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Raven Howell

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Raven is an award winning author and poet of picture books. She's a journalist for Story Monsters Ink magazine and Voice. She writes for children's magazines such as Highlights for Children, Ladybug, Cricket, and Hello. Raven is the Creative & Publishing Advisor for RedClover Reader, and writes educational storybooks for various children's publishers. She's a contributing author for Reading is Fundamental (SOCAL) and I Am A Promise Books.

Her work is published in anthologies, in DVD and CD format, in both public and home schooling programs. Raven has won several awards including Excellence in Children's Literature, A Golden Box Books, NABE's Pinnacle, SCBWI Magazine Merit, and Global Impact Award. She remains active with charity work, and pr
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Raven Howell The chocolate chip cookies that were baking are pulled out from the oven. Still warm and goo-ey, I am not allowed to have any.
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Christmas in July!

The sun is hot, the air is humid, and we have had unprecedented flash flooding this summer. Who WOULDN'T want to celebrate in a little fun, peppermint-y Christmas spirit?

My book, Santa's Slip Up, has a holiday mix-up theme incorporating Halloween's spookiness, the surprising arrival of Santa and good humor. For obvious reasons, I assumed my publisher would be releasing the book on the Halloween or Read more of this blog post »
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The Fisherman and the French Flounder by Raven Howell
"cute story

Cute short story and the art is beautiful. The Flounder is hard of hearing and sends the wrong wishes to the fisherman’s wife. Love is the answer for everything"
The Fisherman and the French Flounder by Raven Howell
"This was a cute retelling of the Fisherman and His Wife. It makes use of word play. One quibble is that the wording says the fisherman is using his net, while the illustration shows a line. I liked this ending a little more than the Grimm one, though" Read more of this review »
The Fisherman and the French Flounder by Raven Howell
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Lovely twist to a folk story. The folk story of the fisherman, his greedy wife and the golden fish has a cute twist because the fish in this story has hearing problems and is French. Simple illustrations and cute read for older c" Read more of this review »
The Fisherman and the French Flounder by Raven Howell
"This is a retelling of the traditional fairy tale "The Fisherman and His Wife". In the original, the greedy fisherman's wife keeps demanding more and more wishes until eventually they lose everything because the fish gets fed up with them. In this ve" Read more of this review »
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Otherwise Known as Judy the Great by Selina Alko
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Selina's artwork perfectly compliments this whimsical poetry tribute to and about Judy Blume. It's colorful, imaginative and fun! ...more
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“I write lots of poetry on a regular basis. In fact, it’s something that I rarely think about consciously, it’s just something I do. Actually I may even say, it’s not something I do so much as what happens. Poetry chooses me!”
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Jennifer Croy Sorrows & Blues read my next poetry book


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