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Manuscript update: Current word count is 10,791. Wrote 1,247 words since Thursday. It’s going … slowly, but going. Coming up to an exciting part in the story, so that’s fun.
Today is the start of Children’s Book Week. Yay! It’s so awesome that there’s a special week celebrating children’s books. Books are amazing for so many reasons. They tell stories of our history, our present, our possibilities. They take us to new places, real and imagined.
But for children, books are so important, because they help them understand themselves and their world and help them to grow.
Formed in 1919, Children’s Book Week is celebrated by schools, libraries, bookstores and clubs around the nation — not to mention blogs. It’s run by the Children’s Book Council. And there are a number of events going on to celebrate children’s books this week.
I’m celebrating Children’s Book Week with a contest for a copy of the new middle-grade children’s book The Best Last Days of Summer by Valerie Hobbs. I interviewed the editor of the book, Frances Foster, on Friday. And in two weeks, you can interview Valerie by submitting your questions here.
Valerie is the award-winning author of a number of novels, including children’s books Sonny’s War, Defiance and Sheep, as well as the young adult book Letting Go of Bobby James, or How I Found My Self of Steam.
To enter to win a copy of The Best Last Days of Summer, leave a comment on this post with a question for Valerie before midnight, Friday, May 14. Valerie will answer all your questions here on DayByDayWriter on Friday, May 21, and whoever submits her favorite question, will win the book. So make them good!
Write On!
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All this week, to celebrate Children’s Book Week, we’re having a daily book giveway. To enter the giveway, just come back and visit our blog every day and leave a comment each day.
Today’s book for the giveaway is Running Scared by Brenda Chapman.
About the Book: Feeling somehow to blame for her father’s absence, thirteen-year-old Jennifer Bannon struggles to hang on to her dream that he will return and they can be a family again – a dream that doesn’t include her mother’s new boyfriend, nights of looking after her little sister or a ninth grade year that is rapidly going down the toilet. Finally – after two years of waiting – Jennifer learns that her father is back in town, and suddenly the dream seems within reach. However, hope quickly turns to horror when Jennifer witnesses an event that threatens to tear apart her family and perhaps destroy the life of someone she loves.
Will Jennifer be able to unravel the mystery in time, or will keeping a secret turn deadly?
This is what the folks on the Children's Book Week website had to say about this wonderful event:
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.
It all began with the idea that children's books can change lives. In 1913, Franklin K. Matthiews, the librarian of the Boy Scouts of America, began touring the country to promote higher standards in children's books. He proposed creating a Children's Book Week, which would be supported by all interested groups: publishers, booksellers, and librarians.
Mathiews enlisted two important allies: Frederic G. Melcher, the visionary editor of Publishers Weekly, and Anne Carroll Moore, the Superintendent of Children's Works at the New York Public Library and a major figure in the library world. With the help of Melcher and Moore, in 1916 the American Booksellers Association and the American Library Association cooperated with the Boy Scouts in sponsoring a Good Book Week.
In 1944, the newly-established Children's Book Council assumed responsibility for administering Children's Book Week. In 2008, Children’s Book Week moved from November to May. At that time, responsibility for Children’s Book Week, including planning official events and creating original materials, was transferred to Every Child a Reader, the philanthropic arm of the children’s publishing industry.
Also in 2008, the Children's Book Council created the Children's Choice Book Awards, the only national c
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The Children's Book Council hosts the Children's Choice Book Awards. The favorite book finalists for this year were determined by close to 15,000 children and teens. I highly recommend checking out these books!
