Shannon Hale, Newberry Award Winner!

Congrats are due to the lovely Shannon Hale who just came home from New Orleans with a Newberry Award for her novel The Princess Acadamy. Ms Hale's newest novel, River Secrets, will be on shelves this fall, but in the meantime treat yourself to the sweet, fiesty and unpredictable girls of the Academy as well as previous books Goose Girl and Enna Burning.

Congrats are also due Shannon apparently, as this mother of a toddler is braving pregnancy a second time. It's scarier when you actually know what you are getting into...