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A Modern First Library List from Chris Barton

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Guest Post by Austin Author Chris Barton
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I can’t promise that the titles on my list for Modern First Library will sound as fresh to parents on their twentieth reading as they do on their first one.

But in putting my list together, I strove to remember how fun it was when the words in a picture book I read to my sons felt better and better coming out of my mouth with each reading — and how lousy it felt when a book wore out its welcome for me long before the boy in my lap grew tired of requesting it.

So here’s my list — eleven recent titles, because I just couldn’t keep it to ten — and what I love about each book, and why I think its readers will keep happily coming back for more.

Big Snow
by Jonathan Bean
Farrar Straus Giroux

You won’t…

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About The Owl Lady

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Viv Drewa is a Michigan native who has enjoyed reading and writing since 1963. Though she studied medicinal chemistry at the University of Michigan, her passion has always been writing. She had been awarded third place for her nonfiction short story about her grandfather's escape from Poland. Later, she rewrote this story and was published in the "Polish American Journal" as "From the Pages of Grandfather's Life" and has republished it on Amazon.com as a short story. Viv took creative and journalism courses to help in her transition to fulfill her dream of becoming a writer. She worked as an intern for Port Huron's 'The Times Herald", and also wrote, edited and did the layout or the Blue Water Multiple Sclerosis newsletter "Thumb Prints." She also has a business promoting authors. Owl and Pussycat Book Promotions. Viv, her husband Bob and their cat Princess, live in Port Huron, Michigan.

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