By: nele,
on 1/20/2008
Hi guys, long time no see!
Here is my 'transition'-illustration Hope you like it :)
Bearuh, i'm sorry you're leaving, but i wish you all the luck with all your activities! And thanks for starting this great blog.
Mike, glad you took over! :)
By: Phenomenon Books,
on 12/13/2007
Morning, my little beasties. My day is just beginning. If all goes well, I'll have the last of my subs out today, then I can start to look over a couple of manuscripts clients have rewritten.
One thing about us-- we are firm believers in helping our writers grow, learn, and turn their work into something even better than they started with. I will never understand how scam agents get away with charging fees for helping a writer edit--it's part of the job!
One of my clients, David, has a fantastic Young adult adventure, The Stromling. In it Duncan, a ten-year-old boy (with the aid of his dog, Pookie, and a merry band of giant insects) must save the layers of the world, wears a special flying suit given to him during his training. As it turns out, there REALLY is a flying suit out there that looks exactly how I imagined Duncan's would. Check it out--
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/10/sports/othersports/10flying.html?_r=2&hp=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1197561857-8RKdoEeZvk/t8nb0tPF7Ww&oref=slogin
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By: Just One More Book!!,
on 9/2/2007
Author: Colin Thompson
Illustrator: Colin Thompson
Published: Random House UK (on JOMB)
ISBN: 0091768179 Amazon.ca Amazon.com
Spellbindingly surreal illustrations contrast with matter-of-fact narrative to relay this thought provoking story of perspective, choice and inter-generational connection: “All you have to do is keep your dreams”.
Other books mentioned:
More books about flying:
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By: Kelly Herold,
on 5/17/2007
This Poetry Friday I'm sharing my favorite poem from childhood. It's a poem that has been mentioned many times before, but today it has special meaning for me. You see, it's a flying poem and I'm taking my first flying lesson at 4:00 pm. Wish me luck! I'm frightened, but I hope it will be as nice as Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Swing."
How do you like to go up in a swing,
Up in the air so blue?
Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing
Ever a child can do!
Up in the air and over the wall,
Till I can see so wide,
Rivers and trees and cattle and all
Over the countryside--
Till I look down on the garden green,
Down on the roof so brown--
Up in the air I go flying again,
Up in the air and down!
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Let's start the roundup:
A Fuse #8 contributes Susan Ramsey's "Gaudeamus, Full Band Version."
Little Willow shares "The Truth," by George William (A. E.) Russell, at Bildungsroman.
Elaine talks the poetry of Mary Ann Hoberman at Wild Rose Reader, and she writes a special tribute to teachers over at Blue Rose Girls.
Poor Katie! She has a headache almost every day. But, she's found a great poem by Teresa Ramos called "The Usual" and has posted it at Pixie Palace.
Continuing with the annoying physical symptoms category, Jone laments allergies with an original poem over at Check it Out.
Jules reviews Catherine Reef's biography of E.E. Cummings over at Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast.
Adrienne celebrates I'm Still Here in the Bathtub: Brand New Silly Dilly Songs, by Alan Katz, at What Adrienne Thinks About That.
Anne reviews Douglas Florian's Comets, Stars, The Moon and Mars at Book Buds.
Cloudscome reviews Margaret Mahy's lovely A Summery Saturday Morning at A Wrung Sponge.
Marcie celebrates J. Patrick Lewis (and who can blame her?) over at World of Words.
Dawn shares "Our Tree" by Marchette Chute at By Sun and Candlelight.
Vivian is all about love (and Shakespeare) today at HipWriterMama.
Nancy shares "Confusion," by Kenneth Rexroth, as well as biographical information and an audio link at Journey Woman.
Els discusses and links to Naomi Shihab Nye's "Cross that Line" over at book, book, book.
Liz takes a good look at questions and last lines in a fascinating post at Liz in Ink.
Okay, I'm back and I live to blog another day. It was definitely scary and I'm still processing the experience! On to more PF:
Suzanne shares "May comes but once a year..." by Elsa Beskow at Adventures in Daily Living. I share the sentiment exactly.
Christine shares a beautiful poem written by her daughter at The Simple and the Ordinary.
Maureene contributes "We grow accustomed to the dark" by Emily Dickinson at By Singing Light.
Kimberley is also reading Dickinson this week, sharing "Because I Could Not Stop for Death," at Lectitans.
MotherReader celebrates the quiet joys of Stellina.
Charlotte shares "Waiting at the Window," by A.A. Milne, at Charlotte's Library.
Michele has the good Doctor on the brain and submits part of Eliot's "The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock" at Scholar's Blog.
Liz B. shares Jane Yolen's "Fat is not a Fairy Tale" at A Chair, a Fireplace and a Tea Cozy.
