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Wizards Wireless is proud to host the January Carnival of Children's Literature! What's a carnival? It's a group of blog posts on a specific theme. The theme of this month's carnival is: Children's Book Awards.
Your post can be about anything at all on the subject, but here are a couple of questions about awards to get you started:
- What awards do you like the best?
- What are your predictions for this year?
- What are your favorite winners from previous years?
- What books do you wish had won in years past?
- Is there a lesser known award that you think should get more publicity?
- Are there any awards that you'd like to change the rules for?
- What award would you like to create?
For authors, illustrators, editors and publishers:
- If you've had the experience of winning an award, what was it like?
- What awards have your books won that have meant the most to you?
- What award would you most like to win?
For those that have been on award committees:
- What was the experience like? (just the parts you can tell us about, of course)
- What did you enjoy? What were your favorite parts?
- What did you like the least?
- Would you do it again?
There's no need to limit posts to national awards. They can be about student choice awards, state library association awards, awards given by publications, etc. Anything goes, as long as it applies to children's and young adult literature.
For an excellent listing of children's book awards, I highly recommend the
Database of Award-Winning Children's Literature, compiled by librarian Lisa
Bartle.
The finalists for the
Cybils (Children's and YA
Bloggers' Literary Awards) are being announced starting
January 1. The
American Library Awards (including the
Newbery, the
Caldecott and the first ever
Odyssey, oh my) are being announced on January 14
th.
The deadline for this carnival is on January 18 so that if you want to write about your reactions to this year's
Cybils finalists or ALA award winners, you'll have plenty of time. The carnival will be posted on January 21. Posts don't have to be written in January... feel free to submit an older post if it's related to the theme.
To submit a post to the carnival (and I really hope you do, especially if it's your first carnival), go to
Blog Carnival. Or e-mail your post to:
wizardwireless [at]
gmail [dot] com
Thanks to Big A little a for hosting this month's Carnival of Children's Literature. I can't believe I forgot my own entry. Argh!
The theme for this carnival is giving our favorite books. So if you still have some shopping to do (please tell me I am not the only one) head over there for great ideas. There are books lists, of course, but so much more! Information on the gift-buying process, book reviews and a few surprises as well.
Go check out the wonderful carnival Kelly Herold just posted at Big A little a. It's full of terrific suggestions about children's books to give as gifts.
The January carnival will be right here at Wizards Wireless with a focus on children's book awards.
Don't forget to submit a blog post to the December Carnival of Children's Literature. It's at Big A little a and the theme is gift books. Entries are due by tonight. If you've never done a carnival before, give this one a try. It's a great experience. See this post for more details and how to submit.
For an excellent example of a carnival, see the November Carnival at MotherReader.
The January Carnival will be held right here at Wizards Wireless! The theme is awards... more details to come.
In preparation for this month's Carnival of Children's Literature (
check out Kelly's post). Everyone's blogging about gift books. I thought about blogging my choices to give this Christmas, but there was a really big problem with that.
See, the people who would be receiving such books? Would be reading this blog (Yes y'all you're getting books for Christmas. I'm sure you're shocked and amazed because you know, that's all I ever give anyone.)
So, I thought I'd turn it on it's head a bit and blog about books that people have given to me!
There's always a problem when giving your favorites to someone else. I'm not entirely sure my mother ever forgave me for not loving
Trixie Belden the same way that she does.
On the other hand, I (and my classmates) will always love my parents for shipping a box full of
John Steinbeck and
Kurt Vonnegut novels to me when we ran out of English-language novels in China.
Now, my favorite books that have been given to me are cookbooks. This is interesting, because usually when I open them, I'm a little less than enthusiastic, but 3 of my top 5 cookbooks? Were presents to me.
Desperation Dinners was given to Dan and me by my parents. It has the basis for my awesome Chicken/Tortellini/Pesto soup. (Um, add some tortellini.) Also, Dan's awesome white chicken chili is from here.
