Bart King's Blog, page 241
May 8, 2011
That's Me: An Otter Wearing a Beret!
May 6, 2011
We have a winner!
Over here, a "lucky" reader writes about winning a copy of The Big Book of Spy Stuff.And she was kind enough to blog about the experience, from receiving the book to getting an author's note:
But the story ends on a sad note . . . the Big Book is a little TOO big to fit in her bookcase! Drat. :((BTW, GoodReads has book giveaways going constantly. Check it!)
This reminds me of how my brother and I used to dance!
We were better, though.
April 28, 2011
Come to the L.A. TIMES Festival of Books!
Come see me at the
L.A. Times Festival of Books
this weekend (April 30-May 1) at the USC campus. It's free! I'll be at table 911 with a few of my closest friends like:Rainn Wilson
Jennifer Egan
Patton Oswalt
Andrew Breitbart
Jonathan Lethem
Demetri Martin
T.C. Boyle
Jamie Lee Curtis
R.L. Stine
Daniel Clowes
Jada Pinkett Smith . . . and hundreds more!
You know this is free, right? All of your questions about the festival can be answered here !
SPY STUFF is "non-stop entertainment"
Over at the BiblioReads site, there's a very pleasant book review. Here's part of it:The Big Book of Spy Stuff is excellent... The entertainment is non-stop in this 304 page tome which is pretty amazing considering the age group it targets — Bart King knows how to hold the attention of a 9-12 year old.
Kiddos that are just getting into chapter books may be overwhelmed by the size of this book, but King breaks up the wordage into bite-sized pieces with humor that will encourage this age to grasp reading something that requires a little endurance. Precocious readers will gobble it up, twelve year olds will get hooked, and older kids will be amused as well.
April 27, 2011
April 26, 2011
Come to the L.A. Times Festival of Books!
I'm going to be at the
L.A. Times Festival of Books
this weekend. Come by!It's at the USC campus. I'll be hanging out with a few of my closest friends like:
Rainn Wilson
Jennifer Egan
Patton Oswalt
Andrew Breitbart
Jonathan Lethem
Demetri Martin
T.C. Boyle
Jamie Lee Curtis
R.L. Stine
Ricky Jay
Daniel Clowes
Jada Pinkett Smith
There's hundreds more, trust me. :) The festival is on both Saturday and Sunday. It was created in 1996 to bring together writers with people who love reading. Oh, and one more thing: It's awesome!
April 25, 2011
Big Wheels' Wipeouts!
About 2,000 tricycle and Big Wheels riders tried to make it down San Francisco's Portrero Hill this weekend. The results were not always pretty!
April 24, 2011
Trail Blazers vs. Mavericks: Game 4
Great ending!, originally uploaded by Bart King.
Portland was down 23 points at the end of the third quarter . . . and won!
