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These days the news is full of stories that seem to indicate that in some places the divide between people of different cultural backgrounds is getting wider and wider. Too many of us are getting less tolerant and accepting of people who not like us. I find this trend to be both disturbing and very discouraging. One way to counter this trend is to help our children to understand and appreciate people who are culturally different from them. Books that celebrate diversity can help parents, teachers, and librarians to explore how our lives are made richer when our communities are heterogeneous. Today is Multicultural Children's Book Day and below you will find out why this event was created by two women who want to open hearts and minds one book at a time. Visit the Multicultural Children's Book Day website to find out more.
Children’s reading and play advocates Valarie Budayr from Jump Into a Book and Mia Wenjen from Pragmatic Mom have teamed up to create an ambitious (and much needed) national event. On January 27th, Jump into a Book and Pragmatic Mom will be presenting yet another Multicultural Children’s Book Day as a way of celebrating diversity in children’s books. Despite census data that shows 37% of the US population consists of people of color, only 10% of children’s books published have diversity content. Using the Multicultural Children’s Book Day, Mia and Valarie are on a mission to change all of that. Their mission is to not only raise awareness for the kid’s books that celebrate diversity, but to get more of these types of books into classrooms and libraries. Another goal of this exciting event is create a compilation of books and favorite reads that will provide not only a new reading list for the winter, but also a way to expose brilliant books to families, teachers, and libraries.
Multicultural Children’s Book Day will include book reviews from noted bloggers all over the world, giveaways and book-related activities for young readers of all ages. The MCCBD team will also be partnering with
First Book to create a Virtual Book Drive for the event, and with
The Children’s Book Council to offer readers quality resources along with fun and informative author visits.
Together the MCCBD team hopes to spread the word and raise awareness about the importance of diversity in children’s literature. Our young readers need to see themselves within the pages of a book and experience other cultures, languages, traditions and religions within the pages of a book. We encourage readers, parents, teachers, caregivers and librarians to follow along the fun book reviews, author visits, event details, multicultural children’s book linky and via our hashtag (#ReadYourWorld) on Twitter and other social media.
I was tagged by my friend
Sue Fliess to participate in a blog tour. Sue is the author of a soon-to-be-released book that I illustrated called
"A Gluten-Free Birthday For Me!" Sue tagged me about a month ago and I've been busy busy busy. But hopefully "better late than never" still applies.
Here are the questions that I am suppose to answer...
1 What is the working title of your next book? I'm really excited about my next two books. The first is called
The Ice Cream Shop. It's being released by Scholastic next summer (2014) A second book called
The Sea Monster is scheduled for the fall.
2 Where did the book idea come from for the book? A couple of years ago, in lieu of sending out Christmas cards, I sent out mini Christmas comic books featuring two characters named Steve and Wessley. Those two guys have decided to stick around in my head and worm their way into several more stories.
The Ice Cream Shop and
The Sea Monster are the first two being put to paper.
3 What genre does your book fall into? This is a level 1 early reader similar to my other book,
May I Please Have a Cookie? 4) What actors would you choose to play the part of your characters in a movie rendition?
Oh, they would definitely play themselves as it would probably be an animated short film. John Lasseter are you listening??
5) What is the one-sentence synopsis of your book?
Steve learns that reading signs can be very important.
6) Who is publishing your book?
Scholastic
7) How long did it take you to write the first draft of the manuscript?
I don't actually write a manuscript. My first drafts are story boards. This one went quickly. It took me about 2 weeks.
8) What other books would you compare this story to within your genre?
These two guys follow a long standing tradition of bungling duos, Laurel and Hardy, Abbot and Costello, Frog and Toad, George and Martha.
9) Who or what inspired you to write and/or illustrate this book? Easy reader books can be, dare I say it, dull. What I hope to do is create books that I think are funny and that just happen to be easy enough for a child to read themselves.
10) What else about the book might pique the reader's interest? These books are very character driven and I've been spending a lot of time thinking about Steve and Wessley's personalities and how they will be drawn. Here are some character sketches and some 3-D models that I created.
Check back soon for another author illustrator to link to in this blog tour....