Dan's dad gave us
How To Cook Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Food and when Mark Bitman says everything, he means everything. So, it not only contains the recipe to awesome pie crust, killer mocha butter-cream frosting, what to do with random chicken breasts or or how to make a good, basic marinara sauce, but when I didn't believe that whipped cream only involved cream and a wire whisk? Bitman proved me wrong (although he did suggest a smidge of sugar). When I realized I hadn't boiled an egg in a decade and didn't remember how long it should be in the water? This book told me. It also suggested that a medium boiled egg is much easier than a poached one with the same results. (My suggestion is to serve them on toast finely spread with Boursin cheese. Or on toast with crab cake.)
The third was a wedding present from our friend Alden,
The Naked Chef which has some great recipes for various things and ways to do things the completely from scratch and where you can take shortcuts. I like this one because Oliver really gives you the freedom to experiment and really just provides base recipes and lets you run wild, for, as I've always said, one must approach love and cooking with reckless abandon. (In case you were wondering, my other top two cookbooks are
Joy of Cooking (older editions are better) and
Betty Crocker Cookbook which I DO NOT have. *hint hint*)
One gift I really remember from childhood was receiving a copy of
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret from a family friend for my birthday. (Maybe 10? 11? 12? Somewhere in there.) Not only did it open my eyes to a lot of things (
we must, we must, we must increase our bust) but it was the first Judy Blume book I read, but far from the last one. I now have teary-eyed moments over this book with mothers at the library.
Something about having an
18-page wish list on Amazon is that people tend to buy you things of it, which is, well, the point. But some of my favorite gifts are the little spur of the moment ones. Dan gave me
501 French Verbs when I was taking French in England and mentioned that I missed having it as a reference. The next week, we went out of coffee and he pulled it out of his bag for me. Similarly was when I was reading
The Guns of August and had no idea what pre WWI Europe looked like... a few days later, he brought me home a copy of the
Rand Mcnally Historical World Atlas. And then there was the supreme silliness when, right before we went down to Houston to spend Passover with his family and presented me with
My First Passover Board Book...
For Christmas a few years ago, Dan's mom gave me a copy of the hysterical
Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About. (
MotherReader agrees that this book brings the funny). She got it off my amazon wishlist and promptly forgot about it. Until we gave her a copy this year because, really people IT BRINGS THE FUNNY.
And who doesn't love going to the bookstore with parents who pay for their books? Everything from mama buying my copy of
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix at the midnight release party (she bought one for herself and one for me... when it comes to Harry, there's no sharing.) And most recently,
Hardboiled and Hard Luck.
I love getting books and hope people never stop giving them to me!
Yowzers! It's been a while since we had a carnival but Mother Reader made sure it was worth the wait.
Check out the tips for reviewers, readers, librarians, writers and more!!!
Thanks, Mother Reader!
It's down to the wire so get those tips in to Mother Reader for the next Carnival of Children's Literature. Picture Poetry Friday only with a different theme. Mother Reader says that she wants, "a tip as a reader, writer, illustrator, reviewer, publisher, or editor of children’s literature. I want a lesson learned from a teacher, librarian, author, or parent with regards to kids’ lit. It doesn’t have to be a post that you did in November or October, though you may consider tweaking and re-posting an older entry to use; you can pick a post from any point this year."
Read more about it and get your entry in by 9am Tuesday morning, Eastern Time.
Who doesn't love a carnival? (I promise, no scary roller coasters or clowns but you can have all the virtual cotton candy that you want.)
Mother Reader is the gracious host for the November Carnival of Children’s Literature and Tips. She has all the scoop on the how tos and whens and most importantly, the theme, right here.
My submission for Illustration Friday's "grow" is from an illustration I did this week for a beautiful lady who has her own cosmetics label. The companies name fits in the open space that is the sky and all of these flowers are used in the products and are from Australian flowers that promote well being and growth. Each flower will imbue the wearer with positive feelings, will help eliminate fear and celebrate your beauty. Art is a great job because it helps you to grow as a being, you learn so much about things you might miss out on.
