The Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing Children's Books, 3rd Edition

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Effect::: “Honest and precise… everything about writing for children there is to know.”
—Jane Yolen, author

Here is the comprehensive guide to writing, publishing, and selling for the ever-expanding and always exciting children’s market—now in a new and updated third edition.

• Includes new chapters on self-publishing and on "how to choose a how-to", plus revision and updates throughout
• Offers practical advice on getting started--and on dealing with out-of-print books
• Covers picture books, chapter books, nonfiction, middle-grade and young novels, and common formats and genres
• Reveals what happens inside a children's publishing company, and provides guidance in working with an editor
• Sample cover and query letters, manuscript format, glossary, and recommended resources in an extensive appendix
• Plus information on agents, contracts, copyright, marketing, and moreUser friendly.

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I'm about halfway through this book and thrilled with the amount of information in it. I had already taken a writing course so I was already familiar with some of the information but this book goes into much more detail than my course did. It provides lots of information and resources. I would recommend it for anyone trying to write for children. There are also a few chapters for those who wish to illustrate for children. Great book.

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The Better Bladder Book: A Holistic Approach to Healing Interstitial Cystitis and Chronic Pelvic Pain

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Bladder problems affect millions of people, and recovery is often difficult and incomplete. As a registered nurse, Wendy Cohan has provided health information and treatments for patients with a number of bladder conditions. She begins with a description of the anatomy and function of the urological system and the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of typical bladder problems. She lists frequently prescribed medications, explains how they work, and identifies their side effects. The bulk of the book picks up where medical treatment leaves off: the use of diet and herbs, regular exercise, stress and pain reduction techniques, and methods for better sleep are discussed. Cohan includes self-assessments, meal plans, herbal recipes, and a week-by-week recovery plan to create a complete holistic approach to bladder wellness. Information on specific diets, a review of the range of conditions that can cause pelvic pain, and a thorough guide to additional resources complete the book.

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The Help

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Effect::: Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step.

Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.

Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken.

Minny, Aibileen’s best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody’s business, but she can’t mind her tongue, so she’s lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own.

Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.

In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women—mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends—view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don’t.User friendly.

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Very good historical fiction book centered around three women (two black maids and one privileged white woman) in civil rights era Mississippi. It was suspenseful, which kept me reading, but I never felt a true connection to the characters. The book is written in rotating first person among the 3 lead characters, except one omniscient chapter about three-quarters of the way in (really annoying, to me at least). I thought the end was a little flat too. Still, I give it 4 stars because it kept me wanting more.

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Winter's Heart (The Wheel of Time, Book 9)

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Effect::: The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.

Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time.
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Here we have the ninth book in the series. I have read this book at least twice before. We diverged with Perrin in a extraneous quest but he needed something to balance all the fun Mat seems to be having.

Thus we run square into the problem that Jordan has created, too many streams. The entire discussion during this reread is where can this series end, for it was a trilogy.

After the series achieved success others will show how Jordan purports to have thousands of pages on the history of the world. That is all well and good, but back when the story was only going to be a trilogy, you wouldn't need to create so much unless you were sure you were going to be paid for it. Before WoT, Jordan was not all that well published. Conan books, and not as memorable as the items published much earlier by those who expanded on Howard's iconic barbarian hero.

But now as a writer making money. Probably very good money, why not take the time to step back and create a mega opus. Bigger then Tolkien who is regard as the God of Fantasy.

Why not write so many character sketches that you can fill rooms with them. That may make the world richer, but it sets up problems. Winter's Heart fails though not as badly as the previous transition book. The failure is having so many story lines that justice is not done to any of them.

Further the time scale is again destroyed, where earlier books almost a year will pass in the telling, now it is weeks, and our heroes can accomplish what used to take them months. One has to remember that they are novices at there jobs of magic casters, or rulers, or battle leaders despite what memories may be inside their head.

Those of you who aren't twenty, how many really know that it does take years to have the wisdom to read people. To analyze the interactions of your environment quickly and correctly. If every twenty year old could do it (And there are several in Jordan's world who can.) Then what need of older people. Surely everyone over twenty-five are idiots...

