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April 03 Tracy Chevalier
From her website : www.tchevalier.com October 26 Michelle Paver Born in Malawi to a Belgian mother and a father who ran the tiny 'Nyasaland Times', Michelle Paver moved to the UK when she was three. She grew up in Wimbledon and, following a Biochemistry Degree from Oxford, she became a partner in a City law firm. Eventually, though, having submerged herself in myth and folklore (not at work) and having been chased by a bear (again, not at work), she gave up the lawyer life to follow her long-held dream of becoming a writer. Successfully published as an adult author, the CHRONICLES OF ANCIENT DARKNESS are her first - brilliant - books for children. Books by Michelle Paver: Daughters of Eden Series 1. The Shadow Catcher (2002) 2. Fever Hill (2004) 3. The Serpent's Tooth (2005) Chronicles of Ancient Darkness 1. Wolf Brother (2004) 2. Spirit Walker (2005) 3. Soul-Eater (2006) 4. Outlaw (2007) Novels Without Charity (2000) A Place in the Hills (2001) Find more about Michelle and her books on her website : http://www.michellepaver.com/ September 20 TAKAHASHI Rumiko Rumiko Takahashi was born in Niigato, Japan in 1957. She grew up to attentd women's college in Tokyo, where she met Kazuo Koiko(author of Crying Freeman). Together they began to study comics. In 1978 she won a prize in Shogakukan's annual "New Comic Artist Contest". In that same year she started Lum*Urusei Yatsura, which is her comedy series about a boy-meets-alien. This appeared in the weekly manga magazine Shonen Sunday. It was a successful series that ran for 9 years & sold over 22 million copies!!! Her later series Ranma 1/2 was even more popular! Today she is considered one of the most popular manga artists around, and since Ranma1/2 has published it's 34th Volume, she enjoys a total sales record that passses the 100 million copies of her combined works! Some of her works include Lum*Urusei Yatsura, Ranma 1/2, One-pound Gospel, Maison Ikkoku and Inu-Yasha. She has also drawn a series of short stories that's published in America under the title of "Rumic Theater" as well as several volumes of her "Mermaid" series. Most of her series have been animated and are widely available as translated copies throughout the world! Inu-Yasha is her latest serial story and it was first published in Shonen
Sunday in 1996.
Go to this link, it got interesting writing on Rumiko Takahashi. September 12 Kate diCamillo KATE DICAMILLO, an American children books writer. She was born in Philladelphia, Pennsylvania, on March 25, 1964. She was raised in Clermont, Florida, and currently live in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
She ilives with her dog, that she refer as 'not so lovely'
 Henry.She writes books for children and also for adults.
Her books for children has many interesting stories, from the tales of a mouse who is in love with a princess to the story of a girl and a strayed dog, and a lot of others.
Her books :
Because of Winn-Dixie
Mercy Watson to the Rescue
Mercy Watson Goes for a Ride
Mercy Watson Fights Crime
Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
Tale of Desperaux
Tiger Rising
Four of her books has won awards, 'Because of Winn Dixie' is the Newberry Honor Book. "Tiger Rising" is a National Book Award finalist, and "Tale of Desperaux" is the winner of 2003 Newberry Medal. The latest one, 'Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane' is the winner of Boston Globe Horn Book Award for Fiction.
Find out more on : Kate diCamillo website
September 11 Cornelia Funke Cornelia Funke, born in Dorsten, Westphalia, in 1958. As a child, she wanted to be an astronout (aw.. we have something in common
 ) but then forget about it when she found out that it took a military training to be one.Right now she lives near Hamburg with her daughter, Ann, and her son, Ben. Her husbang, Rolf, died this year.
Her works :
Fiction :
The Thief Lord
Dragon Rider
Inkheart
Inkspell
Ghosthunter series
When Santa Fell to Earth
Picture Books :
Pirate Girl
The Princess Knight
The Wildest Brother
Find more about Cornelia Funke at this website : http://www.corneliafunkefans.com September 05 Megan McDonald Megan McDonald is the author of the award-winning JUDY MOODY series and numerous other books. She grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with four older sisters, and she says that most of the stories in Judy Moody "grew out of anecdotes about growing up with them." In fact, she says "Judy Moody is me...exaggerated!" She made Judy the oldest sister because she "wanted to see what it's like to be in charge!" Megan McDonald lives with her husband, two dogs, two adopted horses, and fifteen wild turkeys in Sebastopol, California. (Kidsreads.com)
TEN THINGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT MEGAN MCDONALD
10. She begins writing each book on a napkin.
9. Her favorite book as a child was Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh.
8. She is a lifetime member of the real Toad Pee Club!
7. When she was born, the fifth girl in her family, the doctor yelled, “It’s a boy!” for a joke.
6. She loves ice cream so much (especially Screamin’ Mimi’s) that she once fell down a hill when chasing the ice-cream truck and had to have stitches!
