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Newsletter #224

March 18, 2019

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3 books featured in this issue

Cover of Happy Birthday, Madame Chapeau

Happy Birthday, Madame Chapeau

by Andrea Beaty and David Roberts

MADE-UP Phinney Kids by Post #39

Beaty and Roberts have become picture-book superstars for their ongoing series about brilliantly ambitious youngsters—Rosie Revere, Iggy Peck, Ada Twist, and, coming soon, Sofia Valdez. And for good r... (Tom)

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How I Became Hettie Jones

by Hettie Jones

TRUE Phinney by Post #51

How did Hettie Cohen become Hettie Jones? By marrying the poet LeRoi Jones, who later marked his own transformation by changing his name to Amiri Baraka and leaving his mixed-race family behind. That'... (Tom)

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Wild Life

by Molly Gloss

MADE-UP

For those of us who are late catching up with the Oregon writer Molly Gloss, Saga Press is doing a great service this year by bringing much of her work back in handsome new paperbacks. Her books have... (Tom)

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