Chris Barton's Blog: Bartography, page 10
April 24, 2024
Hear me on The Reader’s Heart
Librarian Jennifer LaGarde has a wonderful new podcast called The Reader's Heart, and I was so honored to be among her first guests. (Authors featured on other episodes have included John Schu, Chrystal D. Giles, Lisa Fipps, Kyle Lukoff, and the often-confused-with-me-and-vice-versa-but-that's-another-story Chris Baron.) Among other things, I talked with Jennifer about the teacher I [...]
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April 14, 2024
“And that’s the true soul of a censor.”
My all-time favorite writer, not counting those I am friends with or married to, is the late Larry L. King, born in the tiny Texas town of Putnam in 1929. I'm also a huge fan of oral histories. So you can imagine how excited I was to learn just recently about a 1991 collection of [...]
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April 4, 2024
ALSC’s summer 2024 reading lists include Glitter Everywhere!
The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association, has put together a quartet of summer 2024 reading lists for kids from birth through eighth grade. I'm honored to see my nonfiction picture book Glitter Everywhere! Where It Came From, Where It’s Found & Where It’s Going (illustrated by [...]
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April 2, 2024
My April 2024 book giveaway: Free to Learn by Cynthia Levinson and Mirelle Ortega
"A tribute to a courageous family of undocumented immigrants who went to court to secure their child’s right to a free public education. ... Frank and sympathetic in presenting a lesser-known landmark in the struggle for human rights." That quote comes from the Kirkus review of Free to Learn: How Alfredo Lopez Fought for the [...]
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March 20, 2024
Congratulations to this year’s Texas Institute of Letters award winners!
My home state has a wealth of literary talent, and both as an author of books for young readers and as a member of the Texas Institute of Letters' governing council, I'm always eager to find out which of my peers will be honored by the TIL's annual literary awards. This year's just-announced awards -- [...]
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March 6, 2024
Come see me at the 2024 annual conference of the Texas Library Association!
As someone who once spent his honeymoon at the TLA annual conference (as did, coincidentally, My Favorite Author in the Whole Wide World), you better believe that I'll be attending this year's conference -- it would take an awful lot to get me to miss it. The details of my schedule are still coming together, [...]
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March 1, 2024
Win 1 of 4 signed copies of 88 Instruments!
For my author visits, I love keeping myself on my toes, and one way to do that is to occasionally bring some of my older books back into the lineup of titles I focus on during my presentations. The latest returnee is 88 Instruments, my playful fiction picture book illustrated by Louis Thomas and published [...]
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February 28, 2024
All the college kidlit conferences (2021 2022 2023 2024 edition!)
Or, more formally, "A Comprehensive List of U.S. College- and University-Sponsored or -Hosted Children's and Young Adult Literature Conferences, Festivals, and Symposia." (All of them that I could find, anyway). Several years ago, I was looking for such a list, wondered why I couldn't find one, and decided to just go ahead and make one [...]
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February 26, 2024
CCBC Choices 2024 includes Glitter Everywhere!
As a reader and as an enthusiast for the work done by my children's publishing peers, I always look forward to CCBC Choices, the annual best-of list created by the librarians of the Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. And for years when I've had a new book published, I eagerly await [...]
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February 22, 2024
Lonnie Johnson in 2024, Alton Yates in 1977
Even though my book Moving Forward: From Space-Age Rides to Civil Rights Sit-Ins with Airman Alton Yates leaps ahead from 1960 to 2017, my enthusiasm for the book's subject -- as a person, and as a friend -- is such that I was thrilled last week to come across The Other Sides of Alton: I'd [...]
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