In the Music Man, "The older-but wiser girl for me..." (It was on last night) and that is highlighted everytime a Wise One or Aes Sedai of years of experience is bossed around by one of the children. Sure they need to be heroic, but elders need to help them manage, not jump to every order.

So again do you read this book. Well it is better than the previous for stories, though shortened, do complete. But once again Jordan is stretching out his trilogy beyond all reason.

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The Little Red Caboose (Little Golden Book)

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This is one of those stories that all kids know, or eventually will. This story was first published around 1952. It is still around and as popular as ever. This says a lot. The story by Marian and the Illustrations by Tibor Gergely in this edition are great. The text is quite readable and the pictures eye catching. The theme of the story "too help" is quite universal and no worse for the wear. This is a nice additon to any childern's library. Recommend this one highly.

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The Secret of the Old Clock (Nancy Drew, Book 1)

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Effect::: Nancy Drew's keen mind is tested when she searches for a missing will.User friendly.

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NOTE: The original version of "The Secret of the Old Clock" was written in 1930 and was 210 pages long, but the book I am reviewing is the rewritten version from 1959, and is only 180 pages long, including illustrations.

This book is first in the standard "yellow hardcover" Nancy Drew series, and is definitely one of the better books in the series, suitable to capture the attention of new readers and invite them into this classic world in which any criminal or fraudulent activities become targeted by the relentless teen sleuth!

The standard "yellow hardcover" series generally has three types of books, and this volume is of type number 2:

1. Totally new stories written and published between 1957 and the early 1980s. Most of the yellow books that fall into this category are not that great (for example, Mystery of the Moss-Covered Mansion). Instead of keeping focused on mystery and adventure, they tend to pause the story to include "educational material," and they tend to have over-complicated plots with too many characters that have very little to distinguish them from each other. They feel quite artificial in design and have a bland tone focused more on Nancy's perpetual schedule of appointments, with the mystery often dragged out over a matter of weeks because of trivial obstacles and distractions and runs of "bad luck." Try to identify which books were written in this fashion, and avoid them until you've read all those that were written in the other two styles. The original stories tended to all be much better than these re-writes, although a few of these new stories did turn out okay. One hint to identify which books were these weaker ones is that they were usually written in the late 1960s or early-mid 1970s, and the artwork is often inferior to that contained in the other volumes. Since some decent stories were also written during that same time period, a second hint is that the volumes that were originally written in the 1930s to early 1940s tended not to fare very well in their "yellow edition" re-writes - these primarily include many of the volumes numbered in the teens, but also apply to the majority of new volumes numbered in the late 30s to the early 50s. For example, "The Secret of the Golden Pavilion," which starts okay and then drags out into mediocrity. These types of books are usually readable, but are much slower-going and less interesting than the other two types of stories, described below. New readers may find them okay, but seasoned readers will feel at least a bit of disappointment.

2. Rewritten versions of the old, original stories that were first published in 1930. These types of stories (mostly those re-written before 1965) tend to be pretty good, retaining the ideas of the original novels, but in an updated form that is set in the latter half of the 20th Century rather than the first half of it. They are pretty fun books, even though the writing style is not as moody and detailed as the original, longer versions. Many of the books in this style keep the focus on adventure and mystery, sometimes including long action scenes (such as chases, suspenseful investigations, stakeouts, and faceoffs with criminals in perilous circumstances). These books keep the flavor of what made these stories good. The mystery is usually solved within a week or less, with memorable, swift-moving action and moodiness. The centerpiece of "The Secret of the Old Clock" is when Nancy finds and pursues criminals while looking for a vital clue that will restore swindled property back into the hands of its deserving owners, and this adventure scene moves along for dozens of pages without a break in the suspense, just as the original book had. This style of storytelling is much better than the newer "type 1" stories in which a brief, contrived-feeling event happens at the end of each chapter, only to be resolved quickly on the very next page. (That kind of storytelling was not very memorable.) "The Secret of the Old Clock" starts the "yellow hardcover" series very well, and this good start continues in volumes #2, 3, 6, 7, and 9 in a similar style of memorable storytelling that is faithful to the originals despite being shortened markedly. Those 6 books should probably be read first, and contain some of the best stories in the "yellow hardcover" series. The artwork tends to be quite good, as well!

