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My new chapter book series,
KATHARINE THE ALMOST GREAT, is available in January 2009 through Magic Wagon
a division of the ABDO Group (www.abdopublishing.com)
or your educational wholesaler.
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Look for my nonfiction Cheerleading Series in 2010 from Enslow Publishers!
Splashing by the Shore
was published by Gibbs Smith in
spring,
2007. It's part of their successful Outdoor Activity
Series (200,000 copies sold!) featured
here.The last several books in the series have been illustrated by Debra Spina
Dixon. You may recognize her work from American Girl Magazine and
this book.
Splashing by the Shore was
featured in the
July/August issue of NICK
JR. magazine. To peek
inside, click
here.
This was my first book! I was lucky to have the
opportunity to write it for Scholastic with my husband who is a huge
Peanuts fan! Although you couldn't buy it in stores, it was
available in Scholastic's Book Club flyer as a "Club" book. That
means that the series was delivered to your home throughout the year.
Growing up, I loved ordering from the Scholastic book order and can
still remember the first books I ever ordered: The Five Chinese
Brothers and Mother, Mother I Feel Sick, Send for the Doctor
Quick, Quick, Quick.
When it came out, I was a librarian at Liberty
Corner School in Basking Ridge, NJ. Lots of my students rushed to see me
when they got their order form and shouted, "You're famous!" I
wasn't famous but seeing my book in the Scholastic flyer made me feel
like a rock star!
Although I didn't write the five books below, I had to REWRITE them
for the US market.
Splashing by the Shore
was published by Gibbs Smith in
spring,
2007. It's part of their successful Outdoor Activity
Series (200,000 copies sold!) featured 
