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November 29, 2017
Orbis Pictus and “Best of 2017” honors for Dazzle Ships
It’s been an exciting couple of weeks for all of us who had a hand in Dazzle Ships: World War I and the Art of Confusion, written by me, illustrated by Victo Ngai, and published earlier this year by Millbrook Press. At the annual conference of the National Council of Teachers of English in St. […]
November 10, 2017
My new favorite readaloud (and maybe yours, too)
[View the story “How I make BOOK OR BELL? really sing as a readaloud” on Storify]
October 25, 2017
Come see Jennifer and me at the Texas Book Festival!
My favorite author in the whole wide world and I are both on the bill for the Texas Book Festival in Austin on November 4 and 5. We hope you’ll come see us, and we’re pleased to note that our sessions are not scheduled at the same time, so you don’t have to choose between […]
October 18, 2017
Bartography Express: “Mommas would tell him, ‘just don’t kill him!'”
Every now and then, I like to throw my newsletter subscribers a curve – or, in this case, a spiral. The Q&A for the October edition of my Bartography Express newsletter (which you can sign up for here) is with my friend Michael Hurd, author of the new nonfiction book Thursday Night Lights: The Story […]
October 10, 2017
School Library Journal weighs in (twice!) on Book or Bell?
One favorable writeup from School Library Journal would be a welcome thing for a soon-to-be-published book such as Book or Bell?, my upcoming (as in “due one week from today”) collaboration with Ashley Spires. So you can imagine how happy I am to see two such notices in SLJ. First, there’s SLJ’s official review: Designed […]
October 4, 2017
Come see me (if you can) at Houston’s Blue Willow Bookshop
Dazzle Ships: World War I and the Art of Confusion and I will be at Houston’s Blue Willow Bookshop next Tuesday, October 10, and we should be at least as easy to spot at the three (count ’em!) cats in this sample of Victo Ngai’s art from the book: I look forward to seeing you […]
September 28, 2017
Big news for the illustrations (and illustrator) of Dazzle Ships
I’ve seen speculation here and there about Victo Ngai’s art for our book Dazzle Ships being in the running for a certain award, but there’s one prize that her illustrations have already won: The Dilys Evans Founder’s Award, named after The Original Art founder, celebrates the most promising new talent in children’s book illustration. The […]
September 21, 2017
Get up, get out, get writing
On the occasion of the upcoming publication of Book or Bell? (illustrated by Ashley Spires and published by Bloomsbury Children’s Books), I’ve got a new guest post over at Mackin Books in Bloom about the intersection of physical activity and creative work. Go have a look, will you? Here’s some of what I have to […]
September 14, 2017
Modern First Library expands to Dallas!
You may have already heard me go on… …and on… …and on… …and on about Modern First Library, the program that Austin bookseller BookPeople created a few years ago after I suggested an approach to getting more diverse books into the hands and onto the shelves of more families. So given my track record, how […]
September 6, 2017
On Dazzle Ships and creative problem solving
Over at my publisher’s blog, I’ve written about how I came to write my new book, Dazzle Ships: World War I and the Art of Confusion, and why I think this niche of World War I history is worth reading about today. Here’s a bit of what I say in that post. As with other […]
