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Wednesday, July 27, 2016 12:34:43 PM
Chris Barton wrote a blog post titled July 2016 Bartography Express: “Then my obsession with all-things-coyote began”: Maria Gianferrari & Bagram Ibatoulline’s new picture book:
Chris said, "To get Bartography Express in your inbox each month — and to have a shot at the August giveaway of 88 Instruments, my new book with illustrator Louis Thomas — you can sign up on my home page."
Monday, July 25, 2016 11:04:24 PM
Chris Barton wrote a blog post titled Comment on Weekend backpacks — and books — for students in need by Becky Calzada:
Chris said, "What a wonderful idea! Becky is spot-on in her concerns and her solution is genius. Thanks so much for sharing this idea~"
Monday, July 25, 2016 11:04:24 PM
Chris Barton wrote a blog post titled Comment on Weekend backpacks — and books — for students in need by Shelly Porter:
Chris said, "Chris, I am the teacher librarian at a rural K-4 school in NW Arkansas, and this program is perfect for us. We also have a Friday food program and adding a book to each bag will be a perfect way to give book love to each of these deserving students...." more
Monday, July 25, 2016 11:04:24 PM
Chris Barton wrote a blog post titled Comment on Weekend backpacks — and books — for students in need by LeAnn Sims Chastain:
Chris said, "We are SO lucky to have a librarian with such a big heart at Charles Haskell!!!"
Monday, July 25, 2016 11:04:23 PM
Chris Barton wrote a blog post titled Comment on Weekend backpacks — and books — for students in need by alysastewart:
Chris said, "Wow this is so awesome!!! I love it so much."
Thursday, July 21, 2016 10:05:47 PM
Chris Barton wrote a blog post titled May 2016 Bartography Express: Talking with Don Tate & Troy Cummings, giving away Whoosh! & Mighty Truck:
Chris said, "To get Bartography Express in your inbox each month — and to have a shot at the June giveaway of Mike Jung’s Unidentified Suburban Object — you can sign up on my home page."
Thursday, July 21, 2016 10:05:47 PM
Chris Barton wrote a blog post titled My 18 days in Singapore:
Chris said, "Until the very end of April, I’d never been outside North America, but I corrected that in a big way when I took a 14-hour flight from Dallas to Doha and then another flight — this one a mere seven hours — to Singapore. The..." more
Thursday, July 21, 2016 10:05:47 PM
Chris Barton wrote a blog post titled How to Make a Kidlit List, Version 2.0:
Chris said, "Updated and improved, thanks to some thoughtful feedback, and now available as a Google Document."
Thursday, July 21, 2016 10:05:47 PM
Chris Barton wrote a blog post titled Where I’ll be at ALA in Orlando:
Chris said, "(Or rather, where I’m supposed to be during the American Library Association annual conference in Orlando. But I’ll try to be everywhere else, too.)"
Thursday, July 21, 2016 10:05:47 PM
Chris Barton wrote a blog post titled June 2016 Bartography Express: From telepathic fish to “Where do I come from?”: Mike Jung on UNIDENTIFIED SUBURBAN OBJECT:
Chris said, "To get Bartography Express in your inbox each month — and to have a shot at the July giveaway of Maria Gianferrari and Bagram Ibatoulline’s Coyote Moon — you can sign up on my home page."
Thursday, July 21, 2016 10:05:47 PM
Chris Barton wrote a blog post titled To Jupiter and beyond (and back)!:
Chris said, "With Jupiter in the news — NASA’s Juno spacecraft has arrived to do what spacecraft do — it’s not hard for me to make a leap to Lonnie Johnson, subject of my newest book with Don Tate. Before Lonnie became known as the..." more
Thursday, July 21, 2016 10:05:47 PM
Chris Barton wrote a blog post titled A Whoosh! of good news:
Chris said, "Whoosh! Lonnie Johnson’s Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions was among the Notable Children’s Books Nominees discussed by the Association for Library Service to Children during the American Library Association’s annual conference in..." more
Thursday, July 21, 2016 10:05:47 PM
Chris Barton wrote a blog post titled “When every man, woman, and child can feel and know…”:
Chris said, "“[W]hen every man, woman, and child can feel and know that his, her, and their rights are fully protected by the strong arm of a generous and grateful Republic, then we can all truthfully say that this beautiful land of ours, over which the..." more
Monday, May 23, 2016 5:28:06 AM
Chris Barton wrote a blog post titled Whoosh! (or, What’d I Miss?, part 1):
Chris said, "I just got back from teaching for twelve days as author-in-residence at the Singapore American School (yes, there will be photos here). And that stretch was only part of the nearly four weeks that went by between my previous two posts, thanks to a..." more
Sunday, May 22, 2016 11:31:41 AM
Chris Barton wrote a blog post titled Weekend backpacks — and books — for students in need:
Chris said, "Until I visited Charles Haskell Elementary in Edmond, Oklahoma, recently, I’d never heard of the weekend backpack programs that some schools and local food banks use to provide students from low-income families enough to eat on Saturdays and..." more
Sunday, May 22, 2016 11:31:41 AM
Chris Barton wrote a blog post titled Why I wrote The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch:
Chris said, "The three-minute version, anyway, courtesy of Teaching Books. I could go on for a lot longer about why I wrote a book for kids about Reconstruction. Go ahead — try me!"
Sunday, April 17, 2016 6:16:51 PM
Chris Barton wrote a blog post titled How to make a kidlit list:
Chris said, "I have made some good-looking flowcharts in my time. This is not one of them. But the concept for this one — a flowchart for anyone assembling a children’s literature list of any sort — has been on my mind for a long time, and I..." more
Friday, April 15, 2016 12:46:38 AM
Chris Barton wrote a blog post titled A four-year-old as polite as he is honest:
Chris said, "At a bookstore event last week, right after I read Mighty Truck: Me: Want me to read another book? Young customer: No, thank you."
Tuesday, April 5, 2016 4:41:28 AM
Chris Barton wrote a blog post titled “An Open Letter to Our North Carolina Readers”:
Chris said, "I signed the letter below. So did Jennifer. So did 267 other authors and illustrators, a number limited only by time constraints rather than by any shortage of opposition to the recent North Carolina law through which the state government went out..." more
Monday, March 28, 2016 7:06:22 PM
Chris Barton wrote a blog post titled March 2016 Bartography Express: “Students have clapped after hearing the book and seeing themselves.”:
Chris said, "To get Bartography Express in your inbox each month — and to have a shot at the April giveaway of Bears Make the Best Reading Buddies, written by Carmen Oliver and illustrated by Jean Claude — you can sign up on my home page."
Sunday, February 21, 2021 8:35:15 PM
Chris Barton updated the biography on his profile page