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May contest: What is Mark Twain’s real name? Email trademarketing@charlesbridge.com with your answer, name, and mailing address for a chance to win a copy of Bambino and Mr. Twain!

Book of the Month: Sneed B. Collard III’s Most Fun Book Ever About Lizards

Featured Downloadable: Subway Ride Activity Guide

If you are reading Gravity’s Engines: How Bubble-Blowing Black Holes Rule Galaxies, Stars, and Life in the Cosmos by Caleb Scharf
...have your child read A Black Hole is NOT a Hole

Charlesbridge Recommendations for May

Welcome to Charlesbridge Publishing
Children's Book Week 2012

Celebrate Children's Book Week with us!

rooster from The Cazuela That the Farm Maiden Stirred

Original Illustration Exhibit

85 Main Street, First Floor
Watertown, MA 02472

Open all week from 9:00—6:00
Free and open to the public!

Gallery Opening Wine and Cheese Monday, May 7th! 4—6pm


Featuring art by:
David Biedrzycki, David Hyde Costello, Ralph Masiello, Leo Landry, David McPhail, Caitlin Heimerl, Don Tate, Rafael López, Leslie Evans, and many more!

Visiting authors will include: Stuart J. Murphy, Jane Yolen, Michael J. Daley, Mary Corcoran, Carolyn Cinami DeCristofano, among others.

 

Special Mother’s Day Event!
Saturday, May 12th 10:00—12:00

Mother's Day is Sunday, May 13th.

Visit the exhibit on Saturday, and illustrator Leslie Evans and her printing press can help you create a beautiful hand-made card for Mom.

Spot art from The Art Collector


Click here
for schedules, directions, and information about the authors and illustrators.

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May is Asian/Pacific-American Heritage Month

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Spotlight on:

A Path of Stars
By Anne Sibley O’Brien

Click here for more info.


PLUS!
Anne is the May Blogger of the Month on Unabridged!

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Shop Local

Monkey See, Monkey Do…Children’s Bookstore

This month, check out Monkey See, Monkey Do…Children’s Bookstore in Clarence, NY

Click here to find a local bookseller or visit IndieBound.org

Indiebound

Author of the Month: Karen C. Fox

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Click here to read an interview with Karen C. Fox.

Click here to send an email to the author.


Word of the Month: herpetologist


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a scientist who studies reptiles and amphibians


– from Sneed B. Collard III's Most Fun Book Ever About Lizards

Headed to IRA in Chicago? Sneed B. Collard III will be there! Check out his Nonfiction Author Panel on Tuesday, May 1st at 2:15pm, or stop by Charlesbridge Booth #1544 on Tuesday at 10am to get a signed copy of his new book all about lizards!


News and Reviews

Pig Pig Meets the Lion received a starred review from Publishers Weekly!

A Black Hole is NOT a Hole has received FOUR starred reviews—from Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal, Booklist, and The Horn Book.

The Cazuela That the Farm Maiden Stirred is on the 2012 Notable Children's Books in the Language Arts list (sponsored by NCTE).

After the Kill, Family Pack, and What’s for Dinner have all been selected to the 2012 list of Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12!

From EarlyLight Books, Animal Eyes and Caterpillars have been selected to the 2012 list of Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12!

Under the Mambo Moon is on the 2012-2013 Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List!

Flying the Dragon has been chosen for the Kids’ Indie Summer Next List! This new middle-grade novel releases in July 2012.

While You Are Sleeping is on the 2012 Notable Books for a Global Society list.

I Am Different! has been chosen for the 2012 USBBY Outstanding International Books honor list!

Music Was IT is the winner of the Sydney Taylor Book Award in the Older Readers category.

The Cazuela That the Farm Maiden Stirred is a Pura Belpré Illustrator Honor Book!

The Cazuela That the Farm Maiden Stirred, I Am Different!, While You Are Sleeping, Under the Mambo Moon, and Music Was IT have been selected for Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 2012.

 

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Announcing:

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Pura Belpré Illustrator
Honor Book

Rafael López thanks
the committee—
click here
to check out the video!

 

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• Sydney Taylor Book
Award winner

• National Jewish Book
Award finalist

• YALSA Award for Excellence
in Nonfiction for Young
Adults finalist

 

 

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