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Spring 2010

Northward to the Moon has been selected for Oprah's 2010 reading list. You can find it here.

Introducing Andrew, our new puppy:

Polly and Andrew

Winter 2010

There's an excellent interview with Polly about Northward to the Moon in BookPage, written by Deborah Hopkinson.

Polly will be visiting bookstores and schools in several cities in February and March. Here's the schedule (more details will be added soon):

February 23rd-- D.C, Politics & Prose, 10:30 am
Feb. 24th-- D.C., Barston's (Arlington, VA) 3pm
Feb. 25th- Atlanta, B&N Alpharetta
Feb. 25th-- Atlanta, Little Shop of Stories
Feb 26th-- Houston, Blue Willow
Feb. 27th Phoenix, Gardner's
Feb. 28th Phoenix, Changing Hands
March 1st, Phoenix, Changing Hands
March 2nd, Salt Lake City, Kings English
March 3rd, Salt Lake City, Kings English
March 4th, Seattle, Secret Garden
March 5th, Seattle, Queen Anne
March 6th, Seattle, Village Books

 

Summer 2009

December 2008

Listen as Polly reads from and discusses My One Hundred Adventures and Everything on a Waffle.

Since October, My One Hundred Adventures has received the following awards:

  • A 2008 Booklist Editors’ Choice

  • A Best Book of 2008 (Kirkus Reviews)

  • A Best Book of 2008 (School Library Journal)

  • A Best Book of 2008 (Amazon)

  • 2008 New York Public Library List of 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing

  • NAPPA Gold Award Winner

  • Parent's Choice Gold Award

October 2008

September 2008

Polly will be visiting book stores in the following places:

Chicago
When: Monday, September 15, 7:00pm
Where: Anderson’s Bookshop
123 West Jefferson, Naperville, IL

When: Tuesday, September 16, 7:00pm
Where: Barnes & Noble- Skokie
55 Old Orchard Center, Skokie, IL

New Jersey
When: Thursday, September 18, 4:00pm
Where: Books & Greetings
271 Livingston St., Northvale, NJ

Northern California
When: Tuesday, September 23, 3:00pm
Where: Hicklebee’s
1378 Lincoln Ave., San Jose, CA

When:Thursday, September 25, 10:00 AM
Where: Book Passage
51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, CA

Seattle
When:Thursday, September 25, 7:00 PM
Where: Borders Books & Music-- Redmond
16549 N.E. 74th St., Redmond, WA

When: Friday, September 26, 10:00 AM
Where: Third Place Books
17171 Bothell Way, Lake Forest Park, WA

 

August 2008

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: