Thursday, August 16, 2007

OUT & ABOUT: August 16, 2007

Interested in writing an essay about connecting children and books? Check out Writing for the Horn Book: Field Notes at Read Roger.

Susan Thomsen has links to all the posts of the Australian Book Tour (via American Bloggers) at Chicken Spaghetti.

I got this link to a new Mock Newbery blog called Sharon’s Mock Newbery thanks to Fuse.

Cynthia Leitich Smith of Cynsations has returned to the world of blogging after a two month hiatus.

Tricia at The Miss Rumphius Effect is offering a Poetry Stretch every Monday. She’s trying out different forms of poetry. This week it’s the cento. Care to join her?

MotherReader has a great logo for BACA and a few more thoughts about celebrity authors of children’s books in her post BACA Off Again.

Here’s a “Back to School” book list I missed in my Book Lists: School Stories post on Monday. This list is the September/October 2002 CBC Showcase: Back to School.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for covering the Australian tour, Elaine. People wrote about a wide range of books, which made for fun reading.

We are enjoying every inch of our last two weeks of summer. Junior is making a flood in the yard as I write this. So much for water conservation...