Friday, February 11, 2005
JA WWII Camp Art Trivia Quiz
The National Japanese American Museum is sponsoring a promotional relocation camp art trivia quiz. Winners will receve museum merchandise.
Headache, fever, and a chill...
Anyone who grew up during the 1980's should recognize the quote.
Yesterday was my "fun with flu" day. Yech. Feeling somewhat better today (amazing what 18 hours of sleep will do for you), but am still planning to take it easy. Call in sick, that sort of thing.
Yesterday was my "fun with flu" day. Yech. Feeling somewhat better today (amazing what 18 hours of sleep will do for you), but am still planning to take it easy. Call in sick, that sort of thing.
Tuesday, February 08, 2005
2005 Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award
Someone posted this to one of my list servs yesterday, though I haven't seen the official web page announcement:
The award, named for poet Lee Bennett Hopkins, is given to a volume of distinguished poetry.
The winner is HERE IN HARLEM by Walter Dean Myers (Holiday House)
Two Honor Books were chosen:
CREATURE CARNIVAL by Marilyn Singer (Hyperion Books)
IS THIS FOREVER...OR WHAT? TEXAS POEMS, edited by Naomi Shihab Nye (Greenwillow Books)
Congratulations all.
Marilyn Singer is on a writer list serv with Cyn and me, and was gracious enough to organize a breakfast at last year's NCTE conference in Indianapolis. (We missed her presentation, though :-().
We did, however, have the pleasure of seeing Walter Dean Myers and Naomi Shihab Nye present here in Texas last year: Myers presented selections from HERE IN HARLEM at last year's Texas Book Festival, and Nye presented IS THIS FOREVER... at last year's Texas Library Association conference.
The award, named for poet Lee Bennett Hopkins, is given to a volume of distinguished poetry.
The winner is HERE IN HARLEM by Walter Dean Myers (Holiday House)
Two Honor Books were chosen:
CREATURE CARNIVAL by Marilyn Singer (Hyperion Books)
IS THIS FOREVER...OR WHAT? TEXAS POEMS, edited by Naomi Shihab Nye (Greenwillow Books)
Congratulations all.
Marilyn Singer is on a writer list serv with Cyn and me, and was gracious enough to organize a breakfast at last year's NCTE conference in Indianapolis. (We missed her presentation, though :-().
We did, however, have the pleasure of seeing Walter Dean Myers and Naomi Shihab Nye present here in Texas last year: Myers presented selections from HERE IN HARLEM at last year's Texas Book Festival, and Nye presented IS THIS FOREVER... at last year's Texas Library Association conference.
Sunday, February 06, 2005
Super Bowl Sunday and I don't care...
New England and Philadelphia. Feh. Don't have a dog in that fight, as they say.
Had an odd moment yesterday ("I grow old, I grow old..." :-)): I was lifting weights at the Y yesterday, when the radio they have on starts playing this show called The Time Zone, "[a] music and information show. . .that features a specific year and discusses what was going on socially, politically, etc. including the popular songs."
For the inaugural show, they featured the music and history of the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Eighty-Two.
Freshman year of high school. Brrr.
On the other hand, I can bench press more now than back then :-).
Had an odd moment yesterday ("I grow old, I grow old..." :-)): I was lifting weights at the Y yesterday, when the radio they have on starts playing this show called The Time Zone, "[a] music and information show. . .that features a specific year and discusses what was going on socially, politically, etc. including the popular songs."
For the inaugural show, they featured the music and history of the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Eighty-Two.
Freshman year of high school. Brrr.
On the other hand, I can bench press more now than back then :-).
Friday, February 04, 2005
Writer-illustrator blogs
Laurie Halse Anderson, author of Speak, has a new blog and a new novel, Prom, that's getting all kinds of good reviews. Cyn read and loved it. It's now on my nightstand as a "next-to-read."
Haemi Balgassi, author of Peacebound Trains, has a blog that provides insights into her writing life. Also check out her website.
Debbi Michiko Florenceblogs books she's read, author interviews, and her life in general. Her website has interviews of Cyn and me.
