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Read Island wins Writer's Digest award

Read Island wins Writer's Digest award

Read Island is in great company with five deserving honorable mentions: Forever Home by Cathy Stenquist Mrs. R. Snugglesworth, Attorney-at-Law by Amy Flanagan Nature Parade by Nikki Samuels Siege of Herons: Collective Nouns Alphabetically by Ramona Wildeman The Three Little Pigs and the Rocket Project by Lynne Marie

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Vail Story Walk features Read Island

Vail Story Walk features Read Island

The latest Bighorn Park installation features Read Island, which was written by Nicole Magistro and illustrated by Alice Feagan, both Eagle County residents. 

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Book Picks from Odyssey Bookshop

Book Picks from Odyssey Bookshop

Props to Joan Grenier at The Odyssey Bookshop for recommending Read Island on Northeast Public Radio's WAMC.

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Hoover grad, author tells students to dream

Hoover grad, author tells students to dream

Nicole Magistro worked on her children's book "Read Island" for eight months and over the course of 14 drafts. Lines were dictated into her cellphone in the cadence of a rhyme. The former Stark County resident thought about the book while hiking, driving and Nordic skiing, the motion helping her work out rhymes.

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