News
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
- The August 21 edition of Publishers Weekly includes an interview with Polly by Kit Alderdice.
- An appearance in Minneapolis/St. Paul has been added to Polly's upcoming tour for My One Hundred Adventures, Exact dates and places will be posted soon.
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:
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:
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: