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Ellen Potter

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Ellen Potter

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Ellen Potter is the author of many children's books, including the Olivia Kidney series, Pish Posh, SLOB, and The Kneebone Boy. Her non-fiction book, Spilling Ink; a Young Writer’s Handbook, was co-authored by Anne Mazer

Olivia Kidney was awarded Child magazine’s “Best Children’s Book Award” and was selected as one of the “Books of the Year” by Parenting magazine.

SLOB is on more than 10 state book award lists and was selected for the Junior Library Guild.

Spilling Ink; A Young Writer’s Handbook was a New York Public Library Top 100 Children’s Book for 2010 and a Children’s Literature Assembly 2011 Notable Book.

Her newest series is Piper Green and the Fairy Tree.
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Average rating: 3.92 · 20,133 ratings · 3,223 reviews · 60 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Humming Room: A Novel I...

3.83 avg rating — 4,734 ratings — published 2012 — 13 editions
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Slob

3.77 avg rating — 4,048 ratings — published 2009 — 11 editions
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The Kneebone Boy

3.94 avg rating — 3,353 ratings — published 2010 — 12 editions
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Pish Posh

3.84 avg rating — 1,275 ratings — published 2006 — 15 editions
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Olivia Kidney (Spanish)

3.88 avg rating — 1,035 ratings — published 2003 — 24 editions
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Piper Green and the Fairy T...

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Big Foot and Little Foot (B...

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Olivia Kidney and the Exit ...

4.03 avg rating — 451 ratings — published 2005 — 25 editions
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Olivia Kidney and the Secre...

3.94 avg rating — 335 ratings — published 2007 — 12 editions
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Olivia Kidney (Spanish) Olivia Kidney and the Exit ... Olivia Kidney and the Secre...
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Piper Green and the Fairy Tree Too Much Good Luck The Sea Pony Pie Girl Going Places
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Big Foot and Little Foot The Monster Detector The Squatchicorns The Bog Beast The Gremlin’s Shoes
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Strange but True Downright Dangerous
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Hither & Nigh The Golden Imaginarium
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3.90 avg rating — 163 ratings

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“All great adventures have moments that are really crap.”
Ellen Potter, The Kneebone Boy

“Look, when do the really interesting things happen? Not when you've brushed your teeth and put on your pyjamas and are cozy in bed. They happen when you are cold and uncomfortable and hungry and don't have a roof over your head for the night.”
Ellen Potter, The Kneebone Boy

“...when you start to feel like you are better than someone else, you should probably stick your head in a toilet because at that moment your thoughts are crap.”
Ellen Potter

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The Newbery awards are just around the corner. Before they are announced let's choose which book we would give the award to.

 
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Wonder (write-in)
 
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Splendors & Glooms by Laura Amy Schlitz
 
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The Mighty Miss Malone (write-in)
 
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Bomb (write-in)
 
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The Lions of Little Rock
 
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Twelve Kinds of Ice
 
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The One and Only Ivan (write-in)
 
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The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate (write-in)
 
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The mighty miss Malone (write-in)
 
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wonder (write-in)
 
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Splendor and Glooms (write-in)
 
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Three Times Lucky (write-in)
 
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Foster Fox A 10,000 Lakes Tale  by William D. Writer (write-in)
 
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alphabet living (write-in)
 
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Splendors and GLooms (write-in)
 
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the one and only Ivan
 
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Foster Fox, A 10,000 Lakes Tale (write-in)
 
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