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National American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month~ USA
Book Week~ ongoing until Nov 9, Japan
28th Santiago International Book Fair~ ongoing until Nov 15, Santiago, Chile
The Once Upon a World Children’s Book Award Festival~ Nov 1, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Exhibition by Illustrators and Writers of Children’s Books~ Nov 3 – 27, Pretoria, South Africa
3rd Triennial of Estonian illustrations: The Power of Pictures~ Nov 3 – 30, Tallinn, Estonia
29th Indonesia Book Fair~ Nov 4 – 8, Jakarta, Indonesia
American Association of School Librarians National Conference~ Nov 5 – 8, Charlotte, NC, USA
2009 Bologna Illustrators Exhibition of Children’s Books~ Nov 6 – Dec 6, Ishikawa, Japan
13th Annual Rochester Children’s Book Festival~ Nov 7, Rochester, NY, USA
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Northern Children’s Book Festival~ Nov 9 – 21, United Kingdom
27th Annual National Black Storytelling Festival and Conference~ Nov 11 – 15, Little Rock, AR, USA
The World of Children’s Book Publishing with Alvina Ling, Senior Editor Little, Brown Books for Young Readers~ Nov 14, Yokohama, Japan
The 16th Annual British IBBY/NCRCL MA Children’s Literature Conference: Going Graphic – Comics and Graphic Novels for Young People~ Nov 14, London, United Kingdom
Calgary Children’s Book Fair and Conference~ Nov 14, Calgary, AB, Canada
18th Annual Connecticut Children’s Book Fair~ Nov 14 – 15, Storrs, CT, USA
Children’s Book Week: Classic Canadian Reading~ Nov 14 – 21, Canada
Take Home an Original: The Art of the Picture Book~ Nov 14 – 24, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Govenor General’s Literary Award Winners Announced~ Nov 17, Montreal, QC, Canada
TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award Winners Announced~ Nov 17, Toronto, ON, Canada
Children’s Literature Assembly Events at the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Annual Convention~ Nov 19 – 24, Philadelphia, PA, USA
8th Annual International Children’s and Young Adult Literature Celebration~ Nov 21, Madison, WI, USA
National Library Board’s Asian Children’s Festival~ Nov 21 – 29, Singapore
Heart and Soul: Art from Coretta Scott King Award Books, 2006–2009~ Nov 21 – Apr 18, 2010, Chicago, IL, USA
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Golden Legacy: Original Art from 65 Years of Golden Books Featuring Artwork from Iconic Children’s Books~ Nov 24 – Feb 28, 2010, Amherst, MA, USA
Mother Goose in an Air-Ship: McLoughlin Bros. 19th Century Children’s Books from the Liman Collection~ Nov 24 – Apr 18, 2010, Amherst, MA, USA
Salon du Livre et de la Presse Jeunesse: Children’s Books & Magazines~ Nov 25 – 30, France
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Inky Awards Ceremony~ Nov 26, Melbourne, Australia
Bookaroo Children’s Literature Festival~ Nov 28 – 29, New Delhi, India
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In her recent post, "Read Your Brains Out" (part of our Children's Book Week series), Mary Ann Rodman shared some references for recommended reading. As a follow-up, we've added links from this blog to online recommended reading lists--see the sidebar section labeled "Children's/YA Reading Lists." Now you have no excuse for not "reading your brains out." (And if you have suggestions for other
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posted by Mary Ann Rodman At least once a school visit, I am asked (usually by a teacher), "What advice can you give a young writer?" The answer is a two-parter. Part one, "Read your brains out." (Part two is another blog.) I never have enough time to elaborate during a 10 minute Q & A session, but I do right now! Way back when I came face to face with my first computer, the operating
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Sorry it's halfway through the week already before I had the chance to remind you about CHILDREN'S BOOK WEEK. Click on the link and you'll find a great bookmark you can print.
Since 1919, Children's Book Week has been celebrated in the United States. Schools, libraries, publishers, bookstores and of course, children enjoy this special week, highlighting books and reading.
What great children's books have I been reading this week?
The title says it all for this poetry how-to book. Discover your inner poet when you take this book out for a spin.
These poems are totally out-of-sight! The author shares some star-worthy poems and gives insight into poetry lingo.
When is a poem also a picture? If you don't know, you'll want to dive into this whirl of words.
The author explains dog walk, talk, and body language. You'll decipher your dog's messages in a flash. Fun and informative.
Don't miss this sweet picture book highlighting a mother cat's heroic efforts to save her young kittens from a fire. This book is based on a true story. Both the artwork and writing are wonderful.
OK. Now it's YOUR turn. What incredible children's books have you been reading???
by Esther HershenhornHappy Children’s Book Week, to readers and writers!Like children’s author Andrew Clements, I’ve yet to meet a writerwho wasn’t a reader first.I know from experience: every published book is a Teacher-in-Waiting.For instance, I learned and honed my craft reading as a writer, deconstructing children’s books – first picture books, then easy-to-reads, next chapter books, then
Goodness! I almost forgot to remind you that it is Children's Book Week. Join Olivia and your favorite children's book characters in this week-long celebration of children's literature. Some places to visit on the web for ideas and printables are:
I hope you enjoy this week, and that you share lots of splendid books with the children in your lives.
Hi all,
May 11-17 is Children's Book Week!
Take this opportunity to read more to your children, borrow books from the library or present a child with a special book.
This is one more way to encourage literacy and the love of reading.
Learn how it all got started at http://www.bookweekonline.com/
Happy reading!
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Posted by Carmela Martino Most writers I know are avid readers. I have been for as long as I can remember. I read so much as a child that my mother often scolded me, saying things like, "You spend too much time sitting around with your nose in a book. Get up and DO SOMETHING!"But I was doing something. I was learning how to be a writer. Without even realizing it, I was studying how writers use
Posted by Carmela MartinoIn case you haven't heard, Children's Book Week begins tomorrow, May 11. Here's a bit of history from the official Children's Book Week website: "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
This year Children's Book Week will be observed May 11-17.
