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June 2008

  • In September, Polly will be visiting schools and bookstores in Chicago, New York, Austin, San Francisco, and Seattle. We'll be posting the details shortly.
  • The Corps of the Bare-Boned Plane has been included on the Bank Street College list of The Best Children's Books of the Year in the Ages Twelve and Up.

May 2008

Polly had a great time in Los Angeles at this year's BookExpo America. In addition to meeting a lot of wonderful people, she got to play ball—well, sort of—at Dodger Stadium. Read the story from the LA Times.

Here's a picture of Polly signing baseballs as her editor, Anne Schwartz, and Markus Dohle, Random House's CEO, look on:

Polly at BEA with Schwartz and Dohle

You can see other Dodger Stadium pictures in this story from Publisher's Weekly.

April 2008

The Corps of the Bare-Boned Plane was awarded the Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize.

February/March 2008:

The Corps of the Bare-Boned Plane has been shortlisted for the 2007 Canadian Library Association’s Young Adult Book of the Year.

Polly spent a delightful week in Germany, reading at schools in Munich, Hamburg, and Frankfurt. The kids were great and her hosts gracious. Here's a photo taken at the Kinderbuchhaus in Hamburg:

Polly in Hamburg, Germany

Some upcoming events:

  • She will be attending Book Expo America in Los Angeles May 31.
  • And, of course, her new book, My One Hundred Adventures, will be out on September 9: