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		<title>The beginning of my love affair</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 22:44:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
 
Like many readers, my long love affair with books may have started with a Golden Book! How great to write my name in it &#8230; even if I still had trouble with my Ys. What Golden Book stands out in your memory? I know there&#8217;s at least one.
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		<title>The Changing World of Children</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:59:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was jarred when it dawned on me a little while back that many children aren&#8217;t being taught nursery rhymes and fairy tales any more. Stories and rhymes that have been passed on for hundreds of years and that have cultural significance may, indeed, die. Things change, of course. But why?
In this case, I think [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Triplets</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 23:04:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty</dc:creator>
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This is a book I actually owned, which means it must have been a gift. Most book gifts came from my paternal grandmother, from whom I inherited my love of books and playing piano. I loved the idea of this book more than the book. I liked the title, liked the illustrations but I don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LA TIMES FESTIVAL OF BOOKS</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 23:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll be signing books next Sunday, April 25, at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at UCLA. This is a wonderful annual event, the largest in the nation.
My times are:
11 am &#8211; Noon at Mrs. Nelson&#8217;s Toy and Bookshop Booth813
3:30-4:30 at CM School Supply Booth 839.
There are books to discover, shows to see, people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>March Madness</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 23:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ I should take this excellent advice from England!
March madness: I&#8217;m not talking about basketball &#8230; I&#8217;m talking about living life like a hamster spinning on a hamster wheel!
What have I been doing lately?
1) answering fan mail
2) writing and rewriting Humphrey book 7
3)answering fan mail
4) writing and rewriting the first of the younger Humphrey books, aimed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To blog or not to blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:27:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry I haven&#8217;t posted for a month. First of all, I was gone for 2 1/2 of the last 4 weeks, including an unexpected trip for a family funeral as well as full weeks of school visits in Houston and San Antonio.
Some irritating issues came up regarding the blog and I&#8217;m rethinking the whole thing. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What I Lost in England</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:43:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty</dc:creator>
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-Two small umbrellas
-One earring I REALLY-REALLY-REALLY liked.
-Another earring I liked a lot. (Meaning I lost two pairs of earrings. However, I found an earring in the suitcase that I lost on a previous trip so I gained one pair back. But I didn&#8217;t have the mate with me so I actually bought two pairs of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>London Diary</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 15:11:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s hard to believe we arrived in London last Wednesday (late night)&#8230; and are leaving again tomorrow &#8211; I feel as if I&#8217;ve been here five minutes! We&#8217;re staying at the Hotel Russell, overlooking Russell Square. Believe it or not, our room is ultra-modern &#8211; a 7th floor suite with a turret so we look [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FRIEND ME ON FACEBOOK</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:41:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Friends and Family]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Richard Peck said at the SCBWI conference week before last, &#8220;friend &#8230; is not a verb.&#8221; I agree. But I took the plunge anyway and put myself on Facebook as another way to communicate with friends and fans. So check me out, friend me &#8211; &#8220;friend&#8221; will be a verb in the dictionary very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BYE BYE KERRY</title>
		<link>http://www.bettybirney.com/blog/bye-bye-kerry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:28:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night, Amy Goldman Koss (The Girls) hosted an awesome farewell party for Kerry Madden (Harper Lee) who is leaving L.A. to teach at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. It&#8217;s a wonderful opportunity for Kerry, who is a born teacher as well as writer, and a great boon for Birmingham,  but we&#8217;ll definitely miss her smiling face at our [...]]]></description>
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