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Canadian Library Month~ Canada
Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read~ ongoing until Oct 4, USA
International Children’s and Youth Literature Festival~ ongoing until Oct 4, Berlin, Germany
3rd Annual CYBIL (Children’s and Young Adult Bloggers’ Literary Awards) Nominations Open~ Oct 1 - 15
National Young Writers’ Festival~ Oct 2-6, Newcastle, Australia
Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards Ceremony~ Oct 3, Boston, MA, USA
21st Yukon International Storytelling Festival~ Oct 3-5, Whitehorse, YK, Canada
2008 Ceremony of Best Books~ Oct 4, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Américas Book Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature Winners Ceremony~ Oct 4, Washington, D.C., USA
Orange County Children’s Book Festival~ Oct 5, Costa Mesa, CA, USA
Children’s Book Week~ Oct 6-12, United Kingdom
13th Annual New England Conference on Multicultural Education~ Oct 8, Hartford, CT, USA
School Library Journal Webcast: Capturing Struggling Readers and Reluctant Readers~ Oct 8
Book It! Cheltenham’s Children’s Literature Festival~ Oct 10-19, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
18th Monterrey International Book Fair~ Oct 11-19, Monterrey, Mexico
YALSA’s Teen Read Week: Books With Bite @ Your Library~ Oct 12-18, USA
“Multicultural Bites” with authors Mitali Perkins, Coe Booth and An Na (part of ReaderGirlz’s celebration of Teen Read Week)~ Oct 13
Ubud Writers and Readers Festival~ Oct 14-19, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia
Frankfurt Book Fair~ Oct 15-19, Frankfurt, Germany
55th Jane Addams Children’s Book Awards Ceremony~ Oct 17, New York, NY, USA
IBBY Ireland Conference: Green Gables to Globalization: Crossover, Canada and Children’s Books~ Oct 18, Dublin, Ireland
SCBWI Tokyo Writers’ Day~ Oct 18, Tokyo, Japan
Children’s Literature Council Fall Gala~ Oct 18, Santa Ana, CA, USA
Vancouver International Writers Festival~ Oct 21-26, Vancouver, BC, Canada
The Big Picture Party: Celebrate the Power of Picture Books~ Oct 27, London, United Kingdom
Book Week~ Oct 27-Nov 9, Japan
Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children’s Book Awards Ceremony~ Oct 30, San Marcos, TX, USA
28th Santiago International Book Fair~ Oct 31-Nov 16, Santiago, Chile
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBC) is proud to sponsor the longest running children’s festival in Australia: Children’s Book Week. Celebrating its 63rd birthday this year, Children’s Book Week will take place August 16th -22nd with the theme “Fuel your Mind”. Schools and public libraries from all over Australia will spend the week celebrating books and Australian authors and illustrators. Classroom teachers, teacher librarians and public librarians will offer a plethora of activities: author and illustrator visits, workshops, theatre acts, competitions, and storytelling relating to the theme in an effort to highlight the importance of reading.
CBCA is a volunteer run, not-for-profit organization comprised of individual members who are passionate about children’s and young adult literature. To help promote Children’s Book Week as well as their Book of the Year Awards, they offer a range of merchandise that can be purchased to decorate schools and classrooms for Book Week. This year Australian author and illustrator Shaun Tan, winner of the 2007 CBCA Picture Book of the Year Award for his book The Arrival, has designed the vibrant, eye-catching posters.
On Friday, August 15th, as a kick-start to Children’s Book Week, the CBCA will announce and present their 2008 Book of the Year awards in the following categories: Older Readers, Younger Readers, Early Childhood, Picture Book, and the Eve Pownall Award for Information Books. The shortlists for these awards were announced in April and at the same time the unique CBCA Junior Judges’ Project (JJP) was launched. The CBCA Junior Judges’ Project encourages children to do their own judging of the shortlisted books in the annual CBCA Book Awards, based on similiar criteria to those used by the CBCA Book of the Year judges. Once the Short List is announced, students guided by their teachers are encouraged to read the shortlisted books and, based on the judging criteria, select their Winner and two Honour Books in one or more categories and cast their votes online, either through their teachers or individually.
I recently had the immense pleasure of chatting with historian and author Leonard Marcus about his newly published title, Minders of Make-Believe: Idealists, Entrepreneurs, and the Shaping of American Children’s Literature (Houghton Mifflin Co.) Over fourteen years in the making, Minders of Make-Believe tells the fascinating story of the development of children’s literature in America from its earliest beginnings to the advent of Harry Potter and beyond.
Do you know the full history of how Children’s Book Week came to be? Or who Leonard would put his money on in a battle of wills between New York Public Library’s trailblazing librarian Anne Carroll Moore and Harper’s Editor Beyond Compare, Ursula Nordstrom? (True confession: they both scare me a little.) Listen to the inside story of the events and characters that shaped the classics using the link below!