Welcome to the August 20, 2007 edition of Carnival of the Infosciences. Thanks to everyone who submitted stuff and all the others who asked me what the heck I was talking about. We got a huge response and I think allowing submissions via del.icio.us has helped participation somewhat (thought I think of carninfo being for information about meat!) go social software! Speacial thanks to Chad who really did most of the heavy lifting this time around as I tried to figure out how it all worked.
WoodyE presents Tragedy of the Library posted at What You Already Know, saying, “Public libraries lining up for a ‘tragedy of commons’?”
Katie Dunneback sent us Open letter to incoming LIS students posted at Young Librarian.
Chris Zammarelli, a long time friend and supporter of the Carnival, presents Good blogs, bad blogs posted at Walt at Random, saying, “While writing about research he’s performing for his next book, Walt outlines what makes for good and bad library blogs.”
Chris submits Keeping up posted at Blisspix.net, saying, “Some advice from Fiona Bradley about keeping up with the library literature.”
Chris also shares This Just In: ILL is Important! posted at Circ and Serve, saying, “Mary Carmen Chimato reviews an Association of Research Libraries about ILL.”
Holly directs Carnival readers to And did we tell you the name of the game, boy? We call it riding the gravy train posted at The Gap, saying, “A neat story about a patron who did a display of his videogames and consoles at the Joplin (MO) Public Library. Blurb from the library’s website”
Jeanne Kramer-Smyth shares Preserving Virtual Worlds - TinyMUD to SecondLife posted at SpellboundBlog.com, saying, “Thanks for taking a look and considering this for the Carnival of InfoSciences!”
Ellyssa Kroski invites us to peruse A Guide to Twitter in Libraries posted at iLibrarian, saying, “I recently started blogging over at iLibrarian and I thought you and your readers might find this post useful.”
Connie Crosby, another strong supporter of the Carnival of the Infosciences, presents The King, the Babe and the Books posted at Slaw, saying, “Post by Mark Lewis, Reference/Information Technology Librarian, Sir James Dunn Law Library, Dalhousie University, in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He marks the anniversary of a fire at the Dunn Law Library with a post including some spectacular (or rather, disturbing) photos from the fire 22 years ago. SLAW is a co-operative blog discussing Canadian law and technology.”
Additionally, Connie suggests Law Firms & Content Strategy posted at Law Firm Web Strategy, saying, “Steve Matthews, recently Information Director at law firm Clark Wilson, has just started his own consulting firm and with it a new blog called Law Firm Web Strategy. His posts to date are quite smart, so it is difficult to choose just one. I have selected this one because he discusses an analysis he did of the websites of the top 100 U.S. law firms, and lessons learned from this analysis. Steve’s blog is one to watch for anyone interested in search engine optimization (SEO), marketing, and law firm management.”
Connie also recommends Thoughts After Library Camp NYC posted at YALSA, saying, “I like Linda Braun’s summary of Library Camp NYC earlier this week.”
Burning the Library posted at Providentia, saying, “Book-burning, the Nazi way”. We are very happy to have this submission from someone outside the LIS field, but who cares enough about libraries to write about them. Way to go Doc!
And now for the submissions we received through del.icio.us. We had a good number tagged with “carninfo” this week. Don’t forget to add a note when you tag so we can share why you thought the post was worth including.
Emily Alling (bibliomonstra) tagged “The New Librarians”, an article from T.H.E. Journal on the changing roles of school librarians, and suggested that this piece would be “great to share with administrators, board members, teachers, parents, and anyone who might not be up to speed on the new face of school libraries”.
RoseFireRising suggested that we read “The Scientific Research Potential of Virtual Worlds” (abstract), published in Science 27 July 2007: 472-476., saying “”virtual worlds may foster scientific habits of mind better than traditional schools can, because they constantly require inhabitants to experiment with unfamiliar alternatives, rationally calculate probable outcomes, and develop complex theoretical …”. This article requires a subscription.
