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International Literacy Day is September 8.
First Book and our friends at the International Reading Association are challenging students and teachers to spend 60 seconds each day for the next 60 days to doing small activities that enhance literacy skills.
Celebrate our love for reading on International Literacy Day with some of these out-of-this-world activities:
Activities for ages 4-8
- Talk Show.
After reading a book, ask students to write a question that they would ask the main character. Each day ask for a volunteer to pretend to be the main character, and give the volunteer 60 seconds to answer one or two questions.
- Take My Advice.
Project a picture from a familiar book, such as Little Red Riding Hood walking through the forest. Have students talk to the characters in the book, and give them advice, such as “Little Red Riding Hood, don’t talk to the Wolf. He’s going to try to trick you!”
Activities for ages 9-11
- Vocabulary Space Ticket.
Provide students with a vocabulary ticket to leave space. Have pairs or trios of students draw an image for each vocabulary word and write a definition so their ticket can be stamped for lift-off.
- Galactic Mural.
Make a large mural of space with outlines of the planets. Each day a student brings in one space fact and adds the information to the mural. Once finished, sit back and enjoy your view of our corner of the galaxy.
Activities for ages 12-14
- Word of the Day.
Take 60 seconds to learn a new word of the day. Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day is a great resource. If you have an extra two minutes, check out the podcast that accompanies each Word of the Day. Challenge kids to try to use the new word during the day in conversations in class or with their friends. Create a friendly competition, and see who can use the word the most or the best.
- Done in 60 Days.
Get the whole class writing a collaborative story in 60-second bursts. Come up with a first-line story starter. On Day 1, have students write the sentence on the top of a blank sheet of paper. Then, give them 60 seconds to write the next line. Each day, have students rotate the sheets of paper so that in the 60 seconds, they are (a) reading what others have written and (b) writing the next line of the story. At the end of the 60 days, spend some time seeing the different directions taken by stories starting with same first line.
Visit the IRA website and download their International Literacy Day Activity Kit for more fun things to do to celebrate & promote literacy in the classroom and at home!
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Book reviews to write, classes to plan and, another article underway. So, I’m just going to quickly share to really good opportunities that I really hope one of my readers will jump at.
First, The International Reading Association’s 60th Annual Conference, “Transforming Lives Through Literacy”will be held 18-20 July in St. Louis. Proposals are being accept until 14 July. That’s this Monday, folks so turn on the thinking cap, email that librarian or illustrator or author who just might, who maybe could … explore the possibilities! This is our opportunity to shine a light on the fact that #WeNeedDiverseBooks!
Another impending deadline:
One of the principles of the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association is to promote literacy in Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and Ohio. In 2013 The Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association Board voted to create a program to provide a $1000 grant to be awarded annually to a non-profit literacy project, nominated by a GLIBA member store.
Jim Dana was the founder of the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association, and served as the Executive Director until his retirement in 2010, when he joined the Peace Corps. Jim was always involved in efforts to increase literacy while at GLIBA, and continuing during his time serving in the Peace Corps. It is in his honor that the award is named.
Nominations for the grant must be received in the GLIBA office by July 15, 2014. The award will be presented at the Heartland Fall Forum which will be in Minneapolis, MN September 29-October 2, 2014.
Go for it!! #ShineOn!!
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That “lives” could be a verb or a noun; we discussed both.
Me, two other cowboys, and two fine cowgirls (AKA Brian Floca, Chris Barton, Meghan McCarthy, and Shana Corey) moseyed on down old San Antonio way for IRA, where we did a panel called “‘But Kids Haven’t Heard of That!’: Why Teaching Unconventional Nonfiction Is Important.”
Moderated by the tireless Susannah Richards, Associate Professor of Education at Eastern Connecticut State University, each of the five authors did a fifteen-minute presentation, then collectively took questions from Susannah and the audience.
I was as much an avid audience member as participant. Adding to my excitement was the fact that I’d proposed the panel—twice actually (it was rejected for 2012)—stocking it with four of my favorite nonfiction picture book writers, not to mention friends.
Brian Floca, Meghan McCarthy, me, Shana Corey, Chris Barton
Here is feedback on the proposal from IRA decision-makers:
- The panel of authors should draw a big audience.
- Appropriate subject matter for this symposia. The panelists are authors and have significant information to share with the audience.
- This proposal presents a clear evidence base and also is convincing and motivating. The content was detailed and gives a clear idea of what will transpire in the session. The objectives align with the content. This is an excellent proposal.
Here is feedback on the panel from an attendee:I attended a panel meeting of nonfiction authors. One author in particular, Marc Tyler Nobleman, stuck out to me. … Mr. Nobleman’s book [Bill the Boy Wonder: The Secret Co-Creator of Batman] is a must read. [He] is an excellent storyteller; it’s just, he’s not telling you a story—he’s telling you facts. I have never seen nonfiction this cool and interesting before now.
Panel’s-eye views:
After, as we unwound at the River Walk, another author ally, Erica Perl, joined us. However, I was the only one who wanted homemade ice cream.
