sally lloyd-jones
this page is a dreadfully UNBritish but excellent way to keep you posted on crunchy new books, events, etc... So perhaps you'll forgive me? won't you?

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Affiliation:
Children's book writer
Location:
New York, NY
Birthday:
March 31

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THE NEW BOOK!


Companion to the bestselling HOW TO BE A BABY. To find out more, click here


THE OTHER NEW BOOK!


A cheeky, hilarious look at manners and why we need them (sort of). More here


NYT Bestseller
Notable of 2007


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Grandparents' Favorite


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the book everyone's talking about...


Award-winning, bestseller. To find out more or buy, click here


to get you dancing and singing...

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(Plinth is a nice word. And Fourth Plinth is even nicer. It's also quite nice to say it twice. Fourth Plinth Fourth Plinth. Except then you feel as if you have something wrong with your tongue)Trafalgar Square has four plinths. (Sorry...
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random fact for todayit will be... shortly...(in America at least)12:34:56 7/8/9and all over the world, in a couple of months, it will be09:09:09 09/09/09What does it all mean? Nothingand now i have a headache.
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Nicholas Kristof of the NYT has made his list of the top 10. His kids have too.Needless to say they aren't the same. Not even close.I don't think I'm even going to try and make my own top 10 list ... although I will say (because it's one of my all time favorites and I can't help it) .....
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The Stomatol sign in Söder. How cool is that?Other cool Swedish signs: check them out here.(don't actually speak swedish. as such. Just pretending. I like it so much in fact--pretending and signs--that I'm going to start a small series of Swedish signs for Fridays... this is the first...
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World Magazine, in their Books Issue, interviewed me and did a fun article about how I came to write in the first place and what brought me to the US. (You can read here.) Which was very nice of them...
Leslie
Leslie
Nice picture--and don't jump!
Leslie
Leslie
Great interview in World Mag--learned lots about you : )
Sennu
Sennu
What a great article (picture too!)! I was in tears, especially the ending was so touching.
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"I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter." — Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662), Lettres provinciales, letter 16, 1657Reminds me what that giant of succinctness, the Revd. John Stott, says. For every minute in the pulpit he spends an hour preparing...
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sally lloyd-jones another piggy review: this one is from kansas
brilliant quote: "dirty, slow, noisy, messy, goofy kids everywhere will love this book."

Source: www.kansas.com
"Riki's Birdhouse," by Monica Wellington (Dutton Children's Books, ages 3-5, $16.99), is a wonderful introduction to backyard bird watching.
Leslie
Leslie
God bless those dirty kids!
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sally lloyd-jones BEING A PIG IS NICE featured in a nice piggy round up

Source: www.apatchworkofbooks.blogspot.com
Children's librarian by day, book reviewer by night! I love to read all genres and age levels and then share the results with all of you. Books are my passion in life, as are my husband and my sweet dogs.
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Written by Michael Jackson & Lionel RichieMJ RIP
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"Plot springs from character... I've always sort of believed that these people inside me- these characters- know who they are and what they're about and what happens, and they need me to help get it down on paper because they don't type." Anne Lamott (b. 1954)
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I think he's interested in taking it to go.There aren't just New Forest Donkeys. There are also the famous New Forest Ponies who run free across the open heather-covered heath, wander through the ancient forests, across roads, stroll into shops. It's true. They really do...
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check out this uber cool Book Trailer Random House made of the new book. WOW! I love it!
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My little friend found a favorite certain children's Storybook and started reading it first to herself and then to all her babies. See how her babies are so well behaved and looking at the pictures and listening so carefully. Even as such a young age. I think they must have their listening ears on...
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sally lloyd-jones Uber cool funny book trailer Random House made (with fun music too!) love it!

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Why do animals get to misbehave, while humans have to act so prim and proper all the time? From the New York Times bestselling author comes a book about manners, all from the point-of-view of a little girl. ...
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"If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not -- and the odds are against it -- go to your desk, no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper -- write." J. B...
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"I believe that good questions are more important than answers, and the best children's books ask questions, and make the readers ask questions. And every new question is going to disturb someone's universe." - Madeleine L'Engle
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here's a very funny article in this Sunday's New York Times re. Roz Chast and her daily routine. (For anyone who doesn't know she's the brilliant New Yorker cartoonist, illustrator, all round general genius.) Here's a sample of her work ...
Kathryn
Kathryn
I love Roz Chast. One of the funniest books I've ever read is "Childproof." It's a book of her New Yorker cartoons relating to children, etc. It's a must read!
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“HOW TO GET MARRIED — BY ME, THE BRIDE.”By Sally Lloyd-Jones. Illustrated by Sue HeapSchwartz & Wade. $16.99. (Ages 4 to 8)The in-charge voice here will be recognizable to fans of “How ...
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Here (drum roll) is the very first sample of David Suchet reading from THE JESUS STORYBOOK BIBLE. You're hearing it way ahead of everyone else! Hope you enjoy it as much as I do.Listen here.I even got to actually meet him when he recorded it in April, in a studio in London...
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the app for iphone: iBird Explorer.this alone makes you want an iphone doesn't it? (I've resisted it ... so far.)Here's a photo of the inventor playing sounds from it to attract birds to his feeder in his garden. In Feb, he got a call from Apple's legal dept. He thought he was about to be sued...
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Came across this article, giving tips on how to read to children. It suggests that as important as what you read is how you read it. This has to be true doesn't it? I mean if you read it in a droning monotone, how fun will that be? Who wants to sit through that...
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Just came across this new book "Wedlock," by Wendy Moore: about how a countess escaped a frightful violent dreadful awful marriage...
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if you're in NYC on Wednesday June 24th at 10AM come along for storytime at Barnes and Noble 150 East 86th Street (and 2nd Ave) and get your own personalized copy of two very important new books (we'd love to see you for some fun and laughs and very high jinks!):one tells you all about how to get...
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sally lloyd-jones in nyc on friday? at BEA? come and get your signed copy of The Jesus Storybook Bible ...

author sally lloyd-jones will be signing
Location:BEA Signing Table 19-Autographing Area, Jacob K. Javits Center
Time:10:30AM Friday, May 29th
Anastasia
Anastasia
I should totally go! ♥
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WORLD MAGAZINE in their June issue on stands now, reviewed How To Get Married... By Me, The Bride in with their serious reviews about other books on marriage. How cool are they? Very...
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It's hard to believe this tiny insect is the one making the biggest noise at night. But here's something even odder. Did you know ... cicadas live for either 13 or 17 years? Exactly. On the dot. But how...
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come along to B&N; Tribeca at 11 am Wednesday 13th where I'll be reading from ... How To Get Married... By Me, The Bride.More here.
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sally lloyd-jones This Weds I'm reading at Barnes&Noble. Learn all about how to get hitched and have the perfect wedding in what Publisher's Weekly called a "stylish and witty" picture book. Would love to see you if you're in the 'hood. Details below

come and learn how to put on the perfect wedding (whether your just pretending or an actual real life bride to be)
Location:Barnes and Noble, Tribeca
Time:11:00AM Wednesday, May 13th
Asako
Asako
oh i wish i could be there too!
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The publisher set up a fan page for the book. Feel free to spread the word and also to become a fan here: http://ow.ly/5MDo (I did. Is that allowed?) http://ow.ly/5P6Q
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Thanks to Scholastic Parent and Child Magazine: they included Being A Pig Is Nice: a child's eye-view of manners in their FUN FINDS FOR MAY! read their review here.I found my own fun find of May... some random person I don't know posted this.....
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i did it. i've started twittering tweets! want to join in the fun? click here
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