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Friday, June 27, 2014 5:32:08 PM
linda salzman wrote a blog post titled Writing Inspiring Nonfiction for Kids and Common Core:
linda said, "Two weeks ago when I read the latest article about the Common Core in the New York Times titled Common Core, in 9-Year-Old Eyes, I knew this would be the topic of my last post. Things have sure changed in the last six years. When Linda Salzman first..." more
Wednesday, June 25, 2014 1:44:01 AM
linda salzman wrote a blog post titled Till We Meet Again:
linda said, "In April I reminisced about six + years of blogging with this wondrous group of authors. I've so appreciated the opportunity to come up with something every month at least vaguely related to this quirky profession we’ve chosen.For my last..." more
Friday, June 20, 2014 8:45:47 AM
linda salzman wrote a blog post titled INK STEM:
linda said, "No, this is not some type of plant that produces ink. This is the last of the INK Recommends lists, focused on STEM: Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. Because we have previously compiled lists that focused on math and science, I have..." more
Thursday, June 19, 2014 6:51:35 AM
linda salzman wrote a blog post titled The Writing Life:
linda said, "I came late to the family of I.N.K. bloggers, and the fatigue of posting hasn’t quite caught up to me yet. Even so I’ve marveled at the creativity and fortitude of the old-timers. You’ve made it look easy to create fresh, thought-provoking..." more
Monday, June 16, 2014 2:59:29 PM
linda salzman wrote a blog post titled A New Constellation:
linda said, "Despite George Washington's shivering Victory or Death brinksmanship in New Jersey at the beginning of the year, 1777 was wicked tough for the Americans' rebellion. Still, the gents at the embattled Continental Congress found time 237 years ago this..." more
Friday, June 13, 2014 2:03:38 AM
linda salzman wrote a blog post titled Fearless Women:
linda said, "I am not a fearless woman. I’m actually quite timid. I like order and predictability and rules. When I was a magazine editor, I started each editing task by making sure the fonts and margins and other formatting issues were right. Only then could..." more
Thursday, June 12, 2014 10:59:49 AM
linda salzman wrote a blog post titled Old Friends:
linda said, " On May 10, 2014, Larry McMurtry wrote a bittersweet but not sentimental New York Times, Sunday Review article about a visit he made to New York City back in 1965. He had traveled from Houston to buy books for a bookstore he worked..." more
Monday, June 9, 2014 8:27:19 PM
linda salzman wrote a blog post titled Girl Geek Chic: --Let's Change What's Cool:
linda said, "<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE <![endif]--> Last month on National Astronomy Day, I was at the Clay Center Observatory..." more
Friday, June 6, 2014 1:57:12 AM
linda salzman wrote a blog post titled NEWS FOR JUNE (and beyond):
linda said, "NEW BOOKS FOR 2014 David Schwartz has entered the world of e-publishing with•The Hidden World of the Forest •The Hidden World of the Pond • The Hidden World of the MeadowThese are close adaptations of print books with way..." more
Wednesday, June 4, 2014 12:47:16 AM
linda salzman wrote a blog post titled Dipping a Toe into Marketing Waters:
linda said, "As a charter contributor to this blog, I’m really going to miss it. I have gained so much from this participation, including the discovery of my “inner blogger” which lives on with my contributions to the Huffington Post. I hope..." more
Tuesday, June 3, 2014 2:39:07 AM
linda salzman wrote a blog post titled GOING AWAY PRESENT:
linda said, "Hello and goodbye everybody—Thanks for tuning in all this time. As part of my 70th and final post for I.N.K., I thought you might like to visit a few great folks who made a bow on these pages at one time or another. And as an extra added..." more
Friday, May 30, 2014 11:09:13 PM
linda salzman wrote a blog post titled Our new iNK endeavor:
linda said, "As most visitors to this blog know, we are "closing shop" at the end of this school year. I've enjoyed being part of this wonderful endeavor, sharing my thoughts and ideas and reading those of my colleagues over the years. And I'm very..." more
Wednesday, May 28, 2014 12:45:05 AM
linda salzman wrote a blog post titled A Vernal Interlude Eastward:
linda said, "I wouldn’t trade Los Angeles winters for those on the east coast, but spring is another matter. In May, when most of the trees in Central Park and Brooklyn’s Prospect Park shimmer in palest green and the rest of them bloom white, pink, and..." more