Also tagged by Rose, we have “Virtual Worlds, Real Leaders”, and she says, “This intriguing report focuses on similarities in the psychology of World of Warcraft and other virtual worlds in building corporate leadership skills. Changes are recommended in corporate management to make it more like successful games.”
Jenna Freedman tagged “Return of the Zine Yearbook” and tells us that this post is a, “Discussion of a zine anthology and amassing of power by Microcosm, a zine distro and publisher and how this affects (should affect?!?) libraries. Recommendations of other zine distros. Includes one snarky comment by a fellow librarian and zine publisher.” Hooray for snarky comments.
Martha Hardy (grasshopperlibr) submitted “We Asked for 2.0 Libraries and We Got 2.0 Librarians” and asks, “Is the collective Library 2.0 venture a raging success, a waste of time, or a successful work in progress? What does it mean to be a Librarian 2.0? Ryan Deschamps aptly sums it up for us on The Other Librarian”.
Martha also tagged “The Book-ish-ness of Books” and says, “What is a book? And how much does the format matter? The Pegasus Librarian says, in part: “The point is that “containers” are not entirely benign. If they were entirely benign, people wouldn’t pour ginger ale from the can to the glass.”
And speaking of the Pegasus Librarian,Iris Jastram submits “A Study of Scanning Habits”, where the future of books, ebooks, and the format in general are discussed.
Thar’s it for this week! Tara E. Murray will be hosting the next edition of the Carnival at DIYLibrarian. Submit your blog article to the next edition of carnival of the infosciences using our carnival submission form. You can also use the del.icio.us tag carninfo to submit your favorites. Make sure to use the “Notes” field to state why you tagged it and sign your name so we know who shared it with us. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.
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Chad strongarm^H^H^H talked me into hosting the wandering Infosciences Carnival which was probably something I should have done a long time ago anyhow. You can participate too, it’s incredibly easy. Send a link to the best library stuff you’ve been reading this week, either via del.icio.us using the carninfo tag or this submission form. Need to know more/ Check out the submission guidelines on the wiki, or just ask me or Chad. Thanks for contributing.
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Good Morning:
I've been tagged by the lovely and always sincere Katey of Quacks of Life. I love to give the 7 random facts about myself, but...I won't tag anyone else because I think I've tagged just about everyone I know already. So, here it goes:
1. Like Katey, I knew that my kids would learn at home before they were born.
2. I no longer count my steps.
3. I can't breath in complete darkness.
4. I have a passion for Fried Green Tomatoes.
5. I will be celebrating my 20th wedding anniversary on June 13th.
6. I hate showers, as I can't breath when water gets on my face, so I take baths.
7. I have no sense of logic, therefore, everything I own is out of order.
and...there you have it. 7 random facts about me.
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I have a few errands to run today, and then I'm off to the studio to paint some backgrounds for my next round of collage ACEOs.
I've listed another set of 3 ACEO collage prints in My Etsy Shop. This particular set includes 3 prints from my "Best Friends Forever" series.
"Best Friends Forever #3 : Circus Men"
Check out the guy in the pink pants. His fly is open!! I have a series of vintage photos with these two guys hamming it up for the camera. They were circus performers from the 20's. I think they were a couple.
"Best Friends Forever #4"
"Best Friends Forever #1"
I'm offering free shipping on all of my "sets of 3" ACEO collage prints today, Saturday and Sunday. As always, if anyone is interested in my collage, it can be purchased directly through my blog. Just go to my profile and send me an email.
As always, thank you so much for continuing to stop by my blog to read my daily entries and take peeks at my art.
Until Tomorrow:
Kim
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I hadn't heard about the Odyssey award before - so exciting! I love audiobooks - I can't wait to hear who wins.
Great topic! I'm working on a post for it! :D
cary's girl- I'm very excited about the Odyssey Award. It's about time... the audiobook field is really growing.
Abby- great! I look forward to reading your post.