From Annick Press:
Annick Press has begun an ambitious new online program for middle school and junior high schools students, teachers, librarians and homeschoolers called the “LIVEbrary.” The two-year program is funded by a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts.
The first season begins Oct. 15 with a five-week program on Media Awareness.
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Little Toot is being celebrated this year because it is the 100th birthday of author/illustrator Hardie Gramatky. See additional programming ideas.
Young readers are invited to create a watercolor picture of Little Toot; this reflects the medium Hardie Gramatky used.
They may use watercolor paints/markers/crayons to create their picture.
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Shutta Crum is an award-winning writer of books for children and poetry for adults, as well as a storyteller and a youth librarian who was awarded the Michigan Library Association‘s Award of Merit as Michigan’s youth librarian of the year for 2002. She is also an educator who taught writing at the college level,
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The 2007 Kansas Book Festival was held Oct. 5 to Oct. 6 at Koch Arena on the campus of Wichita State University.
The festival was a joint presentation of the Governor’s Cultural Affairs Council, the State Library of Kansas, the Kansas Center for the Book,
Project 17 by Laurie Faria Stolarz (Hyperion, December 2007) book trailer. Learn more about the novel from Laurie’s site. Read a Cynsations interview with Laurie.
Book Lists for Young Adults on the Web: a resource for librarians, YA readers, and YA writers studying a thread within the body of literature.
Bill Cochran on Bill Cochran: “I grew up in Palo Alto, California where I was a pretty lousy student in virtually every subject–in fact, I recall getting a 38 out of 124 on a chemistry test once and never getting good grades on any papers I wrote. I was strangely good at math,
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In recognition of October’s spookiness, I’m giving away three Tantalize (Candlewick, 2007) prize packages–two to people (booksellers, teachers, librarians) who connect books to YA readers and one to an individual reader.
The packages each include an autographed copy of Tantalize, a Sanguini’s T-shirt, bat and wolf finger puppets, stickers, and additional surprises!
The 2007 National Book Festival, organized and sponsored by the Library of Congress and hosted by First Lady Laura Bush, was held Sept. 29 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. I had the honor of speaking about my new YA Gothic fantasy, Tantalize.
Featured authors and titles also included: Jennifer L.
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Anneographies: author Anne Bustard on her fave picture book biographies and a few collected biographies, too, birthday by birthday. Anneographies now offers a full year of recommended picture book biographies, listed by the subjects’ birthdays. A wonderful resource for classroom teachers, school librarians, students of biography, and writers of picture book biographies. Note: Anne is the author of Buddy: The Story of Buddy Holly,
From Hyperion: “Melissa de la Cruz is the author of the bestselling The Au Pairs novels for teens and the coauthor of the adult title How to Become Famous in Two Weeks or Less (Ballantine, 2003). She writes regularly for Marie Claire, Gotham, Hamptons,
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