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another transport theme at the cath kidston ss2013 show were trains. vintage railway engines make up this print shown on women's accessories, a summer dress and even knitwear.
here are the final few shots from the cath kidston 2013 preview show. first up is a new print design for boys featuring retro vehicles and gas station motifs and their ever popular cowboy designs.
stanley the dog is the cath kidston mascot and this soft toy is a welcome addition to his many product incarnations. he also features on the pet bed and treat tin below.
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and we close the reporting from the cath kidston ss2013 preview show with a small selection of their forthcoming fashion prints. we've already seen the yachts and trains and now we have bicycles to add to the transport theme next summer.
Big French literary prize number two was announced yesterday (though of course all attention will be on the Goncourt today ...): the not-quite-so-storied prix Médicis -- which also suffers slightly from being a tripartite set of awards: domestic, foreign, and essai (non-fiction, more or less); see, for example, the (French) report by Siegfried Forster at RFI.
- The French prize went to Féerie générale, by Emmanuelle Pireyre.
- The foreign prize went to חסד ספרדי (well, Rétrospective) by A.B.Yehoshua; English translation forthcoming next year; see also Michal Shmulovich's report, Israeli author A.B. Yehoshua wins prestigious French literary award in The Times of Israel.
- And the essai prize went to Congo, by David van Reybrouck; see also the Dutch Foundation for Literature information page -- this one should be coming out in a year or two in English, too, and I'm very much looking forward to it.
Yet another article about spreading Chinese literature abroad: Lu Qianwen writes about Conveying a culture in the Global Times.
All the usual stuff, but worth a mention for the mention of a: 'Research Center of Chinese Literature Overseas Dissemination' (at Beijing Normal University).
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Rachida Madani's Tales of a Severed Head, another volume in the wonderful Margellos World Republic of Letters-series from Yale University Press.
This week is Dyslexia Awareness Week. Dyslexia and I have some history. Several bits.
When I was an English teacher, I found myself in a school with an exceptionally high proportion of pupils with various reasons for finding reading and writing difficult. In a sense they were all dyslexic, though only some of them had Dyslexia. Later, I did an RSA Diploma in teaching children and adults with "specific learning difficulties" (SpLD), which was the then phrase for Dyslexia in all its forms. I then spent the next 16 years teaching such children and adults.
While doing that Diploma, I discovered that I am, on many assessment criteria, dyslexic. Quite patently, I'm not dyslexic, as my spelling, reading, writing, comprehension etc are far from problematic. However, I measure as dyslexic (and somewhat dyspraxic) because: I am inexorably hopeless at left/right tasks; I am strongly crossed-lateral (right-handed but left-eyed); I cannot remember or perform sequences of various sorts; absolutely cannot recite my times tables beyond 5x; my coordination is poor - I am very bad coming down stairs, my typing is riddled with reversals, I cannot learn the simplest dance routines, and my attempts to learn musical instruments have been dismally hampered by my inability to become automatic and coordinated. I also recognise that my hilarious (to others) inability to talk while doing anything with my hands, such as make a cup of coffee, is a function of how my brain works (or doesn't work).
Despite being a so-called SpLD specialist, I failed to realise that my younger daughter had a specific difficulty until she took herself to the learning support teacher in her final year of school. (The guilt!) She turned out to have a "dyslexic-type" deficit, though she has different manifestations from me - for a start she is a brilliant musician and very well-coordinated. Her problem was essentially an information processing one, which had few outward symptoms, and which she disguised brilliantly and now has strategies for. She had been going around thinking she was "thick", despite the fact that I told her over and over again that she very obviously wasn't, pointing out that there were clever things she could do far better than other people.
During my training, one of the things I started to investigate was the human brain, the ways in which our brains are the same and the ways in which they are different, how weaknesses are often mirrored by strengths. I ended up writing two books on the brain, both for young people and families. The better known one is
Blame My Brain - the Amazing Teenage Brain Revealed. But it's the other one that's relevant here:
Know Your Brain. It seeks to show young people that there are many types of intelligence, that the ones most valued at school (literacy and numeracy) are not necessarily the best and are not necessarily the ones that determine your later success.
And that is what informs my thinking on this subject and why, although I'm proud to be one of Sir Jackie Stewart's Ambassadors for
Dyslexia Scotland, I want people to understand that Dyslexia is only one set of conditions. There are many other people struggling to succeed on specific tasks and being laughed at or disrespected for their inability to do whatever it is.
