FREE Skype Visits for Portland, Oregon Teachers and Librarians!

If you are a teacher, librarian, or homeschool group in the Portland, OR area, The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom author Christopher Healy is offering FREE Skype visits from now until mid-October.

If you are interested, simply tweet us at @WaldenPondPress or leave us a message on Facebook and we'll get back to you promptly.

Once you have set up a Skype visit with Chris, we will send you a copy the book and some discussion guides (as supplies last).

For more information about the book and its author, read on:

Select reviews:

“a crowd-pleaser with laugh-out-loud lines on nearly every page.” — PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY [Starred Review]

“Inventive and hilarious, with laugh-out-loud moments on every page.”— KIRKUS

[Starred Review]

 “A lively, humorous adventure” —Meghan Cox Gurdon, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

“Richly imagined and hysterically funny” — Dodie Owens, SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL

“Brilliant.” — NEW YORK MAGAZINE

There’s a lot you don’t know about Prince Charming.

Synopsis:

Christopher Healy takes us on a journey with four imperfect princes and their four improbable princesses, all of whom are trying to become perfect heroes—a fast-paced, funny, and fresh introduction to a world where everything, even our classic fairy tales, is not at all what it seems.
Prince Liam. Prince Frederic. Prince Duncan. Prince Gustav. You’ve never heard of them, have you? These are the princes who saved Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Snow White, and Rapunzel,  respectively, and yet, thanks to those lousy bards who wrote the tales, you likely know them only as Prince Charming. But all of this is about to change. Rejected by their princesses and cast out of their  castles, Liam, Frederic, Duncan, and Gustav stumble upon an evil plot that could endanger each of their kingdoms. Now it’s up to them to triumph over their various shortcomings, take on trolls, and its, dragons, witches, and other assorted terrors, and become the heroes no one ever thought they could be.

Author Bio: Christopher Healy finally made the transition to writing books of his own after years of reviewing of children’s media for various magazines and websites. His first novel, the acclaimed comedic fantasy adventure The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom, published in 2012, has been optioned for film by Fox Animation. The second volume in the series, The Hero's Guide to Storming the Castle, will be published in May 2013.

It's Blog Hop Time!: Back to the Books Giveaway Hop

As part of the Back to the Books Giveaway Hop, we are giving away some great back to school reads for you and the children in your lives! If you've never done a giveaway hop before, simply enter our giveaway and then "hop" to the next blog on the lists. All participating blogs are linked at the end of this post.

Start the year off right with The Fourth Stall series by Chris Rylander, aka The Godfather in middle school...(and Part III doesn't even hit stores until February 2013, but two lucky winners will get to read it months beforehand!).

Middle school just got a lot more criminal. Do you need something? Mac can get it for you. It's what he does. He and his best friend and business manager, Vince. Their methods might sometimes run afoul of the law, or at least the school code of conduct, but if you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you pay him, Mac is on your side. His office is located in the East Wing boy's bathroom. And business is booming.

Two complete sets available (including advance reader copy of Part III):

Sports more up your alley? Then why not start your back-to-schooler off with a brand new edition of Guys Read: The Sports Pages! In this new edition in the Guys Read series, find ten stories guaranteed to put you in the ring, under the basket, and right behind home place from the following perennial all-stars: Jacqueline Woodson, Gordon Korman, Anne Ursu, Dan Gutman, Chris Crutcher, Joseph Bruchac, James Brown, Tim Green, Chris Rylander, and Stanley Cup winner Dustin Brown!

One shiny new hardcover available:

None of those suit your fancy? Will aliens do? Introducing Kevin Emerson's brand new title The Fellowship for Alien Detection. Picture the town of Juliette, Arizona, a seemingly normal town until all of sudden, BLAM! it disappears. Enter Haley and Dodger: two kids from opposite sides of the country who both have set out to prove that extraterrestrial life really does exist. Can they figure out what happened to Juliette? Can they prove that the people whispering "alien abduction" maybe aren't crazy after all? And, most importantly, can they stop what's happening before it's too late...because they are being hunted themselves, and, at any moment, they might disappear too...

The Fellowship for Alien Detection doesn't hit stores until February - be among the first to read it! One advance reader copy available:

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