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Lots of sparkly stuff has been going on lately . . .

A Caldecott Honor was given this year to Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in Colors. Here are Pamela Zagarensky, Joyce, and editor Ann Rider from Houghton Mifflin, celebrating at the ALA Convention in Washington, D.C.!

Ubiquitous: Celebrating Nature's Survivors, published Spring 2010,  has accumulated five starred reviews!  Click on the cover to find out more and watch a book trailer.

Due to be published this fall, Dark Emperor & Other Poems of the Night has already received four starred reviews!  Booklist calls it "thrilling . . . astonishing . . . compelling."  Watch book trailer below!