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SOMETHING GOOD is an Ohioana Award Finalist!

May 16, 2022 By Marcy Campbell Leave a Comment

I’m very excited to announce SOMETHING GOOD is one of five finalists for the 2022 Ohioana Award in the Juvenile Literature category! This is the second time I’ve been a finalist (ADRIAN SIMCOX DOES NOT HAVE A HORSE had the honor in 2019). Winners announced in July! The Ohioana Library is pleased to announce the […]

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My Next Book Dedication

May 3, 2022 By Marcy Campbell

In three months, my next picture book, “The More You Give,” will be out in the world. I don’t have hard copies just yet, but have been relishing, on screen, the beautiful artwork created by Francesca Sanna. I can’t wait to hold this book in my hands! Near the end of a book’s production phase, […]

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Review of SOMETHING GOOD in The Horn Book

October 25, 2021 By Marcy Campbell

So excited to have this nice review in The Horn Book! SOMETHING GOOD by Marcy Campbell illus. by Corinna Luyken September/Ages 4-8/$18.99 ISBN 9780759557420 When a “bad-something” is scrawled on a wall in one of the girls’ bathrooms, how does a school community handle it? In Campbell’s story, the principal speaks to a group of […]

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SOMETHING GOOD review from School Library Journal

October 20, 2021 By Marcy Campbell

Thanks to SLJ for this great review! October 15, 2021 SOMETHING GOOD by Marcy Campbell illus. by Corinna Luyken September/Ages 4-8/$18.99 ISBN 9780759557420 Campbell sets children down in the middle of something serious. What if someone did something bad at your school? How would you feel? How would you act? How would you move forward? […]

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SOMETHING GOOD Review from BCCB

August 20, 2021 By Marcy Campbell

Loving this wonderful review from The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books!   Something really horrible has been written on a wall in the girls’ bathroom, and now the school is responding. In a meeting with the principal, the girls all wonder, “What is the bad-something? Who did it? And what will happen next?” […]

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Something Good Review from Publishers Weekly

July 12, 2021 By Marcy Campbell

Reviews have started coming in for my next picture book with Corinna Luyken, Something Good! Something Good Marcy Campbell, illus. by Corinna Luyken. Little, Brown, $18.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-7595-5742-0 The toughest moment in this classroom story by the previous collaborators (Adrian Simcox Does Not Have a Horse) comes when the narrator beholds the “bad-something” on […]

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RULE OF THREES Review from Publishers Weekly

April 6, 2021 By Marcy Campbell

I’m very excited to share this review from Publishers Weekly. It’s great when reviewers really “get” what an author was going for. “Harmony in the imperfect” pretty much sums it up. Rule of Threes Marcy Campbell. Chronicle, $17.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-7972-0123-8 Twelve-year-old Maggie believes that “three is perfect”: her immediate family has three members, as […]

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Adrian Simcox Wins the Huckepack Prize!

May 18, 2020 By Marcy Campbell

I’m so thrilled to announce that the German edition of “Adrian Simcox Does NOT Have a Horse,” has won the Huckepack Prize! From the award announcement: “HUCKEPACK (which means piggyback) focuses on picture books that build a special bridge from the grown-up reader to the child being read to, “piggyback” here standing as a symbol […]

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