5. She has two dogs, two horses, and fifteen wild turkeys that land on her roof to wake her up every morning.
4. The Rubber Hand Trick is the best joke she ever played on her sisters. Read the first book, Judy Moody, to find out all about it.
3. Her middle name is Jo… She once wanted to change her name to Megan Jo Amy-Beth McDonald so it would contain the names of all four Little Women in the book by Louisa May Alcott.
2. As a girl, she collected bugs, fancy toothpicks, scabs and Barbie doll heads!
And the #1 thing you never knew about Megan is…
When she worked at a children’s bookstore, she once chased (and caught!) a burglar who had stolen two bags full of books and tried to get away on his bicycle!
September 01 ZIZOU CORDER
Zizou Corder is Louisa Young and Isabel Adomakoh Young, whose names are too long to fit on the cover of a book. Louisa is an adult and has written five adult books and far too many newspaper and magazine articles; Isabel is a kid and has written mostly schoolwork. The original Zizou is Isabel's Lizard. This is its first novel. They all live in London. Only one goes to school.
Louisa Young was a freelance journalist for many years, writing for national newspapers, motorcycle magazines and women's magazines. She studied history at Trinity College Cambridge, and has of course worked as a street performer, a motorcycle messenger, a cocktail waitress, a singer, and so on. Her first book, A GREAT TASK OF HAPPINESS: THE LIFE OF KATHLEEN SCOTT, was a biography of her grandmother, the sculptress widow of Scott of the Antarctic. She is also the author of a romantic adventure trilogy for adults and THE BOOK OF THE HEART, a cultural history of our most symbolic organ. LIONBOY, cowritten with her daughter Isabel, is her first children's novel. She lives in London with her daughter, their lizard Zizou, several spiders and a dead tortoise.
Find more on : http://www.kidsreads.com/authors/au-corder-zizou.asp August 07 They arrived!What a nice start for a monday morning!
Just when I arrived at the office, opening the computer, a knock came to my door.
Someone entered the room, and he brought a package with him.
Aha!
Just what I have been waiting for since Friday last week! The books were here!
These are for free!!! Got them from a group I join, ha ha ha, just being a lucky participant
 How happy I was  Just the ones that I had been planning to buy, ho ho ho ho
- Sang Pemimpi by Andrea Hirata
- Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (Abridged edition)
- Baudolino by Umberto Eco
Thank you Bentang ! November 28 New picturesI just added a few pictures here. They were taken during my friend, Tessa's visiting Medan. Hm.. actually the word visit is not really suitable, because she was coming for a training conducted by her organization, hehehe. So, we spent several days together, getting to know each other in real live, hahaha, instead of just meet in the net as before, hahahahaha....... Hm.. it means, I already met 2 people from the Torey Hayden forum.. wish we could make a gathering for all member.. hiks.. hiks.. but that looks like almost impossible to do, since many of us live in far far away places.. Ally in Makassar, Ryz in Sidoarjo, si Akang in Bandung, Indah and Eric in Tarakan, Dita in Singapore, Omen in Netherland, and Vidia in France??? how could we gather this people, hiks... The other member I ever met is Baby, hehehe, we had a good time and a funny thing happened too, hahahaha (oops.. better not telling the story here, coz it is her copyright hahahahahahah.. So.. what else.. Just enjoy the pics
October 21 Broken PromiseOkay.... It seems that I cannot keep my own promise, that I will not
write anything here. Hm... Why?? Why??? Why??? Why I never can control
myself to write in blogs?? It seems that I keep adding up blog
everywhere... and the most crazy thing is that I still keep trying to
update all of them... huh!!! Then... Today is my first blog birthday.
One year has passed since I start blogging Hmphh..... I have added a
few items here, new links, new music list, hehehehe Okay, I think this
is enough for today... October 06 BlogActually, I never plan to write anything here, I only get this space to put my collection of pictures    But I think this place is cool enough, hehehehe  I love the smileys   But don't expect anything here, except for some new pictures, hahaha If you want new postings? Just visit my other blogs hehe Or, visit my book blog (but this one in Bahasa only, hehehe) |
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