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A Blog for librarians, authors, and educators working together to create lifelong readers.
Monday, April 29, 2013
A SPELLBINDER book launch and giveaway!
Monday, April 15, 2013
"How a Book is Made" by Harpercollins - must see videos!
"How a Book is Made" with Author Lauren Oliver and HarperKids
by Kimberley Griffiths Little
by Kimberley Griffiths Little
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you are a teacher, librarian, parent, or writer yourself looking for
something unique and different for you or your students/children, check
out this wonderful new series of videos by HarperKids, a division of
Harpercollins. How a Book is Made - (AND Revised, Edited, Designed - and BORN), before it gets to the shelves of your local bookstore or library. Lauren Oliver is a bestselling Middle-Grade and young Adult author who narrates these 4-5 minute videos about how she a writer gets ideas and develops them, and then writes and revises a book. She takes you through all the steps, including videos with her editor and copy-editor and designer at Harpercollins talking about their jobs (inside their offices in NYC) and leading us through their role in how a book is made. It's fascinating. As a writer, I'm pretty familiar with the first few videos and how a book goes through the process of getting edited and copy-edited, etc. I've also read quite a bit about the rest of the in-house process, but the Production video was especially interesting to see the pieces of the book and how it's bound and glued and created. It was fun to actually *see* it on these videos, and I think your students or children will enjoy seeing this unique and amazing process.
Take
some time afterward to discuss with your students what they've learned,
as well as discuss the various book careers that are possible or they
might be interested in.
Don't forget that there is a whole Art Department at each publishing house that hires freelance artists and graphic designers who create the covers and choose the fonts and design the book inside and out, from concept to finished product for those artists in your midst!
P.S. If you watch the first one, it will automatically take you to the next one in order on Youtube. :-) |
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Meet the Spellbinders |
Kimberley
Griffiths Little is the recipient of the Southwest Book Award, The
Whitney Award for Best Youth Novel of 2010, and the author of the highly
acclaimed, The Healing Spell and Circle of Secrets, published by Scholastic Press. Look for her books at the Scholastic Book Fairs, as well 
as two more forthcoming novels in
2012 and 2013. She lives on a dirt road in a small town by the Rio
Grande with her husband, a robotics engineer and their three sons.
Kimberley is a favorite speaker at schools around the country,
presenting "The Creative Diary", a highly successful writing
workshop and has been a speaker at many conferences. Please
to download free Teacher's Guides and Book Club Guides.
Carolee
Dean has made numerous appearances as a guest poet/author at schools,
libraries, poetry events, and teacher/library conferences. She holds a
bachelor's degree in music therapy and a master's degree in
communicative disorders, and she has spent over a decade working in the
public schools as a 
speech-language
pathologist. Her first novel, Comfort,was nominated as a Best Book for
Young Adults, was named the Best YA Novel of 2002 by the Texas Institute
of Letters, and was on the TAYSHAS (Texas Library Association) reading
list. She conducts teacher trainings on inspiring reluctant writers
including "The Secret Language of Stories" and "Random 
Acts of Haiku."
To find teacher's guides, writing activities, and information about author visits, go to www.caroleedean.com.
Caroline Starr Rose spent her
childhood in the deserts of Saudi Arabia and New Mexico, camping at the
Red Sea in one and eating red chile in the other. She's taught English
and social studies to upper elementary and middle-school students in New
Mexico, Florida, Virginia, and Louisiana. Back in New
Mexico, Caroline now writes middle-grade novels and picture books full time.
UPCOMING AUTHOR EVENTS
Caroline Starr Rose
Friday, April 19th
NM Library Association Youth Luncheon
Albuquerque, NM
Kimberley Griffiths Little
Saturday, April 27th
NM Battle of the Books, Author Guest
Silver City, New Mexico
Kimberley Griffiths Little
May 3-5
Presenter and critiquer at the
Niagara Writers Conference
http://niagararetreatandconference.com
speech-language
pathologist. Her first novel, Comfort,was nominated as a Best Book for
Young Adults, was named the Best YA Novel of 2002 by the Texas Institute
of Letters, and was on the TAYSHAS (Texas Library Association) reading
list. She conducts teacher trainings on inspiring reluctant writers
including "The Secret Language of Stories" and "Random Acts of Haiku."
Caroline Starr Rose
Friday, April 19th
NM Library Association Youth Luncheon
NM Library Association Youth Luncheon
Albuquerque, NM
Silver City, New Mexico
Kimberley Griffiths Little
Saturday, April 27th
NM Battle of the Books, Author Guest
Kimberley Griffiths Little
May 3-5
Presenter and critiquer at the
Niagara Writers Conference
Presenter and critiquer at the
http://niagararetreatandconference.com
Kimberley Griffiths Little
May 9-11
Presenter, Publication Primer
LDStorymakers Conference
Provo, Utah
Kimberley Griffiths Little
May 9-11
Presenter, Publication Primer
LDStorymakers Conference
Provo, Utah
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