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Discussing The Traveling Circus by Mark Watson

Who are your "inspiration authors"? 

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• Day 24-  Agent Kendra Marcus. Great points about the common pitfalls of rhyming children's picture books and the importance of having a strong story.

• Day 22- Ed DeCaria. Awesome post about first lines. How can you not like a post that starts with...

"First lines are like fangs.They break your readers’ skin, take hold deep within, and draw them — willingly or not — into your world."

• Day 8:  J. Patrick Lewis took a look at poetry forms and gave a lot of food for thought. 

• Day 11: Pat Zietlow Miller. Just the sentence “Well, if it doesn’t work, I don’t have to show it to anyone” makes this a winner in my book. She also gave some sound advice about plot.

Things You Might See on an African Safari: A Counting Journey Through Africa by Louise Lintvelt

• Tim McCanna (Day 1) who did a great job of kicking off the event.
• Marilyn Singer (Day 4) with her myths about rhyme.
• Julie Hedlund (Day 6) who shared some good tips.

I signed up this week to take part in the Rhyming Picture Book Month Challenge AKA RhyPiBoMo. If you'd like to join me you can register here: https://angiekarcher.wordpress.com/rhypibomo-2015-registration/

And now to show off my participant badge:



As my own books, Out and About at the Zoo, and Fairy May, are both rhyming picture story books, it's not hard to see why this challenge appeals to me. Btw, I hope you'll add them to your reading list during the challenge ;)

So what's RhyPiBoMo all about? 

Here's the pledge:

See, I told you it sounded fun. So will you be joining me? Got some suggestions of good rhyming picture books I should add to my to-read list?