Lunch Money @ CCPL

If you have children and don’t know about the band Lunch Money, you should really get on that. Here’s a video I took of Lunch Money performing “Going to the Library” at the Charleston Public Library on May 30th. It was so awesome to finally see them play LIVE!!

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Little T on AlphaOops

Google Alerts is a wonderful thing. I will never get sick of finding clips like this on the internet. I should piece them together and play a little movie of them every morning when I wake up. If I need more motivation than that, I don’t deserve to call myself a writer. Plus, I kind of like his musical…

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Things You Can Do

You guys know how much I love and depend on you to succeed. You are all precious and wonderful to me. Some of you I have met before, some of you I’ve known forever, some of you I only know online, and some of you I just don’t know yet. But we will meet, and when we do, we…

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Wintastic Halloweenness

Wanna win a copy of AlphaOops: H is for Halloween? I’m giving one away! Go sign up on Goodreads! I even have this handy-dandy widget:   Goodreads Book Giveaway AlphaOops by Alethea Kontis Giveaway ends October 24, 2011. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter to win Be sure to tell your friends! Happy Halloween!

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The AlphaOops Halloween Site is LIVE!

Did you notice? That’s right — up there at the top of the website, in front of the Dream-Haired Girl, there are now TWO AlphaOops covers. You know what that means? THE ALPHAOOPS: HALLOWEEN SITE IS NOW LIVE! There are so many new fun things to do! The memory game is back, joined by puzzles and something called a…

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One Seriously Cute Customer

Those of you on Facebook & Twitter may remember the Friday night before Baltimore Book Festival when the Cutest Customer in the World visited me at the bookstore. It was late–within an hour or so of closing–and I overheard some customers in the children’s aisle talking about the National Book Festival. I had forgotten that the big book festival…

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AlphaOops in Martha Stewart’s LIVING

from Martha Stewart’s LIVING, October 2011 issue. “State of Play” p. 143 “In Nora and Hugo Kohnhorst’s room, their dad built a shelving unit based on a Martha Stewart project. The forward-facing covers make it easy for kids to find what they’re looking for and create an ever-changing wall of artwork.” Can YOU find AlphaOops?  

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