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		<title>Review: We&#8217;ve Got a Job</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:40:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurie Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; We’ve Got a Job by Cynthia Levinson Peachtree Publishers, February 1, 2012 176 pages Ages: 10 and up Oscar Wilde supposedly said, “Any fool can make history, but it takes genius to write it.” While I don’t necessarily agree with the first part, the second part absolutely rings true. After all, how do you make a story [...]
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		<title>STEM Friday roundup is here!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurie Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m thrilled to be hosting STEM Friday today! If you reviewed a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) book for kids on your blog today, please leave your link in the comments or on Twitter (@lauriethompson), and I will add you to the round-up throughout the day. Thanks! My contribution to this week&#8217;s STEM Friday, a review of [...]
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		<title>Review: In Search of Sasquatch</title>
		<link>http://lauriethompson.com/2012/01/20/review-search-sasquatch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:59:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurie Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Search of Sasquatch by Kelly Milner Halls Houghton Mifflin Books for Children (October 25, 1011) 64 pages, ages 9 and up When I was a kid, one of my favorite books was BIGFOOT: MAN, MONSTER, OR MYTH? by Carrie Carmichael (Raintree, 1977). I&#8217;ve always been an animal lover, and I loved the possibility that there [...]
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		<title>Read more kids&#8217; nonfiction in 2012!</title>
		<link>http://lauriethompson.com/2012/01/02/read-kids-nonfiction-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 19:23:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurie Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Still trying to come up with some resolutions for the new year? Or would you prefer having one or two that are more pleasure than pain? Well, in the spirit of &#8230;I&#8217;ve got just the thing for you! Read more nonfiction for kids! There are two challenges out there right now to help you do [...]
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		<title>Review: Bring On the Birds</title>
		<link>http://lauriethompson.com/2011/12/23/review-bring-birds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 19:27:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurie Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bring On the Birds written and illustrated by Susan Stockdale Peachtree Publishers (February 1, 2011) 32 pages, ages 4 and up This is one of my favorite books of all the nominations in the Cybils Nonfiction Picture Book category this year, and I just can’t get over how absolutely perfect it is. The poetic text is [...]
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 14:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurie Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amazing Kitchen Chemistry Projects You Can Make Yourself by Cynthia Light Brown (Author) Nomad Press (May 1, 2008) 122 pages Ages: 9-12 From the publisher&#8217;s web page: “In Amazing Kitchen Chemistry Projects You Can Build Yourself, kids ages 9 and up will experiment with kitchen materials to discover chemistry. Readers will learn about atoms, molecules, solids, [...]
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		<title>Review: Picture Yourself Writing Poetry</title>
		<link>http://lauriethompson.com/2011/12/05/review-picture-writing-poetry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurie Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Picture Yourself Writing Poetry: Using Photos to Inspire Writing by Laura Purdie Salas Capstone Press, August 2011 32 pages Ages: 8 and up This title is one of the Picture Yourself Writing ____: Using Photos to Inspire Writing series, and it&#8217;s quite effective—it inspired me to write! Not only does it demonstrate how one can use images [...]
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		<title>My article in Odyssey about non-Newtonian fluids</title>
		<link>http://lauriethompson.com/2011/10/05/article-odyssey-nonnewtonian-fluids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 21:54:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurie Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Odyssey does such a great job with their science magazine for kids. Check out the cover of this month&#8217;s issue for October 2011, with the theme &#8220;Slimes and Other Messy Science:&#8221; FUN, no? And here&#8217;s my article and activity, which appear on pages 20-24: Enjoy! Be Sociable, Share! TweetRelated posts: KONO Magazine &#8212; Bones of Steel [...]
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		<title>Humor in nonfiction books for kids</title>
		<link>http://lauriethompson.com/2011/10/03/humor-nonfiction-kids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 19:04:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some people think nonfiction is dry and boring. How can facts be fun, right? WRONG! Humor in nonfiction not only gets and keeps readers engaged, it can also help them retain the information longer. My fellow writers of nonfiction for kids (on the NFforKids Yahoo group and on Twitter) and I have put together a list of our favorite FUNNY nonfiction [...]
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		<title>2011 CYBILS, Nonfiction Picture Books&#8230; and me!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2011 06:12:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurie Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m absolutely thrilled to announce that I&#8217;ve been selected to serve as a judge in the nonfiction picture book (NFPB) category of the 2011 CYBILS (Children&#8217;s and Young Adult Blogger&#8217;s Literary Awards)! I write nonfiction picture books, so I read a lot of nonfiction picture books. Now, I get to help recognize the best of [...]
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