Winner of the 2002 Newbery for A Single Shard, Linda Sue Park blogs "What She's Reading." Her new novel, Project Mulberry, comes out this spring. Intriguingly, the novel offers character interaction with the author, Ms. Park. Can't wait to read it!
Austin illustrator Don Tatetells about his "highs and lows." His most recent book is Sure As Sunrise: Stories of Bruh Rabbit and His Walkin' Talkin' Friends.
YA author of TAYSHAS list novel Contents Under Pressure,Lara Zeises, blogs at girl interrupted.
Haemi Balgassi, author of Peacebound Trains, has a blog that provides insights into her writing life. Also check out her website.
Debbi Michiko Florenceblogs books she's read, author interviews, and her life in general. Her website has interviews of Cyn and me.
Winner of the 2002 Newbery for A Single Shard, Linda Sue Park blogs "What She's Reading." Her new novel, Project Mulberry, comes out this spring. Intriguingly, the novel offers character interaction with the author, Ms. Park. Can't wait to read it!
Austin illustrator Don Tatetells about his "highs and lows." His most recent book is Sure As Sunrise: Stories of Bruh Rabbit and His Walkin' Talkin' Friends.
YA author of TAYSHAS list novel Contents Under Pressure,Lara Zeises, blogs at girl interrupted.
Copy-editing the great American novel...
No, not me. This lady.
Of particular note is this line: "The Great American Novel's editor will expect no less of me [than my full powers of anal-retentiveness], for his house will be paying me upwards of $15 an hour, more than it paid the author himself."
And she gets benefits, too.
Sigh.
Of particular note is this line: "The Great American Novel's editor will expect no less of me [than my full powers of anal-retentiveness], for his house will be paying me upwards of $15 an hour, more than it paid the author himself."
And she gets benefits, too.
Sigh.
Thursday, February 03, 2005
Texas Library Association Conference
Cyn and I are going to be on a panel at this year's TLA Conference, held right here in Austin, Texas (April 5-8)! (This is not new news, but we just got the program.). We're on a panel with Alex Sanchez on Humor in Multicultural Literature. (If you know of any, let us know :-)).
Wednesday, February 02, 2005
Their brains are smaller...
Or, well, not fully developed. Teenagers, that is. The Washington Post today reports that a 2004 NIH study "suggests" that "the region of the brain that inhibits risky behavior is not fully formed until age 25." This, we are told, has "implications for a host of policies, including the nation's driving laws." Here's the link, but you have to register.
Oddly, the article doesn't state what the parameters of the study were (apparently involving MRI scans), although they did state generically that "brain-imaging research," indicates "no proven correlation between brain changes and behavior."
Also oddly, the article quotes the leader of the study as saying "[w]e'd thought that the highest levels of physical and brain maturity were reached by age 18."
Obviously, the good doctor has never been to a frat party...(Yes, I know, I'm guilty of conflating brain maturity and behavioral maturity, too, but the line was too good to pass up.)
Finally, the article also notes that scientists have recently discovered that teenagers are willing to succumb to peer pressure ("take more chances when friends are present") and that "the judgment of teens deteriorates with distractions."
I'm speechless.
Oddly, the article doesn't state what the parameters of the study were (apparently involving MRI scans), although they did state generically that "brain-imaging research," indicates "no proven correlation between brain changes and behavior."
Also oddly, the article quotes the leader of the study as saying "[w]e'd thought that the highest levels of physical and brain maturity were reached by age 18."
Obviously, the good doctor has never been to a frat party...(Yes, I know, I'm guilty of conflating brain maturity and behavioral maturity, too, but the line was too good to pass up.)
Finally, the article also notes that scientists have recently discovered that teenagers are willing to succumb to peer pressure ("take more chances when friends are present") and that "the judgment of teens deteriorates with distractions."
I'm speechless.
Tuesday, February 01, 2005
Mutual Admiration Society :-)
Cyn is blogging about Teri Lesesne, Goddess of YA Literature (who has some lovely things to say about TOFU), and who responds thusly.
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