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Happy holidays, everyone!
Book Bites for Kids is taking a holiday break. The next segment of the show will air Monday, January 7, 2008, at 2:00 central time. Until then, catch up on past show segments in our archives at blogtalkradio.com.

If you’d like to learn to write for children yourself, you’ll want to order this year’s edition of the Children’s Writer Guide from the Writer’s Institute.

Both published and aspiring children’s book writers everywhere look forward to this guide every year.

It’s packed with helpful articles, tips, and other information about children’s publishing.

Read my article on page 331 called, Writing Coaches: Help Getting to the Top of Your Game.

Find out more about the guide and order your copy here.

My guest today on Book Bites for Kids will be Joan Marie Galat, author of Dot to Dot in the Sky: Stories of the Zodiac. This is Galat’s fourth book in her best-selling Dot to Dot in the Sky series.

Join me for Book Bites for Kids, LIVE on blogtalkradio today at 2:00 central time. My guest today will be children’s author Nancy Kelly Allen.

Call in to ask Nancy a question or make a comment at 1-646-716-9239.

Visit Nancy’s website at www.nancykellyallen.com.

Listen to Book Bites for Kids, LIVE today on blogtalkradio.com at 2:00 central time when my guest will be children’s science writer Melissa Stewart.

Stewart’s Newest Book, Coming in 2008

When Rain Falls

We go inside when the rain comes down, but where do animals go? That depends on the kind of animal and where it lives. Bees hide in hives, and ants stay safe in underground nests. Squirrels pull their long bushy tails over their heads like umbrellas. Caterpillars crawl under leaves. Using clear, simple language, When Rain Falls offers young readers a lyrical look at how animals living in forests, fields, wetlands, and deserts behave during a rainstorm.

Visit Melissa’s website at www.melissa-stewart.com.

My guest on Book Bites for Kids today will be Cristina Kessler, author of The Best Beekeeper of Lalibela - A Tale from Africa.

Visit Cristina’s website at www.cristinakessler.com.

Every children’s author wants to write the next big hit like Harry Potter. Children’s author Kaza Kingsley just might have done it with her new series called Erec Rex.

Kingsley will be my guest on Book Bites for Kids this Monday, December 17th, at 2:00 on blogtalkradio.com.

Watch this interview with Kingsley, then tune in to Book Bites for Kids on Monday.

Visit Kaza Kingsley’s website at www.erecrex.com.

My guest today on Book Bites for Kids will be Janet Halfmann, author of a delightful new picture book from Sylvan Dell Publishing called Little Skink’s Tail.