Saturday, May 24, 2014 11:19:15 AM
linda salzman wrote a blog post titled Arts in the Schools and INK (Interesting Nonfiction for Kids):
linda said, "While writing today’s piece, I anxiously checked news feeds regarding the fire at the Glasgow School of Art’s Mackintosh Building. By the end of the day, the fire service reported they were able to save 90% of the building and about 70% of..." more
Wednesday, May 21, 2014 5:05:07 AM
linda salzman wrote a blog post titled Stretching, Soaring and Singing, by Marfé Ferguson Delano:
linda said, " In this, my last blog for I.N.K., I'm happy to announce a first, a couple of firsts, actually. They're my first picture books for the 3- to 6-year-old set, Butterflies and Frogs. Never before have I written for such a young audience. It was so..." more
Monday, May 19, 2014 3:47:06 PM
linda salzman wrote a blog post titled Bumbling On to the End of Another Fair Day in May:
linda said, "So, kindly allow me to point out that it was on this day in 1536 that 35-year-old Anne Boleyn, met her end. Her daughter Elizabeth was not quite three years old when Henry's 2nd wife exited the world's stage through the door marked May 19...." more
Friday, May 16, 2014 5:42:49 PM
linda salzman wrote a blog post titled Research Journeys--Hard Work, Yes, But Don't Forget the Luck!:
linda said, "Stubby's story appeals to all ages, from young...One of the best parts about researching a book is that I don’t know what I’m going to find. Each project is like a mystery, and I have the fun of solving it. Researching my new twin titles about..." more
Thursday, May 15, 2014 9:26:48 PM
linda salzman wrote a blog post titled More Wonderful Books on Dance:
linda said, "Here are two additional books, two great favorites of mine, that somehow feel off my post.Beautiful BallerinaBy Marilyn Nelson and photographed by our own Susan Kuklin A talented team of children's book creators craft a beautiful,..." more
Thursday, May 15, 2014 6:50:46 AM
linda salzman wrote a blog post titled A Celebration of the Arts:
linda said, "As I look back over the last five years of posts by I.N.K. bloggers, I’ve discovered what I suspected all along, which is that this group has covered in our books for young readers an astonishing variety of non-fiction subjects, ranging from..." more
Monday, May 12, 2014 10:30:29 AM
linda salzman wrote a blog post titled Nonfiction then and now and...?:
linda said, "I started writing for I.N.K. in March 2008. With nostalgia and curiosity, I went back to look at some of my initial posts. I kept on reading and realized that I was also looking at a history of what has happened in the field of kids’..." more
Wednesday, May 7, 2014 2:11:44 AM
linda salzman wrote a blog post titled Starting a Movement:
linda said, "In late 2007, I received an email from Linda Salzman asking if I would contribute to an idea she had. She wanted to start a group blog of nonfiction authors to talk about our work, our process, or anything else that was on our minds. Why..." more
Friday, May 2, 2014 2:11:27 AM
linda salzman wrote a blog post titled OUT AND ABOUT WITH INK AUTHORS IN MAY:
linda said, "NEW BOOKS Ann Bausum, Stubby the War Dog: The True Story of World War I's Bravest Dog (National Geographic for Kids)Ann Bausum, Sergeant Stubby: How a Stray Dog and his Best Friend Helped Win World War I and Stole the Heart of a Nation (National..." more
Friday, April 25, 2014 3:03:25 PM
linda salzman wrote a blog post titled Engineering Careers for High School Students:
linda said, "This week, I went back to high school. I was part of a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) panel for career day. The other two members on the panel were nuclear engineers, having just graduated from college last year. We had seven..." more
Thursday, April 24, 2014 8:03:23 AM
linda salzman wrote a blog post titled Looking Back:
linda said, "I’ve just spent nearly all of an afternoon looking back on all the INK blogs that I’ve written, trying to get a sense of what I’ve been doing, thinking, and writing about for six-plus years. My internal monologue went, “I..." more
Monday, June 30, 2014 6:52:16 AM
linda salzman wrote a blog post titled Last Post!:
linda said, "Today is our last post on I.N.K. I am so relieved! I’ve spent a lot of time working on this blog since I first had the idea in the Fall of 2007. Now I’m ready to move on to new things and perhaps give some neglected things another go..." more