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This cute photo was taken by some of the youth librarians at the Jennings County Public Library in North Vernon, IN. They’re huge fans of Little Pea, Little Hoot, and Little Oink!

If you have any pictures of yourself, your children, or anyone reading Amy Krouse Rosenthal’s Little Books, send them to us and you might be chosen to appear on our blog! Email kids@chroniclebooks.com.

Pete Bohan
Marketing Manager

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The name Neil Zlozower is probably familiar to you if you’re a fan of hair metal, Chronicle Books, or both. The prolific photog is now on his fourth book for Chronicle, titled Mötley Crüe: A Visual History: 1983-2005. As you might expect from Six-String Heroes, Van Halen: A Visual History: 1978-1984, and Fück Yöu, the book contains acres of teased, dyed hair, hillocks of rouge, and just a little booze. Zloz recently stopped by St. Louis’ KMOX radio station to talk with John Carney about the book, buddying up with Nikki Sixx, how he got his start as an amateur photographer, and his early dream to be a garbageman. Special bonus: the Zloz’s speaking voice approaches the platonic ideal of “classic rock radio DJ.” Check it out here.

Brandon Bussolini
Web/Publicity Intern

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Star Wars: The Clone Wars is almost back! The new season premieres Friday, October 2, at 8 p.m. (ET/PT) on Cartoon Network.

Here’s what Starwars.com has to say about the new season:

Fierce battles, expanded storylines and ground-breaking animation raise the stakes in Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Rise of the Bounty Hunters. The lives of the Jedi become more complex as secret and forbidden relationships are revealed and a new breed of villain enters to take advantage of the wartime turmoil. Season two introduces these lawless rogues into the fray along with a host of new characters, locations and creatures. Set against the spectacular backdrop of the Star Wars universe, The Clone Wars is bigger, bolder and more intense than ever before.

This summer at Comic-Con we launched two “Art of” Clone Wars books (one is a limited edition for diehard Star Wars fans).

Here’s the cover of the regular edition, The Art of Star Wars: The Clone Wars:

By Frank Parisi (an editor at Lucasfilm),Gary Scheppke (a design and continuity coordinator at Lucasfilm Animation), and with an introduction by Dave Filoni (the supervising director on Lucasfilm Animation’s Star Wars: The Clone Wars), it’s a beautifully illustrated book, and the only publication about the art and making of the The Clone Wars.

The Art of Star Wars: The Clone Wars Limited Edition

The limited edition includes: a slipcase, 3 gatefolds, an envelope bound to end paper with 8 pieces of portfolio art, plus color photographs and illustrations throughout.

And here are some interior shots:

May the force be with you!

Hannah
Entertainment Marketing Manager

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There is a popular show on TV called Extreme Home Makeover. What the TV show is about is making an old house look completely brand new and larger.  Well in the real world that isn’t always possible.  But people do still want beautiful houses. So for a home makeover one of the things you can work into your budget is doing the floors.

In my San Diego carpet business we have been able to make homes look brand new just through brand new floors.You can transform an old dreary looking house into a million bucks. Hard to believe but new flooring can work magic. And the cost will be significantly less than making over an entire house.  It gives it a dramatic new look for a lot less cost.

Naturally there will be some people who will just want to have completely new flooring instead.  They go out and buy some carpet cleaning products and hope to make it look like new. Quite a few of the times they will choose to have their carpets cleaned.  But it doesn’t have the same effect as new flooring.You cannot even think of going cheap if you really want to make a beautiful change in your home.

So if you truly want a more beautiful home what you will have to do is to choose new flooring. One of the best ways is for you to just change your carpeting.  When I say change out your carpet I don’t mean new carpet.But doing a complete change of your flooring style.But rather than maybe picking carpeting you choose instead hardwood floors.  This really gives your house a dramatic new look. A house that used to carpeting for it’s flooring can work wonders by havind new floors installed.  We do it all the time with our hardwood flooring San Diego company.

So hopefully you can see that making your house more beautiful doesn’t require a big makeover.Having the flooring changed is simple but by doing that it can be like magic.

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