Dyslexia is a useful word. Even if you don't know the definition, you kind of know sufficiently what it denotes. Going through school with undiagnosed or unmediated dyslexia is horrendous - and I've had many pupils whose self-esteem I've somehow had to try to rebuild. It's a scandal that there's no compulsory part of the teacher training curriculum in Scotland (I don't know about England and Wales) to make sure new teachers know how to identify and deal with the pupils they will
inevitably come across.
There isn't a word for the things I (and many others) can't do, and the fact that on assessment criteria I'm dyslexic is irrelevant because I can't go around saying I am, as it would be ridiculous and unfair to those genuinely afflicted. What I have just feels like clumsiness; it feels like a brain failure; it sometimes makes me feel thick.
It also makes me fascinated by the human brain. One thing I believe is that it can't be brilliant at everything. The maths genius will lack something, perhaps artistic talent or leadership qualities; or the musical prodigy will lack something else, perhaps sporting skill or the ability to understand people and work well in a team; the lateral thinker may lack logic and the logician be too rigid to be creative. Even an apparent polymath will have some area of weakness. Show me someone who is genuinely brilliant at every one of the many intelligences.
Many dyslexic people have great creative or other skills - but many don't, and we should not assume that one thing produces the other. The differences between human brains are enormous and to be marvelled at, investigated and, most of all, celebrated. I wrote
Know Your Brain because I wanted children and young people to understand their own strengths and to value them equally, artistic, creative, logical, literary, musical, spatial, courageous, whatever. I wanted children (and adults) to value different areas of cleverness properly and not set highest store by coming top in school tests and "academic" exams.
So, I can't walk down stairs smoothly, or make you coffee while talking; I am likely to give you the wrong directions (or, in fact, no directions) for getting to my house; I can't tell you a story in the right order; and you really wouldn't like to listen to me play the oboe. But I can write passably well and I can understand something about people's brains.
I'll cope with that.
I want all dyslexic people to value their own talents in
Dyslexia Awareness Week. Actually, I want everyone to understand what their brains find difficult and what they find easier. Please share!
Important info: If your child's teacher would like a free, online, simple assessment for dyslexia, please send them towards Dyslexia Scotland's fabulous Addressing Dyslexia Toolkit. Available for all teachers everywhere, not just Scotland! FREEEEEEEEE!
By: Sue Bursztynski,
on 11/6/2012
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I've spent a wonderful morning with five of my terrific students and a whole lot more at the YABBA Award ceremony.
We met at Flinders Street Station this morning - poor Dylan was sick, so there was Ryan,Thando, Paige, Kristen and Selena, three of whom were readers on the Banned Books Week DVD. From the station, we got to Collins St to catch the 109 tram to Kew, where the event was happening at Trinity Grammar. We started to walk down Charles St to the school, when someone pointed to a sign on a corner building that said"YABBA Awards" and sure enough, the building was a Trinity Grammar hall. We were the first school there, which was nice - I'd worried we woud be running late. We parked our bags at the side, where there were chairs. It seemed they expected the students to sit on the floor but as there were only five of them and the rest seemed to be primary children, I got permission for them to sit on the chairs.
The MC was Graham Davey who, apart from running YABBA, is a professional story teller and knows how to work the audience, who were delighted with him. There was a sort of Mr Squiggle thing in which children were invited up to do a scribble which three of the guest artists( well, two - one was Felice Arena, who's a writer, author of the Specky McGee novels, but did a great bit of art)had to turn into a drawing.
Andy Griffiths won two prizes, one for Just Doomed(older readers), the other inducted into the Hall Of Fame as it had been nominated five times. The picture book prize went to Fearless In Love by Colin Thompson and illoed by Sarah Davis. The prize for younger readers went to Alice Miranda At School by Jacqueline Harvey, who couldn't make it but sent a video message. The Year 7 to 9 prize went to Chris Morhew's Phoenix Files. Chris, a teacher in NSW, couldn't make it, so his publisher accepted the prize on his behalf. It was a reminder that most writers here have day jobs. If I hadn't lived in Melbourne I couldn't have made it either, but as it was, I wanted to grab the chance for my foundation book clubbers to have one more excursion together and we went.
