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Jon Scieszka's Guys Read web site has been revamped, and it looks terrific. The mission of the "web-based literacy program for boys...is to help [them] become self-motivated, lifelong readers."
Book recommendations include such categories as "Outer space, but without aliens," "Mysterious Occurrences," and "At least one explosion." The book-of-the-month is Jeff Smith's Out from Boneville (#1 in the Bone series). The 10-year-old guy reader here can vouch for that one, having read it 49 times or so.
Scieszka wrote The Stinky Cheese Man, and Other Fairly Stupid Tales, the Time Warp Trio series, and Squids Will Be Squids, among other books. He is also the first (and current) Children's Ambassador for Young People's Literature (but he sounds a lot more fun than that title).
Hat tip to Betsy Bird, at the School Library Journal blog A Fuse #8 Production, for the news of the revamped Guys Read.
Some weeks get so newsy:
A can't-miss interview with Mary Norris, one of the New Yorker's copy editors, at Andy Ross's blog, Ask the Agent.
The new MacArthur Fellows were announced. (They are the genius-grant people.)
Down with popularity contests (of the blog variety), at Chasing Ray and Jen Robinson's Book Page.
It's officially autumn. I just like that fact.
A great conversation between Justine Larbalestier and Doret Canon (of The Happy Nappy Bookseller blog) about girls, sports, and books, at the Liar author's blog.
Nominations for the 2009 Cybils open October 1st. Anyone can nominate a book in a number of categories. (Cybils = Children's and YA Bloggers' Literary Awards)
An interview at Powell's with David Sibley, author of the brand-new book The Sibley Guide to Trees, and other guidebooks. Sibley is our era's Roger Tory Peterson.
Over at PBS Parents' Booklights, I write about a Pied Piper children's librarian and her current read-aloud recommendations.
Over at the blog Chasing Ray, Colleen Mondor has a terrific roundup of posts on books 1. set in southeast Asia, and 2. by authors from that area. You'll find the information at Chasing Ray's One Shot World Tour: Southeast Asia.
Although I didn't yet get to it, I had hoped to read (in time for the tour) Over the Moat, by James Sullivan, about love and a bike trip in Vietnam. I first heard about this memoir on National Geographic Traveler's list of "50 Books of Summer." Soon!
Keeping southeast Asia in mind, I came across a lovely blog, Nye Noona, written by a woman who grew up in Laos, Thailand, and New York City, and now lives in the southeast U.S.
The Vermont College of Fine Arts produces a literary magazine called Hunger Mountain, which now features a section on children's and young adult literature. You can read the journal online. The current issue contains a speech by Katherine Paterson (The Bridge to Terabithia)—an amazing story about a fan letter from an remote spot in the world. You'll also find interviews, articles on the writing process, fiction, poetry—and that's just the kids & YA area. I'm looking forward to reading the whole journal.
Thanks to Jill Corcoran, a literary agent and writer who blogs at Jill Corcoran Books, for pointing the way to Hunger Mountain.
In the far right-hand column of this blog is a feed called Twitter Updates. I use Twitter to call readers' attention to book reviews and literary essays at other publications; to point out other interesting but possibly non-book-related links; and to ask questions here and there.
While some of my tweets (or, Twitter entries) are about children's books, a good many are not. So, there's a little but not a whole lot of overlap with the blog, although I hope both endeavors cover books and how they fit into today's world, at least to a tiny degree.
Recent articles I've pointed out via Twitter are Alice Sebold's Atlantic essay about literary prizes, a New York Times mention of author/photographer Seymour Simon's wedding, and a piece on the Bronx's Museum of Trees. (I'm all for Museums of Trees, aren't you?)
You don't have to go to Twitter to follow my updates since they're right here, but if you would like to visit, I'm at
http://www.twitter.com/C_Spaghetti
Happy reading on this rainy Tuesday.
