Katie and the North Star by Katie and Bethany Lopez Release & Giveaway

I'm so excited to share a new children's book by Katie and Bethany Lopez, Katie and the North Star!

This book is suitable for children four and up, and is available now in ebook and paperback!

Cover Design by Regina Wamba of Mae I Design

Illustrations by Hetty Mitchell

Katie and the North Star is a book filled with adventure, joy, and imagination. Join Katie as she learns why she can't keep the North Star all to herself.

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Katie and Bethany Lopez are a mother and daughter writing team. Katie is currently navigating through the first grade. She loves reading, writing, and Shopkins. Bethany writes stories for all ages. She enjoys writing full time, and spending time with her family. Katie and the North Star is their first collaboration.

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Katie and the North Star

by Katie Lopez

Giveaway ends April 15, 2015. See the giveaway details at Goodreads.

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Pinkaboos by Laura & Jake Gosselin Spotlight & Giveaway

Helping Children Fight Fear Since May 2014!

Be Sure to Check out the Fearless Giveaway Below! Enter just by commenting!

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This is going to be the best year ever for best friends Bitterly, Abyssma and Belladonna as they are starting a new school year at Fright School! As young frights they'll learn how to chase aware the fears of little human girls by entering their dreams and teaching them how to overcome nightmares. 

But when Bitterly, the most promising fright, is faced with a school bully and some nightmares of her own, she finds help from the last place she expected-the little girl whom she has sworn to protect. Pinkaboos is an empowering new chapter book series for girls and young readers (6-9) that presents the challenges of childhood through the thrilling and magical world of the Pinkaboos. 

Praise for the Pinkaboos chapter books from the author of Monster High: "Facing fears has never been so much fun. The Pinkaboos are ah-dorable!" -Lisi Harrison, author of The Clique, Alphas, Monster High, Pretenders.

(Chapter book for ages 6-9)

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Laura Gosselin - After receiving her undergraduate degree in English from Cal State University Long Beach in California, Laura Gosselin completed her MFA at Stony Brook Southampton. She has since served as a reporter for a local newspaper in New York, an editor for a national magazine in Vancouver, Canada, as well as senior copywriter for a marketing firm. She currently lives in southern California with her husband and daughter where she works as a creative consultant for Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts.

Jake Gosselin completed his undergraduate degree in Anthropology at the University of Toronto before heading to New York where he finished his MFA in English and Writing at Stony Brook/Southampton College of Long Island University. He currently lives in Southern California where he works as an author, freelance writer and website producer for FourSeasons.com.

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** AWESOME GIVEAWAY **

One lucky reader will win a Kindle along with a Kindle copy of The Pinkaboos!

For a chance to win the Kindle,  share your best anecdote on how your child overcame fear!

-We don't need a novel, just simply share how your little hero conquered their biggest fear or helped someone else conquer fear.-

In addition to the Kindle, each blog on tour will be giving away 5 copies of The Pinkaboos: Bitterly and the Giant Problem just for leaving a general comment below!

And don't forget to leave a way for us to contact you if you win!

Happy & Sad: 30 Day Book Meme

Not long ago, I discovered a lovely book blog, Bibliotica. On it, she was doing a 30-Day Book Meme. According to her blog: "I can’t remember whose blog I saw this on, but I’ve let this site sit idle all spring, and I need to jump-start some content, so I’ll be doing the 30-Day Book Meme, but I will not be posting meme entries every day. Instead, I’ll be posting them 2-3 times a week, til I’ve done all thirty."

I am taking it even more slowly, covering the days here and there. My "30 Days" began last December when I first introduced this meme. Today I'm covering Days 5 and 6: a book that makes you happy and a book that makes you sad.

Happy

I loved Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs as a kid, and I love it even more as a mom. From the sweet grandparents inspiring their grandchildren's imagination to the idea of food falling from the sky, I loved every moment of this book.

Maybe it's because I'm obsessed with food, because I find a little slice of happy on every page. Okay, maybe it also shows my wicked sense of humor. I'm happiest when I'm amused, and seeing a pancake covering a building gets me every time.

Sad

The first book that popped in my head was Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye. I read this book several years ago for a book club, and I cried throughout. It exposed the underbelly of human nature.

I remember being nervous to turn the page, afraid of what would happen next. At times, I didn't think I could go on. Too much sadness. But Toni Morrison crafted such an emotionally intricate tale with characters you cared about that I never could put it down.

Just to give you an idea, this is the book summary from Amazon: Each night Pecola prayed for blue eyes. In her eleven years, no one had ever noticed Pecola. But with blue eyes, she thought, everything would be different. She would be so pretty that her parents would stop fighting. Her father would stop drinking. Her brother would stop running away. If only she could be beautiful. If only people would look at her. When someone finally did, it was her father, drunk. He raped her. New York Times: "So charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry." Winner of The Nobel Prize in Literature

What is your happy/sad book? Was there a book that made you equal parts happy and sad?