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		<title>Land, Ho!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a pic of Pembroke (NH) School librarian Susan Demanche and me taken last month during a wonderful two-day visit to the Village and Hill Schools.Though it isn&#8217;t clear from the photo, the boat is docked in the Village School&#8217;s library, which as I think about it, seems to me to be one of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why I Write for Kids</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a picture of a young reader trying her hand at &#8220;The Octopus&#8221;, one of the short poems from In the Sea, the third and latest (Feb 14, 2012) in a proposed series of five picture books Holly Meade and I are doing with Candlewick Press. (No page for the book on my site, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And Here&#8217;s to You, Portland, ME!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Though most writers hope their books will stand the test of time, we are smart enough to understand that they can&#8217;t endure the elements for more than a moment. While their souls &#8211;if books have souls &#8212; might be eternal, their bones are fragile things. An April shower? A light snow? Forget about it. Pulp [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finn tobt!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lately, I find myself increasingly leery of metaphors. Odd, for a writer I know. But places of employment are not families, institutions of higher education are not corporations. After all, I&#8217;ve never asked a boss for the keys to her car. Nor as a teacher have I ever been paid on a scale even roughly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Defiance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just back from a two-day school visit in Defiance, Ohio. Sponsored by The Friends of the Defiance Public Library, this event allowed me to see every, or almost every third-grade kid in the county. The two days of presentations were held on the campus of The Defiance College, a small liberal arts institution from which, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Here&#8217;s to the Worms!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I spent the day at the elementary school in my town, Warner, NH. A K-5 school with fewer than two hundred students. Warner is not a wealthy community, certainly not as tony as Hopkinton, our rich neighbor to the south, and several tax bumps down from New London, to the north. And yet, thanks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bunnies in Bangkok</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, I&#8217;m a grown man. And yes, I DID write a book called Wuv Bunnies from Outers Pace. And to prove it, here are a bunch of kids in Bangkok reading it. Wuv Bunnies is completely silly. The bad bunny has a lisp and wears braces. The good bunnies smooch the protagonist and anyone else [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Foundation for Children&#8217;s Books</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Saturday morning, I had the honor of sharing the stage with the inimitable Anita Silvey, children&#8217;s author Lenore Look, and Terri Schmitz, owner of The Children&#8217;s Book Shop in Brookline, MA. The four of us had been invited to participate in a program of The Foundation for Children&#8217;s Books. Our audience was made up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sly as a . . .</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This little guy is our neighborhood mascot. Barbara and I saw him in the snow this morning, just outside our kitchen window. He stood for a minute or two, looked at us looking at him, then loped into a small stand of maples. In less than fifteen seconds he re-emerged, a dove (I think) in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Birds with One etc.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My friend Joanne complained that there were no pictures of my bearded collie, Psyche, on the site.  The next day, Psyche complained that there were no pictures of Joanne on the site. Go figure. In the interest of keeping everybody happy . . . &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160;]]></description>
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