For diehards and readhards, here is the meat of the proposal:
Educational Significance
For some students, nonfiction has a stigma: boring. This is perplexing: why would a true story inherently be less intriguing than something made up? In years past, nonfiction was often written in a dry manner. In addition, there was less risk in subject matter and style.
Today, however, the authors writing nonfiction for young people recognize the dual responsibility they have. First, they must continue to present accurate (and, when possible, new) information. And now, they must do so in an engaging fashion. The marked shift from “textbook” to narrative nonfiction is a considerable benefit for young readers.
In exercising creative freedom with respect to tone, chronology, perspective, and subject matter, contemporary nonfiction writers are boosting the excitement of teachers and kids alike. Such fresh material lures reluctant readers and further stimulates active readers.
We’ve seen an increase in nonfiction picture books described as a “first of its kind.” We’ve seen an increase in picture books subjects that have never been the focus of even a book for adults (The Day-Glo Brothers, Strong Man, Surfer of the Century, Boys of Steel). We’ve seen a rise in the level of sophistication of—and the amount of pages devoted to – back matter. The reason: there is an audience and an educational missive to support it.
Yet with library budgets in crisis, it can be difficult to get unconventional nonfiction into schools—and with test preparation time increasing, educators may struggle to make time to introduce it. In our increasingly blended world, however, it is critical to re-emphasize a diversity of subject matter. (No slight to Benjamin Franklin, Muhammad Ali, Babe Ruth, or the Obamas’ dog, each of whom has starred in multiple picture books.)
This panel may include but is not solely about multicultural subjects. Rather it focuses more broadly on subjects generally not taught in curriculum.
2012 IRA attendee feedback:- Very appropriate subject matter! Nonfiction needs to be addressed, especially with Common Core being the focus!
- Informational text deserves greater attention, especially unconventional informational text. The panel format will be appealing to the audience. The panelists have valuable information to share. The topic is grounded in literature that is relevant and substantial. I believe this session will be of interest to a broad cross-section of IRA members.
Evidence Base
Forty-five states have adopted the Common Core Standards.
Publishers Weekly (7/18/12): “By the 2014-15 academic year, the initiative calls for 50% informational text (including…nonfiction trade books) in elementary school and 70% in high school-on average, across all curricula. … [A]ccording to the Core: dull-looking nonfiction is out. … ‘Visual elements are particularly important in texts for the youngest students and in many informational texts for readers of all ages.’”
New York Times (3/11/12): “Children in New York City who learned to read using an experimental curriculum that emphasized nonfiction texts outperformed those at other schools.”
School Library Journal (4/1/12): “‘The advent of Common Core presents school librarians with both a great opportunity and a great challenge,’ says kids’ book editor and author Marc Aronson. ‘The emphasis on nonfiction from elementary school on puts them front and center, since few current homeroom teachers know nonfiction in their grades as read-alouds, as pleasure reads, or as opportunities to compare different narrative approaches.”
Horn Book (March-April 2011): Author Susan Campbell Bartoletti writes that in her teaching experience, fiction-reading kids would hold up a favorite book and ask for another like it. But nonfiction readers “wanted to read [books] about things they didn’t already know.”
Jim Trelease, author of The Read-Aloud Handbook, stated that an unconventional nonfiction “panel is a super idea and one that will draw a top audience.”
Increasingly, picture book nonfiction includes an author’s note about the author’s research process—a process that every student must learn in English class. And the best of these authors’ notes read like detective novels.
Sites such as teachwithpicturebooks.blogspot.com promote picture books in the classroom—even in middle and high school. Neither “short” nor “illustrated” automatically makes a book only for young people.
Reading nonfiction capitalizes on existing interests and generates motivation. Reading unconventional nonfiction challenges perspectives and brings fuller, often cross-disciplinary understanding to any historical period.
Reading nonfiction helps to build schema and vocabulary knowledge. Reading unconventional nonfiction empowers students to experiment with topics they may not presume to like or understand, and often enlightens them when they can make a connection between that material and curriculum.- end of proposal excerpt -Oh, and circling back to the cowboy theme: the last morning, I was almost trampled by a stampede…of teachers and librarians…headed to a booth for a free bag featuring Superman on one side and (for them) the bigger draw, Wonder Woman, on the other.
Chris Barton.
Shana Corey.
Brian Floca.
Megan McCarthy.
Me. (I am still in alphabetical order this way.)
On 4/21/13, from 3 to 5:45 p.m. (yes, almost three hours!), at the International Reading Association Convention in San Antonio, we five authors, moderated by Susannah Richards, Associate Professor of Education at Eastern Connecticut State University, will panel-discuss the importance of unconventional nonfiction...the stories that are not yet widely known, the people who are not textbook names.
Please join us. This group has never assembled before, and may never again. Therefore (speaking of nonfiction), history will be witnessed. Unconventional nonfiction will be glorified.
And, of course, books will be signed:I am signing two more times on Monday 4/22/13: - Anderson's, booth 1003, 10-11 a.m.
