Here are things you need for Mary Ann’s tour. It’s coming on Monday. I hope you are all revved up and ready to go.
Use this URL when you link to Jimmy’s Stars:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0374337039
And please link to it every day for three days.
Her other books are:
Yankee Girl:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0374386617
My Best Friend:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0142408069
with First Grade Stinks coming out next month:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1561454621
and Surprise Soup coming out in the Spring of 2009:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/067006274X
If you want to link to any of these books of hers, it will be great if you can use the above links.
To aid you in your posts here are links to pictures and info you might want to quote from:
Here is Mary Ann Rodman’s Biography:
MARY ANN RODMAN’s debut novel,Yankee Girl, was chosen as a VOYA Top Shelf Fiction for Middle School Readers and an NCSS-CBC Notable Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies. She lives with her family in Alpharetta, Georgia.
Here is the critical acclaim for Jimmy’s Stars:
“Finds beauty in every emotional nuance as Ellie hurtles between self pity, denial, and even rage toward her brother for having “welshed on the deal.” The lively spirit of working-class Pittsburgh, where neighborhood families live for news of the war and the fate of their sons, extends Ellie’s personal story with a broader sense of homefront life. Suggest this fine novel as enrichment to World War II curricula.” —Starred, Booklist“This psychological, child-oriented war perspective could provide significance in today’s military dilemma.” —School Library Journal
“Rodman’s careful attention to Ellie and Jimmy’s pre-enlistment domestic rituals and to their upbeat, encouraging correspondence establishes the tight, affectionate bond between brother and sister.”
—Bulletin for the Center of Children’s Books
Here is the summary of the book:
It’s September 1943, and eleven-year-old Ellie McKelvey’s older brother, Jimmy, has just been drafted. Jimmy has a joyful heart and a kind word for everyone, and he’s the only person who thinks Ellie is smart and funny and as beautiful as Lana Turner, the movie star. Ellie can hardly stand to see him go. With Jimmy gone, Aunt Toots moves into his bedroom, Ellie’s mother takes a war job at a factory, and everything in Ellie’s life seems upside down. But she figures that the war will be over and Jimmy home by Christmas, so as much as she misses him, she keeps her spirits up. Even as families in the neighborhood begin to receive telegrams informing them that their boys are wounded or worse, Ellie never stops believing in Jimmy.
In her second work of historical fiction, Mary Ann Rodman captures all the authentic details of life on the homefront during World War II, as well as the fierce love a sister has for her beloved big brother.
Mary Ann’s picture can be found at http://www.paraklesis.com/pictures/mary ann rodman.jpg
And the cover picture is at http://www.paraklesis.com/reviews/jimmycover.jpg
You are welcome to download the pictures to your server or to link them on mine.
The list of participating bloggers is as follows:
Please copy and paste this list somewhere in your posts each day. And if you have time to visit other participant’s sites and comment that would be great, too!
Most of all have fun with this. Do what you have energy to do and have a good time.
