Books with author Judith Rice

Just as authors create books, books create authors — and these essays by thirty-one writers for young people offer a fascinating glimpse at the books that inspired them the most.What if you could look inside your favorite authors’ heads and see the book that led them to become who they are today? What was the book that made them fall in love, or made them understand something for the first time? What was the book that made them feel challenged in ways they never knew they could be, emotionally, intellectually, or politically? What book made them readers, or made them writers, or made them laugh, think, or cry? Join thirty-one top children’s and young adult authors as they explore the books, stories, and experiences that changed them as readers — for good.

Just as authors create books, books create authors — and these essays by thirty-one writers for young people offer a fascinating glimpse at the books that inspired them the most.What if you could look inside your favorite authors’ heads and see the book that led them to become who they are today? What was the book that made them fall in love, or made them understand something for the first time? What was the book that made them feel challenged in ways they never knew they could be, emotionally, intellectually, or politically? What book made them readers, or made them writers, or made them laugh, think, or cry? Join thirty-one top children’s and young adult authors as they explore the books, stories, and experiences that changed them as readers — for good.Some of the contributors include:Ambelin KwaymullinaMal Peet Shaun TanMarkus ZusakRanda Abdel-FattahAlison CroggonUrsula DubosarskySimon FrenchJaclyn Moriarty

The Sierra Club Mother Earth Postcard Collection, a companion to the extraordinary photographic and literary collection Mother Earth, presents a unique vision of our planet as seen through the eyes of such talented women nature photographers as Barbara Brundege, Linde Waidhofer, and Pam Roberson. Here, in the Sierra Club tradition of excellence in nature photography, are 22 dramatic full-color, ready-to-mail postcards that reveal the graceful beauty and awesome power of Mother Earth.