- Overlooked Books booth, booth 2519, 11 a.m.-12 p.m.
I'm very happy that Sled Ride has been included in this list of new winter books for children! Read about all of them here.
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Couldn't resist posting this review author Lissa Price just shared with me. I've highlighted my favorite parts -- just because I can! Love it when someone truly understands what I've tried to do with a character and story.
Rose, Caroline Starr. (2012). May B. New York: Random House/Schwartz & Wade.
In this novel in verse, because of her family’s financial needs, twelve-year-old May Betterly is sent to work for a newlywed couple on the Kansas frontier. But the Oblingers are having trouble from the start. Try as he might, Mr. Oblinger just can't please his bride who longs for the civilized life in Ohio. When she flees, he, in turn, goes after her but doesn't return. May is left to fend for herself with a limited amount of food and no one nearby to help. At first conscientious about doing her chores, May becomes less and less concerned with them until a blizzard traps her inside the house. The likeable, sympathetic May contends with hunger, boredom, a hungry wolf, and her own personal demons about her inability to read, having been encouraged by one teacher and shamed by another. When she finally makes her way out of the soddy, she knows that she can do anything and has become determined to live—or die—on her own terms. The book’s poetic lines evoke a strong sense of place, allowing readers to savor the prairie’s beauty and feel the bitter cold of the ever-present snow while pausing to admire the pioneer spirit of those who moved westward. By the time May finally opens that can of peaches she's been saving for so long, she knows that she has earned their sweetness. Readers will be forced to put themselves in May’s shoes while imagining what they would have done in her situation.
- Barbara A. Ward, Washington State University Pullman
I've just come home from my first International Reading Association convention, an annual event that draws teachers, librarians, and other bookish types to discuss literacy and teaching methods. It was a wondrous time!
Uma Krishnaswami, Kimberley Griffiths Little, Carolee Dean, Kersten Hamilton, Carolyn Meyer, Esther Hershenhorn
Lisa Schroeder, Caroline Starr Rose, April Halprin Wayland
On Sunday I was a part of an institute -- an intensive session that lasted from 9-5. The title of our panel was
Rekindling the Reading Fire - Using the Story Strategies of Professional Authors to Inspire a Love of Reading and Writing, headed up by
Carolee Dean. The session included panels on magical realism; plot, setting and story; verse novels; and historical fiction.
I also had the opportunity to meet fellow
Project Mayhem author, Hilary Wagner, and my dear, dear author friend,
Sheila O'Connor.
It was lovely to meet Random House Children's Books tireless sales and marketing team and a number of literature-loving educators as well as dozens of other authors I'd up to this point only known on-line or through their books.
My only regret is not having more pictures to share!
The International Reading Association (IRA) has declared Sept. 5-9, 2011 to be "Revision Week." Visit the IRA's Engage: Teacher to Teacher Blog this week to read/hear comments about revision from several well-known children's authors, including Cynthia Lord and Kate Messner.
Classroom teachers often tell me that one of their greatest challenges is helping students understand that a first draft is only the first step in the writing process. And many adult writers also dread the "R" word: Revision. Yet, as Kate Messner says today on the Engage: Teacher to Teacher Blog: “Revision is where writing really happens.”
(In the audio interview, Messner also talks about making time to write while working full-time and raising a family.)
One of the best ways I've found to help writers of all ages appreciate the benefit (and necessity) of revision is a bit of "show and tell." I "show" the drafts of my novel Rosa, Sola with all the post-it notes from my editor and I "tell" about how that feedback helped me polish that story. You can see some photos of one of my drafts and read a bit about that process in this post from last year.
For both young students and adult writers, it's often difficult to look at our own work objectively. Below is a revised version of the Writing Workout I shared last year. (Yes, even blog posts and writing exercises get better with revision!) The Workout is intended as a way to help trick ourselves into reading our work as though it were written by someone else.
Speaking of revision, the next session of my Craft & Critique Workshop, which is held in Oak Brook, IL, begins on Tuesday, Sept. 27. That class is ALL about revision. For more information, see my website. If you don't live in the Chicago area and are looking for some feedback on your writing, check out the Blogosphere Buzz below for help finding a critique partner.
In addition to Revision Week, this is the third annual
Random Acts of Publicity week, a chance to celebrate and publicize the work of our fellow authors. I'd like to take this opportunity to remind you that
THREE of the
TeachingAuthors have new books out this year. If you're new to our blog, please read these posts to learn all about them: JoAnn Early Macken's
Baby Says "Moo!", Mary Ann Rodman's
Camp K-9, and Esther Hershenhorn's
Little Illinois.
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We’ve just returned from the IRA conference in sunny Orlando! We’re still getting our feet back under us and assure you that we’ll get back to our regularly scheduled programming soon. In the meantime, though, here are a couple of highlights from our booth at the conference:
Happy 15th Birthday to the adorable Biscuit!
Attendees received a free My Weird School book when they signed up for Dan Gutman’s My Weird Classroom Club.
Thanks to all the teachers, librarians, and media specialists who made the IRA conference such a great time!