- Children laughing and playing outside
- Water splashing
- Dragonflies buzzing
- Waves crashing
- Grill sizzling
- Thunderstorms
- Leaves rustling
- Guitar strumming
- Piano playing
- Silence of the night
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There are never enough hours in the day. how cliche that sounds, yet how true! I was daydreaming about what inventions could really make a huge difference in my life. Here is what I came up with:
- The Instant Car Cooler - The inside of my car is somewhere around 113 degrees F every day during Miami’s intense summers. How wonderful would that be to press a button on my key chain as I am approaching my car, and instantly bring the internal temperature down to 75 degrees? No more second degree burns on my hands.
- The Laundry Goddess - I swore I’d never complain about laundry again once I got a Whirlpool Duet Washer and Dryer, but I now realize I could really benefit from an invention that washes, dries, sorts, folds and hangs clean clothes where they belong.
- The Dust Maestro - Who doesn’t need a machine that you can place on a floor in the center of the room, and it quietly sucks every particle of dust out of that room - and only dust? I am not talking about one of those twirling robots that sweep the floor (and don’t really work anyway). I am talking about a system that eliminates every piece of dust in every corner of a room. No more dusting!
- The Complete Doggy Stylist - Where can I find a machine that will wash, dry, brush (knot free!) and then cut a poodle’s hair (except for the face and head) evenly to 1/2 inch? Might as well clip the toenails and clean out the ears while you’re at it.
- The Total Weeder - This handy invention will sweep the garden and kill ONLY the weeds, leaving the flowers and plants to thrive. No more pulling!
http://www.1clipart.com
I’ve got a bunch more, but I’ll save them for another day.
I live in Miami. It is July. Enough said! Here are my favorite stay cool summer treats.
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- Iced Decaf Coffee. (With honey and soy milk - no sugar!)
- A Clementine (”Oh may darlin’ Oh my darlin’ Clementine . . .)
- Fruit Popsicle
- Banana Orange Pineapple Smoothie
- Ice Water with Splash of Key Lime Juice
- Lemon Honey Water - YUM! (tastes like lemonade)
- Frozen Blueberries
- Chilled Sparkling Apple Cider
- Cup of Crushed Ice
- Good ol’ Glass of Cold Spring Water in a Big Ball Jar
I’ll spare you the details about how I came to these observations, but here are some random things I realized today.:
- I get a lot more done around my house when I am wearing running shoes. I cannot get into work mode in bare feet.
- Popcorn kernels get stuck in my teeth for days, no matter how much I floss. Is is worth it?
- Poodles do not “shed,” yet my poodle’s hair is all over the house.
- It rains on me only when I’ve taken extra time to dry my hair straight.
- Spammers are smarter than any and every software program out there.
http://www.nt-cleaning.co.uk
Pam Coughlan, who blogs at MotherReader, sponsors a read-a-thon each June, in which participants read and blog about as many children's books as they can in a 48-hour period. You'll get many reading suggestions from all those involved just by keeping up with the reviews. At last count 107 people were signed up and burying their noses in books!
The May Carnival of Children's Literature, a bounty of links to blog posts about kids' books, takes place at Into the Wardrobe. Find some great reading suggestions and more.
Children's Book Week starts today, May 11th, and runs through Sunday, May 17th. It's sponsored by the Children's Book Council, a consortium of publishers. The event's web site says,
Since 1919, Children's Book Week has been celebrated nationally in schools, libraries, bookstores, clubs, private homes-any place where there are children and books. Educators, librarians, booksellers, and families have celebrated children's books and the love of reading with storytelling, parties, author and illustrator appearances, and other book related events.
Also associated with Children's Book Week are the Children's Choice Book Awards;
finalists can be found at the web site. (Note that the voting is now closed.) The winners will be announced tomorrow evening.
Happy reading!
1. The shortlist for the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Awards (Canada) was announced.
2. Paper Towns, by John Green, won an Edgar award for best young adult mystery, while The Postcard, by Tony Abbott, took the "best juvenile" category. Sponsored by the Mystery Writers of America, the prizes honored a number of books for adults, too.
3. The new winners of Jane Addams Children's Book Awards—which go to books that "effectively promote the cause of peace, social justice, world community, and the equality of the sexes and all races as well as meeting conventional standards for excellence—can be found at the website of the
Jane Addams Peace Association.