3. Edited, shorter versions of the original stories that were published from the early 1930s until 1956. These are usually pretty good as well, so long as the original story was of good quality. Examples include "Clue in the Crumbling Wall" and "The Ghost of Blackwood Hall." This style usually covers those books that were originally published from the late 1940s and early 1950s that were re-released with mere editing instead of re-writing, and so these books often retain the flavor of the original stories quite well. These tend to be the volumes numbered in the 20s and early 30s. The quality of the artwork varies from good to fair, but since it's the story that counts, these stories are usually a good bet.

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Sticker Activity ABC (Sticker Activity Fun)

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First learning fun for preschoolers

 

Combination of puzzles, coloring, activities and over 100 stickers

 

Encourage hand-eye coordination and problem-solving skills

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I love this sticker book. Now, I'm trying to find sticker books for everything. My 3 year old that didn't seem ready for learning is loving this book and can't get enough of it. She wants to do it every day. I took out the sticker pages so she could look at it more closely. This book doesn't have anything bad in it. I always have trouble with ABC books containing things like U for unicorn and M for monster which we don't want for our children. This is excellent. My 8 year old that I also homeschool loves baby stuff more than her own work. I'm looking for something more her age that has sticker activities. I'm looking for maybe map stickers or reptile, amphibian classification stickers. This is GREAT! But I'm not that picky, I just want my kids to love learning because I plan on homeschooling all of them.

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Glory in Death (In Death, Book 2)

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Effect::: In Lieutenant Eve Dallas's latest case, two murder victims have one connection--Eve's lover, Roarke.User friendly.

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Not as good as the first...but oh my it's still a 5 Star!!!

I know now that I'm in trouble with this series...how in the world am I going to be able to read anything else now that I've started?! I'll try to make myself quit after the next one in line because I don't want to burn myself out...but HOW will I do it?!

The only concerns I have...and I mean the only (at this point) is...Is Roarke going to continue to be the suspect in every case AND where do Roarke and Eve go from here? I mean I still have 30 books left to read in this series. I'm guessing she's going to break them up a couple times or put someone else between them. That has to be what happens. If they get married now then by the time the series is over they'll be an old married couple (and really how much fun would that be to read about)....But I can't wait to find out!

If you haven't started this series yet...then beware...you better have a few on hand b/c I promise 1 (or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5) at a time will never be enough!

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Kitty and the Midnight Hour (Kitty Norville, Book 1)

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Effect::: Description: VAMPIRES. WEREWOLVES. TALK RADIO. Kitty Norville is a midnight-shift DJ for a Denver radio station—and a werewolf in the closet. Sick of lame song requests, she accidentally starts "The Midnight Hour," a late-night advice show for the supernaturally disadvantaged. After desperate vampires, werewolves, and witches across the country begin calling in to share their woes, her new show is a raging success. But it’s Kitty who can use some help. With one sexy werewolf-hunter and a few homicidal undead on her tail, Kitty may have bitten off more than she can chew…User friendly.

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I almost didn't finish this book. The first half of the book you deal with Kitty whining all of the time and being spineless. She always seemed to coward behind the men in the wolf pack and took no stand for herself and acted, well, girlie. I was thinking that she was going to be a kick ass werewolf. But that is not the case in the first half of the book.

Saying this, I loved the book. Weird, right? The second half of the book picked up and had tons of action and Kitty finally starts to take control and be the bad ass wolf that I wanted her to be in the beginning.

The book starts off with Kitty at her job at a radio station. She ends up taking a midnight shift filling in for someone, only to take the show and turn it to werewolves and vampires. The show gets such a huge audience that Kitty gets her own show every week. Finally the truth comes out about what she really is and a man named Cormac comes to the radio station to kill Kitty. Which Kitty later finds out is tipped off by someone from her own pack.

I really enjoyed this part of the book, I liked how the book read like you were listening to the radio show. And I also really enjoyed Kitty and Cormac's relationship as the book kept going. I am hoping that there is more of him in the next book.

Not sure what the next book holds since Kitty is now traveling. But even though this book started off bad at the beginning I still give it a 5 out of 5 because I loved the second half and can't wait to read book 2!

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