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Next week (May 8-11) we’re off to another conference: the International Reading Association Annual Convention in sunny Orlando! We have a stellar line-up of authors and illustrators – for a complete list of authors and signing times, click here.
One such author is Gail Carson Levine, author of some of the best-known books in children’s literature, such as ELLA ENCHANTED and WRITING MAGIC. She’ll be featured on a panel called “Engaging Readers K-5″ with Kristin Clark Venuti, Laurie Friedman, and Ethan Long. The fabulous Kate Messner will be moderating. If you’ll be at the conference, this panel will be on Tuesday, May 10 from 11:00am-12:00pm.
Gail will also be signing her new book, A TALE OF TWO CASTLES, from 12:30-1:30 after her panel. In its starred review, Kirkus said that this is a “thoroughly delicious romp” and we couldn’t agree more. Stop by booth #1220 and say hi to Gail!
We hope to see you in sunny Orlando!
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My name is Dan Gutman, and I love teachers and librarians!
Hey, the most amazing thing in the history of the world just happened. But I’m not going to tell you what it is. So nah nah nah boo boo on you.
Okay, okay, I’ll tell you.
I had to wait a million hundred years, but HarperCollins just started the My Weird Classroom Club! It’s a club for classrooms, and it’s about My Weird School, so it has the perfect name.
My Weird Classroom Club is full of teaching guides, activity sheets, puzzles, games, comics, checklists, cards, Mad Libs, and other awesome stuff you can use in your classroom to get your kids excited about reading.*
“WOW!” (that’s “MOM” upside down) This is the greatest day of my life. If you ask me, HarperCollins should get the No Bell Prize. That’s a prize they give out to people who don’t have bells.
The My Weird Classroom Club is cool. So don’t be a dumbhead. Go to www.myweirdclassroomclub.com today and see it live and in person.
If you don’t, I’ll be so upset that I’ll have to go to Antarctica and live with the penguins.
*It’s gonna sell a lot of books too! What a scam!
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Today is International Literacy Day, and this year the theme is “Literacy and Women’s Empowerment”—a reminder to us all of the need for increased commitment to literacy, especially for girls and women. This theme reinforces and adds a particular focus to the United Nation’s Literacy Decade efforts to encourage a world-wide commitment to issues of literacy.
One of the multitude of events happening around the world in celebration of the day is the award ceremony for UNESCO 2010 International Literacy Prizes, which recognize innovative approaches to literacy education and is taking place at the organization’s headquarters, in Paris. UNESCO King Sejong Literacy Prize, sponsored by the Republic of Korea, will be given to projects in Cape Verde and Germany, and programs in Nepal and Egypt will be receiving the UNESCO Confucius Prize for Literacy, supported by the People’s Republic of China. You can find the complete list of winning projects and honorable mentions here.
Also happening today, following the awards ceremony, is the launch of a very welcome and potentially transformative initiative: the Knowledge and Innovations Network for Literacy (KINL). Created with support from Verizon Foundation and Microsoft, the Network, which will be operational beginning November 1, will work as a virtual workplace where literacy researchers and practitioners can share knowledge and debate literacy topics online, with the goal of generating new ideas and practices.
Let us know how you are celebrating the day at your school, library or household. And keep in mind that, in the US, one way you can show your support for the right to literacy is by signing this declaration. Before delivering it to President Obama, ProLiteracy is sending the declaration scroll around the country to gather signatures from individuals and mayors.
We all deserve a world in which children and adults have the literacy skills they need to lead happy, productive and fulfilling lives, so let’s each do our part—and every little bit counts!— to promote literacy.
You can find PaperTigers’ archived Literacy issue here. To see all our literacy-related blog posts, click on the “World Literacy” category, on the sidebar.
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We are delighted to welcome author and educator Nancy Bo Flood as a guest on the PaperTigers Blog. Nancy has lived and worked in several different cultures, including Japan, Hawaii, Malawi, Samoa and Saipan of Micronesia, the setting for her most recent book, Warriors in the Crossfire. We will be reviewing it soon; in the meantime, do read Julie Larios’ interview with Nancy, in which she talks about the book’s background.
Nancy now lives on the Navajo Nation Reservation, in northern Arizona, where she teaches and promotes literacy. In this, the first of two Guest Posts, she highlights some of the projects working to bring books to Navajo children and young people:
It was my first class teaching for Diné College in Tuba City, Arizona. I asked students to buy a dictionary and bring it to class. Our campus building had no library, no dictionaries.
The next week I drove through a sandstorm to get to class; my students had done the same after watering livestock and getting their children to school. Not one student brought a dictionary. Why not? It turns out the nearest bookstore was two hours away. That meant a lot of driving time, a lot of money for gas. This was the beginning of my education about the need for books and libraries across the Navajo Nation.
Here are some resources I have found:
Tuba City Outreach Library
The Navajo Nation extends into Arizona, New Mexico and southern Utah. It is about as big as New England (without Maine) but has only one official public library. Almost no bookstores exist. On the western side of the Reservation the small Tuba City Outreach Library is sponsored by Coconino County / Flagstaff. For the past 10 years I have worked with the librarian, Trish Polacca, to develop the children’s and teen sections.
