Bruce McMillan - Children's Book Author

The latest news as of today about
Children's Book Author and Photo-Illustrator
Bruce McMillan
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"I love that story, Bruce.
I think that's a beautiful
book." Barbara Bush
on August 24, 2001.

I autographed and
Barbara Bush read
Grandfather's Trolley,
at the
Seashore Trolley Museum
in Kennebunkport, Maine.
It was the biggest event at
the trolley museum in almost twenty years.

This is where I photographed the book. It was a treat to introduce Mrs. Bush to the people featured in Grandfather's Trolley.

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Springvale Public Library
reopening includes
The Bruce McMillan Corner

The million-dollar-renovated Springvale Public Library, my local library, is open. The children's room features The Bruce McMillan Corner with all of my books. On permanent display are nine of the original hand-tinted photographs from Grandfather's Trolley. The sequential series of "trolley" photos wrap around half the room on two walls, six of the photos facing you as you enter the children's room. The room colors, yellow and red, match the yellow and red trolley - and the girls' hair ribbon too.
Click for the architect's plans.

Official
ceremonial
opening was
October 28, 2001

The art is up for viewing.

"A winning look at... the splendor of Iceland."
School Library Journal, Oct. 2001

The latest news as of today about Children's Book Author and Photo-Illustrator Bruce McMillan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Meet Bruce at the SPL Icelandic Potato Recipe Gallerí Heimalist Puffins Back from Iceland... for now Batty in the Office Springtime-Summer Colors in Nature Vickery School Verses Bruce's Surprise Guest Icelandic Letters Simplified Lupine Awards Page Wisconsin School Visits Jasper Beach and Machias Maine Visit The Weather Sky ~ Rainy Day Puffin Video Clip Public Site Counter Daily News from Iceland ~ Letter of the Week Jelly Beans For Sale availability Pufflings or Pifflings Pufflings Rescue in ASK Magazine Habitats in Houghton Mifflin 3rd Grade Reader Bucksport Student Greeting Fun Links Updated and Added To Back from Iceland 2002 ~ New Book(s) Coming Nights of the Pufflings Update Twenty-five Email Postcards Ready Days of the Ducklings Thrice Honored New Student Web Site Free Postcards - Real Postcards Drífa on Email Postcard Site Numbers Apples - Good/Bad/Good News Feature Article in Bangor Daily News Letter to the Editor in DownEast Magazine Barbara Bush Reads Grandfather's Trolley Library Honor The Bruce McMillan Corner Kennebunk Library Donation New Duckling Book and Reviews State of Maine Page added Puffins Escape on Puffin Page - Flying Everywhere

