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Doodles Away – Google Has Fun

Did you do a search yesterday on Google and see the Google logo dots go all wonky and zoom around the screen? No? Hey I missed it too, even though I got a heads up about it from CNN about it. Google Animated Logo Unconnects the Dots

It seems someone calculated that the ensuing playing around that people did with the dots resulted in lots and lots of lost productivity. I’m thinking that’s not really a problem. See my post Playing Makes You Smarter. For all that lost productivity we may in fact have smarter employees running around doing what

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My Grandma’s Teeth

A day or two ago I was walking the grounds of a lovely retreat site in New York state with Tooth. You know Tooth don’t you? She’s one of the super smart mice in my Runt Farm children’s book series. As we ambled along I told her stories from my childhood. Fond memories.

Then just around a bend in the path we spotted this little guy. I think his name is Larry. At least that’s what it sounded like. He and Tooth had a bit of a chat. We watched as he munched a lovely purple flower. One moment

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Seattle Book Fest – What a blast!

So much is happening these days it’s hard to know where to start. But I have to give a shout out to the organizers of Seattle Book Fest 2009. Paul Doyle, Molly Horne-Brine, and all the cool volunteers did an amazing job putting it all together for the biggest book-loving city in the world – Seattle! And another big round of applause to the Columbia City community and business owners – this is one happening place!

I had a blast meeting readers of all ages, teachers, publishers, book sellers, other authors, kids and my favorites – librarians. (Really, they are

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It’s A Party!

The launch party for Runt Farm was a Loo Loo! Here are a few shots from the big day and a video too! We had world class dancers, a cool cake, illustrator Mark Evan Walker was there too. Wow.

Take a look!

Here’s the book birthday cake. Yup, books have birthdays too.

Leaping lizards?

No! Leaping Twins – Keoni and Maceo perform as Cletus and Tooth escaping from NAARF. Their full length stage version of Runt Farm will debut Nov 1st in Seattle.

Mark and Veronica

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Runt Farm – The Movies!

Amanda Lorenzo posts a shameless plug for the Runt Farm books and talks about making book trailers for the sheer fun of it.

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Hat Firmly On!

Amanda Lorenzo waxes nostalgic on the debut of her children’s book series, Runt Farm.

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