We’ve worked hard to get books through donations, private foundations, my graduation class’s community service and through a used book store in Flagstaff. Finding “appropriate books” is another challenge. Picture books with contemporary, non-stereotyped images of children who are Native American are hard to find, new or used.
International Reading Association (IRA) and Arizona Reading Association (ARA)
In 2009 I worked with ARA to collect left-over books from vendors at the annual IRA convention in Phoenix. These books were distributed to local literacy organizations and school libraries. There is a full description of this project in the Spring-Summer issue of Arizona Reading Journal, Vol XXXV, 2009. Next time, we will ask attendees to bring books to donate – or buy books at the conference to donate.
Reach Out and Read (ROR), American Indian and Alaskan Native
This national organization was begun over 20 years ago and has grown into a nationwide project giving free new books and literacy guidance to children at their regular pediatric check-ups. As a board member of the Arizona coalition, we have worked to bring books to health clinics throughout Arizona, including the Navajo and Hopi Nations.
A new coalition was formed in 2007 to focus on children who receive health care at Indian Health Service Clinics, or tribal or urban Indian Health Centers.
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National Poetry Month~ Canada and USA
Growing Up Asian in America Art and Essay Contest Winners Announced~ San Francisco, CA, USA
The Mathieu Da Costa Challenge Winners Announced~ Canada
38th National Book Fair & 8th Bangkok International Book Fair~ ongoing until Apr 6, Bangkok, Thailand
Exhibit of Sally Rippin’s Illustrations for Peeking Ducks~ ongoing until Apr 11, Melbourne, Australia
Heart and Soul: Art from Coretta Scott King Award Books, 2006–2009~ ongoing until Apr 18, Chicago, IL, USA
New York Public Library Exhibit: 2010 Caldecott Winner Jerry Pinkney’s African-American Journey to Freedom~ ongoing until Apr 18, New York City, NY, USA
Once Upon a Time . . . Children’s Book Illustrators, Then and Now~ ongoing until May 27, Oakland, CA, USA
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SCBWI Presents Details, Details: The Snap, Crackle, and Pop of Good Writing with author Jane Kurtz~ Apr 2, Tokyo, Japan
SCBWI Presents Bologna and Beyond~ Apr 3, The Hague, Netherlands
43rd Annual Fay B. Kaigler Children’s Book Festival~ Apr 7 – 9, Hattiesburg, MS, USA
The Foundation for Children’s Literature Presents What’s New in Children’s Books~ Apr 8, Boston, MA, USA
26th Annual Virginia Hamilton Conference on Multicultural Literature for Youth~ Apr 8 – 9, Kent, OH, USA
Salisbury University’s Children’s and Young Adult Literature Festival: Read Green~ Apr 8 – 12, Salisbury, MD, USA
Border Book Festival~ Apr 8 – 11, Mesilla, NM, USA
Monsters and Miracles: A Journey through Jewish Picture Books~ Apr 8 – Aug 1, Los Angeles, CA, USA
The Green Earth Book Award Presentation Ceremony~ Apr 9, McLean, VA, USA
Cambridge WordFest~ Apr 9 – 11, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Reading Today Daily, a bimonthly magazine published by the International Reading Association, recently reported:
On Friday, November 6, the Washington Office of the International Reading Association hosted a program titled “Learning Through Reading: Two Innovative Programs Give Students Broader Worldviews.” IRA’s Director of International Development, Sakil Malik, described “Reading Across Continents,” a program that links students in Washington, DC, Ghana, and Nigeria through young adult literature.
Author Katie Smith Milway talked about how her popular book, One Hen: How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference, and its accompanying website have spawned curriculum units and student projects focusing on philanthropy and microentrepreneurship.
Following the program, Reading Today taped a podcast interview with Milway. To hear it, visit the podcast page on the IRA website.
Last week we announced our Spirit of PaperTigers Project, an initiative of Pacific Rim Voices, whose aim is to promote literacy while raising awareness of our common humanity. The idea is to donate 100 book sets of seven carefully selected multicultural books to libraries and schools in areas of need across the globe. Katie’s book One Hen is included in the set along with these other titles. To read more about the Spirit of PaperTigers Project click here and be sure to check out Sally’s article Choosing the 2010 Book Set.
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We received many original and fun submissions for our latest giveaway contest in celebration of TeachingAuthor Esther Hershenhorn's S is for Story: A Writer's Alphabet. I have drawn a winner, but have yet to hear back from her. If she doesn't reply soon, I'll choose a new winner. Meanwhile, I'd like to share some other news.
First off, congratulations to our own TeachingAuthor Mary Ann Rodman. Her middle-grade novel Jimmy's Stars was named a 2009 Children's Choice for grades 5-6 by the International Reading Association and the Children's Book Council. See the complete list of winners here.
And if you're thinking of using Jimmy's Stars in conjunction with a study of World War II, be sure to check out the wonderful online resources set up by Usborne Publishing, the book's UK publisher.
