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About Alvina Ling
Alvina Ling is the Editorial Director at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers where she has worked since 1999. She has also been a bookseller for Barnes and Noble, and interned at the Horn Book and in the children’s room of the New York Public Library. She edits children’s books for all ages, from picture books to young adult novels, with some nonfiction mixed in.
She contributes to the children’s book blog Blue Rose Girls at www.bluerosegirls.blogspot.com and Tweets with the handle @planetalvina.
She loves her job, and as children’s books have played a large role in shaping her life, she now feels honored to play a role in creating them.
About Libba Bray
Libba Bray is a bestselling author of young adult novels, including the books A Great and Terrible 
Beauty, Rebel Angels, The Sweet Far Thing and Going Bovine.
Today we’ll be talking with Libba about her latest and hilarious book, Beauty Queens.
YOUR BOOK IS YOUR HOOK! SUPPORTS…
Project Night Night and their efforts to put a new or slightly used children’s book in the hands of homeless children in shelters in the United States. Since 2005, they have hand-delivered more than 100,000 night night packages which include a stuffed animal, a blanket and a children’s book tucked inside a canvas night night bag. We encourage you to find out how you can donate to support their efforts today.
Read to Feed is a reading incentive service-learning program that offers global education opportunities and will foster in your children a love for reading, a passion to help others and a way to help create a better world.
What a busy woman you are, Jennifer!
As a former teacher I love your advice for sharing books with youth.