Debbie Dadey's Blog: Congratulations! - Posts Tagged "chapter-books"

I've become addicted to Ancestry.com. I've stayed up late and had to set timers to make myself quit. But I found myself giggling as my grandfather's lineage took me back to a long line of Kings of Sweden, a couple of kings of Turkey, and then finally Cleopatra of Egypt! She was my 77th grandmother!
I chuckled because my new Mermaid Tales book, due out May 7th, is The Lost Princess. Maybe I'm a lost princess too!
Okay, I'm not sure how accurate those little leaves are on Ancestry.com, but it sure was fun. If you try it,be forewarned, you'll definitely need a timer to make yourself quit. Now, I must find a good book on Cleopatra.
A Mermaid Tales Sparkling Collection: Trouble at Trident Academy; Battle of the Best Friends; A Whale of a Tale; Danger in the Deep Blue Sea; The Lost Princess

Hope you'll win The Lost Princess. I think the artist, Tatevik, did an amazing job with the cover. http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16...

The kids were sniffing too! With tissue box in hand, I visited a school in New York State yesterday. Evidently the allergy season has landed hard on our area, but thank goodness the kids were understanding. I hope the kids in Watchung, NJ will be too. I'll be visiting three schools there on Monday and then autographing at the bookstore. Hope to see you. I'll be the one with the red nose! http://www.watchungbooksellers.com/ev...

I always always wanted a horse, as most kids do. I still do! So it was fun for me to write about Echo wanting a horse (a sea horse), but her dream is complicated by her sister. "It's not right to keep wild animals as pets," she says and that starts a debate that gets all of Trident Academy involved. Hope you'll join the debate in the Secret Sea Horse, which comes out today (Mermaid Tales #6). Tomorrow is the last day for the giveaway on Goodreads.

Congratulations to Pam Flynn, Amy Wing, Denisa Howe, Ivana Lee, and Linda Kavanagh for winning copies of The Secret Sea Horse. Your copies will be in your mailbox soon.

It is a blizzard outside my office window and the kid in me wants to be out there making snowballs. The writer in me says "What if it keeps snowing and snowing and we're trapped inside our house for weeks on end?" Actually I visited a school where the kids were trapped for a night because of a huge snowstorm. They had peanut butter sandwiches for supper and slept on the gym floor. My friend Marcia and I wrote a story about it called Dragons Don't Throw Snowballs. Of course, the school I visited didn't have a snow dragon outside, trying to get in. But the writer in me said, "What if . . . "

Thanks to everyone who entered the giveaway for Dream of the Blue Turtle. If you are a teacher or homeschool, I hope you'll enjoy my turtle craft ideas on Pinterest and my complete teaching units on website.

If you live near Clinton, NJ I hope you'll stop in to say hi at the Clinton Book Shop today at 4:00.

It has been a terribly rough month. My mother passed away in a car accident. I was right beside her when she died. So please forgive me for being a bit delayed in getting my give-aways sent out. Thanks to the 559 people who requested free copies of A Royal Tea, Mermaid Tales #9. I wish I had copies to send to all of you instead of just the five winners. I will send them out today! Hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. If you live in the NJ/PA/NY area hope you'll swing over to Sparta Books in Sparta, NJ tomorrow at 11:00. I'll be there doing a booksigning and would love to say hello. Wishing you much happiness.

Gift-giving gives me great joy and the gift of a book is the best! So, I hope you'll win one of two contests available for my newest Mermaid Tale chapter book, The Crook and The Crown (Dec. 15th). One is here on Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sh...) and the other is on the blog of an amazing young man (and I do mean teenage!)named Erik. On This Kid Reads Books you can win my newest book, Mermaid Tales T-shirt, mermaid Barbie, and a whole slew of mermaid goodies. Oh, and did I mention it is a poetry contest? All you have to do is write a fun mermaid poem and one will be selected randomly to win! Check it out at http://thiskidreviewsbooks.com/2015/1...The Crook and the Crown Good luck and Happy Holidays (for me that means Merry Christmas!), Debbie