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How to make money publishing childrens books on kindle. Five trucks book by brian floca official publisher. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading lightship. Welcome to old children s books, selling children s literature and picture books online since 1994. Sometimes dark, sometimes funny, and always enthralling, sister emilys lightship is proof positive that yolen is truly a folklorist of our times. Here is a book, written before that accident, but coming rather opportunely in answer to those questions. How to publish your childrens book amazon kindle direct publishing.
Brian floca excels at picking out interesting bits of history that we dont already know and turning them into compelling and beautiful books that can be consumed by children. The story is educational and interesting, but to me, lightship. Read and listen to books from our worldwide community. The books large format offers space for a robust story in a hefty package of information. A world of experience, afloat and ashore, is encompassed in the lives of the nine men who make up the crew of the lightship. Helen, her mother, lily, and her grandmother, dora have come together to tend to helens brother, declan, who is dying of aids.