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Three Things on Monday: A Reminder, A Request, and A Resource

The Reminder

Be sure to enter the Holiday Books Giveaway! Leave your email address in the comments section so that if you win, I can contact you for a mailing address. Note: I do not keep email addresses or submit them to publishers or anyone else. Email addresses are only used for receiving mailing addresses of winners and then deleted.

The Request

I am in the process of revising The Joy of Children's Literature for a second edition. If you have used this book, please let me know if you have constructive feedback.



The Resource

I have enthusiastically blogged here, here, and here about the production blog of The Library of the Early Mind, a feature-length documentary film about children’s literature directed by Edward J. Delaney and produced by Edward J. Delaney and Steven Withrow.

Today, I was thrilled to find out that Steven Withrow (in the picture on the left with his daughter) will be contributing a monthly "field notes" column over at Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast. On December 15th, Steven will post his first interview/feature with a children's publishing professional with art director and book designer Susan M. Sherman.

In the mean time, be sure to read Steven's interview (with himself) at the 7-imps blog in which you will learn that he is one amazingly accomplished, and funny, man!

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