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October 4, 2015
Dear Bonnie Bader, Grosset & Dunlap, and Penguin Young Readers Group,
Your book, Who Was Christopher Columbus, published in 2013, has major errors in it (p. 4, Kindle edition):
The error is in that last line that reads "Christopher Columbus had discovered a new world." Maybe you think that the sentence before it makes it ok because it tells readers that no one in Europe knew about this land. It doesn't make it ok. Later, you tell readers he discovered an island he named Dominica. And that he also "discovered the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico" (p. 72-73 in Kindle version). Simply put, you can't discover something that someone else already had. With this book, you're misleading children. You're mis-educating them.
Your
Who Was Christopher Columbus is loaded with other problems, too. My suggestion? Withdraw it from publication.
My suggestion to all the people who already bought Bader's
Who Was Christopher Columbus?
Do not use it with young children. Instead, write to Penguin and ask for your money back, or, use it with older children and adults in a text analysis activity. Read what Bader wrote, and compare it to other sources. A
great set of resources for this activity is at the Zinn Education Project website. Another excellent resource is
Rethinking Columbus.
You, Ms. Bader, and your editors at Grosset & Dunlap (it is an imprint of Penguin), can do better. I hope you do. Recall the book. Refund the money parents, teachers, and librarians spent on it, too.
And do better.
Sincerely,
Debbie Reese
American Indians in Children's Literature
Associate Publisher and Editor Bonnie Bader and I had a great discussion about the value to writers and illustrators of attending the upcoming SCBWI Summer conference, in Los Angeles August 1-4, 2014.
We also spoke about how she approaches acquisitions, her planned conference workshops on both narrative nonfiction and levelled readers & transitional chapter books, and her all-day intensive on Monday Aug. 4, "START: How to hook readers from the beginning of your book so they'll never let go."
Bonnie's offering some incredible opportunities to learn and break-through in your writing career -- and you'll have to attend the conference to experience it!
We hope you'll join us.
Information and registration are here.Illustrate and Write On,Lee
So as you take your plane, car, or unicycle to the 2010 SCBWI Summer Conference in Los Angeles, here are some new exclusive interviews with the Conference faculty for you to enjoy. (Uh... don't read them while driving or riding your unicycle. But you know, for all those hurry-up-and-wait travel day moments, these will be great reading... and they even count as doing your homework for the conference!)
Check out:
An interview with National Book Award-Winning Author M.T. Anderson, who is giving a Keynote tomorrow (Friday) morning. See what M.T. thinks is the difference between writing for MG and writing for YA. (hint: It has something to do with voice and duct tape.)
M.T. Anderson
An interview with Scholastic Editor Nick Eliopulos, in which you'll find out how many pages it takes for an editor to "know" whether a manuscript has potential for them or not, and also about how social media for a writer is like icing:
Nick Eliopulos
An interview with Literary Agent Josh Adams, where we talk boutique agencies, online portfolios, and if a writer (or an agent) needs a business card:
Josh Adams
Jolie Stekly's interview with Bonnie Bader, Editor-in-Chief of Grosset and Dunlap and Price Stern Sloan, where you can found out the scoop on Bonnie's two-part first page workshop - which is sure to be incredible!
Bonnie Bader at last year's conference
Martha Brockenbrough's interview with Newbury-Winning Author Linda Sue Park (Okay, it's not a NEW interview - , but I learn so much from Linda Sue Park every time I listen to her - if you missed it, check it out now!)
3 Comments on SCBWI Team Blog Suggests Some Travel Day Reading, last added: 7/31/2010
A great exercise, even if your book is NOT written in 1st person, is to re-write your pitch in first person - try having your character speaking the pitch of their own story.
You can learn alot from this about character and voice! (This doesn't mean you should pitch a 3rd person book in 1st person!)
Bonnie Bader listens to a Pitch in Progress
You know you have to be able to pitch your book. To agents. To editors.
Your agent pitches your book to editors.
Your editor pitches your book to their colleagues, to get them all excited about reading and working on your book.
And once your book is published, to sell your book it is pitched to readers!
So, how the heck DO you pitch your book?
Bonnie Bader, Editor-in-Chief of Grosset & Dunlap and Price Stern Sloan (Penguin Young Readers) offered an incredible hands-on,
interactive opportunity to work on your pitch.
In 6 sessions of 10 particpants each, Bonnie helped attendees learn HOW to pitch their projects!
Here's a great Bonnie quote from today's session:
"Create a Log Line. You should be able to boil down your premise and the hook of your book in less than three sentences."
Here's how it worked: Each writer presented their pitch, and then Bonnie did a critique.
compliments: What worked well about the pitch.
constructive suggestions: Seeking clarity, helping shape the pitch, fine-tuning. Wanting more tone and voice.
And then Bonnie opened it up to discussion, and all the other pitch-ees shared their insights.
And after that Bonnie shared an encouraging appraisal.
The session's only half through, and I've already learned so much!
Posted by Lee Wind
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I can't be there, so I'm counting on you guys to keep me updated! Thanks.
Let's do this thing!!!
I am so sad because I can't be there. I really want to come but I have so many thing to do. I am just going to visit this blog for more update.