2013 Book Festival Authors and Illustrators
| Author and Web Site | Featured Book | Biography/Awards | 3 Fun Facts! |
www.facebook.com/TheVeryHungryZombie |
 The Very Hungry Zombie |
I was born on my sister's 10th birthday. In a small mill town in eastern Pennsylvania. I learned to draw playing scribble games with my dad and doodling on the sidewalk along the side of our house with pieces of coal from our furnace. I am a veteran. One of four in my family. (Including my mom.) I work in all mediums. (And a couple extra larges.) The Very Hungry Zombie is my very first book.Book of the Year - Field and Scream Magazine Bone Appetit- Tastiest Book Slayboy Magazine - Slaymate of the Year
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1. I can write my name backwards and forwards at the same time.
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www.edwardaverett.com |
 Cameron and the Girls |
Except for four years living in the wilds of Spain, Edward Averett has lived his life in the Pacific Northwest. He likes to write about families and how they manage to transcend difficult times. He is the author of HOMING, THE RHYMING SEASON, THREE STAR PRIVATE NUISANCE and CAMERON AND THE GIRLS. THE RHYMING SEASON was selected as one of the NYPL Best Books for the Teen Age in 2005. Was also a finalist for the Utah Beehive Award in 2006-2007. |
1. Lived for four years in a small village in Andalusia, Spain. 2. Fastest reader in my sixth grade class; clocked at 1250 words per minute. 3. In Kindergarten, won a nickel for being the quietest boy at a birthday party. |
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 Speckled Little Pumpkin |
Author Mary Beth Bamat is married and the mother of three children. She resides in the woodlands of Central, Pennsylvania. Her work with the Head Start Program has led her to writing children picture books. Her series "Farmer Pete's Early Childhood Teaching Tools" is an excellent tool for teachers and parents to use in both the classroom and at home. I am honored to have had the opportunity to create a series of children picture books entitled "Farmer Pete's Early Childhood Teaching Tools". I am also honored to have the opportunity to share these stories with children in schools and libraries |
1. I'm very creative and fun especially around children.
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www.norabaskin.com |
 The Summer Before Boys |
Nora Raleigh Baskin has won several awards including the 2010 ALA Schneider Family award for Anything But Typical. A 2001 Publishers Weekly Flying Start, Ms. Baskin has also published short stories and personal narrative essays which have appeared in The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine and The Writer Magazine. Ms. Baskin teaches creative writing at the Gotham Writers Workshop and the Writers Center in Sleepy Hollow, NY. Her 8th young adult novel The Summer Before Boys received a starred review from Kirkus. A YA novel, Surfacing and a MG novel, Runt are both being released in 2013. ALA Schneider Family award 2009 Publisher’s Weekly Flying Starts2001 2008 Jewish Book council selection ALA Notable books 2009 |
1. I am a certified Yoga instructor
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www.acebauer.com |
 Gil Marsh |
A.C.E. Bauer has published two middle grade novels, No Castles Here and Come Fall, and a young adult novel, Gil Marsh. As a kid she was a math geek who failed every spelling test she took until her 7th grade. She eventually became a lawyer before devoting herself full time to writing children's books. Born and raised in Montreal, she spends most of the year in New England, and much of the summer on a lake in Quebec. * ALA Rainbow List * Finalist, Tassy Walden Awards, New Voices in Children's Literature * Starred reviews in Kirkus Reviews and Publishers Weekly * CCBC Choices Book |
1. I'm bilingual: I speak English and French, and until I started school, I had trouble distinguishing between the two languages.
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www.artiebennett.com |
 Poopendous |
Artie Bennett is the executive copy editor for a children's book publisher and he writes a little on the side (but not the backside!). His itch to write gave us The Dinosaur Joke Book: A Compendium of Pre-Hysteric Puns (currently extinct) when he was a much younger man. The Butt Book, however, was his first "mature" work. The Butt Book was showered with praise and won the prestigious Reuben Award for Book Illustration. His "number two" picture book, fittingly, is entitled Poopendous! What more fertile topic could there be but poop! Artie was the youngest (at age thirteen) person to originate and sell a crossword puzzle to the New York Times. He went on to sell several dailies and two large Sunday puzzles to the Times before he began college. It's been downhill ever since. He and his wife, Leah, live deep in the bowels of Brooklyn, New York, where he spends his spare time moving his car to satisfy the rigorous demands of alternate-side-of-the-street parking. He is pleased to share the visionary promise of The Butt Book and Poopendous! with a wider audience. Visit ArtieBennett.com . . . before someone else does!Nominated for a Cybils Award for Best Nonfiction Picture BookA Best Picture Book for Boys (The Huffington Post) A Best Picture Book of Summer 2012 (Imagination Soup) The July Book of the Month (The Children's Nook) A Best Children's Picture Book of 2012 (Gumdrop) The Butt Book |
1. I find a dime a day. If a day goes by and I don't find a dime, I'll find two dimes the next day. I can't explain it, but it all evens out in the end. 2. I have a serious three-scoop-a-day ice cream habit. It's an alarming addiction I know, but it's my only vice. Is it ice cream time yet? 3. Though a natural right-handed hitter, I taught myself to switch-hit in Little League, emulating my idol Mickey Mantle. |
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www.jenniferberne.com |
 ON A BEAM OF LIGHT: A Story of Albert Einstein |
Jennifer Berne is the award-winning author of Manfish: A Story of Jacques Cousteau and Calvin Can't Fly: The Story of a Bookworm Birdie. She grew up in New York City where she was active in dance and theater as a child. She studied art and design, worked for Andy Warhol at "The Factory." After a successful career in advertising, Jennifer began writing for Nick Jr. Magazine and writing books about the subjects she loves most - our amazing universe and the people who discover its secrets. She lives in a house she designed in the rolling hills of Columbia County, NY. MANFISH AWARDS:
CALVIN CAN'T FLY AWARDS:
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1. I cruised from Maine to the Bahamas, in a sailboat with my husband and our cat.
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 There's A Story in Every Box |
Dr. Birzon has been a health care provider for over 30 years, a spouse and father for almost as long, making his home in western New York. |
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www.jennifercastle.com |
 The Beginning of After |
Jennifer Castle's debut novel "The Beginning of After" was a 2012 YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults selection. Her second novel, "You Look Different in Real Life" will be published June 4, 2013. She lives in New Paltz, NY with her family. 2012 YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults selection 2012 Chicago Public Library "Best of the Best" Book |
1. I used to be a screenwriter
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www.craftsforlearning.com |
 Robotics |
Kathy is the author of several nonfiction activity books for kids and co-creator of the GeekMom blog and book. She loves presenting hands-on workshops combining science, history and art for kids, parents and teachers at schools, museums and libraries. Visit her at www.craftsforlearning.com. 2010 Skipping Stones Honor Award for Discover the Desert Robotics was named a 2012 Chicago Public Library "Best of the Best" Book. |
1. Kathy is a big science fiction fan -- she attended one of the first Star Trek conventions
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