Category: Scrapbook
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Favorite Fan Mail of the Week
Dear Mary Amato, You have boosted my writing from good to AWESOME! I love the books you write. You coming to my school has given me so many new ideas. Thank you! From: Nicole
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Favorite Fan Mail of the Week
Dear, Mary Amato We can’t imagine life without our mom’s and it inspired us that you got through it useing your talent of writing. Thank you for coming. Sincerely, Rachel and Kate
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The Friday Book Review
The tone of the story beautifully captures the way kids (and particularly siblings) can be quite cruel, though far from being moralising, it is a very funny book.”– Holly Swain To read the whole review and see images from the book, see The Friday Book Review.
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Favorite Fan Mail of the Week
“My seven-year-old has gone poetry-mad thanks to this wonderful book; your child may, too.” –From Heidi Hauser Green
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Guess which Mary Amato Title?
Which book of mine has just been translated into German? I can’t wait to see the interior illustrations!
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Favorite Fan Mail of the Week
“I couldn’t put that book (Guitar Notes) down. I read it walking between my classes at school, while I ate my lunch, even with a flashlight at night in my driveway”
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Mary Amato and Natalie Lorenzi
Natalie Lorenzi’s first book is out…Flying the Dragon. Congratulations, Natalie!
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New Friends
I enjoyed meeting Penelope Fleming, storyteller, and Melissa LaSalle, blogger, at the Alexandria Story Festival reception.
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Alexandria Story Festival
Thanks to Trish Brown and Ellen Klein at Hooray for Books and Leigh Hoyer and Luisa Reyes at Wright to Read and Chris Gutierrez and Michele Grayson at TC Williams Carson Reading Room all the amazing volunteers for the wonderful Alexandria Story Festival. If you missed it this year, come next!