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1. Grosset & Dunlap’s “Who Was?” Series | Women’s History Book Giveaway

Enter to win a Who Was? book from Grosset & Dunlap's leading biography series. Giveaway begins March 21, 2014, at 12:01 A.M. PST and ends April 20, 2014, at 11:59 P.M. PST.

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2. Fusenews: Look for the Girl with the Caterpillar Tattoo and She’s Gone

I apologize for the recent radio silence, folks.  There’s something goofy in the state of Fuse 8.  For one thing, I can’t seem to comment on my own posts.  Most peculiar.  I will assume that this is just a passing fancy of the blog and that all will be well and good from this day forward.  Onward then!

This year, as some of you may know, I eschewed plastering myself with fake tattoos in favor of instead impaling myself with Shrinky Dinks at the Newbery/Caldecott Banquet.  Shrinky Dinks: The classy choice.  I did this because I was tired of picking clumps of multicolored skin off of my arms in airports, but if we want to get to the real reason behind the reason I can sum it up in three words: Becky Quiroga Curtis.  More specifically, Becky Quiroga Curtis, the Children’s Book Buyer and Event Coordinator of Books & Books (also known as one of the only reasons to visit Miami).  This is a woman who takes her love of children’s books and turns it hardcore.  Oh, you think you love picture books?  Really?  Enough to have them tattooed onto your arm?!?!  Just one arm, mind you.  In any case, you can see how she convinces artists to draw on her arm here and you can see a feature on her at the Scholastic blog On Our Minds here and an older PW article on her here.  You can also enjoy a slew of posts showing the tattoos if you follow the Becky’s Arm tag.  Hard.  Core.

  • By the way, folk.  A bunch of you signed up to get cool PDFs of my Top 100 polls, yes?  You may be wondering where the heck those PDFs are, yes?  Well fear not.  I have it from on high that they are almost done, looking good, and you should see them within the next week or so.  Stay tuned, faithful readers!
  • On the One Hand: The recent news that Down a Dark Hall by Lois Duncan is being turned into a film is fantastic and I am very excited indeed.
  • On the Other Hand: The book is being turned into a screenplay by . . . . Stephenie Meyer.  Hubba wha?
  • So I was looking at the very cool Spring 2013 Sneak Preview provided by PW, which offers a glimpse of some of the upcoming books next year.  Fun stuff.  And as I look I note several things of interest.  The most notable is by far the fact that Yuyi Morales has a book coming out called Niño Wrestles the World that features a kid dressed as a Mexican wrestler . . . I’m beyond thrilled.  Oh, and then there’s this little picture book coming out with Greenwillow called, um, Giant Dance Party.  And who is it by?  Well let’s see here. . .  could it be by me?  I do believe it could be.  *smile*
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3. Ride, Sally Ride

Sally Ride

First Book would like to send our condolences to the friends and family of Sally Ride, the 1st U.S. woman in space, who died of pancreatic cancer yesterday. In spite of being one of a very elite group of people who’ve been through the space program – and jettisoned into and back from space – she was extremely modest.  She was that person who had it all – left brain and right brain smarts.  In other words, an engineer who could also communicate.  She was a physicist who knew what mattered.  A woman who spent much of her post-space life supporting and encouraging students – especially girls, to study science, math and engineering through Sally Ride Science.

She will be missed.

In honor of Sally’s legacy, we wanted to share some books that are available on the First Book Marketplace that inspire an interest in space and science.

If you or someone you know works with kids in need and would like to get brand-new books, please register with First Book. 

 

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4. Astronaut & Author Sally Ride Has Died

Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, has passed away. She was 61 years old.

In addition to her historic career as an astronaut, Ride helped write seven science books for kids, including: To Space and Back, Voyager; The Mystery of Mars and Mission Save the Planet. You can find all her books at this link. Here’s more from her biography:

In August 1979, after a yearlong training and evaluation period, Sally became eligible for assignment as an astronaut on a space shuttle flight crew. She was selected as a mission specialist for mission STS-7 aboard the shuttle Challenger. When Challenger blasted off from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on June 18, 1983, Sally soared into history as the first American woman in space. “The thing that I’ll remember most about the flight is that it was fun,” said Sally. “In fact, I’m sure it was the most fun I’ll ever have in my life.”

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5. Earth Week Book 4: Mission Planet Earth

Mission Planet Earth is written by Sally Ride and Tam O'Shaugnessy on one of those topics that is very close to my heart. I think that kids today really really really need to read as many books about saving our planet as possible, in order to truly understand what the future generations are facing in terms of conservation, energy use, and how we have broken our Planet Earth with our actions.

This book is a pretty basic introduction into what we as humans have done to the planet with our wastefulness, pollution, and overuse of natural resources. Parts read a bit technically, but for the most part, we get a clear overview of the issues. There are some pretty awesome (yet devastating) photographs that accompany the text and further explain the need to take some serious action when it comes to the planet.

Before seeing this book I had no idea that Sally Ride, the first woman in space, had written books! Apparently she's written a few others as well, but I was pretty impressed with this one. A very nice addition to libraries.

To learn more or to purchase, click on the book cover above to link to Amazon.

Mission Planet Earth
Sally Ride and Tam O'Shaugnessy
80 pages
Non-Fiction
Roaring Brook Press (Flash Point)
9781596433106
March 2009

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