When A Dragon Moves In Takes the Cake! April 29, 2012
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In honor of International Edible Book Day, the Louisburg Library in Kansas held a book-themed cake competition, on April 1st. Rachel and Aiden Wood’s dragon cake, modeled after When a Dragon Moves In (written by Jodi Moore, illustrated by Howard McWilliam), landed first prize in the category of most artistic cake, as well as winning the People’s Choice Award.
Read more about When A Dragon Moves In here.
Take a Look at our Monster NOOK October 26, 2011
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Just in time for Halloween, I Need My Monster is now available in a NOOK edition. Read it yourself or enable audio to have it read to you… but don’t get SCARED!
Author Thad Krasnesky at Bridgeport Read Aloud Day October 20, 2010
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n Thursday October 21, Thad Krasnesky, author of That Cat Can’t Stay, will appear in Bridgeport, Connecticut for the 25th annual Read Aloud Day. That Cat Can’t Stay was chosen by the School Volunteers Association of Bridgeport as the best read-aloud for first graders, and it will be read aloud by volunteers (including Thad) in 86 first grade classrooms, from 9 to 10 am.
New Pobble’s Way Activity Guides October 14, 2010
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We just uploaded a terrific set of resources for our newest book, Pobble’s Way, to our web-page.
You can download and print our Parent/Teacher Guide, our Language Arts Activities, and our Pobble Puppets cutout page .
Enjoy!
Bookfoolery and Babble Reviews That Cat Can’t Stay April 18, 2010
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That Cat Can't Stay
Bookfoolery and Babble reviewed That Cat Can’t Stay. Catch their review here.
That Cat Can’t Stay Reviewed in Children’s Literature April 11, 2010
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That Cat Can't Stay
That Cat Can’t Stay was very positively reviewed in Children’s Literature. Reviewers Ken and Sylvia Marantz (authors of The Art of Children’s Picture Books) cited Thad Krasnesky’s “clever rhymed couplets” and David Parkins’s “lively vignettes,” and emphasized that “You do not have to love cats to enjoy this romp.” Read their full review here.
