How to use this Page

Wonderful!They are adorable!

turned out wonderful!
Kit

I knew it!! I knew it!!! Oh it was only a matter of time and let me be the first to say CONGRATS to you Roberta!!! This is such awesome news!!! The illustration it beautiful!! I love all that fabulous detail and I can't wait to get my copy! I just love to support and I want to support you in this! I am all giddy and happy for you. This is hard work you've have done it all. I am so proud of you my friend! Simply delightful.
My very best to you for many, many more books and projects to come.
Sincerely one of your fans
V

OH Roberta! I am so happy and excited for you! This is fantastic news and I know all the PBers will be anxiously awaiting more news and the release of your book. It is sure to be marvelous!

Thank you so much! I've never been so ridiculously busy and completely thrilled at the same time!

Hi Amy!

Okay, this is nuts but here’s how it works. If you want to put in a video find the YouTube code that looks like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ-oQihxBws&feature=player_embedded. It has to have that “&feature=player_embedded” part at the end or it won’t show up. You don’t paste it into the HTML version of your post but the “Visual” one. Now it won’t work if you put it at the beginning of a post. That’s why I cheated with the Librarian Gaga video. If you put it at the beginning of a post it’ll just look like code. But if people click on the “Read More” then they’ll see the videos embedded later on in your post.

This only works for YouTube videos, by the way. I haven’t found the code for putting in Vimeo and stuff like that. Crazy, huh?

Katie, I can’t promise you that. Particularly if you live to be 100. I mean, wouldn’t you WANT that game to be played with you? I sure do. I wanna be 104 and living in Portland, Oregon with library students blogging things like, “Betsy Bird is STILL ALIVE???”

That’s my dream.

The sloths made me think of the binturong, which is also called a bearcat. It’s a member of the civet family, but is very sloth like. It also smells strongly of buttered popcorn. I smelled it for myself at the Kansas City zoo. There has to be a picture book in there somewhere. “Who has the popcorn?” ala “Who’s on first?” sort of humor.

I realize my comment is only tangentially related to this post, but I just had to tell someone about the buttered popcorn bear cat. I hope I may be forgiven.

To my mind, any reference made to buttered popcorn is worth making. Particularly if you can tie it into sloths in some fashion.

Pat Hutchins is one of the nicest people in the world! We met her a decade or so ago, through New Yorker friends, in London – visited Pat and her creative husband Laurence in Hampstead (they’ve since moved to “the Studio” in NW3). I once asked her what made her happiest, thinking she’d say, oh, “painting” or writing….she said (paraphrasing), “Being up to my elbows in dirt, working in our garden at our cottage in Sussex” (I think that’s where it is). Really a lovely person.

Ack! Thanks so much, Elizabeth, but I can’t seem to find ANY videos with “&feature=player_embedded” at the end. Ugh! Migration is NO GOOD for moi! ;(

I’ll keep trying!

Amy

Oh! I should explain. No videos do. You need to paste the “&feature=player_embedded” part after the number portion of any video’s YouTube web address. It’ll take some trial and error, but it can be done!

Elizabeth, YOU RULE!!! I crown you – QUEEN of Wordpress! Thanks so much!

I can’t figure out why you can’t paste the embed code from vimeo/youtube/etc. into the html window. I’ve worked on several different Wordpress installations and this seems to be a basic option in most templates, even for authors or contributors who don’t have permission to do much fancy stuff.

Also, if you’d reallllly like the ability to control font size, there’s a plugin called TinyMCE Advanced that will add font size to your default visual editing options. You can tweak the options to add hand dandy functions such as anchor tags and spell check! Maybe the tech people can install that?

Or maybe the tech people have extremely young eyes and like the look of this teeny tiny font. In which case, please add my name to the petition of people in search of readable blog fonts!

Yep, it’s a mystery to me as well. By all rights I should embed just as easily here as I did on my old site. Yet this is not the case. Good to know about that plugin, though. I’d love to edit my font. But right now the tech folks are so busy with other problems, I’ll hold off for now on informing them. Soon, though. Soon.

Hello. What a wonderful day to discover your blog. Thank you for interesting and oddly joyous sloth information.

Pen