Jon Scieszka, SPACEHEADZ historian, shares ways of the SPACEHEADZ on Wednesday March 9, at 7 p.m. at the Sammamish Library. This event is presented through Secret Garden Bookstore.
Besides his Library of Congress-bestowed title of National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, Jon Scieszka is the author of many bestselling children's titles, including The STINKY CHEESE MAN, which won a Caldecott Honor medal. The series he’s here to launch Book 2 of, SPACEHEADZ, is more of a revolution than a book, really. Go to the series’ own site above to read all about it. You can find out more about the event at Secret Garden's website.
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Sunday, February 20, 2011
Monday, January 4, 2010
Farewell, Mr. Ambassador!
Today is Jon Sciezska's last day as the Ambassador of Children's Literature.
Betsy Bird at Fuse# 8 on School Library Journal has a fitting video tribute.
She and I share a favorite:
But really, you should watch them all. Stay tuned for news on his replacement tomorrow.
Betsy Bird at Fuse# 8 on School Library Journal has a fitting video tribute.
She and I share a favorite:
But really, you should watch them all. Stay tuned for news on his replacement tomorrow.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
The excellence of an Exquisite Corpse
NPR has the tale of a posse of children's writers piecing together an online serial story called EXQUISITE CORPSE ADVENTURE. It's quite the group of writers, including Jon Scieszka, Katherine Paterson, and Kate DiCamillo.
Check out the NPR story here, and the official EXQUISITE CORPSE ADVENTURE here.
Check out the NPR story here, and the official EXQUISITE CORPSE ADVENTURE here.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Girls vs. boys: the throwdown
Kirby Larson has organized the Ultimate Throwdown on Gender in Books.
Following the SLJ article that suggested making characters boys when it makes no big difference to the story, and a rebuttal on MSN Entertainment written by a certain opinionated person whose name rhymes with Schmartha, Kirby's adding even more voices to the debate.
Starting around noon today, you can read a lively series of posts exploring the question of gender and reading/writing featuring the likes of librarians Jerene Battisti and Nancy Pearl and writers Erin Blakemore, Dave Patneaude, Rodman Philbrick, Jon Sciezska, Joni Sensel, Terry Trueman and Ben Watson, plus avid reader, Tyler Larson (NYU Film School grad, Associate Producer at HBO, and son of a certain blogger).
What a great lineup! She's also giving away an autographed copy of HATTIE BIG SKY to the first commenter each day. So you can't miss this. I'm bringing popcorn. And maybe a Hefty bag to protect my clothing from tomatoes. I hear that Ben Watson kid can throw.
Click here to go there.
Following the SLJ article that suggested making characters boys when it makes no big difference to the story, and a rebuttal on MSN Entertainment written by a certain opinionated person whose name rhymes with Schmartha, Kirby's adding even more voices to the debate.
Starting around noon today, you can read a lively series of posts exploring the question of gender and reading/writing featuring the likes of librarians Jerene Battisti and Nancy Pearl and writers Erin Blakemore, Dave Patneaude, Rodman Philbrick, Jon Sciezska, Joni Sensel, Terry Trueman and Ben Watson, plus avid reader, Tyler Larson (NYU Film School grad, Associate Producer at HBO, and son of a certain blogger).
What a great lineup! She's also giving away an autographed copy of HATTIE BIG SKY to the first commenter each day. So you can't miss this. I'm bringing popcorn. And maybe a Hefty bag to protect my clothing from tomatoes. I hear that Ben Watson kid can throw.
Click here to go there.
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