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Heartlanders visit local elementary school

Colleen Ryckert Cook — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 19:07:56 +0000

Authors Anola Pickett and Charlotte Adelsperger were classroom presenters at Mill Creek Elementary School in Shawnee Mission School District on February 17, 2012. Left: Charlotte visits with fourth graders after her presentation. Right: Anola and Charlotte at the school’s Creative Communication Workshop event, as Anola displays her children’s novel, Wasatch Summer.

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Heartlanders visit local elementary school

New release for Charlotte Adelsperger

Colleen Ryckert Cook — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 07:10:11 +0000

Charlotte Adelsperger’s picture book, Amazing Miracles of Jesus, illustrated by Nancy Munger, was released in January, 2012. It is a new addition to Standard Publishing’s Happy Day book series for children ages 3-7. The series has sold more than 4 million copies worldwide. Congratulations, Charlotte!

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New release for Charlotte Adelsperger

Release Day for Elizabeth C. Bunce and LIAR’S MOON!

Colleen Ryckert Cook — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 12:33:17 +0000

Welcome back Digger!

Check out the Liar’s Moon trailer here!

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Release Day for Elizabeth C. Bunce and LIAR’S MOON!

Congratulations to Barbara Stuber!

Colleen Ryckert Cook — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 02:18:53 +0000

CROSSING THE TRACKS won the 2011 Writer’s League of Texas Award for Best Book for Young People! Find out more here: http://www.writersleague.org/contests/book-awards.htm

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Congratulations to Barbara Stuber!

Picture book sale for Bridget Heos!

Colleen Ryckert Cook — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 12:43:10 +0000

It’s a Boy! With a mustache! Bridget Brewster Heos announces the sale of her first fictional picture book, MUSTACHE BABY, to Daniel Nayeri at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt! Congratulations, Bridget! Find out more about her at http://greetingsfromwaldo.blogspot.com/

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Picture book sale for Bridget Heos!

Springtime celebration for Wasatch Summer

Colleen Ryckert Cook — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 01:30:39 +0000

Anola Pickett is pleased to announce the Kansas City launch of her historical middle grade novel Wasatch Summer will be Friday, May 20 at our wonderful independent bookstore The Reading Reptile. She also will answer questions about “Writing Believable Historical Characters” during ICL’s Writer’s Retreat next week, April 19-21. Drop in and ask her a question at institutechildrenslit.net.

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Springtime celebration for Wasatch Summer

SCBWI Open House April 9

Colleen Ryckert Cook — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 18:30:00 +0000

Join SCBWI’s Regional Advisor and Advisory Committee at Jayhawk Central’s coffee shop on the KU Edward’s Campus for a meet and greet open house. Ask all your questions about children’s writing, publishing, and Twitter but have been too afraid to ask…until now. Plus donuts and coffee! FREE! And because it’s an Open House, you can come anytime you want between 1 pm and 4 pm.

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SCBWI Open House April 9

Heartlanders visit local elementary school

Colleen Ryckert Cook — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 19:01:06 +0000

On February 18, Heartland authors Charlotte Adelsperger, Bridget Heos, Anola Pickett and Colleen Ryckert Cook spoke to fourth and fifth graders at Mill Creek Elementary as part of their Creative Communications Workshop. The annual workshop also featured Mary Anne Demeritt, Darlene Isaacson, Chris Koppenhaver, John Martellaro, Jesse Miguel, Steven Mirakian, Julanne Patrick, Connie Richards, Yvonne Rosser and Jill Silva. Thanks to the parents and students at Mill Creek! We had a blast!

Colleen Cook, Charlotte Adelsperger,
Bridget Heos and Anola Pickett

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Heartlanders visit local elementary school

Stuber up for ALA’s Morris Award!

Colleen Ryckert Cook — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 20:15:36 +0000

Barbara Stuber’s young adult debut Crossing the Tracks is one of five finalists for the American Library Assocation’s William C. Morris Award! The winner will be announced at the ALA’s Midwinter Conference. Congratulations Barb and Iris!

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Stuber up for ALA’s Morris Award!

Bunce and Stuber make ALA list!

Colleen Ryckert Cook — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 21:09:35 +0000

Join us as we toot horns and spray silly string all over Barbara Stuber and Elizabeth C. Bunce! The Young Adult Library Services Association, part of the American Library Association, nominated their books for the 2010 Best Fiction for Young Adults. In Stuber’s debut novel, Crossing the Tracks (Margaret K. McElderry) 15-year-old Iris finds a home in the unlikeliest of places. The historical fiction is set in rural 1920s Missouri. StarCrossed (Arthur A. Levine Books) is Bunce’s second novel. The historical fantasy novel features spunky heroine Digger, a thief who gets caught up in the political machinations of a society that forbids magic. See all the nominees here.

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Bunce and Stuber make ALA list!