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Children's Fiction Price slashed to only $1.28 / 77p-1 week only

February 23, 2014
'What do you do in a Drawing Room?' (The story of a young boy's adventures in a fantasy world of Art) is now only $1.28 / 77p.

Posted by Fiona Holt. Posted In : 'SMART READS' Tips 

 

Junior Leonardo da Vinci is now available in paperback

September 19, 2013
British English, US English, Paperback or Kindle?  The choice is yours!
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Posted by Fiona Holt. Posted In : 'SMART READS' Tips 

 

For all those budding little ballerinas... Junior Edgar Degas is published

July 20, 2013
It's here and it's in US English---British English coming soon..ish. (Next job is to get Junior Leonardo da Vinci into US English.)

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00E0IGI8G

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The FREE Degas (& Stubbs) Coloring Sheets are now up on the Web

July 15, 2013
http://theportraitplace.co.uk/kids-free-educational-activities-coloring-degas.php

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Degas is Almost Done

July 14, 2013
Just a few Is to dot and Ts to cross.  If ballet and/or horses are popular this one will not disappoint.


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‘Stolen Stories’— Inspirations for ‘What do you do in a Drawing Room?’

July 7, 2013
Like most writers I rarely dream up completely new ideas.  I tend to steal them instead, it’s easier!  
When I was a student one of my friend’s really did have a downstairs cloakroom called The Travel Room covered in magazine cuttings just like grandma’s .  I also once saw a documentary about a house somewhere in The US that had a highly polished wooden slide from the landing down to the hall.  I wish I could remember where it was, it looked fantastic.  The idea of an enchanted painting ...

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Online Colour Slide Shows For All Books

June 30, 2013
All 'SMART READS for Kids' and 'QUICK READS for Kids' books now have an accompanying online colour slide show containing all their paintings and illustrations.  So greyscale Kindle users now get to see the paintings in colour without having to buy a colour Kindle.  This also means teachers can put any image from any of the books up on their smart boards in class.
A login and password for each slide show is given at the back of the book.  (If you bought your copy before the upgrade then simply ...
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Posted by Fiona Holt. Posted In : 'SMART READS' Tips 

 

'QUICK READS for Kids' is Launched

June 25, 2013
Children are not idots!  They know when they're being educated and sometimes they just want to read a book for fun. So each of the 'SMART READS for Kids' Information books now has a sister book in the new 'QUICK READS for Kids' series.  In the latter, all the educational vocab, glossary, maths and history has been stripped out and the word count has been massively reduced.  Each book still covers the key facts, retains the interesting stories and bizarre anecdotes and has the cartoon characte...
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Check out this guy's website for some fantastic digital art

June 23, 2013
This one's called The Reader's Path but there's loads more...

http://www.morjers-art.de/pic93.html

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Posted by Fiona Holt. Posted In : Discover It 

 

Getting in the Mood for Degas

June 16, 2013
I love, love, love Degas' art and really enjoyed the RA exhibition in London last year.  Am busy writing 'Junior Edgar Degas' at the moment so I thought I'd stick my head out of the writing burrow and post a couple of my favourites to share my rekindled enthusiasm. Here are two of his later, more vibrant (and, in my humble opinion, best) works. 
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