From the time I was eight or nine, I wanted to be a writer. Writing was what I liked best in school; it was what I did best in school. I was a solitary child, born the middle of three, who lived in the world of books and my own imagination.

Official website of Cynthia Lord, Newbery Honor Award-winning author of children's books.

© 1998, 336 pages, a guidebook to the best 185 Maine children's books at that time (including Robert McCloskey and Barbara Cooney classics); each included book has learning activities plus author/illustrator bios.

RESOURCES READ about the creation and sharing of Seven Days of Daisy (Jamiepeeps Blog Posts) READ an Interview with Jamie Hogan ( Portland Press Herald) READ an Interview with Jamie Hogan (7 Impossible Things Before Breakfast)

Seaward Born, which begins in Charleston, South Carolina, and then moves to Boston, Massachusetts, before - you guessed it! - moving to Wiscasset. In setting several stand-alone books in the same place but in different years, Lea shows readers how towns, and the ways people live in them, change over the years, although some problems young people deal with today, like bullying, they also dealt with in 1820 (Wintering Well) and 1838 (Finest Kind.)

The Secret Pool, 2014 Lupine Award. Bearly There, A bear in your back yard? The Very Best Bed, Where do animals sleep? Thanks to the Animals, a Passamaquoddy story.

Quick, Little Monkey! (on shelves in March 2016) got two lovely reviews last week! Kirkus Reviews says: Clinging to her father's back, Little Monkey travels safely across jungle treetops until one day she's distracted and tumbles downward to the dark forest floor, where hungry predators lurk.

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