"... Julianna Baggott has achieved a premiere place among American writers." - Fred Chappell		** For more information on these books, please click the book covers above. ** A boy named Oyster R. Motel, who is being raised in a nunnery, falls prey to the Awful MTDs (Mysterious Temporary Disappearances) and takes a ride in a silver bucket through the Gulf of Wind and Darkness to an Imagined Other World - filled with Perths, Doggers, Vicious Goggles, dragons, spider-wolves, breathing rivers - where he must defeat the evil Dark Mouth. The film stars Dustin Hoffman, Natalie Portman, and Justin Bateman. But the Bode book is all about Mr. Magorium's wonderful life. Read how the brilliant, 243-year-old toy maker influenced the lives of Napoleon, Einstein, Jackie Robinson, Billy Jean King, and many more! Get your copy of The Amazing Compendium of Edward Magorium today! Julianna's third book of poems COMPULSIONS OF SILKWORMS AND BEES - winner of the 2005-06 Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Series - is now available - Pleiades Press, distributed by LSU Press in 2007. To request a TEACHER'S GUIDE, click HERE. "...[a] bouyant tour-de-force ..." - Susan Ludvigson "Part primer, part credo, part arm-swinging gambol, this wonderful book is resonant with wit and insight." - Linda Bierds "The constant mix of sweet and sour, of heart-swelling romance and smart-ass banter is the official language of Modern Urban Singledom. The best-selling author duo (he of Candyfreak, she of Girl Talk) make fine use of the epistolary form -- with a few funny postal mishaps lending a hip meta touch. Their couple's distinct voices and push-pull dynamic are terrifically engaging." -- Entertainment Weekly Julianna's book of poems LIZZIE BORDEN IN LOVE: POEMS IN WOMEN'S VOICES was Crab Orchard's Editors Selection for 2006, published by Southern Illinois University Press. The collection gives voice to the "muted and misrepresented" voices of women, from Camille Claudel and Helen Keller to Katharine Hepburn and Monica Lewinsky. "...Baggott amazes with the scope of her imagination...a dangerous and elegant collection from one of America's finest young poets." - Beth Ann Fennelly Narrow escapes, evil villains, and captured souls from books will keep kids turning pages through an imaginative kaleidoscope of transformations definitely reminiscent of our friends at Hogwarts. Ferns best friend, Howard, is a robotlike wimp who serves as an effective foil to the brave and take-charge Fern, and the Blue Queen is truly terrifying as she gobbles souls from books with the ultimate goal of stealing human ones. Puzzles, anagrams, and references to other childrens books will please young sleuths. Old-fashioned-looking black-and-white sketches contribute to the feel of a classic childrens book. -- School Library Journal Though Fern is excited about learning Anybody skills, Howard loathes the idea, and Camp Happy Sunshine Good Times is even worse than he imagined: a blind bus driver-handyman; moldy, spider-infested cabins; mean, creepy counselors; a vicious mole who wants something Fern has; and terrified campers who shun Fern. There are also strange soda-pop bottles containing messages demanding that Fern save someone. It's a dangerous, miserable puzzle, but Bode neatly and cleverly ties up loose ends and, on the last page, produces a nifty surprise that will have readers clamoring for another sequel. Suggest this to teachers looking for an off-the-wall read-aloud or as an excellent example of voice in writing. -- Booklist The Anybodies, written under Julianna's pen name N.E. Bode. The Anybodies was one of PEOPLE MAGAZINE's top five book picks for 'what's cool this summer.' "Potter-style magic meets Snicket-y irreverence in a saga of a girl swapped at birth and raised by 'tragically dull' parents." "Profoundly different from anything she has done before, The Madam is an extraordinary novel which will open a whole new phase of what already looks like a brilliant career." -- Madison Smartt Bell "A poet has transformed a piece of history into a luminous and epic piece of literature..." -- Antonya Nelson                               "... a tour de force ..." -- Christine Wiltz The Miss America Family, Boston Globe Bestseller: "... a writer after my own heart." -- Richard Russo, winner of the Pulitzer Prize "With her first two novels, Julianna Baggott has achieved a premier place among American writers." -- Fred Chappell Girl Talk, National Bestseller, recently spotted on The Real World (Austin): "A smart, quirky chronicle of mother-daughter bonding and binding." -- Glamour "Filled with the kind of eccentric characters found in Vonnegut or Pynchon." -- Shout Magazine This Country of Mothers, book of poems: "In these large, passionate, compelling poems, the speaker's family and the holy family merge in love and suffering-wholly family, wholly loved, wholly suffered for." -- Andrew Hudgins NEW BOOKS: MY HUSBAND'S SWEETHEARTS, as Bridget Asher, will be published in fall 2008. THE PRINCE OF FENWAY PARK, spring 2009. Hit "Take Me Home" for more on the above books.