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		<title>Happy Valentine&#8217;s Day!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:50:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just want to say a special Valentine&#8217;s Day thank you to Humphrey&#8217;s devoted fans &#8230; and to those who write to say they love Sassafras Springs and Princess Egg.
Those of you who take the time to email or write are very generous and I appreciate it.
Thanks from the  bottom of my heart!
If you want [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adventurous Paperback</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:47:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Each year, a new Humphrey book comes out in hardcover in the U.S. A year later, that book comes out in paperback, which means it&#8217;s a lot more affordable.
So while I was excited about SUMMER ACCORDING TO HUMPHREY being published last week, I&#8217;m equally happy to announce that last year&#8217;s book, ADVENTURE ACCORDING TO HUMPHREY, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Take the Tour!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:16:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty</dc:creator>
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SUMMER ACCORDING TO HUMPHREY, aka HOLIDAYS ACCORDING TO HUMPHREY in the UK is off to a sunny start!
From the emails, letters and personal questions I get from Humphrey&#8217;s fans (and those of Sassafras Springs as well), a lot of readers don&#8217;t get around to digging a little deeper on the website so here are some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summer&#8217;s Almost Here! (Yes, in February)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:33:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty</dc:creator>
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For those of you snowed in or tired of gray days, sunny days are coming this week when Humphrey&#8217;s latest adventure, SUMMER ACCORDING TO HUMPHREY, will be released! (That&#8217;s HOLIDAYS ACCORDING TO HUMPHREY, for all you U.K. fans. Same book, different title and cover.)
I&#8217;ve done something like 600 school presentations over the last 4 years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HAPPY-HAPPY-HAPPY Holidays</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 19:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[hings have been hectic as the holidays are bearing down on us &#8230; and I still haven&#8217;t finished Humphrey book seven. Eerk!
Hopefully in 2010, I&#8217;ll be back to blogging.
Meanwhile, thanks so much and Season&#8217;s Greetings to Humphrey&#8217;s friends and to the entire Sassafras Springs community!
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		<title>Itty Bitty Blog Post</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sticking my toe back in the water &#8211; here&#8217;s a link to an illustrator&#8217;s blog with a very sweet interview with a fan of SURPRISES ACCORDING TO HUMPHREY about what makes a book good.
Now it&#8217;s back to working on Humphrey&#8217;s seventh book &#8211; hope it will be a good one!
]]></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>
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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>I&#8217;m back, I think</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:31:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been back from the UK and NY for a week and a half and I&#8217;ve been unusually quiet &#8211; I think I just need to process all I saw and did. I&#8217;ll be filling in the backstory as I go through the hundreds of photos I&#8217;ve taken. But rather than a blow-by-blow, I&#8217;ll just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where we&#8217;ve been and where we&#8217;re going</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 07:21:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty</dc:creator>
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We spent a week in Caterham, Surrey with Wendy (sister of my good friend Nicky) and Roger in their guesthouse &#8230; and with their daughter Min (our friend for 20 years), who lives next door with her children, Jonny and Suzy and hamster, Smudge.
We had a glorious day in Bath Sunday, a sold out crowd for my [...]]]></description>
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