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	The National Book Foundation
		Horvath explained that in writing the book, she sought to continue the legacy of her favorite childhood author, Edward Eager.
		In keeping with the Foundation's efforts to bring authors into underserved communities to discuss the joys of reading and writing, Polly Horvath visited The Morton School, in Newark, NJ to discuss her work and writing life with sixth, seventh, and eighth graders on the morning of Thursday February 19.
		Horvath discussed writing-related issues with students such as prologue, and said that writing is essentially rewriting, and rethinking.
	www.nationalbook.org /gmt2004_nyc.html (884 words)

	The Canning Season (National Book Award for Young People's Literature (Awards)) - Polly Horvath (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In Horvath's capable hands, readers are left believing in the best of human nature as she switches effortlessly from the sublime to the ridiculous and back again.
		Horvath is a winning writer, luxurious in her descriptions, so perhaps she can overcome the problem of audience appeal.
		Horvath's descriptive powers are singular ("She felt a terrible wrench at being pulled away from her mother, like a boot being pulled out of thick mud with a great sucking sound"), her uncensored Mad Hatter wit simply delicious, her storytelling skills consummate.
	www.bookfinder.us /review7/0374399565.html (2110 words)

	:: The Pepins and Their Problems (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Horvath (long live Kalamazoo!) and attended the same church as her mother (fellow children's author Betty Horvath) I've always been rooting for her to write something that didn't take the enamel off of my teeth.
		Horvath adds flourish by cleverly engaging the the reader, as well as the characters, in asides from the commentary.
		Polly Horvath's Pepin Family is anything but a usual family group: they get stuck on their roof, searches for cheese in a cow which can only produce lemonade, hosts a 'neighbor-off' complete with dog throwers, and generally introduce a zany edge to living.
	www.tribarrow.com /a/0374358176/The_Pepins_and_Their_Problems.shtml (1018 words)

	NameTraq \| Last Name: Horvath
		Johnathan Andrew Horvath, 26, of the 9600 block of Sheffield in Dyer, was charged with criminal recklessness involving a weapon, a Class D felony, while David...
		Gary Horvath, a market analyst with CU-Boulder's Business Research Division, said he thinks the plan could be a benefit to Colorado's economy, but that there...
		Jill Horvath said, "They were awesome." She said you could see the time, effort and energy that was put into them.
	www.nametraq.com /genealogy_jan04/H/Horvath.shtml (2362 words)

	Welcome to Polly Horvath's Web Site
		Polly Horvath has been writing books since she was eight.
		Polly was at the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago in June.
		In Canada, Polly is published by Groundwood Books; in the UK Scholastic publishes her novels.
	www.pollyhorvath.com (2607 words)

	Amazon.ca: Everything on a Waffle: Books: Polly Horvath (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		We first were introduced to author Polly Horvath with her National Book Award finalist, The Trolls, which you absolutely have to read if you haven't already!
		Horvath (The Trolls) delivers another hilariously puckish read with this tale of a (possibly) orphaned girl from a small Canadian fishing village.
		Horvath is definitely intent on showing how each human being's life is a separate interesting creation and how we shouldn't write off anyone, no matter how odd.
	www.amazon.ca /Everything-on-Waffle-Polly-Horvath/dp/0888994427 (1744 words)

	CHILDREN'S BOOKS - New York Times
		Although the central character in Polly Horvath's latest novel, ''The Canning Season,'' is a girl named Ratchet, the story is really about adults -- careless, thoughtless, struggling adults -- trapped in their own misery.
		The sisters are failing, but also unfailingly kind to the girls, and the girls help the sisters carry on as best they can, even if that means carting one of them up from the beach in a wheelbarrow.
		Horvath makes the most of the comic nature of the situation, but the book, which won the 2003 National Book Award for Young People's Literature, is particularly strong because it doesn't shy away from rejection, loss and longing.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9A06E0D81F31F93BA25752C0A9629C8B63 (259 words)