I had three books to be signed for students who weren't there. I had thought Vikki Wakefield would be coming, but she wasn't there, so I'm afraid Jenny will have to have her copy of Friday Brown unsigned. :-( I got Dylan a copy of 26 StoreyTreehouse. Natasha had requested one of Oliver Phommavanh's books - and guess what? The two gentlemen were sitting together in the author section and I sat next to them and asked for their autographs, which they gave readily, and very nice ones too, not just their names or "best wishes" but cute drawings. I introduced Kristen to Carole Wilkinson and she finally got a Dragonkeeper book signed. Selena had a chat with Gabrielle Wang, who signed for her in Chinese (Selena is a Chinese immigrant).
While my students wandered around mingling with the guests, I sat down for a signing and was pleasantly surprised at how many children asked for my autograph, two little girls even asking for a photo with me! The book stall, alas, didn't have any of my books and I hadn't brought any because it would have been too much to lug books home and then out again by train and tram, but I had brought a pile of Crime Time bookmarks and they all went. Hopefully some children will request copies at their libraries, at least, if not buy. ;-)
We met my friend George Ivanoff,who has visited my school to launch Wolfborn, and two of the students bought copies of Gamer's Challenge. (George is more cluey than I am and brought his own copies)
We left at a little after noon, with a lovely goody bag of some of the short listed books and others and, over lunch in town, sorted which ones the library already has and which it doesn't. Those we already have I let them take home, while we have several new books to gloat over tomorrow at school. Thando had made sure the author's who were there had signed. She also did an interview for the web site and from what I could hear, it was a good one.
Now to see if I can be invited again next year... And maybe take some of the younger students next time. It just wasn't possible today - the event started in Kew at 9.30 and getting there from Sunshine,we would have had to leave well before school. I took the older ones who could meet me in town and be left at the station on the way home.
They must have felt like Gulliver in Lilliput, with the rest being primary kids, but had a great time anyway!
This round of A Round of Words in 80 Days runs from October 1st to December 19th. Here are my goals for this round, all involving YA manuscripts. Abbreviations are used for the titles. My updates are in red.
A) Revise and edit TWILAMPH, a manuscript I've been working on for several ROW80 rounds, and send it back to my agent. I'm done with this goal, but I have tweaking fever. I'd like to read this one more time.
B) Edit EK, which I started late last year, and get it to beta readers. I haven't worked on this since last Wednesday, but I plan on doing two more rounds of edits.
C) This is optional and only if I finish A and B first—pull out a manuscript I haven't worked on in a while, KMK, and rewrite it. I already wrote notes for this, but I need some more time to gather my thoughts. I haven't started on this yet.
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Even when I’m planning a trip, I keep goals in mind. I’ve worked on manuscripts and caught up on reading in airports and on plane rides. I fill up my Kindle and iPad with what I need to fulfill my bookish goals on the go. I was seriously thinking of taking a manuscript with me, to fulfill goal B, on a trip I’m taking soon, but the more I thought about it the less keen I was on doing this. What I’m going to do in the next week to week and a half is get ahead on my writing goals before my trip, fall behind on my reading, and on the trip I’ll just catch up with reading since that’s easier to do. That means just carrying one device, no notebook, and not having to worry about surrounding noise if I were to edit. What do you do when you’re driven to finish your goals but have a trip on the horizon?
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This blog hop started on Monday and I’ve seen lots of bloggy love going around. I’m thankful for my blog readers. Ever since I started this blog in the summer of 2009, I’ve gained so much from you guys.
Getting an email alert after you comment is a joy. You cheer me on in my writing progress, give me book recommendations, visit my guest posts and interviews, and impart fantastic observations that inspire me. Writing oftentimes feels like a solitary activity, but I find kindred spirits here.
Visiting your blogs has also been beneficial. You’ve posted so much craft advice that I’ve been able to use. I've purchased craft books that you've raved about. You also provide links to important resource material, which I always check out. I pay attention to the do’s and don’ts you share. Along with going to conferences and receiving input from CP’s, I’ve gained a wealth of writing knowledge from you all. Thank you!
Last February, while driving to Vermont, I received a phone call from a businessman friend, Mike Landau, who has watched the development of iNK Think Tank with great interest. He called to let me know that Apple had just released a new FREE program, iBooks Author, that formats books for the iPad so they can be sold in the iTunes store. iTunes saved the music industry by monetizing each song so people could create individual playlists. Wow! What an opportunity! iPads are the tablet of choice in schools. The playing field has been leveled. It’s now possible for our publishing company, iNK Books & Media (we reserved the domain name as part of iNK Think Tank) to come into being. Since we don’t have enough money to invest in our hiring someone, I could now learn to format books myself. 