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Meet Bruce On Thursday October 9, 2003 from 3-5:00 pm I will be at my local library in the Springvale Public Library's Children's Room for "Meet Bruce McMillan Day". See you there.	See you at the library. Springvale Public Library 443 Main Street Springvale, ME 04083 207-324-4624
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Potatoes Dimont Brucie My quick and easy gourmet potato recipe that I have served all over Iceland to rave reviews.	Show me the illustrated recipe
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Puffins All over Iceland the tourist shops sell these inch-high puffin figures. They are made by my friends, Margo and Viktoría on Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland. How do they make them? Click the puffins to find out.	How did we get here?
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Click the Newspaper After a month in Iceland working on four new books, including The Problem with Chickens, I'm back in Maine finishing them. Morgunblaðið, The New York Times of Iceland, wrote about this with a photo on the front page.
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Click the Photo A night time office visitor and I thought I was going batty...
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Click the Photos Updated July 6, 2003 May and June 2003 Welcome to the colors of nature in my yard and in the woods behind my home. Take a walk with me to see what I see. You'll even find out what digital camera I used to take these vibrant wildlife colors. In the additional page posted June 26th you will see that it all makes scents!	Click Photos Wild Lupine Rosa Rugosa
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Click the Photo May 28, 2003 At Vickery School in Pittsfield, ME I was treated to some great verses. You be the judge... Art by Sarah Walston.	Click the horse and... Guess the Terse Verse
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Click the Photos At the Blueberries and Moose Festival of Maine Children's Literature who was my surprise guest? Click here or on the photo of my mystery guest and me to find out who this young man is.	Click Photo to find out who the mystery guest is.
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Click the Photo Typing Icelandic Characters simplified for a US keyboard is updated. Those strange characters á, é, í, ð, ý, ó, ú, þ, æ, ö, Á, É, Í, Ð, Ý, Ó, Ú, Þ, Æ, Ö are easy to add in your MS Word document with this new file.	Click the Icelandic flag for the tip The Link is also on the "My Iceland" page.
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Click the Photo Kathy Mallat Lupine Honor Winner for Just Ducky April 10, 2003 I attended the awards ceremony with my friend, Kathy, and was surprised to find that I was the only person to record the event in photos.	Click Photo to See the Event
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Click the Photos Wisconsin School Visits April 7 and 9, 2003 I visited the University School of Milwaukee, and especially enjoyed our workshops. After school I made a photo-essay around the school grounds. When some of my young friends spotted me taking photos they called over, "Are you playing?" Yes, they'd paid attention during the day. April 8, 2003 I visited Oriole Lane Elementary School in Mequon where the April rain was colored white. We had a great time that evening when the students brought their parents.	Click Photo for Bruce's Photo-Essay at the University School of Milwaukee Click Photo for Bruce's Photos at the Oriole Lane Elementary School
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Click the Photos April 4, 2003 I was greeted with a very real looking "Remarkable" tricycle at the Rose M. Gaffney Elementary School for a day long visit. The teachers said I should *Visit Jasper Beach* after school. I did. Beautiful, even on an overcast day. Thanks teachers. April 5, 2003 Also in Machias I keynoted The DownEast Young Author's Conference at the University of Maine in Machias.	Click Photo to see a class project Jasper Beach Photo-essay by Bruce Click the Photo digital photo by Bruce
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It's a rainy spring day for The Weather Sky. After twelve years of publication, this book is officially a collector's item as of March 2003. Both the hardcover and soft cover editions are out of print from FSG.	A few hardcovers are available from Bruce at collector's prices.
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Click the Photo Puffin Video Clip New on the puffin page Video from Wales, UK	Go to the Puffin Page Clip
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The web site counter is now public. You can see what number visitor you are since the counter was installed on January 1, 2001. It's at the bottom of the index on the left.	It's counting as you read.
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Click the Photo Daily News from Iceland February 27, 2003 The "Letter of the Week" features a letter by me about something amusing that happened in the summer of 2002 while in Iceland working on the next book set in Iceland.	Click here to read the Letter of the Week
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The Good News Jelly Beans For Sale will soon be available as a quality trade paperback from Scholastic. Watch here for the release date. The Bad News Scholastic sold out of all of the hardcovers and they have no plans to reprint again. Treasure your hardcover copy.
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Click the Photos CBS didn't do their research. On a fall 2002 CBS program, CSI, Crime Scene Investigator, a character clearly and repeatedly made reference to the "pifflings" in Iceland and the children in the village who rescue them. Pifflings? My guess is that the writer saw a British TV nature program (they had been up there doing a program after seeing Nights of the Pufflings) and heard the birds, the pufflings, referred to by the British narrator with a British accent which would sound like pifflings. Shame shame CBS and CSI for not doing your research.	CBS Errs They're not pifflings; they're pufflings.
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ASK magazine ~ Arts & Sciences for Kids from the Publishers of Cricket and Smithsonian The November/December 2002 Issue featured my photos of Halla and her friends rescuing and releasing pufflings on pages 2/3.
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The 2005 edition of Houghton Mifflin's Third Grade Reading Program text book will feature two sections by me. The Introduction to Animal Habitats will feature text written by me along with five photos of animal habitats in Iceland, off the coast of Maine, St. Lucia, Bonaire, and Antarctica. One of the major features in the following section of books is Nights of the Pufflings.	Animal Habitats
