from A to Z by Liz Murphy

ABC Doctor: Staying Healthy from A to Z by Liz Murphy is a list of doctor’s visit terminology in alphabetical order, ranging from “A is...

Apr 30, 2010
1 min

Kid’s Medical Book Review: My Friend the Doctor by Joanna Cole

My Friend the Doctor by Joanna Cole is a very cute book about a young girl named Hannah who goes to the pediatrician to get a checkup....

Apr 26, 2010
1 min

A sneak peek at some new e-ink gadgets

Redferret.net has an interesting blogpost about some new e-ink prototypes, including one with a flexible screen: #eink #ereader #video

Apr 16, 2010
1 min

Helping Make Doctor Visits Less Scary — Free Online Read-Along Stories for Kids at HANS

Along that vein (pun not intended), I recently came across the website for the Help Autism Now Society. Because autistic kids often have...

Mar 25, 2010
1 min

Monkey Week: 10 MG/YA Books Featuring Monkeys

It’s Monkey Week Day #4! Today I’ve got another list of books, but this time we’re discussing MG/YA books featuring monkey characters. In...

Mar 24, 2010
1 min

Monkey Week: 10 Monkey Mashups

Aslan the Golden Lion Tamarin You’ve heard of book mashups right? Where you take two different types of stories and mix them up? Like in...

Mar 23, 2010
1 min

Monkey Week: 8 Monkey-tastic Board Books

It’s Day 2 of Monkey Week here at Monkey Poop! Today I thought I’d share: 8 Monkey-tastic Board Books That's Not my Monkey by Fiona Watt...

Mar 22, 2010
2 min

Monkey Week at Monkey Poop!

I’ve decided to declare this week Monkey Week here at Monkey Poop in honor of my two year blogaversary! Okay, so the anniversary was...

Mar 17, 2010
1 min

Eco-dystopic books

I am working on a new novel and wanted to find out about the current market for my book proposal. My book could be classified as an ...

Mar 16, 2010
1 min

Ray Bradbury on Writing and Rejection

In junior high (aka middle school to some) I did a project on Ray Bradbury and ended up reading all of his short stories that we had in...

Mar 15, 2010
1 min

Informal Book Review: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

And because he blogged about it, several people at his work have even picked it up and read it as well. My husband and I even rushed out...

Mar 11, 2010
1 min

Making a Book Cover

(via @bookninja #video