Happy April, Kidsreaders!
This is a great month because, like December, it’s filled with holidays. You have April Fool's Day, Easter (my best friend lives in Boston and said they had to bury their eggs in the snow, this year!), Passover (which for me involved a 13-person Seder at my apartment --- an impressive feat for New York City) and, later in the month, Earth Day.
But since we’re a book website, we’re obviously particularly excited about two major literary holidays going on in April: National Library Week (April 12th-18th) and National Poetry Month (all 30 days!). We’ve brainstormed some ways to celebrate both (despite the fact that National Library Week is halfway done). If you try any of these ideas, let me know how they work by sending me an email at shara@bookreporter.com!
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
Attribution
William Blake
Django Wexler graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh with degrees in creative writing and computer science, and worked for the university in artificial intelligence research. Eventually he migrated to Microsoft in Seattle, where he now lives with two cats and a teetering mountain of books. When not planning Shadow Campaigns, he wrangles computers, paints tiny soldiers and plays games of all sorts.
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I was born and raised in the Bluegrass State. Then I went off and lived in places across the pond, like England and Spain, where I pretended I was a French ingénue. Just kidding! That only happened once. I also lived in some hotter nooks of the USA, like Birmingham, AL and Austin, TX. Now I'm back in Lexington, KY, where there is a Proper Autumn.
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Dorothea Benton Frank once again takes us deep into the heart of her magical South Carolina Lowcountry. There we meet three generations of women buried in secrets. The determined matriarch, Maisie Pringle, will have the final word on everything, especially when she's dead wrong. Her daughter, Liz, has an emotionally demanding career that will eventually open all their eyes to a terrible truth. And Liz's daughter, Ashley, has dreamy ambitions of her unlikely future that keeps them all at odds.
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In 1966, Kathleen Eaden, cookbook writer and wife of a supermarket magnate, published The Art of Baking, her guide to nurturing a family by creating the most exquisite pastries, biscuits and cakes. Now, five amateur bakers are competing to become the New Mrs. Eaden. As unlikely alliances are forged and secrets rise to the surface, making the choicest pastry seems the least of the contestants' problems. For they will learn --- just as Mrs. Eaden did before them --- that while perfection is possible in the kitchen, it's very much harder in life.
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This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that releases on May 5th. Read more about it, and enter our Spring Preview Contest by Thursday, April 16th at 11:59am ET for a chance to win one of five copies of RE JANE by Patricia Park. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!
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