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Sunday, February 22
Send a Free Katie & Kimble e-Card Today! For Ages 7-10!
by
Linda Thieman
on Sun 22 Feb 2009 06:10 AM CST
Send a Free Katie & Kimble e-Card!
 Now
you can send a Katie & Kimble e-Card to all your friends.
It's free and there are no pop-ups or ads. AND we don't collect
your email address, either! It's nothing but FUN!
Look on the right sidebar of the Katie & Kimble blog. There's
a big orange box. Click on "Send a Katie & Kimble Greeting
Card." That will take you to another web page where you can design
your own greeting card.
You can choose from 12 Katie & Kimble pictures, 12 background colors, and 9 songs! That's right—you can add a song to your e-Card! Give it a try!
If someone sends YOU an e-Card, you can come back to the Katie &
Kimble blog to pick it up. You'll receive an email telling you
what your e-Card number is. Then you enter it into the gold box
on the sidebar and click on GO. It's so easy!
If you send a card to someone and they don't receive it, please ask
them to look in their spam folder. It's probably there, but it's
NOT spam!
Give it a try!
Linda
Katie & Kimble: A Ghost Story (Book 1 in the series) and Katie & Kimble: The Magic Wish (Book 2 in the series) are available here:
Paperback version: $5.95
Click here to order Katie & Kimble: A Ghost Story!
Click here to order Katie & Kimble: The Magic Wish (Book 2)!
Instant download version: $2.48
Click here to order the instant download editions.
[Reading Level 3, 280L, for ages 7-10]
Nine-year-old Katie Russell and her family look
normal. But the Russells don't know they are living with Kimble,
the ghost of a ten-year-old girl. That is, until Katie discovers Kimble
and the two of them set off on a quest to find out what happened to
Kimble's mother.
Saturday, February 21
Author of Katie & Kimble: A Ghost Story Series for Ages 7-10 Interviewed in USA Today!
by
Linda Thieman
on Sat 21 Feb 2009 03:44 AM CST
Author of Katie & Kimble: A Ghost Story Series for Ages 7-10 Interviewed in USA Today!
From the Pump Up Your Book Promotion website:
Children’s Book Author Linda Thieman Gains National Attention at USA Today
Posted by Dorothy Thompson at Pump Up Your Book Promotion
I’m thrilled to announce that Linda Thieman, author of the children’s book, Katie & Kimble: A Ghost Story, has appeared on the USA Today website.
Thieman was interviewed by The Writer’s Life,
one of Pump Up Your Book Promotion’s in-house blogs which hosts all our
clients because of its visibility and optimization methods utilized by
the Pump Up Your Book Promotion staff to help our clients sell more
books. The interview was picked up by USA Today, a highly-viewed news
site.
Linda Thieman’s book, Katie & Kimble: A Ghost Story
is the story of the Russells, a normal family, or so it appears, who don’t
realize they have a ghost living with them. Katie Russell, the
daughter, discovers the ghost is named Kimble and the two of them set
off on a quest to find out what happened to Kimble’s mother. — Katie & Kimble: A Ghost Story is a chapter book at RL3 (reading level 3), and is the first in a series. The Katie & Kimble books are funny, engaging and exciting, but are not fear-based.
Congratulations, Linda!
[Thank you, Dorothy!]
Katie & Kimble: A Ghost Story (Book 1 in the series) and Katie & Kimble: The Magic Wish (Book 2 in the series) are available here:
Paperback version: $5.95
Click here to order Katie & Kimble: A Ghost Story!
Click here to order Katie & Kimble: The Magic Wish (Book 2)!
Instant download version: $2.48
Click here to order the instant download editions.
© 2009 by Linda Thieman
Sunday, February 15
Katie & Kimble Blog: Kids, You Can Help Save the World Here! Ages 7-10! Online Learning Games!
by
Linda Thieman
on Sun 15 Feb 2009 07:09 AM CST
Kids, You Can Help Save the World Here!
 If you've read Katie & Kimble: A Ghost Story, you know that Katie is the kind of girl who likes to HELP people and animals (um, and ghosts!). Now, here are three ways that YOU can help people and animals, too.
It's fun and it's important.
And you can learn great things at the same time! I've added all three
to the Katie & Kimble Activity Corner on the right sidebar of this
blog. That section of the sidebar is called Save the World.
 1) A 12-year-old girl named Mimi Ausland from Oregon started a website called FreeKibble.com.
Kibble means pieces of dog or cat food. Every day, Mimi adds a new Bow Wow
Trivia question about dogs. If you answer the question
(correctly or not), Mimi will donate 10 pieces of kibble to dogs who
live in shelters. This really adds up! Mimi has provided dogs with
thousands and thousands of pounds of dog food. That must be very heavy
to carry!
 2) Mimi also started a site to help feed cats. So if you go to the FreeKibbleKat.com website and answer the Meow Trivia question every day, Mimi will donate 10 pieces of kibble for cats!