Oh my goodness Kelly. Think happy thoughts. You'll do great! Can't wait to hear all about it.
Vivian
Oh my gosh, this is probably one of my favorites too. I always loved to swing and I would recite it while I pumped myself as high as I could. I hear my mother's voice reading it in my head.
Thank you. Lovely memory.
Good Luck! And thanks for doing the roundup this week.
At Wild Rose Reader: I have a post about the poetry of Mary Ann Hoberman and her book THE LLAMA WHO HAD NO PAJAMA.
http://wildrosereader.blogspot.com/poetry-friday-poetry-of-mary-ann.html
At Blue Rose Girls: I have an original poem that is a tribute to the fine teachers I worked with...and to dedicated teachers everywhere.
http://bluerosegirls.blogspot.com/
2007/05/poetry-friday-tribute-to-teachers.html
I've got mine up at Pixiepalace:
http://www.pixiepalace.com/2007/05/18/poetry-friday-headache-poem/
Congrats and best of luck! I hope it's everything you want it to be.
We're in with my review of Catherine Reef's biography from last year of E.E. Cummings. It's at http://blaine.org/sevenimpossiblethings/?p=634.
Good luck flying! I tried to get my husband flying lessons for his birthday once, and he took exactly one lesson and never went back. Ah well.
I'm bound for the cosmos today with Douglas Florian's new book:
http://dadtalk.typepad.com/book_buds_kidlit_reviews/2007/05/starstruck.html
Kelly, Have fun with your lesson. I wrote a poem about allergies.
It is here: http://maclibrary.edublogs.org/2007/05/18/poetry-friday-allergies/
Thanks for doing the round-up.
I took flying lessons for a while in college, and now that I'm back on the ground, I say, "Better you than me!". Just Kidding! You'll love it. It's so open and free up there. Bring your camera!
Ooo! Have fun! :)
I'm in with silliness today:
http://www.watat.com/archives/2007/05/silly_dilly_son.html
How wonderful! Enjoy every minute of your flying lessons. I love that swing poem too - lovely.
Thanks for doing the round up today. I am reviewing a Margaret Mahy book today.
Thanks so much for doing the roundup. I am all about J. Patrick Lewis today at World of Words:
http://marcieaf.blogspot.com
Good luck, Kelly, and have fun!
I have a children's poem up this week:
http://dawnathome.typepad.com/by_sun_and_candlelight/2007/05/poetry_friday_t_1.html
Thanks so much!
Thanks for rounding up, Kelly! I'm in with last lines of poems, and the questions we're left with...
Have fun in the wild blue yonder!!!
You'll do great this afternoon! I'm in with some immortal love from William Shakespeare.
http://hipwritermama.blogspot.com/2007/05/poetry-friday-shakespeare.html
I'm in!
http://journey-woman.blogspot.com/2007/05/little-poetry-for-you-rexroth.html
Have a wonderful time, Kelly! Let us know what the view's like from up there.
I'm in with a border-crossing poem:
http://bookbk.blogspot.com/2007/05/poetry-friday-cross-that-line.html
I almost posted that same poem! My children got a swing this week, so I had pulled the poem out and read it to them. I went with a ode to May by Elsa Beskow instead. http://adventuresindailyliving.blogspot.com/2007/05/poetry-friday_18.html
Have fun with flying today! I'm in with another poem by my daughter. http://simpleordinary.blogspot.com/2007/05/poetry-friday_18.html
Good luck with the flying lesson Kelly !!
I'm in this week - with Eliot and Doctor Who again !!
This poem, however, is dedicated just to you:
High Flight
Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds—and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of—wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,
I’ve chased the shouting wind along and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long delirious, burning blue,
I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace,
Where never lark, or even eagle, flew;
And, while with silent, lifting mind I’ve trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.
RCAF Flight-Lieutenant John Gillespie Magee Jr. (1922-1941).
Wow, flying! How exciting! I've got Emily Dickinson.
http://maureenelizabeth.blogspot.com/2007/05/emily-dickinson-and-poetry-friday.html
Here's mine:
http://motherreader.blogspot.com/2007/05/poetry-friday-stellina.html
It's about a bird, so the flying theme continues. Have fun!
Here's a rain on the window poem from AA Milne...
http://charlotteslibrary.blogspot.com/2007/05/for-poetry-friday-waiting-at-window.html
thanks!
I've got Emily Dickinson here:
http://lectitans.livejournal.com/20905.html
I'm in! I'm in! Late, but it's still Friday. http://yzocaet.blogspot.com/2007/05/poetry-fridayfat-is-not-fairy-tale.html
Glad you made it back! :)
I love "The Swing" because my grandpa used to say it to me while he swung me in a specially made tire-swing that he designed himself. Someday I plan to turn it into a song. Notice it's in 3/4 time!