Seeing Symmetry by Loreen Leedy Art + Math = SYMMETRY! The topic of symmetry was on my idea list for about a decade before I figured out how to present it in a picture book. There are so many beautiful examples to share from butterflies to quilt blocks to the Taj Mahal, it was often… [Read more…]
Black & White: The Confrontation between Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene “Bull” Connor by Larry Dane Brimner I’ve been asked many times what I, a white man, find so appealing about the civil rights movement. Some have even suggested that I should leave black history to African Americans and focus on my own history.… [Read more…]
A Boy Called Dickens, by Deborah Hopkinson, illustrated by John Hendrix Charles Dickens was born 200 years ago, on February 7, 1812. Like, Lincoln and Darwin (both born three years before, on February 12, 1809) Dickens has transcended his time. Yet several recent reviewers of A Boy Called Dickens have questioned why John Hendrix and… [Read more…]
Master of Deceit: J. Edgar Hoover and America in the Age of Lies by Marc Aronson All of my books start with questions, and I hope they prompt readers to ask questions of their own. I find history history endlessly fascinating. It is the detective story that yields us as the answer. I try to… [Read more…]
Making This Election Year More Fun with Lives of the Presidents: Fame, Shame (and What the Neighbors Thought) By Kathleen Krull I have a distinct memory of watching the Nixon-Kennedy presidential debates on TV. I was throwing up violently (stomach flu), trying to get down some plain spaghetti with butter and parmesan, and maybe that’s… [Read more…]
From the Personal to the Global: Sugar Changed the World by Marina Budhos This book began several years ago, when we were sitting on a stone patio in Jerusalem, and my husband’s cousin told us a fantastic tale of a relative whose personal history was intertwined with the story of beet sugar. I too had… [Read more…]
Fun with Fabulous Fishes by Susan Stockdale My interest in animals and nature as well as my love of color and rhyme began in my formative years. I grew up in sunny Miami, surrounded by lush vegetation, flowers and skittering lizards. I loved visiting an attraction called the Parrot Jungle, where I was enchanted by… [Read more…]
12 for 2012 by Anastasia Suen, panel moderator Happy New Year, everyone! It’s time to introduce the Nonfiction Book Blast panel for 2012… Marc Aronson Larry Dane Brimner Marina Budhos Tom Greve Deborah Hopkinson Kathleen Krull Loreen Leedy Susan Goldman Rubin Seymour Simon Susan Stockdale Anastasia Suen Ginger Wadsworth Beginning next Monday, these twelve nonfiction… [Read more…]
August 8, 2011
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2012 Nonfiction Book Blast: Booktalks and Activities for Your Library In 2012, the American Library Association will hold its 2012 Annual Conference in Anaheim, CA from June 21–26. I’m happy to say that ALSC has invited Nonfiction Book Blast: Booktalks and Activities for Your Library to be on the program! We’ll be speaking on Saturday,… [Read more…]
June 30, 2011
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What a Sunday morning it was! I want to give a public thank you to everyone on my Nonfiction Book Blast: Booktalks and Activities for Your Library panel for going above and beyond: April Pulley Sayre Carla Killough McClafferty Carla Mooney Christine Taylor-Butler Darcy Pattison Deborah Heiligman Kelly Milner Halls Loree Griffin Burns Shirley Duke… [Read more…]
February 20, 2012
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