Lemuria Bookstore Blog

Award winning author, Kate DiCamillo is coming to Lemuria! She is an acclaimed author of many books for young readers and the recipient of a Newbery Medal; a Newbery Honor Book and was named a National Book Award finalist. She is a very big deal and we are thrilled that she is coming! I picked [...]

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The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate Dicamillo is a beautiful book that all of us here at Lemuria love. From Bagram Ibatoulline’s beautiful illustrations to the distinct way Kate DiCamillo inspires all of us to be a little better than our original selves, what’s not to love about this beautiful book? I fell [...]

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I’ve moved to the children’s room! When I first began working at Lemuria over three years ago, I started out in the fiction room. A bit later, I was moved into the main room where I have stayed for quite some time. Now, I am beginning an entirely new journey into the children’s department, known [...]

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Recently Emily and I have teamed up to give our First Editions Club Members a new opportunity and I’d like to tell you a little bit about it. On February 18th, the grandson of Ludwig Bemelmans, author of the Madeline series, was here at Lemuria signing his new book, Madeline at the White House. With [...]

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I’m 22 years old, I adore picture books, and I’m not ashamed to admit it.  Picture books aren’t only for children, you know.  I admit that I forgot about picture books somewhere between first and second grade and never looked back until I started working at Lemuria.  And now when I’m negotiating with graduate programs [...]

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Even the mention of the Madeline series brings a smile to my face —for in our family these books have happily spanned three generations—My mother read the first book about Madeline to me when I was a child. Then I, of course, couldn’t wait to read them all to my own daughter. And since I [...]

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I remember the first time I found out about Madeline. My mama and daddy went to London to visit my aunt and uncle and they came home with Madeline in London for me. Being a red-headed little girl, I was over the moon to have a book about another red-headed girl. I had a major [...]

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“In an old house in Paris, that was covered with vines, lived twelve little girls in two straight lines… the smallest one was Madeline.” What do you think of when you think of the children’s book character Madeline? Is it how you had to have it read to you every night before bed, or how [...]

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She’s an illustrator and an author. She has written picture books, books for early readers, books for late elementary kids, and keepsake books. She won a Newbery Honor in 2010 for her book Where the Mountain Meets the Moon and a Geisel Honor (an award named for Theodore Seuss Geisel) in 2011 for her book [...]

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It is such a delight to find an author you love. To read a book that so completely resonates with what you believe that certain kind of books should feel like. That one book was pleasure enough, but to find that they have published another book–well, let’s just all go run around in a circle [...]

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