Nonfiction Monday takes place right here today. Many of the children's book blogs post about nonfiction for kids on Mondays, so leave a link in the comments if you're participating. I will update throughout the day.
My contribution is an older post about Bianca Lavies' Gathering of Garter Snakes; you'll likely find the photo-filled picture book in the public or school library. Lavies was once a National Geographic photographer, and her snake pics are excellent. She writes about a place in Manitoba where thousands and thousands of garter snakes spend the winter and all exit the pit at about the same time in the spring. Read the post here.
Lots of intriguing nonfiction recommendations await readers today:
1. A Day in the Salt Marsh, at In Need of Chocolate
2. Mermaid Queen, at A Fuse # 8 Production
3. In the Trees, Honeybees, at Wild About Nature
4. On the Texas Trail of Cabeza de Vaca, at Lori Calabrese Writes!
5. The Dirt on Dirt, at SimplyScience Blog
6. Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11, at The Miss Rumphius Effect
7. Mermaid Queen and The Fantastic Undersea Life of Jacques Cousteau, at Kelly Fineman's Writing and Ruminating
8. Pavlov's Elephant, at Check It Out
9. Jackson and Bud's Bumpy Ride: America's First Cross-Country Automobile Trip, at A Patchwork of Books
My sister, Shelley Rosen, brand marketing consultant, has the most beautiful home office in her house in Chicago. I just had to share these photos with you. This room is certainly deserving of a magazine spread. You’d never know that this office is in the lower level (basement) of her house! Who wouldn’t want to work (or even do homework!) here? That couch is looking pretty good to me right now.
Jenny's Wonderland of Books plays host to the March Carnival of Children's Literature; you'll find links to blog posts on Jacques Cousteau, James Joyce's book for children, and heists. Yes, heists—and more. Go check it out.
Aw, you know who it is.
The person shares the list's #701 spot with a bunch of others worth $1 billion.
Can't guess?
J.K. Rowling
By: Debbie,
on 3/8/2009
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Paint eggs with white glue and wrap embroidery floss around eggs
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A fish and a pig (pipe cleaners, googly eyes, feathers)
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Regal looking eggs with acrylic paint and metallic gold paint
Top of regal looking eggs
Every year since she was 2, my daughter and I have decorated Easter eggs. We blow them out using an old air compressor (made for asthma medication) and clean and dry them well. Start by using a pin to poke tiny holes in one end of the egg until they connect into a hole larger enough for the egg to drain out. Do this on the opposite end as well. Have patience because you don’t want to break the egg shell. You don’t have to have a compressor to blow out the contents. I know that you can do this with your mouth, as I have read online. But this seems yucky to me and maybe not all that healthy. If you have any other suggestions for our readers, please post a comment about it.
We keep and display the eggs year after year, and we give them away as gifts too. These photos represent just a fraction of our huge collection. They are so fun to make and so beautiful! I hope we inspired you to spend some time this year making eggs. They store very well in a box, especially if you put Easter grass on the bottom of the box. Happy decorating!
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On Sunday the New York Times ran a nice tribute to Kate McClelland and Kathy Krasniewicz in the paper's Connecticut section. The two well-known and well-loved Connecticut children's librarians were
killed in a traffic accident on their way to the Denver airport after
January's meeting of the American Library Association.
Also in the Sunday New York Times, Monica Edinger reviewed The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman, which won the Newbery award. Monica blogs at Educating Alice.
Author and Nobel peace-prize winner Elie Wiesel's foundation was one of Madoff's clients. Full story at USA Today.
Tina Nichols Coury runs a short interview with moi at Tales from the Rushmore Kid. Thanks, Tina!
The Cybils winners are in! Congratulations to all the authors, illustrators, and publishers.
Beginning Readers
I Love My New Toy, by Mo Willems
Fantasy & Science Fiction
Middle Grade
The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman
Young Adult
The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
Fiction Picture Books
How to Heal a Broken Wing, by Bob Graham
Graphic Novels
Elementary/Middle Grade
Rapunzel's Revenge, by Shannon Hale & Dean Hale, art by Nathan Hale
Young Adult
Emiko Superstar, written by Mariko Tamaki, art by Steve Ralston
Middle-Grade Fiction
The London Eye Mystery, by Siobhan Dowd
Nonfiction Picture Book
Nic Bishop Frogs, by Nic Bishop
Nonfiction Middle-Grade/Young Adult Book
Coming soon
Poetry
Honeybee, by Naomi Shihab Nye
Young Adult Fiction
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, by E. Lockhart
More details are at the official announcement over at the awards' blog.