That afternoon, I downloaded iBooks Author. (I learn by plunging in and making mistakes, so I never hesitate to try something new.) It required a free upgraded operating system for my Mac, which meant I had to pay for an upgraded Microsoft Office for Macs, but hey—we were on our way. One of the BIG issues for us children’s book creators is that other devices for ebooks are mostly for text only and don’t show art well (although that is now changing). The iPad, with its backlighting and relatively large (7” x 9”) screen is a stunning way to display images. I knew that I had to learn the program, but first I had to find a way to take apart a book and get it scanned. You Tube has some videos for that but it still takes some skill to do a good job. I took my first deconstructed book (with all rights reverted--an earlier battle) to my local Staples where my name on the book stopped them from questioning me about my right to get it copied. (Now I have a relationship with all the copy folk so I can get any book copied.) I enclosed a flash drive and had them make high res scans (600 dpi) in both the pdf and jpg formats.I uploaded the images first into iPhoto to crop off ragged edges, enhance the color, and make small touch-ups and orientation corrections. At first, I wasn't all that familiar with iPhoto so there was a learning curve for this step; but by April I was finally ready to try and create my first book with iBooks Author. The program offers a lot of templates where you can design a book by dragging art and text into their boxes. I have a feeling that they had their designers work with textbook people, who are fighting hard to maintain their hegemony in the school market, and then threw their text-booky-looking templates out there for us to play with. With the help of an online support community, I learned I could use the blank page option as my template to drag, drop, and resize images to create our books. But the hair-tearing-out aspects of learning iBook Author, pale in comparison to the other hurdles thrown my way.
Rather than bore you with the countless frustrations let me itemize all the learning curves: - We had to become paid vendors in the iTunes Store. Apple has a 32 page contract (enough said!)
- Each book requires an ISBN number. This means learning how to assign ISBNs to new titles and register them in the Bowker database so that Apple will recognize them. (iNK now owns 100 ISBNs. We've used 14. I'm optimistic about using them all. )
- After the book has been formatted, you have to create a "book package" for delivery into the iTunes store. This means learning a totally different program called iTunes Producer for Books, which includes a lot of "metadata" about each book. (I’m lucky I’m not bald!)
- Finally, each book package is sent to the iBookstore. At first, they don't make the cut and error messages abound. But they have a help phone line. ( I now know everyone in that office.)
- After the books are uploaded, I have to wait for the iTunes book review committee to review each book and issue a ticket for infractions. BTW, the iBooks people communicate with the iTunes people only by email. There are no humans talking to humans.
By last week, I had successfully uploaded 14 books, of which 13 were on sale in 5 markets, the US, UK, Ireland, Australia and Canada. The last book was not approved because it had “scanned text.” They want the words laid into text boxes from a word-processing program so that they can use their new live dictionary and voice-over pronunciation function. With the vague feeling that I was waking a sleeping dog, I spoke to an iBookstore person and sputtered, “But all of our books are scanned, and they were approved!” Guess what! I am now the proud possessor of 14 tickets and none of our books are in the market! Still fighting the good fight, I responded to each of the 13 tickets with a highly articulate (possibly politically incorrect) letter about why we don’t need the dictionary look-up and that they were denying the bookstore superior works by well-established professional authors. No response so far from the anonymous powers-that-be at iTunes (the iBookstore people are sympathetic but relatively impotent).After a few days, I bit the bullet. For many of the books, the text (not fully copy-edited) exists in Word files. This means that if I remove the text from the art with PhotoShop, I can reinsert the stripped art into iBooks Author and cut and paste text into text boxes—a LOT of tedious work. But I’m a knitter and can handle it. My new challenge is learning PhotoShop Elements so I can strip the text and match the background color. I am now a one-trick-pony with that program but it was enough to get one of the scanned –and-banned books back into the iBookstore, where it is now awaiting approval. (New error messages appeared on the other two books I prepared.)