 3) The third way that you can help is found at FreeRice.com.
Here, if you answer questions correctly, FreeRice will donate 10 grains
of rice to a hungry person for each question you answer. This can add
up quickly, because you can keep answering questions as long as you
want.
FreeRice has all kinds of questions. You can start at the
lowest level and build your English vocabulary. Or you can do the same
thing in other languages, too, like Spanish and French.
They
also have questions about art and famous artists, where you get to look
at famous pictures. You can also look at maps to answer questions
about countries and world capitals. And you can practice your math and
multiplication tables and earn rice for hungry people at the same
time! You also get to keep track of how much rice you've donated.
So, have fun, learn things, and help dogs, cats and people! Here's to saving the world!
Katie & Kimble: A Ghost Story (Book 1 in the series) and Katie & Kimble: The Magic Wish (Book 2 in the series) are available here:
Paperback version: $5.95
Click here to order Katie & Kimble: A Ghost Story!
Click here to order Katie & Kimble: The Magic Wish (Book 2)!
Instant download version: $2.48
Click here to order the instant download editions.
[Reading Level 3, 280L, for ages 7-10]
Nine-year-old Katie Russell and her family look
normal. But the Russells don't know they are living with Kimble,
the ghost of a ten-year-old girl. That is, until Katie discovers Kimble
and the two of them set off on a quest to find out what happened to
Kimble's mother.
Sunday, February 8
Send a Free Katie & Kimble: A Ghost Story e-Card! For Ages 7-10!
by
Linda Thieman
on Sun 08 Feb 2009 05:00 AM CST
Send a Free Katie & Kimble: A Ghost Story e-Card! For Ages 7-10!
Now
you can send a Katie & Kimble e-Card to all your friends.
It's free and there are no pop-ups or ads. AND we don't collect
your email address, either! It's nothing but FUN!
Look on the right sidebar of the Katie & Kimble blog. There's
a big golden yellow box. Click on "Send a Katie & Kimble Greeting
Card." That will take you to another web page where you can design
your own greeting card.
You can choose from 12 Katie & Kimble pictures, 12 background colors, and 9 songs! That's right—you can add a song to your e-Card! Give it a try!
If someone sends YOU an e-Card, you can come back to the Katie &
Kimble blog to pick it up. You'll receive an email telling you
what your e-Card number is. Then you enter it into the gold box
on the sidebar and click on GO. It's so easy!
If you send a card to someone and they don't receive it, please ask
them to look in their spam folder. It's probably there, but it's
NOT spam!
Give it a try!
Linda
Katie & Kimble: A Ghost Story (Book 1 in the series) and Katie & Kimble: The Magic Wish (Book 2 in the series) are available here:
Paperback version: $5.95
Click here to order Katie & Kimble: A Ghost Story!
Click here to order Katie & Kimble: The Magic Wish (Book 2)!
Instant download version: $2.48
Click here to order the instant download editions.
[Reading Level 3, 280L, for ages 7-10]
Nine-year-old Katie Russell and her family look
normal. But the Russells don't know they are living with Kimble,
the ghost of a ten-year-old girl. That is, until Katie discovers Kimble
and the two of them set off on a quest to find out what happened to
Kimble's mother.
Tuesday, February 3
Madeline, age 7.5, Reviews Katie & Kimble: A Ghost Story for Reader Views Kids!
by
Linda Thieman
on Tue 03 Feb 2009 05:00 AM CST
Madeline, age 7.5, Reviews Katie & Kimble: A Ghost Story for Reader Views Kids!
Katie &
Kimble: A Ghost Story
Linda Thieman
Pale Silver Rainplop Press (2008)
ISBN 9780979439612
Reviewed by Madeline McElroy (age 7.5) for Reader Views
This is a ghost story of a girl named Katie who is nine and the other
girl that you see on the front cover is a girl named Kimble who is ten.
The two girls met when Katie heard a girl laughing at her new house but
she didn’t see anyone. She kept hearing laughter and then she saw a
girl ghost on her bed. Katie wasn’t afraid of Kimble. And Kimble was
excited to see a new friend in her house.
I like the whole story of it and I want the other book of Katie &
Kimble. I like Kimble because she is a ghost, and I like ghosts, they
don’t scare me either. My most favorite character is Katie. I also like
Kimble’s pretty purple dress. I like the parts when Katie and Kimble
hug each other because they are such good friends. The girls like to
play outside exploring and going on adventures.
Another funny part of the story is when Katie and the rest of her
family in the house were in sleeping bags, everyone but Twinkle, the
family dog.
I still like the pictures even if they don't have color. Lots of
chapter books don’t have pictures, but I wish they would, it makes it
more interesting to me.
This is an easy book to read for seven-year-olds. I think a lot of kids
in the world that know how to read would like “Katie & Kimble: A
Ghost Story” by Linda Thieman.
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