by Sarah Purdy | Nov 1, 2018 | Book Place, Book Releases & Events
In 2011, the bald eagles of Decorah became an internet sensation when researchers at the Raptor Research Project began live streaming footage from a webcam installed near their nest. Seven years later, millions of viewers around the world still tune in each spring to...
by Sarah Purdy | Oct 30, 2018 | Book Place, Book Releases & Events
In her latest children’s book—Will You Be My Friend?/Serás tú mi amigo?—Pella author Karen Fitzsimmons has a simple message: While it feels good to have a friend, it feels great to be a friend. “I wanted to get across to young readers what being a true friend is all...
by Sarah Purdy | Oct 16, 2018 | Nonfiction, Our Books
by Bev Roozeboom Mental illness is real, and our children are not exempt. Yet mental illness—especially when it affects children—remains a hidden affliction. It is unmentioned at family reunions, misunderstood by society and not talked about in social circles. It’s...
by Sarah Purdy | Oct 15, 2018 | Children's Books, Our Books
by Shannon Basinger-Kotz Eight-year-old Marlene has only one Christmas wish: to be healed of cancer. After she writes a letter to Santa, the jolly saint decides to make a Christmas Eve hospital visit to share with Marlene the power of prayer—and show her that, even in...
by Sarah Purdy | Oct 5, 2018 | Book Place, Book Releases & Events
“If you truly love the sport of fishing, you are no longer the one doing the catching,” said author and lifelong fisherman Ben Chiodo. “The fish have bagged you.” In his book Fishing: More Than a Passion—published this fall by the Write Place—Chiodo uses a mix of...