YOU ARE INVITED TO A BOOK LAUNCHING EVENT:
Event:Children's Book Event & Launching of Momsie's Book
by the writer/illustrator team of Bart and Madonna Davidoff
When: April 14, 2013 ( Sunday) from 2 -3 pm
Where: Mercer County Library System's -Ewing Branch
61 Scotch Road Ewing, NJ 08628.
In Honor of the National Library week beginning on April 14th and running through the 20th, the writer/illustrator team of Bart and Madonna Davidoff will be presenting their children's picture book entitled Momsies’ Book on Sunday, April 14th from 2:00 to 3:00 pm at the Mercer County Library System's - Ewing branch.
Momsies’ book includes a memoir entitled "Natie and Me" written and illustrated by Muriel Shutan-Davidoff in which she describes her childhood adventures growing up in New Haven in the late 1920's with her younger brother Nate.
Muriel has been living with Alzheimer's disease for the past 5 years and since she is unable to publish her work, Bart and Madonna decided to make it a part of Muriel's legacy.
During the book launching, Madonna will demonstrate how she created the illustrations and Bart will read passages from the book. The Davidoff’s will donate a copy of the book to the Ewing library's collection and another copy will be awarded as a door prize.
Advance purchasing of Momsie’s Book may be ordered online here at Lulu.com
Also available soon at Amazon & Barnes & Noble.
My new picture book came out in stores yesterday! I am presently soaking in the hot springs on a much needed vacation en route to my first bookstore event.
I have events planned in Taos, Santa Fe, Durango, Boulder, Denver, Kansas City, Omaha, St. Louis and NYC, and I would LOVE to see you! Bring your kids, grandkids, nieces, nephews, little friends, or simply YOU.
If you’d like your very own copy and you live in one of these cities, I think it’s REALLY groovy to support your LOCAL, independent bookseller! :)
Come celebrate with me! Masala chai for all! And please spread the fun — Share with anyone you know who lives in these cities!!
Saturday, Sept 17, 10AM
MARIA’S BOOKSHOP, Durango, CO
A joint reading/signing with author Uma Krishnaswami!
Masala chai, curry puffs, and a craft for kids!
970-247-1438
Saturday, Sept 24, 11AM
TWIRL TOY STORE, TAOS, New Mexico
Reading/signing, craft for kids, masala chai and treats, and twirl-fun!
575-751-1402
Saturday, Oct 1, 11AM
BOULDER BOOKSTORE, Boulder, CO
Reading/signing, craft for kids and masala chai
303-447-2074
Saturday, Oct 1, 3PM
TATTERED COVER, (Highland Ranch Store) DENVER, CO
Reading/signing, craft for kids
303-470-7050
Sunday, Oct 9, 11 -11:30
4th Annual New Mexico WOMEN AUTHOR’s Book Festival
NM History Museum Campus, Santa Fe, NM
Tuesday, Oct 18, 6:30PM
Reading Reptile, Kansas City,MO
Saturday, Oct 22, 10am
The Bookworm (A joint event with the fabulous Laura Huliska-Beith!), Omaha, NE
Tuesday, Oct 25, 6:30PM
Kirkwood Public Library, St. Louis
Thursday, Oct 26 – Dec 29, Original Art Show at the Museum of American Illustration at the Society of Illustrator’s, NYC
And, come visit my FB page for my art and events!
Last night I had the pleasure of attending the book launch party for Mitali Perkins' latest YA novel, Bamboo People. It was held at the Porter Square Bookstore in Cambridge, MA, which is quite the comfy indie and easily accessible for suburbanites like myself, (despite my GPS' devious scheme to send me via the most circuitous route possible.) I have met Mitali a few times before at tweet-ups (and
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If you live in the Concord, NH area please join us on October 10th at Gibson's Bookstore. Jean Cochran and I will be appearing there to promote our new book, On a Dark, Dark Night. We will be joined by the talented author and illustrator Marty Kelley. Marty's books are filled with the funny, slightly yucky type of humor that little kids (and myself) love. In fact, Marty's new book may have been written about me. It's called, "The Messiest Desk." Okay, it's probably not about my desk, but from what I've seen of it, it looks like a really cute book. I can't wait to get a copy!