Speaking of wonderful online resources for teachers, our friends April Pulley Sayre and Gretchen Woelfle of the group blog INK: Interesting Nonfiction for Kids have announced the launch of a free online database of nonfiction books called the InkThinkTank. The database is designed to help teachers, librarians, and homeschoolers find the books they need to meet curriculum requirements in grades K-12. We've included a link to the database in our sidebar.
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Tuesday, October 20, is the
National Day on Writing, sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).
According to
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Today people write as never before—texting, on blogs, with video cameras and cell phones, and, yes, even with traditional pen and paper. People write at home, at work, inside and out of school.
The
National Day on Writing is meant to celebrate all forms of writing. In conjunction with the event, NCTE has created a
National Gallery of Writing, a digital archive of writing samples showing how and why Americans are writing every day. The Gallery will be unveiled on Tuesday.
This
Friday, October 16, we will begin a series of posts to commemorate the National Day on Writing. We will also join other
Kidlitosphere bloggers by submitting our posts to the local Gallery called
A Lifetime of Reading, curated by Franki Sibberson and Mary Lee Hahn, two teachers who blog at
A Year of Reading. We hope you'll make plans to take part in the National Day on Writing, and post those plans here on our
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Skipping Stones Youth Honor Award Winners Announced
Western Australia Spring Poetry Festival and National Poetry Week~ ongoing until Sep 4, Australia
Taranaki Children’s Book Festival~ ongoing until Sep 5, Taranaki, New Zealand
Enchanted Worlds - Art of Fairy Stories & Mermaid Tales exhibition~ ongoing until Sep 5, Lancashire, United Kingdom
National Literacy and Numeracy Week~ ongoing until Sep 6, Australia
Singapore International Storytelling Festival~ ongoing until Sep 12, Singapore
2009 Bologna Illustrators Exhibition of Children’s Books~ ongoing until Sep 27, Nishinomiya City, Japan
Entries Accepted for the 2010 PBBY-Salanga Prize~ ongoing until Oct 23, Philippines
Exhibition - Drawings from the Heart: Tomie de Paola Turns 75 ~ ongoing until Nov 1, Amherst, MA, USA
Picture Perfect: Art from Caldecott Award Books, 2006-2009~ ongoing until Nov 8, 2010, Chicago, IL, USA
Their Magical Years: a National Workshop on Early Childhood Learning and Development~ Sep 3 - 5, New Delhi, India
Beijing International Book Fair~ Sep 3 - 7, Beijing, China
Munsch a Bunch of Miles for Literacy~ Sep 3 - 11, Canmore, AB, Canada
Decatur Book Festival~ Sep 4 - 6, Decatur, GA, USA
heARTlines: Children’s Literature and Book Illustration Festival ~ Sep 4 - Oct 4, Mundaring, Australia
22nd Biennial of Illustrations Bratislava~ Sep 4 - Oct 26, Bratislava, Slovakia
International Literacy Day~ Sep 8
UNESCO Literary Prize Awards Presentation~ Sep 8, Paris, France
Brisbane Writers Festival~ Sep 9 - 13, Brisbane, Australia
International Children’s and Youth Literature Festival~ Sep 9 - 13, Berlin, Germany
CYA later, Alligator - Children’s and Young Adult Writers And Illustrators Conference~ Sep 12, Brisbane, Australia
57th St. Children’s Book Fair~ Sep 13, Chicago, IL, USA
10th Annual Hog Wild About Reading: A Motorcycle Ride For Literacy~ Sep 13, Port Moody, BC, Canada
Book Blogger Appreciation Week~ Sep 14 - 18
Hispanic Heritage Month~ Sep 15 - Oct 15, USA
The Manila International Book Fair: Words Without Borders~ Sep 16 - 20, Manila, Philippines
The Art of Allen Say: A Sense of Place~ Sep 16 - Oct 28, Exeter, NH, USA
International Symposium: Beyond Borders: Art, Narrative and Culture in Picturebooks~ Sep 18 - 20, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Bath Festival of Children’s Literature~ Sep 18 - 27, Bath, United Kingdom
Tamejavi - Our Voice, Our Stories: A Path to Inclusion~ Sep 19, Fresno, CA, USA
Eden Mills Writers’ Festival~ Sep 20, Eden Mills, ON, Canada
Thin Air - Winnipeg International Writers Festival~ Sep 20 - 27, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
International Day of Peace~ Sep 21
The 4th World Summit on Arts and Culture~ Sep 22 - 25, Johannesburg, South Africa
Canwest Raise-a-Reader Day~ Sep 23, Canada
25th Annual Göteborg Book Fair~ Sep 24 - 27, Göteborg, Sweden
Darling Children’s Book Fair~ Sep 24 - 26, Darling, South Africa
Reading Association of Ireland’s Annual International Conference: Literacy in the 21st Century: Perspectives, Challenges & Transformations~ Sep 24 - 26, Dublin, Ireland
Margarita Engle ~ Finding the Poetry in History~ Sep 25, Fresno, CA, USA
Wigtown Book Festival~ Sep 25 - Oct 4, Wigtown, United Kingdom
