At the end of April, I attended the American Bookseller’s Association for Children’s Booksellers (ABC’s) Children’s Institute in California. It should come as no surprise to any of you that I collected 77, yes SEVENTY-SEVEN books, ranging from picture books to young adult novels. As I was going through them to determine which one to read first, I decided to read the first page of the top 20 that I was most excited about after hearing the publisher reps speak. Some I was able to put down and move on after reading page one, and some I ended up
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