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Book Expo

Booksellers! This post is for you, if you are going to Book Expo. 
Especially if you are a bookseller interested in my books for elementary schoolers, but also if you just want to come say hi at BEA!

I have two Fall books --
Toys Come Home (sequel to Toys Go Out and Toy Dance Party -- now a trilogy!) is published by Random House with illustrations by Caldecott-medalist Paul O. Zelinsky.  More info at the RH booth and here.

Small Medium Large is a picture book from Star Bright full of amusing vocabulary that's all about relative sizes -- good especially for the school market that has embraced Five Creatures. Pictures by Tomek Bogacki. If you're a bookseller who wants to see the book at BEA, ring Star Bright and ask for Kathy O'Heir.

If you want to jump on the Invisible Inkling bandwagon, go see the folks at Harper/Balzer+Bray. (Inkling came out in late April -- and the sequel is July 2012.)

Also -- I am not signing, but I am cavorting around the Javitz center, so please come say hello!  I love to meet booksellers. I really do.  I'll be at the Children's Book Breakfast and the Auction, and milling around getting up to hijinks. 

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Now, back to Lockhart stuff --  This article about Frankie Landau-Banks on the YALSA Hub blog is interesting and fun to read.  "Frankie Landau-Banks could go toe-to-toe with Katniss and who the victor would be, I leave that up to you."

Okay, sorry about all that practical stuff. Here, now, as a reward for slogging through it,  pygmy hedgehogs! (I know!  I know!)