I thought that it might be fun for everyone to post what they are currently reading. This is a great way to recommend books to others.
Rachel Noble, Assistant Director at the Carnegie Center, recently directed me to a great interview from the Bob Edwards Show that she heard over the weekend.
"Bob talks to Jon Scieszka, the recently named first National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. He's also the author of several bestselling children’s books, including “The Stinky Cheese Man,” which won a Caldecott Honor medal, and he's the founder of Guys Read, a nonprofit literacy organization. Then, writer and illustrator Brian Selznick's Invention of Hugo Cabret is easily the biggest book to ever win a Caldecott award. At over 500 pages, half of them illustrations, Selznick wrote a book about a boy living inside a Paris train station. Bob talks with Selznick about his recent win and about the marriage between illustrations and words."
http://www.bobedwardsradio.com/bob-edwards-weekend/
There’s a podcast available online.
Check it out!
~warmly~
Hey guys! We've got another exciting Carnegie Center program to announce...
Please join us at the Carnegie Center this evening for a reading by the men of blacoetry press.
The Carnegie Center was thrilled to welcome the Young Women Writers Project for their second meeting last Saturday. These amazing ladies (9-12th grade) were selected from many applicants to the program. For five weeks, they meet with writing mentors and instructors, each from different genres, to workshop and create amazing pieces.My grandfather used to be an antelope. His spent his life before that as a jaguar. And before that as a horse. Once he was a performing monkey for a magician who worked on the dirty streets of London. Once a camel who carried sheiks through the hot desert sand. He says he’s always been a fly on the wall.
I wish I had a list of all the things my grandfather had ever said to me. “The inside of a snowflake has enough love to end all wars, if only we knew how to unleash it.” “Anytime your heart skips and beat, and your chest gets tight, and you feel faint, you know an angel just came down from Heaven to kiss you on the forehead.” “The pot at the end of the rainbow doesn’t hold gold and isn’t guarded by a leprechaun. Instead, it contains pure happiness, and the reason no one’s found it yet is because we’re all scared.”
I look at him on the cold hospital bed, fluffs of white hair matted with sweat and grease. I pick up the sponge next to the sink and dab his forehead with water to cool the fever that turns his cheeks red and makes him cry out in his sleep.
Mothering Heights announces
2nd Annual Mother's Day Essay Contest and Publishing Deal
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