Lynn Plourde

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Lynn Plourde

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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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Some great advice in this book which is a combo self-help book and memoir. Robbins is at her best when she shares advice that springs from her own life experiences...like the spark for this book when her son was going to the prom at the last minute a ...more
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Wonderful colorful fun illustrations and a delightful rhyming story--all sparked by a true circus ship sinking off the coast of Maine in 1836. A classic in its 47th printing.
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Fun book with all the farm animal sounds. Our 2 year old grandson loves this series of books. Only problem is the buttons are hard to push for little fingers. So have to do it hand over hand with him. Great that the facts in the book can grow with hi ...more
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BROKEN is brilliant from the illustrations to the text to the story to the emotion. Fang took a simple idea of "oops" Ama's (grandmother's) cup gets knocked over and broken, then there's the blame game, and guilt. Will Ama forgive Mei Mei? Will Mei M ...more
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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:
tags: grief

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“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."

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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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