Check out the December 2007 issue of Library Sparks: Engaging Activities to Reach Every Reader for a reader’s theater for Santa Knows, illustrated by Steve Bjorkman (Dutton, 2006)(book authors Cynthia and Greg Leitich Smith)(reader’s theater author Toni Buzzeo).
The same issue also features a reader’s theater for Hanukkah,
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Enter the November drawing for sets of terrific titles for your youth book club from the Kids’ Book Club Book by Judy Gelman and Vicki Levy Krump (Tarcher, 2007). This month’s titles are: Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan (Scholastic, 2000) for grades 4 and up, Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse (Scholastic,
Nathan Bransford on Nathan Bransford: “I grew up the son of rice farmers in Colusa, California, where I strenuously avoided all forms of manual farm labor (somewhat unsuccessfully) and instead read as many books as possible. I graduated from Stanford University and headed straight to Curtis Brown Ltd.,
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The Texas Library Association has announced its new recommended reading lists.
2 x 2: featured titles include: An Egg is Quiet by Dianna Hutts Aston, illustrated by Sylvia Long (author-illustrator interview); Nutmeg and Barley: A Budding Friendship by Janie Bynum;
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Severna Park, MD–YA authors, Paula Chase and Varian Johnson have never met in person. One lives in Maryland, the other in Texas. One is a spokesperson for a small city government; the other designs bridges. But they share two things in common: they write YA fiction and they’re tired of watching themselves and many of their peers fly under the radar.
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From the Children’s Book Council:
Rise Up to your Challenges
Rise Up to your Imagination
Rise Up to your Dreams
Rise Up Reading!
Reading is not a solitary, stationary activity. People learn, grow, and benefit from reading in their day-to-day lives because so much of today’s information is only available through the written word in books,
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As you know if you’ve been visiting any children’s book blogs for the past few weeks, Robert’s Snow is an online auction that benefits Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Over 200 children’s book illustrators have created art on individual snowflake-shaped wooden templates. The snowflakes will be auctioned off, with proceeds going to cancer research. You can view all of the 2007 snowflakes here.
From HarperCollins: “Alex Flinn loves fairy tales and made her two daughters sit through several dozen versions of Beauty and the Beast while she wrote this book…then quizzed them on how they thought a beast would meet girls in New York City. She is the author of five previous books: Breathing Underwater (HarperCollins,
REMINDER: Austin SCBWI offers a great line-up for its April 26th conference. Speakers include: author and editor Deborah Noyes Wayshak from Candlewick Press (author-editor interview); Alvina Ling from Little Brown (personal blog); agent Erin Murphy (interview from Olswanger.com)(interview by Pam Mingle from Kite Tales,
Jennifer Ziegler launches her official author website. Jennifer is the author of Alpha Dog (Delacorte, 2006)(author interview), which was a recent finalist for the Writers’ League of Texas Teddy award, and How Not to Be Popular (Delacorte, 2008). See also Jennifer’s LJ.
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