The Children’s Bookshow: Picture Books and Poetry ~Sep 25 - Nov 25, United Kingdom
National Book Festival~ Sep 26, Washington, D.C., USA
Children’s Book Seminar - SCBWI at UP Visayas 2009~ Sep 26, Iloilo City, Philippines
Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read~ Sep 26 - Oct 3, USA
The Word on the Street National Book and Magazine Festival: Celebrating Reading. Advocating Literacy. ~ Sep 27, Canada
New Zealand Reading Association 2009 Conference~ Sep 27 - 30, Queenstown, New Zealand
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Get Caught Reading Month~ USA
National Share-a-Story Month~ United Kingdom
Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month~ USA
Asian Heritage Month~ Canada
Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature to be Announced~ USA
USBBY - Bridge to Understanding Award Winner to be Announced ~ USA
Discovering Ethnic Minorities - Storytelling Workshops for Children~ Hong Kong
5th Annual PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature~ ongoing until May 3, New York, NY, USA
35th Buenos Aires International Book Fair~ ongoing until May 11, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Books Illustrated Traveling Exhibition: An Australian Menagerie -Australian picture books~ongoing until mid Jun, China
Exhibition of Prize Winning Works of 16th Noma Concours (2008) “Palette of Dream Colours IV”~ ongoing until Jul 5, Tokyo, Japan
The Child and the Book Conference: This Land is Our Land~ May 1 - 3, Nanaimo, BC, Canada
BOOKFEST - The Vancouver Island Children’s Book Festival~ May 2, Nanaimo, BC, Canada
IRA’s 54th Annual Convention: Reading, Writing and Conversations~ May 3 - 7, Minneapolis, MN, USA
ALOUD: a Celebration for Young Readers~ May 4 - 6, Toronto, ON, Canada
WordPower~ May 4 - 8, Fort McMurray, AB, Canada
Tehran International Book Fair~ May 6 - 16, Tehran, Iran
Mapfre Hay Festiva~ May 7 - 10, Alhambra, Spain
Once Upon a Time: Children’s Book Illustrators, Then and Now~ May 8 - Jun 14, Oakland, CA, USA
Mt. San Antonio College’s Children’s Literature Day~ May 9, Walnut, CA, USA
Children’s Book Week~ May 11 - 17, USA
New Zealand Post Book Awards Festival~ May 11 - 20, New Zealand
Forest of Reading, Festival of Trees~ May 13 - 14, Toronto, ON, Canada
Auckland Writers and Readers Festival~ May 13 - 17, Auckland, New Zealand
Surabaya Book Fair~ May 13 - 17, Surabaya, Indonesia
Seoul International Book Fair~ May 13 - 17, Seoul, Korea
The 5th China International Cultural Industries Fair~ May 15 - 18, Shenzhen, China
African American Book Festival~ May 15 - 16, Mt. Vernon, NY, USA
Mother’s Day Readings With Authors Mitali Perkins, Christina Seid, Pooja Makhijani, and Others~ May 16, New York, NY, USA
Children’s Books Ireland Conference: Challenge and Change in Children’s Books~ May 16 - 17, Dublin, Ireland
National Black Book Festival~ May 16 - 17, Houston, TX, USA
Sydney Writers’ Festival~ May 18 - 24, Sydney, Australia
The Foundation for Children’s Books New England Voices Series with Author/Illustrators Grace Lin and Giles Laroche~ May 19, Boston, MA, USA
Bisto Children’s Book of the Year Awards Presentations~ May 20, Dublin, Ireland
The Guardian Hay Festival~ May 21 - 31, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom
WriteAway Conference: Something Old, Something New -approaches to classic literature, culture and heritage in education~ May 22, London, United Kingdom
Storytelling Association Singapore Presents Silver and Gold: Precious Stories to Inspire Young and Old~ May 23, Singapore
World Village Festival~ May 23 - 24, Helsinki, Finland
Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences and Annual Book Fair~ May 23 - 31, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Library and Information Week~ May 25 - 31, Australia
National Simultaneous Storytime~ May 28, Australia
International Latino Book Awards Presentations~ May 28, New York, NY, USA
Reading Matters Youth Literature Conference~ May 28 - 30, Melbourne, Australia
BookExpo America~ May 28 - 31, New York, NY, USA
Thessaloniki Book Fair~ May 28 - 31, Thessaloniki, Greece
The National Center for Children’s Illustrated Literature Exhibit: The Wizards of Pop -Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart~ May 28 - Sep 19, Abilene, TX, USA
Canadian Library Association National Conference and Trade Show~ May 29 - Jun 1, Montreal , QC, Canada
World Book Fair~ May 29 - Jun 7, Singapore
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A few weeks ago, my son's preschool sent out a notice about a humanitarian mission that one of the parents was participating in as part of his role with the US Navy.
My son chose over a dozen stuffed animals from his collection to donate and Kane/Miller provided Spanish language books from our Libros del Mundo series.
