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Jul.06.2012
Okay, you know it’s a full-summer procrastination when you spend your morning tracking the culprit on your epic tiny blog mystery (see July 4, The Purloined Letter).
Post that post, there was some rustling from my family tree. Then this shook down– M. Dana was not “Mr. Dana” but my distant...
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Jul.04.2012
Growing up in a creaky old house, I was always fascinated by the attic stockpiles of family letters, scrapbooks, and albums.
But nothing was as interesting to me as this letter from Mr. Ronald Paton, dashed off in December 1893.
There is a box. There is a thwarter (M. Dana). And there is yearning....
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May.14.2011
Designed by the lovely and brilliant Jenn Ambrust at Motel Projects, here is my new website ...
http://www.tighterthebook.com
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Oct.24.2010
Jeffrey MacDonald is in prison serving three life terms for the murders he committed in 1970 of his wife and their two daughters while they were sleeping in their home in Ft. Bragg, an Army base in North Carolina. In 1975, when my family moved in around the corner from the MacDonald house, this was...
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Oct.10.2010
Last week, Penguin Teen began to promote the vlog clips from my site, thejuliangame.com. Anybody who has read The Julian Game, the book, will quickly realize that none of the characters from the site bear any relation to the characters in the novel. But the simple reason for creating a series of...
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Oct.03.2010
It has been over thirty-five years since Robert Cormier’s The Chocolate War was published—a book that holds a third place position in the American Library Association’s Most Banned Books of this past decade. Wow. Who knew. (Me, I didn’t, until I looked up the list.) So what’s the big deal about...
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Aug.25.2010
I like to write books about the New Girl because I usually was one. In fact, by ninth grade, I'd been new thirteen times. While some transitions were painless-to-forgettable, others stand out. In the Stand Out category was my fifth-grade, mid-year transfer from Monterey, California, to a tiny...
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Jul.07.2010
ETC: Your book has some dark themes—Andersonville, specifically, and the Civil War, in general, showcase particularly brutal moments in American History. Was there anything that either of you thought was too grim for this book?
BROWN: I think that there is very little that would be too grim for me...
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Jun.25.2010
The importance of photographing the dead was a natural extension of the early days of photography, then considered a “black art” and regarded with equal parts suspicion and awe. The era of photography’s rising popularity also coincided with the American Civil War. Such comprehensive visual...
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Jun.25.2010
The importance of photographing the dead was a natural extension of the early days of photography, then considered a “black art” and regarded with equal parts suspicion and awe. The era of photography’s rising popularity also coincided with the American Civil War. Such comprehensive visual...
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May.15.2010
Adele Griffin is the author of the Young Adult novel Picture the Dead (co written by Lisa Brown), a ghostly mystery set outside Boston during the Civil War, illustrated with detailed scrapbook-type pages; I’ve included a video with a behind-the-scenes interview at the bottom of this guest post. ...
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May.05.2010
Eating Reading Preparing Animals
By Adele Griffin and Lisa Brown
"... if you love children's literature, you cannot kill animals just because they taste good on a bun. There's more than a bit of hypocrisy involved in urging children to empathize with pandas and polar bears and bunnies...
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May.05.2010
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 2010Book Giveaway and Guest Blog: PICTURE THE DEADToday we’d like to welcome two-time National Book award finalist Adele Griffin and best selling author/illustrator Lisa Brown. Their illustrated novel PICTURE THE DEAD is available NOW. Go buy...
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About Adele
Adele Griffin has written a number of books for young adults, including Where I Want to Be, Amandine, The Other Shepards, the Witch Twins and Vampire Island series, Picture the Dead with bestselling illustrator Lisa Brown, and the new "Generation...
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Causes Adele Griffin Supports
Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn Historical Society
Harlem Village Academies
CitySquash
Boys Latin School of Philadelphia
Adele’s Favorite Books
Watership Down, As I Lay Dying, Old Filth, Lucky JIm, Underworld, Rebecca, A Separate Peace, The Mists of Avalon, The Magus, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles, The...