BOOK NOOK REVIEWS: Salina Yoon

**This week's BOOK NOOK REVIEWS shines a spotlight on great books provided by some of the authors participating in my annual FREE AUTHOR PROMOTION event held each May in my city. Help support these new and established authors by checking out their books!***

Title: Penguin In Love

Author: Salina Yoon

Publisher: Walker Books For Young Readers

Ages 4-8

"One day, Penguin was looking for love. Instead, he found...a mitten. It was a mystery."

Synopsis: All Penguin wants is someone to love.  What he finds instead is a mitten and soon Penguin is on an adventure of a lifetime. Only Penguin's dedication to finding the missing mitten's owner will help him find true love as well

Why you should read it: I first fell in love with Penguin when he was on vacation. In her latest book, Ms Yoon uses beautiful illustrations and a heart touching story to introduce young readers to love with all it's ups and downs. 

Like-O-Meter Rating: 5 out of 5...Grab it!

Calling All Authors...Part Two!

I have gotten such a great response so far with the shout out for autographed children's books (PB, MG, YA fiction and nonfiction), that I thought I would run one more post explaining how I am showcasing and promoting other authors' works as my way of saying thank you for being so supportive in this wonderful writing community!

Some of you have heard about the Children's Festival of Reading that is coming to my city on Saturday, May 19th.  If you haven't, you can check out the link here http://knoxrooms.sirsi.net/rooms/portal/page/21676_Childrens_Festival_of_Reading.  I have been invited to have a booth where I am going to showcase any of my author friends who want to send me an autographed copy of their books or anything else they want to autograph...i.e. bookmarks, posters, pictures, etc. as free giveaways. 

I have been receiving packages almost daily and I know some more are on their way, but there is still time to participate if you would like to!  I'm also asking all my readers to help me get the word out to THEIR author friends so that I can have the best booth at the festival!  And if you give this blog post a shout-out, your name will be put in a drawing for some prizes 

( http://www.donasdays.blogspot.com/2012/03/time-for-another-giveaway.html ).  Anyone interested in more information can email me at tkd2lady (at) yahoo (dot) com.  They don't have to be newly published books and e-book authors can autograph bookmarks, posters, postcards, etc for a chance for me to promote their books as well.  

Here is the list of authors so far who have been so generous with their books and swag items:

Susanna Leonard Hill

Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen

Salina Yoon

Tammi Sauer

Keiko Kasza

Heather Newman (illiustrator)

Debbie Bernstein LaCroix

Alayne Kay Christian

Genevieve Petrillo

Nancy Smiler Levinson

Diane Dawson Hearn

Sarah Frances Hardy

Vivian Kirkland

Lisa M Cottroll-Bentley

Teagan Bentley

Jan Wade

Lori Degman
Doreen Mcgettigan

I think the festival committee will be quite surprised when I let them know what I'm gonna have at MY booth...;0)