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| Number | Call Number | Branch | Status | Volume |
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J B Kehret Peg |
CP |
In at CP (Corporate Parkway) |
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| 2 |
J B Kehret Peg |
DR |
In at DR (Deer Run) |
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| 3 |
J B Kehret Peg |
KL |
In at KL (Kathryn Linnemann) |
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| 4 |
J B Kehret Peg |
KR |
In at KR (Kisker Road) |
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| 5 |
J B Kehret Peg |
MK |
In at MK (Middendorf-Kredell) |
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| 6 |
J B Kehret Peg |
MY |
In at MY (McClay) |
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J B Kehret Peg |
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In at SP (Spencer Road) |
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| Gr. 4-7. Kehret, the author of many popular children's books, traces her path to becoming a writer in this entertaining memoir. She begins in childhood, when she launched a short-lived newspaper about neighborhood dogs, one of many links between her love of writing and her love of animals. With the same eye for well-chosen details that characterizes her other writing, she mines her experiences for anecdotes young readers will appreciate. For example, early in her career she concentrated on writing for contests--and she won a car! Even those kids who don't expect to be writers will enjoy hearing about quirky research she has done for her books and will absorb her recurring theme about the importance of persistence. This is not as emotionally compelling as her earlier autobiography, Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio (1996), but it will still appeal to her fans as well as to future writers. ((Reviewed December 15, 2002)) Copyright 2003 Booklist Reviews | | | |
| Readers of [cf2]Small Steps[cf1] will be especially interested in this continuation of her autobiography. In conversational prose, Kehret discusses early job experiences, marriage and motherhood, and her enduring love for animals. The main emphasis of the volume--Kehret's determination to be a writer--not only provides insight into the craft but may also serve to give inspiration to other aspiring authors. Copyright 2003 Horn Book Guide Reviews | | | |
| "I've never survived an avalanche or been shipwrecked off the coast of Africa or been abducted by a deranged arsonist. I haven't traveled back in time or seen a ghost or been arrested for shoplifting." The prolific Kehret (The Stranger Next Door, p. 415, etc.) has done none of these things, so where does she get her ideas for her fast-paced, well-plotted stories (as school kids ask her all the time)? "I have experienced the emotions that each of these situations creates. I've been afraid. I've been cold, lonely, and angry." The author takes readers through the story of her life and shows how she became a writer and where she gets her ideas. When she was ten, she edited Dog Newspaper, her neighborhood paper. Later, she wrote 25-word contest entries and won a trip to Hawaii from a department store and a new car for her entry on why she likes Kraft Macaroni and Cheese Dinner. Committed to writing five pages per day, she started writing articles and stories for magazines, books for adults such as Refinishing and Restoring Your Piano, and, finally, books for children. When her first children's books were published, she knew she had found her niche and no longer wrote for adults. Like her novels, this memoir is written in spare, lively prose with plenty of interesting details, anecdotes, and insights. Her bouts with polio as a child and post-polio syndrome later portray a person determined to enjoy each day and make the most of her talents. Readers will come to know and like this writer through this engaging, genial account and will want to get those novels they haven't yet read. (Nonfiction. 8-13) Copyright Kirkus 2002 Kirkus/BPI Communications.All rights reserved | | | |
| Gr 3-6-This welcome autobiography focuses on Kehret's life as a writer, which began when, at 10, she gathered data from her neighbors and wrote a newspaper about dogs. The author tells about her experience with polio, covered in more detail in Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio (Albert Whitman, 1996). She describes her job proofreading for the Daily Herald the summer between her junior and senior year of high school, and writing commercials for a local radio station the following summer. Throughout the book, Kehret explains what she learned from her various experiences. She discusses her techniques and the importance of researching data and revising her work. Thirteen black-and-white photographs appear in a centerfold. The lively, personable writing will carry readers along, especially would-be writers, those who like to read about authors, and Kehret's many fans.-Kathleen Simonetta, Indian Trails Public Library District, Wheeling, IL Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information. | | |
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St. Charles County, Missouri
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