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  The Illinois Chapter of The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI-IL) announces the Autumn 2009 crop of new books:
“Home Grown in Illinois!”

Here is your opportunity to support your local authors and illustrators, to set up that “Local Author” shelf in your store or to have names on hand to recommend to interested educators! Look for these members' books this fall in a catalogue or on a web site near you...

Jim Aylesworth, The Mitten (Scholastic)

Andrea Beaty, Firefighter Ted (S & S/Margaret McElderry)

Kathi Bostrom, Who Made the World? (Tyndale House), What is the Bible? (Tyndale)

Matthew Cordell, Trouble Gum (Feiwel and Friends)

Laura Crawford, American Revolution from A to Z (Pelican)

Carolyn Crimi, Henry and the Crazed Chicken Pirates (Candlewick)

Stacy Curtis, illustrator, The 7 Habits of Happy Kids (Simon &Shuster)

Larry Day, illustrator, Bye-Bye, Baby! (Walker Books for Children)

Jeff Ebbeler, illustrator, One is a Feast for a Mouse (Holiday House)

Candace Fleming, Imogene’s Last Stand (Random House/Schwartz & Wade)

Esther Hershenhorn, S is for Story: A Writer’s Alphabet (Sleeping Bear Press)

Aaron Reynolds, Superhero School (Bloomsbury)

Suzanne Slade, What’s New at the Zoo (Sylvan Dell)

Jennifer Ward, The Busy Tree (Marshall Cavendish)

Natalie Rompella, Edgar, Allan, and Poe and the Tell-Tale Beets (Lobster Press)

Jennifer Ward, Let’s Go Outside! (Random House/Trumpeter)

MIDDLE GRADE

Julia Durango, Sea of the Dead, Simon & Schuster

Bonnie Geisert, Prairie Winter (HMH/Houghton Mifflin)

Daniel Kraus, The Monster Variations (Delacorte)

Keith McGowan, The Witch’s Guide to Cooking with Children (Henry Holt)

Beverly Patt, Haven (Blooming Tree Press)

Adam Selzer, Andrew North Blows Up the World (Random House),
The Smart Aleck’s Guide to American History (Random House)

YOUNG ADULT FICTION

Kathi Baron, Shattered (WestSide Books)

Norm Cowie, Fang Face (Quake Publishing)

Simone Elkeles, How to Ruin Your Boyfriend’s Reputation (Llewelyn/Flux)

Julie Halpern, Into the Wild Nerd Yonder (Feiwel and Friends)

Laura Ruby, Bad Apple (HarperCollins/Harper Teen)

Kristina Springer, The Espressologist (FSG)

NON-FICTION

Marlene Targ Brill, Michelle Obama: From Chicago’s South Side to the White House (Lerner Books),
  America in the 1900s, (also in the 1910’s, 1970’s, 1980’s, and 1990’s) (Twenty-First Century Books).

Esme Codell, Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher’s First Year (re-issue, Algonquin)

Candace Fleming, The Great and Only Barnum: The Tremendous, Stupendous Life
Of Showman P.T. Barnum (Random House/Schwartz & Wade)

Gail Green, Animals and Teens: The Ultimate Teen Guide (Scarecrow Press)

Donna Latham, 25 Fantastic Projects You Can Build Yourself (Nomad Press)

Bob Raczka, Name That Style: All About Isms in Art (Lerner/First Avenue Editions)

Tina Schwartz, Writing and Publishing: The Ultimate Teen Guide (Scarecrow Press)

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