	Canadian novels go for the grit
		A resident of British Columbia and a Newbery Honor medalist ("Everything on a Waffle"), Horvath concocts a preposterous plot: Thirteen-year-old Ratchet is sent from Florida to spend the summer with ancient aunts in Maine.
		Horvath uses dark humor to take up deep themes -- dependence and independence, wisdom (mostly unconventional) and hope.
		Horvath pushes the limits of convention on her sacred journey to the profound.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/08/31/RV19335.DTL&type=printable (768 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Pepins and Their Problems: Books: Polly Horvath (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Horvath indulges in some increasingly bizarre allusions and vocabulary choices, considering the target audience.
		Horvath’s self-indulgence extends to the novel’s overall tone of extreme manic goofiness.
		You can almost hear Polly Horvath still chortling away at her own jokes as you sit there groaning.
	www.amazon.ca /Pepins-Their-Problems-Polly-Horvath/dp/0888996330 (571 words)

	The National Book Foundation
		Polly Horvath is the author of five previous books for young readers including The Trolls, which was a National Book Award Finalist in 1999.
		Horvath studied dance in Toronto and New York before turning to writing full time.
		She and her husband have two daughters and live in Metchosin, British Columbia.
	www.nationalbook.org /nba2003_phorvath.html (262 words)

	Amazon.com: The Vacation: Books: Polly Horvath (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Horvath again introduces a young person who is parentless for some reason and who is put in the care of distant, idiosyncratic relatives who change the child's perception of life.
		Horvath's quirky imagination and precise prose continues to delight me. Through an impulsive and aimless journey across the United States, a boy almost improbably comes to terms with the balance between keeping peace and allowing others their right to free will.
		Instead, Horvath gives us a great deal of fun as she cleverly signals that life can be messy and sometimes you just go along for the ride.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0374380708?v=glance (1855 words)

	Big Culture Lessons - Meet Polly Horvath
		Her ties to Michigan and in particular Kalamazoo, remain strong. Her mother, Betty Horvath, also a writer, lives in Kalamazoo and her sister, Sally Horvath, an editor, lives in Ann Arbor.
		Polly Horvath meets one of her fans, Adrianna, at Woods Lake Elementary: A Magnet Center for the Arts.
		Horvath's books are great because they are interesting and her characters are a lot of fun." I especially like the auntie who was a storyteller in The Trolls!"
	www.kalamazoopublicschools.com /education/components/scrapbook/default.php?sectiondetailid=4630&sc_timestamp=1090320439 (327 words)

	Scholastic.com \| Authors and Books: Ruth White (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Polly Horvath has always been a full-time writer; she just hasn’t always earned a living at it.
		Before she began writing at age 8, she used to play with all the cans and boxes and spice jars in the kitchen and pretend they were characters in a town.
		As she waits, she observes all sorts of human qualities in the people who, in some way, take care of her: an elderly neighbor; the school guidance counselor; a wheeler-dealer uncle; and an always ready-to-listen restaurant owner, who serves everything on a waffle.
	teacher.scholastic.com /authorsandbooks/events/horvath (218 words)

	CNN - Review: 'The Trolls' - September 14, 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Horvath's Aunt Sally describes Canada as a place of constant parties.
		Though much of "The Trolls" is laugh-out-loud funny, it's also infused with the sadness of Aunt Sally's strained relationships with her siblings, notably her brother, Robbie -- Melissa, Amanda and Pee Wee1s father.
		Horvath's novel may be the closest many kids will ever get to having a delightful aunt sit at the foot of their bed, make them hot cocoa, and tell them crazy stories that are somewhere between truth and fiction.
	www.cnn.com /books/reviews/9909/14/the.trolls (331 words)

	ToxicUniverse.com - Horvath, Polly - 2003 - The Canning Season Books Review
		Polly Horvath has managed this feat before, with her excellent The Trolls, which was a National Book Award finalist, and the darkly funny Everything on a Waffle, a Newbery Honor Book.
		Horvath avoids that trap, however, by writing the characters as absolute nutbags and creating an environment where weird things happen regularly.
		Polly Horvath is probably the best author of her type, and it's to be hoped she'll keep writing books this good for years to come.
	www.culturedose.net /review.php?rid=10004626 (973 words)