This post is my long-winded explanation for why we haven’t triumphantly announced the opening of our publishing division, iNK Books & Media. It’s also therapy for me. Thanks for reading this far. xxxo
One of my loves is home furnishings and decorations. I really love victorian homes, french country homes, london townhomes, and many others. So, I decided to use these as themes/starting images for a new series of paintings. They don't have stories (yet?) but when I see photos of these interiors I can't help but add a little character into the picture in my mind. I think I have this habit almost in any picture :)
So here is a sketch:
I'm really excited because Fall has definitely and finally come to stay here in southern California as well! As Josh and I drove home to cast our ballots, there was heavy mist and the crisp cool air had that special Holiday quality to it that only happens once a year... ;) I've been waiting for it as Fall is my most favorite time of year. I really can't believe that Thanksgiving is this month!!! Already!! Many changes are around the corner for me.... Josh is finishing his MFA program, my best friend is having her first baby girl (Paige is her name- same as one of my most favorite illustrators!), and hopefully, a new Rep and a renewed spirit and drive toward getting to be full-time illustrator and part-time ASW employee (instead of the other way around). There are other things but a little too personal to post about.... but this month has just felt like the culmination of changes to come! I'm excited and happy and so very grateful for everything I have... :)
I'm not the greatest writer, but oh well... I hope it all makes sense.
:)
Cheers!
By: Stephanie Roth Sisson,
on 11/6/2012
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Whew! What a tense last few months of elections stuff. Happily, President Obama has been re-elected. This election was a nail biter.
This election has brought out some ugliness in people and has revealed a great deal about the work left to be done. I heard some racist stuff- a kid told me that this little man told him that President Obama was president because he is black and I heard other ugliness.
I have been worried what would happen to the sciences if the other had won. That kind of backward thinking he was promoting was the stuff of delusion.
My husband works in the solar industry and Mitt Romney not only did not support solar and other alternatives, he joked about it- and climate change. He made it clear that he had no interest in the environment. I'm relieved that President Obama will be there in the White House with a clean energy agenda.
I think the whole world is breathing a sigh of relief. I'm going to bed happy tonight :))
By: Melissa,
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If you are looking for more books like Million -Dollar Throw by Mike Lupica, try these sports books for ages 10-13.
In past PiBoIdMo posts, I’ve encouraged you to…
This time around, I want to focus on structure.
Just like houses and dinosaurs, every story needs an underlying framework.
Most of my books follow the Classic Picture Book Structure:
- MC has a problem
- MC faces obstacles that escalate
- MC encounters a black moment in which things can’t possibly get any worse
- MC figures out how to solve the problem
- MC grows/changes by the book’s end
My latest book, PRINCESS IN TRAINING, is an example of this.
Behold!
Princess Viola is great at skateboarding and karate-chopping, but she’s lousy at the royal wave, walk, and waltz. The king and queen are not pleased. What’s a princess to do? Attend the skill-polishing Camp Princess, of course. In the end, it’s a good thing Viola is made of tougher stuff. Who else will save the day when a hungry dragon shows up?
This is how the Classic Picture Book Structure works with PRINCESS IN TRAINING:
- Princess Viola Louise Hassenfeffer has a royal problem. She is not an ordinary princess and the kingdom is unhappy about it.
- Princess Viola faces three obstacles at Camp Princess (she is unable to properly master the royal wave, royal fashions, and royal dancing).
- A hungry dragon shows up at Camp Princess.
- Princess Viola uses her unique skill set to save the day.
- Princess Viola may not be an ordinary princess, but she is deemed the darling of her kingdom anyway.
Although the Classic Picture Book Structure is my super-favorite way to frame a story, there are a variety of other options. Below are many of them along with some examples.
Circular:
The story’s ending leads back to the beginning
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie; When a Dragon Moves In
Concept:
The story focuses on a single topic or category
All the World; Kindergarten Rocks; Hello Baby!
Cumulative:
Each time a new event occurs, the previous events in the story are repeated
My Little Sister Ate One Hare; I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
Mirror:
The second half of a story echoes what occurred in the first half of the story
Old Bear and His Cub; Boy + Bot; A Sick Day for Amos McGee
Parallel:
Two storylines are taking place at the same time
The Dog Who Belonged to No One; Meanwhile Back at the Ranch
Reversal:
Character and/or plot is portrayed in a way that is opposite from the norm
Bedtime for Mommy; Children Make Terrible Pets; Little Hoot
This month, I’m challenging myself to come up with at least one story idea for each of those frameworks. C’mon, groovy PiBoIdMo people. Who’s with me?
Tammi Sauer has five picture books debuting in 2012: Me Want Pet!, illustrated by Bob Shea (Paula Wiseman/S&S); Bawk & Roll, illustrated by Dan Santat (Sterling); Oh, Nuts!, illustrated by Dan Krall (Bloomsbury); Princess in Training, illustrated by Joe Berger (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt); The Twelve Days of Christmas in Oklahoma, illustrated by Victoria Hutto (Sterling). She recently sold two books at auction to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. The idea for one of those books—The Farm that Mac Built—sprang from her 2011 PiBoIdMo Idea List. It has a cumulative structure. Ooh.
