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1. Literary Gifts for the Holidays

Looking for holiday gifts for the readers and writers in your life? Here are a few ideas:

and check out these stores…

Or, how about a year’s membership in The Childrens Book Hub (www.childrensbookhub.com), or a gift certificate for the Just Write for Kids children’s book writing course (www.justwriteforkids.com)?

And for those of you who are already Hub members, don’t forget the Hub store! http://www.cafepress.com/beechtreebooks

Happy holidays!

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2. paperclip letters - appealing to readers and writers

Designer Stephen Reed created alphabetical paperclips, where each clip has a letter of the alphabet on it. The intention was to organize more easily–collecting multiple papers whose topic begins with the letter–but to me, it’s a delightful way to celebrate letters, words, and writing and reading.

You can buy them on a UK sites SPC for £14.50 (they’re listed under new spring products); Back4; and Magma.

Found via Not Cot

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3. Interview with Henry Winkler

Photo of Henry Winkler from the American Library AssociationAccording to the website ReadingSuccessLab.com, Government statistics show 25 million Americans are functionally illiterate. The primary cause is dyslexia or one of its many variants.

Through their children’s book series, Hank Zipzer: The World’s Greatest Underachiever, co-authors Lin Oliver and Henry Winkler share the struggles and triumphs of a resourceful elementary school student as he deals with the challenges that come with dyslexia. The stories are based on Henry Winkler’s own experiences with the disorder.

On this edition of Just One More Book, Mark speaks with actor, director, producer and author, Henry Winkler about becoming an author and his relationship with Hank Zipzer, his struggles with reading and learning, and what we can do to help our children.

Links to Hank Zipzer books:

This is episode 300 of Just One More Book!!

UPDATE: Click here to see the transcript of this interview.

Photo: American Library Association

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4. Conference Opening Ceremonies... SCBWI Executive...

Conference Opening Ceremonies...


SCBWI Executive Director Linn Oliver (seen above on the big screen) opened this year's annual summer conference with her usual wit, then asked the conference faculty to each step to the microphone and give one word that summed them up or expressed their goal for the conference. This is a three-year-old SCBWI conference tradition. Here are a few of my favorite word (with occasional attribution):

  • scrotum (Susan Patron)
  • dare
  • anthropomorphism (Lisa Wheeler)
  • experiment
  • reach
  • reciprocity
  • testosterone (Sonya Sones)
  • royalties (Walter Dean Myers)
  • low-maintenance (Krista Marino)
  • medicognition
  • vim (Arthur Levine)
  • reinvent (Cynthia Leitich Smith)
  • courage
  • ready
  • determination
  • nerdfighters (John green)
  • sietsa
  • sparkle
  • revolution
  • pink (Allyn Johnston, dressed to match her word)
  • whitespace
  • comics
  • honky-tonk-bedonkadonk
  • upstreporous
  • a new compound word: scotchcaffeine

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