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Catherine Urdahl and Her Reading Team
December 2020

March 7, 2021December 8, 2020 by Lisa Bullard

Raising Star Readers is delighted to introduce a new Reading Team, this one led by children’s book author Catherine Urdahl. Here, Catherine shares some heartwarming reading moments, with enough book-love and remembered summer sunshine to take the chill out of the coldest of December winds:

Juni and Catherine I read to my daughters from the time they were infants, and now I have the joy of reading to my two-year-old granddaughter Juni and my new grandson Colby.

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Skinny Dip with Phyllis Root

June 22, 2015June 3, 2015 by Marsha Qualey

What keeps you up at night? My cat Catalina keeps me up at night, meowing and wandering back and forth over me, looking for our other cat Spike, who died last fall and with whom she’d been together since kittenhood. What is your proudest career moment? I have two, and they happened close together. When Big Momma Makes the World had its launch in London, the London planetarium was filled with children, and someone narrated the text while Helen Oxenbury’s amazing art was projected onto the planetarium ceiling.… more

Fateful Car Trips in Children’s Literature

February 1, 2016May 5, 2015 by Marsha Qualey

Lupe, Flappy, and Elirio are among the many fictional characters who have hopped into a car and sped away into adventure. Here are a few more!
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Catherine Urdahl and Her Reading Team
December 2020

Skinny Dip with Phyllis Root

Fateful Car Trips in Children’s Literature

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