After reaching temperatures of 111 degrees yesterday (insane! This is Seattle! The highest temperature recorded here *ever* previously was like 96), the intense heat and air stagnation have tangibly broken. It is still supposed to be warm for the foreseeable future, but in a much more reasonable, mid-80s sort of way (our norms for July run more in the mid-70s, so this is still hot for here). With the temperatures finally more bearable, I'm able to resume working rather than just sitting in front of a fan panting... :-)
If you have followed this blog at all, you will have noticed me mentioning the series I've been working on for the past couple of years, The Wind Dancers, written by Sibley Miller, co-illustrated by myself and Jo Gershman and published by Feiwel & Friends in association with Breyer. The first four came out late last year (for which we've done promotional videos, presentations, book signings and TV appearances at Breyerfest. I've also discussed the vagaries of color matching here). It's been quite a fun ride.
With the next pair to follow shortly after...
Currently, we are working on the final four books in this series. Even as I type, I am working on the next four covers, which I've gotten permission to post WIPs as I go, so watch over the next little while and I'll try to post the process and thinking behind covers in an ongoing series.
Til then, it's cool enough that I think I can even sleep tonight!
Good morning everyone. I would like to tell you about an exciting event that is taking place next week beginning on Monday March 9th. Share a Story – Shape a Future is a week-long event where people who believe in the power of reading will blog about their ideas. Their goal is to offer tons of practical advice about reading that is free of statistics and educational jargon. “We don't want to point fingers and tell people they have to read. Our purpose is to offer ideas on ways reading can be part of their everyday experience,” says Terry Doherty, one of the event organizers.
From March 9 to 13, 2009, blogging librarians, teachers, parents, authors, illustrators, and other people passionate about literacy will be writing about different aspects of reading. Each day has its own theme, with a host blogger and several guests. The organizers also have several giveaways planned, including a number of books related to reading. There will also be lots of free, downloadable content that includes ideas for making bookmarks and templates; links to book lists, children's book reviewers, and resources for selecting material; and tips for reading with kids and getting involved with your community.
My thanks to Terry Doherty from
The Reading Tub for telling me about this worthwhile event and for all her hard work.
Today was a book signing event at my close-by, independent
book store. It was a fund-raiser for a small, private school in the area. They had asked me and a couple of other area authors to be on hand to sign and chat with the attendees.
Royce Buckingham was one of them. (I met him at the
last event I did.) He is charming and very personable and has very interesting things to say about his experiences in entering the world of children's publishing. Fun to chat with.
I got to sit at a table covered with books. :-) They had 9 of the 12 published
Fairy Chronicles and all 4 of the just-released
Wind Dancer series. There were a number of fairy-loving girls in attendance so I got to chat and sign a nice number of them (and then they didn't let me leave until I had signed the remainder for the bookstore...)
One of the fairy-girls noticed me sketching in my sketchbook during a lull. She asked if I would draw *her*. I said, sure, as long as she could hold somewhat still for a few minutes.
It was harder than she had expected :-) but we managed a quickie drawing of her.
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So after drawing in church today and the above drawing, I have now finished with my purse sketchbook and ready to move on to my shiny new Moleskine! *That* should make me draw really well, shouldn't it?
It was a lovely weekend over in Vancouver. We couldn’t have asked for better weather. It was a much appreciated contrast to the rainy readings that were done the weekend before during the official opening of the new North Van library.
Meg Tilly shared the stage with new author Susan Juby and Kari-Lynn Winters, author of Jeffrey and Sloth, entertained the crowds during her performance with the Tickle Trunk Players.
If you are in Eastern Pennsylvania this Thursday night,
come say HI at THE MORAVIAN BOOKSHOP in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
(my home town independent bookstore).
I am so excited to announce that I will be there with BARRY LYGA and classmate and pal, LAURA BOWERS.
Check my website:
www.saraharonson.com to see the amazing poster!
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Tara, these are just lovely - so fanciful and fun! :) I'm so jealous, I would love to do this kind of thin - lucky you. Small world connection - I interviewed with Breyer right after college - to develop paint/color prototypes for the models. Despite the fact I'd been collecting the product since childhood and had extensive knowledge of horse anatomy and color, they didn't hire me because I didn't have sufficient airbrushing skills - LOL!
If I was 10 years old you would *SO* be my hero. (As it is, you're still my hero. :)
those are gorgeous :D Love the purple and orange colours scheme. The wings on that works are beautiful, on all of them actually
Oh, I love the flying horses!! Love them.
111??? No. No. Not good.
These are beautiful pictures. My daughter has the toy of the golden horse! How surprising to come here and find that you've illustrated the books :)
Kim x