Lynn Plourde

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Lynn Plourde

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in Dexter, Maine, The United States
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the family stories told around the table at those family card games so ...more

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I write kids' books--talk about a FUN job! I worked for 21 years as a speech-language therapist in Maine schools. When I got married, I got 3 & 4-year-old stepsons as part of my ready-made family. I read the boys picture books at bedtime. They fell asleep after 2 or 3 books, but I kept reading stacks and stacks of picture books and started to dream . . . maybe I could write picture books. I was already writing educational books (listening & speaking ideas for the classroom), but PICTURE BOOKS--that was different!

Different, and sloooooow! I had 13 years of rejections before getting my first book published, Pigs in the Mud in the Middle of the Rud, and I still get more rejections than acceptances--even after having more than 40 books publish

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The Bionic Boy by Lynn Plourde
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Second in the BUTT OR FACE series. And just as much fun as the first book. Clever, silly concept--great nonfiction book for kids and those who love sharing books with kids. Bravo!
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“SECRET #47
When life gives you a pile of poop, you’re gonna get dirty—so you may as well roll with it.”
Lynn Plourde, Maxi's Secrets: (Or What You Can Learn From A Dog):

“Bad news is still bad news - even if you're expecting it.”
Lynn Plourde, Maxi's Secrets:

“And it's stupid to have rules about how long you're allowed to cry and when you're supposed to flip a switch and stop crying. You can't even think. All you can do is feel. So how the heck are you supposed to follow rules?”
Lynn Plourde, Maxi's Secrets:
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“The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“I missed 'em, sure enough, true and deep and hard, but the loving was stronger than the missing.--Joseph Johnson on p. 233 Some Kind of Courage”
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“It doesn't match anything you have."

Exactly, I think. This bracelet matches nothing in my wardrobe . . . Nothing in my life. The bracelet isn't anything like who I am; it's a bracelet for who I want to be.

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“Things are only impossible if you stop to think about them.”
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message 2: by Kathy

Kathy My daughter and I saw you on Learning Space today! We've really enjoyed the show and all of the time you and the teachers have given - it's been such a fun addition to our home schooling, and inspired my daughter to read Maxi's Secrets as well. :)


Sandra Thanks for friending me! :)


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