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Candice Ransom to speak on March 21

Please join us on Thursday, March 21, 2013, at 3:30 pm, for Candice Ransom’s presentation. Ransom, who has never wanted to be anything else besides a children’s book writer, has published 110 books for children and young adults.

Her work includes board books, picture books, easy readers, chapter books, middle grade fiction, “tween” fiction, biographies, and nonfiction.  Among her popular titles are the award-winning Finding Day’s Bottom, Seeing Sky-Blue Pink, The Promise Quilt, The Big Green Pocketbook, Maria Von Trapp: Beyond the Sound of Music, When the Whippoorwill Calls, Tractor Day, Robert E. Lee, Rescue on the Outer Banks, Children of the Civil War, The Day of the Black Blizzard, and Pony Island.  Her chapter book series, Time Spies, is a winner in the classroom.

The event is free and open to the public.  Please RSVP to Keary Mariannino at marianninokm@longwood.edu or 434-395-2431.

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