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Just this week, emails have been circulating with stories about the mission and the ways in which these books (and hundreds of stuffed animals) are reaching children in South America. This note was sent from Navy Dad, Jeremy, to his wife, who then shared it with the staff and family members from school:
You remember those donated books? Well 1 set was dropped off in Dental this afternoon and that is the PERRRFECT place to drop them off. Here's why:
They don't bring very young children on board for surgeries but a couple pre-teens do come on. I went there for a cleaning and noticed an 8 or 9-year-old girl sitting with one of our translators. I turned to the Dental Officer who is a buddy of mine and said, "Isn't she a little young to be here for surgery or dental work?" He said, "Yes, but when any adult comes in for surgery they have to bring an escort to help them home after the surgery. A few of them bring their older children as escorts. So while they are waiting in the Dental area for their friends/family’s surgeries to be done I always see if any of them need any teeth pulled or anything."
The girl was looking sort of bored so I remembered the donated Spanish kids books from Kane/Miller...I ran up to my stateroom and grabbed 1 of the 2 sets. I gave them to the enlisted translator and said, "Ask her if she likes to read and if she does tell her she can look through these books and take one or two." The translator asked her and she said, “Yes, she likes to read.”
While I was waiting I noticed the young girl going through them and she started reading one. When I came out afterwards I noticed she was gone and so was the book.
Kane/Miller loves being able to give back to the community when we can and we so enjoy hearing stories about how our books are used, and knowing that children around the world are now reading our editions - and translations - of some pretty wonderful books.
How has your school or family given back?
It's gorgeous out today - warm, sunny, breezy. Time to open the windows, grab a rag, and see what kind of crud has accumulated on top of everything. The first thing I noticed was this blog. It's dusty and a bit smudged in places. It's time to clean it up, touch up the paint, and get it running smoothly again.
What I've been doing the last few months:
I've been working, silly. I finished another of the fantastic math books by Doris Fisher and Dani
Sneed for
Sylvan Dell Publishing.
My Half Day is about fractions and is crazier than ever. It has been a riot to do these books. They are fun and funny but are curriculum connected and full of ways to extend the learning through a For Creative Minds section at the back of every book too. All good stuff.
I did the art for a poster that will be given away at the
IRA Convention in Atlanta by Highlights For Children. They are sending me to Atlanta as well to hang out in their booth and sign too. I will also be in the Sylvan Dell booth where they will have pre-release copies of My Half Day. Drop me a line and let me know if you will be in Atlanta during the conference May 4 - 8
th and we can hook up!
I've been coaching two
Odyssey of the Mind teams! These are competitive creative teams consisting of seven kids. They have to write, choreograph, perform, build sets, costumes, design and build devices all by themselves that solve a particular problem in just an eight minute performance. They use power tools. They paint stuff - well everything in sight actually. Duct tape is used by the case. And all in my garage.
Oy, my garage. Help me now! But most importantly they become brave, use ingenuity, team work, and dedication to make magic. We go to tournament in just six days. It is one of the things I like best - guiding kids to do the impossible with creativity and humor. It's all super-secret before tournament but I will post more later on the incredible things these kids have created.
Other things - Our new web site should be launched in a week or so depending on what the web-master/husband has planned.
I've finally updated most of my images to
Children's Illustrators dot com. I was the featured artist last week and saw some good results already.
I'll be involved in the
Carolinas SCBWI conference in Durham again this fall. Mark your calendars for September 19-21.
Okay - I'm getting winded. Out of shape. Flabby. More tomorrow...
I did this for a game company about 5 years ago. I did a whole deck of old school monsters.
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For a Manitoban article. I haven't actually read the story yet, but I was told it was about the popularity of certain monsters. The person requesting the illustration (not the author) told me that the Frankie in the story was "one part charles manson, one part
oprah, one part einstein, and one part "journey" (the band)."
I gave him a Charlie shirt. She liked it. :)
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Tonight’s show is part two of a three part series, which was recorded on the beautiful island of Hawaii, at the International Reading Association’s Regional Conference which was held there two weeks ago.
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Mahalo to my Hawaiian colleagues and friends especially Liana Honda, JoAnn Wong-Kam, Anna Sumida, Alice Kimura, Joyce Ahuna-Ka’ai’ai, Meleanna Meyer, Kathy Wurdem, Avis Masuda, and Malia Chong. This show is dedicated to you! I left Hawaii in awe of your passion, and commitment [...]
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In this week’s show:
Aloha from Hawaii!
Thank you to Liana Honda (President Aloha State Council for Literacy)
Dedication to Denny Taylor and my Literacy colleagues at Hofstra University
CLIP is Charles Cadenhead’s Podcast Pickle pick of the day for Tues., Nov. 14!
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So happy for you, Caroline. Sounds like a wonderful, wonderful time.
I am all kinds of jealous! :)
Beth, thank you! It was a great introduction to it all.
Shannon, have you ever been? I hadn't before. So strange to not be teaching and to be on the other side of things. Lovely time.