MEDIA RELEASES: PEACHTREE IN THE NEWS
Peachtree's Art Director, Loraine Joyner to Judge Illustration Annual:
On any given day at the office, Loraine Joyner transforms works of art into-well-works of art. In March, Joyner will bring her many varied years of professional experience in the art world with her to Menlo Park, California as a judge for Communication Arts (CA) magazine's Illustration Annual competition.
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Martina the Beautiful Cockroach is named Pura Belpre Honor book:
In their latest children’s book,
Martina the Beautiful Cockroach, author Carmen Agra Deedy and illustrator Michael Austin serve up a deliciously inventive Cuban adaptation of the beloved folktale, complete with a dash of cafe cubano. In bringing the little green cockroach to life, the book has been recognized as a 2008 Pura Belpre honor recipient.
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Touching titles for this month’s Veterans Day:
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Peachtree marketing team gains new senior publicist:
Melissa Goldner Bloomfield recently joined Paula Herr and Mo Withee as Senior Publicist of the newly assembled creative team, which will promote Peachtree’s authors, titles, and illustrators with a high level of quality, accuracy and graphic continuity.
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New titles that will add to the holiday spirit this winter:
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Peachtree author Effie Leland Wilder passes away at age 97:
Senior-aged author whose novels
Out to Pasture and
Older But Wilder showed life in a lively retirement home, Effie Leland Wilder passed away on July 19, 2007 at the age of 97.
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Peachtree author recognized for humanitarian themes:
Flash Point, a YA novel by Sneed B. Collard III, has just received the 2007 Green Earth Book Award and the 2006 ASPCA Henry Bergh Children’s Book Award.
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Peachtree Publishers' Authors inducted into Georgia Writers Hall of Fame:
Three of Peachtree's authors, Caroline Miller, Ferrol Sams and Celestine Sibley will be inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame, established by the University of Georgia Libraries.
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