Yesterday Motoko Rich reported in the New York Times,
The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, an advocacy group based
in Boston, said that it had reviewed monthly fliers distributed by
Scholastic last year and found that one-third of the items sold in
these brochures were either not books or books packaged with other
items.
If you have a kid in elementary school, this is not news—and I have just the Snow Kitten feather pen to prove it. In fact I'm writing with it now. Just kidding. I'm really writing with a Bratz eraser. Just kidding. It's really a Emily the Emerald Fairy Pack fairy pen. Just kidding. It's not a pen, it's a Hannah Montana guitar pick necklace. Hard to do. Picks don't write. Just kidding. Picks do write. Just kidding. I can hear you now over my Spy Tunes Listening Device. Krrrrrrrr. Just kidding, j—......
With apologies to "Saturday Night Live"'s Kristen Wiig and a hat tip to the data list here.
If you've been reading Chicken Spaghetti lately, you know how much I enjoy a good book award. I even made a list. A really big list.
One recent addition to that list, "The Best of the Best: Kids' Books '08," was the Sydney Taylor Book Award, which honors Jewish children's and teen literature. I'm so pleased to be part of a blog tour next week when author Jacqueline Jules will stop by. Here is the entire schedule:
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Karen Hesse, author of Brooklyn Bridge
Sydney Taylor Book Award winner in the Older Readers Category
at Jewish Books for Children
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Aranka Siegal, author of Memories of Babi
Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Older Readers Category
at The Book of Life
Monday, January 19, 2009
Richard Michelson
Author of As Good As Anybody, Sydney Taylor Book Award winner in the Younger Readers Category
and
Author of A is for Abraham, Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Younger Readers Category
at The Well-Read Child
Monday, January 19, 2009
Ron Mazellan, illustrator of A is for Abraham
Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Younger Readers Category
at Tales from the Rushmore Kid
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Valerie Zenatti, author of A Bottle in the Gaza Sea
Sydney Taylor Book Award winner in the Teen Readers Category
at Lori Calabrese Writes
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Jane Yolen, author of Naming Liberty
Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Younger Readers Category
at The Boston Bibliophile
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Anna Levine
Author of Freefall, Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Teen Readers Category
and
Author of Jodie's Hanukkah Dig, Notable Book in the Younger Readers Category
at Abby (the) Librarian
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Jim Burke, illustrator of Naming Liberty
Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Younger Readers Category
at The Page Flipper
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Jacqueline Jules, author of Sarah Laughs
Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Younger Readers Category
at Chicken Spaghetti
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Natascia Ugliano, illustrator of Sarah Laughs
Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Younger Readers Category
at Write for a Reader
Friday, January 23, 2009
Deborah Bodin Cohen, author of Engineer Ari and the Rosh Hashanah Ride
Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Younger Readers Category
at Becky's Book Reviews
Friday, January 23, 2009
Shahar Kober, illustrator of Engineer Ari and the Rosh Hashanah Ride
Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Younger Readers Category
at Into the Wardrobe
Sponsored by the American Library Association, the Coretta Scott King awards are given annually to "African American authors and illustrator [sic] for outstanding inspirational and educational contributions..."
Kyra E. Hicks, an author who blogs at Black Threads in Kid's Lit, noticed all the Internet discussions speculating about other upcoming ALA medals like the Newbery, Caldecott, and Geisel (for beginning readers). This year's winners in all categories are announced on January 26th at a meeting of the American Library Association. Many libraries hold "mock" award contests and discussions beforehand.
Hicks didn't see any mock-award talk about the 2009 Coretta Scott King prizes, so she did something about that. She started a conversation at her blog about which books readers think may win the CSK prize. Which books do you think will grab the CSK honors this year? Go visit Black Threads in Kid's Lit and chat away.
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