And, if you plan to be in the Washington DC area on June 19th, don’t miss Leonard’s upcoming talk and book signing at Politics and Prose!
Happy Children’s Book Week!
P.S. Have a favorite author or other publishing figure you’d like to see featured in a First Book podcast? Feel free to email us with your suggestions!
The last day of Book Week and so, sadly, the last day of my special Book Week story time. I thought I would end the week on a high, and so chose something the little toys could really have fun with.
Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus is not only funny, it’s also interactive. SO, while I read the text, which is mostly spoken by the pigeon, the little toys got involved by saying no to the pigeon’s repeated pleadings to be allowed to drive the bus. Their ‘no’s got louder and louder as I read. It was great fun!
So, Book Week draws to an end, but that doesn’t mean I’ll stop reading to the other toys. Primula will do her part, too, in making sure the others toys get to experience the joy of great children’s books.
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The fifth day of my story sessions in honour of children’s book week. Today I thought I’d have a little fun and read my life story to the other toys. See, Pemberthy Bear isn’t just a story about me – it’s also about all the other toys as well, because they’re all there, in the beautiful pictures that my friend Jacqui painted of us. So, in a week where we are sharing and celebrating books, what better book than to share than one in which we all appear?
Anyway, I had a bit of fun with toys. They were all gathered for story time and I had hidden the book under a cushion before they got there. Then I made them guess which story I’d chosen. I gave them hints. ‘It’s a tale of a beautiful heroine overcoming overwhelming odds,’ I hinted. ‘It’s almost too sweet to bear,’ was the next hint. It took a while but eventually Robbie Robot guessed. Then I read them the story, and they all wondered anew at seeing themselves brought to life in the lovely illustrations.
It really was a lovely story session. It’s wonderful that we all have this book to share and remind us of how blessed we are to have each other. And of course I must admit that I love being the star of the book. How lucky am I to have a friend like Sally, willing to write my story down and share it with the world, and a friend like Jacqui who was able to portray me so beautifully in her illustrations.
I’m a lucky bear!
Story time has become so popular that the toys were all waiting in the story corner ten minutes before it was due to start! They couldn’t wait to see what book I had chosen for today. And I couldn’t wait to read it to them – because it was a beauty!
Keeping up the animal theme, I’d chosen Gordon’s Got a Snookie, by Lisa Shanahan. Of course, I’d no sooner announced the title then there was a call of ‘What’s a snookie?’ from some of the toys. I smiled benignly (as only a bear can) and told them they’d have to wait and see.
Gordon’s Got a Snookie is a gorgeous picture book. Wayne Harris’s digital illustrations are bold and bright and the text is delightfully funny but also very touching. When I got to the part where Gordon throws the snookie to Abu to rescue him, the toys all joined in saying ‘Grab the Snookie! And when Abu was rescued, the toys all clapped and cheered. I had to wait for them to settle before I read the last two pages – and then they clapped and cheered again.
Children’s Book Week is really going wonderfully well here in the toy room. What are YOU doing to celebrate Book Week?
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Today is the start of Children’s Book Week. Yay! It’s so awesome that there’s a special week celebrating children’s books. Books are amazing for so many reasons. They tell stories of our history, our present, our possibilities. They take us to new places, real and imagined.
I’m celebrating Children’s Book Week with a contest for a copy of the new middle-grade children’s book The Best Last Days of Summer by Valerie Hobbs. I interviewed the editor of the book, Frances Foster, on Friday. And in two weeks, you can interview Valerie by submitting your questions here..jpg?picon=694)
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As a published author myself, I would like to know what you think about the Kindle and it’s affect on young readers.
Okay, so here’s my questions:
How do you develop your characters? How do you create a character that seems real? How do you connect with them and know how they would think and act and effectively convey that on the page?
Also, just for fun–how do you decide what your character will look like, what their name will be, what they’re house looks like, etc.?
My question for Valerie: What do you do to overcome a missing muse and get your writing going again when you become stuck?
Great questions! Thanks
Do you find that the best and very private qualities of yourself go into your characters? I’m thinking of those qualities of fine feeling level which don’t necessarily find their way easily into public interactions. Thanks.
Valerie, When have you rewritten enough and how many times would you say you rewrite your book before you send it out to publishers/agents?
Hi, Val -
What do you see as the piece of the puzzle that keeps The Last Best Days of Summer from getting “lovely but too quiet” comments? If this had been your first book, would it have made a difference?
Are all of your stories come from real life events and people? Or, have some come from your imagination alone?
Jean
Hi Val,
Can you share a magical moment of the writing of ‘The Best Last Days of Summer’… perhaps when a character did something completely unexpected/unplanned, and it was just wonderful for the story?
Thanks for all that you shared. This is twice in two days that I’ve looked at middle school and YA readers. What subjects are most appealing to middle graders right now?
Lynn
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