And another “ooh” for you: there’s a PRINCESS IN TRAINING prize pack waiting for a lucky PiBoIdMo’er who completes the 30-ideas-in-30-days challenge. Comment on this post AND complete the challenge to be entered (you’ll be asked to take the “PiBo Pledge” on December 1st to verify you have 30 ideas). A winner will be randomly selected in early December. Good luck!
A little while back, I posted about branding. I mentioned I wrote a YA contemporary romance but that I worried it wouldn't get picked up because I've been branded as a paranormal writer. I was a little crushed because the romance held a special place in my heart. I relived emotions I haven't felt in a long time, and the story I created (while fictional) spoke to the sixteen-year-old inside me.
Well, my agent and I decided to put the project on the back burner and focus on my paranormal and fantasy novels. I said I was okay with it. I wasn't. I was crushed. But... my agent, being the awesome woman she is, discovered a new imprint called Swoon Romance. Right now, Swoon is only publishing novellas, so my agent called me and said, "What if you turn your romance into two novellas?" I may have jumped for joy. ;)
She sold my novellas to Swoon Romance, and I started transforming one novel into two separate novellas. Only, I couldn't do it without losing the story. So... my two novellas became three, which worked so well. I jumped for joy again. And now Love All, the first book in the Game. Set. Match. Heartbreak series is releasing January 15, 2013. Serving Up Heartbreak (book 2) releases March 12, 2013, and Perfect Match (book 3) releases May 14, 2013. I'm officially a paranormal and contemporary romance author.
What's the moral of the story? My agent is awesome. Oh, and you never know what will happen. So write the stories you have to tell.
Have you ever strayed from writing the genre you've come to be known for?
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Artie’s children’s story The Hummingbird Who Chewed Bubblegum is being published in a book collection by the Oxford University Press in India. More to come.
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Joy of joy, readergirlz! A full cookbook from the winning vegetarian blog, Herbivoracious, by Michael Natkin! Packed with "global flavors" your palate will be delighted with the recipes in this extensive collection.
"Why vegetarian? Because vegetarian meals are good for you, tread more lightly on our planet's resources, and are kinder to animals. And personally, I figure that because I am a vegetarian I have a little leeway to indulge in extra chocolate, cheese, or French fries without overdosing on saturated fats."
So says Chef Natkin. Sweet! With an aim to pack immense flavor into each dish, you'll never miss the meat in the 150 original recipes. Photos of food dishes, not staged, give the book an honest, tangible feel.
How about chickpea fritters, white bean and kale soup, Persian rice pilaf, or caramel apple french toast? I am working my way through this beauty and enjoying the artistry, journey, and taste. Further features are found at the website where an interactive community thrives. Find Herbivoracious and eat your veggies, rgz!
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A flavor revolution, with 150 vibrant and original vegetarian recipes
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Harvard Common Press, 2012
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By: peter williams,
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Milkweed / Jerry Spinelli is one of my favourite WW2 books.
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This round of A Round of Words in 80 Days runs from October 1st to December 19th. Here are my goals for this round, all involving YA manuscripts. Abbreviations are used for the titles. My updates are in red.
By: Vicki Cobb,
on 11/6/2012
That afternoon, I downloaded iBooks Author. (I learn by plunging in and making mistakes, so I never hesitate to try something new.) It required a free upgraded operating system for my Mac, which meant I had to pay for an upgraded Microsoft Office for Macs, but hey—we were on our way. One of the BIG issues for us children’s book creators is that other devices for ebooks are mostly for text only and don’t show art well (although that is now changing). The iPad, with its backlighting and relatively large (7” x 9”) screen is a stunning way to display images. I knew that I had to learn the program, but first I had to find a way to take apart a book and get it scanned. You Tube has some videos for that but it still takes some skill to do a good job. I took my first deconstructed book (with all rights reverted--an earlier battle) to my local Staples where my name on the book stopped them from questioning me about my right to get it copied. (Now I have a relationship with all the copy folk so I can get any book copied.) I enclosed a flash drive and had them make high res scans (600 dpi) in both the pdf and jpg formats.
By: Mai Kemble,
on 11/6/2012
By: Tara Lazar,
on 11/6/2012
By: PK,
on 11/6/2012
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By: Lorie Ann Grover,
on 11/6/2012
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Amazing work and fantastic collections!