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What is going on with No More Mac & Cheese (A Bachelor’s Guide to Cooking with Ease)?  This book is now almost 20 years old and has never gone out of print.  Still, we would expect sales to slow, but they have only accelerated.  New college graduates are certainly having a tougher time finding work, [...]

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Note:  The editor is on vacation so we are publishing one of our fan favorite blogs from 2009.
On the way to L.A.  My GPS shows I have 375 miles to my destination, La Canada, California.  I’m driving on Highway 395 from Lake Tahoe to the southern part of the great state of California.  This is [...]

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Please just one more book?  It is difficult to turn down your child, when she asks for another bedtime story.  But sometimes, I just can’t go on any longer.  She’s exhausted, I’m exhausted, and 5 books (albeit short picture books) are all I can handle as I’m falling asleep myself.  So, when reading book #6, [...]

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A simple piece of advice that we offer children’s book writers and illustrators—animals, not humans.  Maybe this isn’t clear?  Children’s picture books that depict animals rather than humans have the potential to attract a wider audience.  Why?  No one has painted a perfect multi-ethnic human; it may be close to impossible.  Unfortunately this is the challenge of [...]

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Given what has been at least slight economic improvement, we thought our readers would enjoy one of their favorite postings from last year, when the country’s economic situation was extremely poor…..
If you’ve never seen Being There, rent it now; fans of the film may be in disbelief that it has been 30 years since it [...]

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