Letter to My Daughter by Maya Angelou From the mellifluous voice of a venerable American icon comes her first original collection of writing to be published in ten years, anecdotal vignettes drawn from a compelling life and written in Angelou's erudite prose. Beginning with her childhood, Angelou acknowledges her own inauguration into daughterhood in "Philanthropy," […]
"Wherever you are is always the right place. There is never a need to fix anything, to hitch up the bootstraps of the soul and start at some higher place. Start right where you are." -- Julia Cameron
The 2009 Indies Choice Book Awards St Patrick's Day Children's Choice Book Awards 2009 Step-by-Step/Sequencing picture books The Newbery Medal 2009
From Comedy Central: Author Neil Gaiman visited The Colbert Report this past Monday, and talked about his Newbery Medal win for The Graveyard Book. Much like Sherman Alexie’s appearance on the show last October, Gaiman gave as good as he got during the interview with host Stephen Colbert. Watch the clip here.
What Size Pictures Should I Use? Those of us who include a lot of pictures in slide shows (hopefully everyone in the near future) need to think about the resolution of those pictures. Resolution, in a digital image context, is basically synonymous with quality. The higher your picture’s resolution, the higher its quality—in other words, […]
[Via Publisher's Weekly] Twenty years ago this month, Boston pediatricians Barry Zuckerman and Robert Needlman started handing out books at well-baby checkups. Since then Reach Out and Read, the nonprofit organization they founded to provide books for at-risk children between the ages of six months and five years, has given away more than 20 million […]
The Slapby Christos Tsiolkas At a suburban barbecue, a man slaps a child who is not his own. This event has a shocking ricochet effect on a group of people, mostly friends, who are directly or indirectly influenced by the event. In this remarkable novel, Christos Tsiolkas turns his unflinching and all-seeing eye on to […]
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Learn to create your own comics with Drawing Words and Writing Pictures, a richly illustrated collection of 15 in-depth lessons that cover everything from crafting your story to lettering and laying out panels. Read more .... lesson plans and activities .... buy from Amazon
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2008 A Fraction of the whole by Steve Tolz “A Fraction of the Whole is that rarest of long books–utterly worth it…The story starts in a prison riot and ends on a plane, and there is not one forgettable episode in between…It reads like Mark Twain with access to […]