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Click the Photos Miles Lane School, Bucksport, ME W e l c o m e Mister Bruise Mac Melon Get it? Mr. Bruce McMillan
This puniddle greeted me when I arrived to speak October 17, 2002. Thanks go to you third graders in Mr. Mercier's class. It was a great day.
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Click the Photos Back from Iceland I was in Iceland from July 18 to August 19 photographing a new book about fishing. Plus I connected with an artist and will write yet another book set in Iceland. Read more about it.	August 2002 Greetings from the leading edge of a glacier. Hey, I caught an iceberg.
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Click the Photo Nights of the Pufflings Update Visit the library on the Nights of the Pufflings island on Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland and also see photos of Halla taken this summer, 2002, ten years after the book was photographed. Read more about it.	"Hæ, Click on me."
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Click the Photo Email Cards Ready Twenty five email cards from my books around the world are online for you to send. Take me to the cards. You really send the card, not just a pick up notice, Thanks to Peter Sundstrom, author of the program PostCard Direct	There are funny, scenic, and simple interest cards. Which is this?
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A Best Childrens' Book of the Year Days of the Ducklings was honored as a Best Children's Book of the Year 2002 by the Children's Book Committee at the Bank Street College of Education Star Review Days of the Ducklings was honored with a starred review by the 2002 Edition of The Children's Book Committee, Bank Street College of Education Triangle Review Days of the Ducklings was honored with a starred review in the Spring 2002 Edition of The Horn Book Guide	Days of the Ducklings Superior Read the review
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Kathy Mallat who took my UNH class has a new web site up and five books published.	Click to visit Kathy Mallat's web site Visit Kathy on Bruce's Web Site
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Click the Photo Free Puffin/Duckling Postcards Yes, all you need to do is send a S.A.S.E. Self-Addressed-Stamped-Envelope *Send Me Free Postcards*	Nights of the Pufflings Days of the Ducklings
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*Morgunblaðið,* the largest newspaper in Iceland, has a selection of email cards including the star of Days of the Ducklings.	Click to send an email postcard from Iceland
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Site Visitors An average of more than 2,500 visitors per month have dropped in since August 2001 when I went online.	Thanks for coming by.
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Click the Photo The Good News Apples has been in print for twenty-three years, a long time for a black-and-white book to stay competitive in the now-color world of children's books The Bad News Apples is going out-of-print from Houghton-Mifflin More Good News You can still order copies directly from Apple Island Books.	Still available Though going out-of-print
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Click the Photo "Even if he didn't say so - repeatedly - it is obvious that Bruce McMillan is still a kid at heart." So begins the feature article about me, my books, and Iceland in the Style section of the November 3, 2001, weekend edition of the Bangor Daily News Click here to read the article
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Click the Photo *The Letter to the Editor* DownEast printed my letter-to-the-editor in response to The Painter and the Pirate, a twelve page article with paintings by Andrew Wyeth of his friend and subject, Walter Anderson. The article appeared in the September 2001 issue of DownEast. My letter was published in the next, the November, issue.	*Click to read letter*
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Click the Photos "I love that story, Bruce. I think that's a beautiful book." Barbara Bush on August 24, 2001. I autographed and Barbara Bush read Grandfather's Trolley, at the Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport, Maine. It was the biggest event at the trolley museum in almost twenty years. This is where I photographed the book. It was a treat to introduce Mrs. Bush to the people featured in Grandfather's Trolley.	For Barbara Bush Reads Grandfather's Trolley click here - story & photos -
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Click the Photo Springvale Public Library reopening includes *The Bruce McMillan Corner* The million-dollar-renovated Springvale Public Library, my local library, is open. The children's room features The Bruce McMillan Corner with all of my books. On permanent display are nine of the original hand-tinted photographs from Grandfather's Trolley. The sequential series of "trolley" photos wrap around half the room on two walls, six of the photos facing you as you enter the children's room. The room colors, yellow and red, match the yellow and red trolley - and the girls' hair ribbon too. Click for the architect's plans.	Official ceremonial opening was October 28, 2001 The art is up for viewing.
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*Art Donation to the* *Kennebunk Free Library* *Kennebunk, Maine* On Friday October 19, 2001 I attended a reception honoring the library's original children's book art collection on permanent display. I surprised the children's librarian, Janet Cate, not only by showing up, but showing up with a donation, the "waiting for the trolley at the Arundel station" page from Grandfather's Trolley. I graduated from Kennebunk High School. The Kennebunk area was originally called Arundel.	This is the fourth library or museum where art from Grandfather's Trolley is on display.

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Click the Photos *Newest Book Out* *Days of the Ducklings* Click for "Duckling: book page with full reviews "Another beauty from McMillan." - School Library Journal "A wonderful blend of artistry and emotion." - Booklist "The photographs are handsome." Kirkus Click for Publisher's Catalogue Description	*"A winning look at... the splendor of Iceland."* School Library Journal, Oct. 2001

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Click the Photo On February 7, 2002 I added a State of Maine page at the request of the students in Mrs. Karen Wille's grade 1/2 multi-age class at Dirksen Elementary School in Schaumburg, Illinois Hope this helps your project Amanda.	You can even sing the State of Maine Song with music... Click the Flag
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Bruce McMillan PO Box 85 Shapleigh, ME 04076 US bruce@brucemcmillan.com