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    Book Fair kids: Schooled in comics

      School’s in session Friday for parents, teachers, librarians, anybody interested in knowing more about comic books. That’s sure to make a kid Hulk green with envy, isn’t it?   BY SUE CORBETT Sue will be making her own appearance at the Miami Book Fair International, reading from her latest book,  The Last Newspaper Boy in America . Sue will appear at 11 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Friday,...read more...
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    Meet 'Wimpy Kid' author

    By SUE CORBETT, scorbett@MiamiHerald.com    Jeff Kinney's latest entry in his phenomenally popular series about the struggles of middle school student Greg Heffley contains lots of fill-in-the-blank pages -- appropriate since Diary of a Wimpy Kid itself came into the MEET JEFF KINNEY The author will appear at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Freedom Tower in downtown Miami as part of the Miami Book Fair International....read more...
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    All hail the kid lit ambassador

    BY SUE CORBETT, scorbett@MiamiHerald.com    The power may have gone to Jon Scieszka's head. Halfway through his two-year term as the first-ever national ambassador for children's literature, he wonders why his car has no flags flying from the antennas. Where is his motorcade?    "I want those flags they fly on limousines, and diplomatic plates,'' he MEET THE AUTHOR Jon Scieszka...read more...
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    Dad's agony over son's addiction

      BY CONNIE OGLE, cogle@MiamiHerald.com    The sobering moment came early in Monday night's "Evening With...'' program, as it inevitably must when writer David Sheff is speaking.   Sheff, whose work has appeared in The New York Times, and Fortune and Playboy magazines, asked the Miami Book Fair International audience how many of their families had been touched by addiction.   ...read more...
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