	Online Book Reviews on Child Literature - Childrens Book Reviews
		Polly Horvath grew up in Kalamazoo, Michigan but finally settled in Metchosin on Vancouver Island.
		She has been getting a lot of attention worldwide as many of her books are published in multiple languages.
		Polly's many awards include the Newbery Honor and the National Book Award.
	www.lookingglassreview.com /Polly_Horvath.html (127 words)

	A look at the National Book Awards nominees/ Young People \| csmonitor.com
		Sent by a preoccupied mother to stay with her twin great-aunts, 13-year-old Ratchet - named for the tool - finds a home on the shores of Maine that is certainly odd.
		The eccentric old twins introduce her to suicide and swearing, alcohol and aging, family lore and local color.
		Horvath's subject matter - and the flip manner and blunt prose she uses to describe it - straddle a line between refreshing and perhaps a bit too precocious for young readers.
	www.csmonitor.com /2003/1028/p17s01-bogn.htm (841 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Books: The Trolls, by Polly Horvath, Hardcover, 1 ED
		Eccentric Aunt Sally comes from Canada to babysit the Anderson children while their parents are on a trip to Paris and every night the bedtime story adds another piece to a very suspect family history.
		The gist of Aunt Sally, as Polly Horvath phrases it in this comic novel with a surprisingly poignant under-current, is that she's a storyteller.
		Horvath, a master storyteller herself, skillfully parallels the two generations as she conveys the unthinking cruelty older siblings often bestow upon younger ones.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?userid=My7SGzABO5&isbn=0374377871 (1172 words)

	Quill & Quire
		December 2004: Polly Horvath has written a delicious and head-spinning turn on the problem novel.
		Horvath’s skill is such that the reader is in collusion with both the author and the Pepins by the end of the first chapter.
		Readers (and reviewers) will scurry to their dictionaries and atlases looking up obscure Canadian place names and words like “perspicacious.” Horvath’s disciplined wordplay and attention to rhythm almost demand that the book be read out loud.
	www.quillandquire.com /books_young/review.cfm?review_id=4206 (433 words)

	Growing Readers - Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Polly Horvath's quiet, funny, bittersweet Newbery Honor Book novel centers on Primrose and her refuge, a local restaurant called The Girl on the Red Swing, whose owner, the gruff Miss Bowzer, serves everything on waffles, including lasagna.
		At times poignant and at times laugh out loud funny, Everything on a Waffle tackles serious issues as a memorable young girl tries to make sense of her rather odd life.
		Polly Horvath's books include The Trolls, a National Book Award Finalist,.An Occasional Cow, and When the Circus Came to Town; She lives in Metchosin, British Columbia.
	www.brighthorizons.com /site/GrowingReaders/Pages/Site/Books/Book.aspx?CurrentObjectID=83 (165 words)

	Groundwood Books: for the finest in children's books : Complete Title List
		Henry is often in despair -- until he surrenders to the road and decides to let whatever happens happen, but to be there in it all.
		Complete with her signature cast of eccentric characters, absurd situations and heartfelt moments, Polly Horvath writes an on-the-road epic like no other.
		"Horvath spins another delightfully offbeat yarn, complete with her signature cast of eccentric characters, wacky situations, poignant moments, and snappy dialogue.[...]This latest book, like its predecessors, bounces from the hilarious to the heartrending.
	www.groundwoodbooks.com /gw_titles.cfm?pub_id=387&type=new (352 words)

	The Wild Place at the Richland County Public Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Making her mark in the publishing world, Horvath brings a fresh and vivid voice to characters and situations we never forget.
		When the circus came to town When a circus family moves to Ivy's town she befriends their son Alfred and watches the townspeople's prejudice grow as more circus folks arrive.
		Horvath uses her wry humor to show the irrationality of prejudice.
	www.richland.lib.sc.us /archive/kspot0502.htm (308 words)

	Amazon.com Books: Polly of the Circus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Polly of the Circus by Margaret Mayo and Harry M. Bunker (Hardcover - 1908)
		The other artists were in their trailers and over the circus ground we could smell food cooking, and see the windows of the trailers lit from the inside.
		Polly's Pink Poodles ride bicycles, and the Bailor Brothers have another high-wire act.
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	CLA: What's New
		The Canning Season, by Polly Horvath is Chosen as the CLA Young Adult Canadian Book of the Year
		Ottawa, Ontario ~ The Canning Season by Polly Horvath and published by Groundwood Books has been chosen Young Adult Canadian Book of the Year.
		Polly Horvath's acclaimed young adult books include When the Circus Came to Town and Boston Globe National Book Award winner The Trolls, which was also a National Book Award finalist.
	www.cla.ca /top/whatsnew/wnjn0904_6.htm (603 words)

	Book Review: The Trolls by Polly Horvath
		Children anxiously awaiting the next Harry Potter installment would do well to pass the time reading Polly Horvath's lively new juvenile novel, The Trolls.
		The Trolls spans the length of Aunt Sally's visit to Ohio to babysit nieces Melissa and Amanda and nephew Pee Wee while the children's parents, the Andersons, are away on vacation.
		Though much of The Trolls is laugh-out-loud funny, it's also infused with the sadness of Aunt Sally's strained relationships with her siblings, notably her brother, Robbie -- Melissa, Amanda and Pee Wee¹s father.
	www.nancymatson.com /TROLLS.HTM (409 words)

	Powell's Books - The Canning Season by Polly Horvath (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		By turns dark and humorous, Polly Horvath offers adolescent readers enough quirky characters and outrageous situations to leave them reeling!
		"Polly Horvath...has...however, found both comedy and poignancy in this story of the affecting relationship between two widely-separated generations, showing that isolation and apathy can be overcome in the most unexpected ways.
		Polly Horvath is the author of many books for children, including The Trolls, which was a National Book Award Finalist, and Everything on a Waffle, a Newbery Honor Book.
	www.powells.com /biblio?PID=26534&cgi=product&isbn=0374399565 (377 words)

	Polly - Ambermoon, Polly
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		Aunt Polly's BandB is a Newport, RI retreat with butterflies, blue skys, a gentle brook.
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	polly.searchforsearch.com (517 words)

	Big Culture Lessons - Visiting Authors & Poets
		Literary artists include Quraysh Ali Lansana, Christopher Paul Curtis, Polly Horvath, Buddy Hannah, Rose Willey, Danna Ephland, John Rybicki, Amanda Warren,Christopher Bullmer, Allison Williams, and Jason Olsen.
		Polly Horvath, 2003 winner of the National Book Award for Children's Literature and author of the 2002 Newbery Honor book, Everything on a Waffle, spent three days talking to and working with students in Maple Street Magnet School for the Arts, Washington Writers' Academy and Woods Lake Elementary: A Magnet Center for the Arts.
		She spent a day at each school reading to students from her books and engaging them in discussions of their own writing.
	www.kalamazoopublicschools.com /education/components/scrapbook/default.php?sectiondetailid=834&sc_timestamp=1090320439 (424 words)

	Used Book Central Search / keyword(s): Everything on a Waffle Polly Horvath
		Polly Horvath: Excellent, like new Scholastic Press HARDCOVER Young Adult by the author of "The Trolls" 0439451302
		Polly Horvath: New Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) BOOK-PAPER 0374422087 Used Book Central Juvenile Grades 4-6 CBK0374422087
		Polly Horvath: New Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) BOOK-Hardcover 0374322368 Forced to live with her uncle after her mother and father are lost at sea- Primrose's only source of friendship and support comes from the owner of a local restaurant who always provides her with practical advice with a dash of comfort on the side.
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	Amazon.com: Polly of the Circus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Polly of the Circus Margaret Mayo Kessinger Publishing reprints...
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