Chris Barton's Blog: Bartography, page 37
August 14, 2016
Key steps on my journey with Don Tate (so far!)
Yesterday morning marked the debut of a new presentation with a longtime friend. As you may know, Don Tate and I have created two picture books together: The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch and Whoosh! Lonnie Johnson’s Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions. Yesterday, we got to present about our journey “From Critique Partners to Collaborators” […]
August 7, 2016
All the college kidlit conferences (as of August 2016)
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). A few years ago, I was looking for such a list, wondered why I couldn’t find one, and decided to just go ahead and make […]
August 4, 2016
A morning spent inside the Don Tate-Chris Barton archives
I spent this morning delving into various archives to piece together a chronology of the relationship Don Tate and I have enjoyed as friends, critique partners, and collaborators. Our history stretches back to way before the publication of The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch in 2015 and of Whoosh! earlier this year. I know […]
July 27, 2016
July 2016 Bartography Express: “Then my obsession with all-things-coyote began”: Maria Gianferrari & Bagram Ibatoulline’s new picture book
To get Bartography Express in your inbox each month — and to have a shot at the August giveaway of 88 Instruments, my new book with illustrator Louis Thomas — you can sign up on my home page.
July 14, 2016
“When every man, woman, and child can feel and know…”
“[W]hen every man, woman, and child can feel and know that his, her, and their rights are fully protected by the strong arm of a generous and grateful Republic, then we can all truthfully say that this beautiful land of ours, over which the Star Spangled Banner so triumphantly waves, is, in truth and in […]
July 13, 2016
A Whoosh! of good news
Whoosh! Lonnie Johnson’s Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions was among the Notable Children’s Books Nominees discussed by the Association for Library Service to Children during the American Library Association’s annual conference in Orlando last month. I’m not sure how nervous I would have been while hearing my book discussed in such a public setting, so it’s […]
July 5, 2016
To Jupiter and beyond (and back)!
With Jupiter in the news — NASA’s Juno spacecraft has arrived to do what spacecraft do — it’s not hard for me to make a leap to Lonnie Johnson, subject of my newest book with Don Tate. Before Lonnie became known as the inventor of the Super Soaker water gun, he worked at NASA’s Jet […]
June 30, 2016
June 2016 Bartography Express: From telepathic fish to “Where do I come from?”: Mike Jung on UNIDENTIFIED SUBURBAN OBJECT
To get Bartography Express in your inbox each month — and to have a shot at the July giveaway of Maria Gianferrari and Bagram Ibatoulline’s Coyote Moon — you can sign up on my home page.
June 20, 2016
Where I’ll be at ALA in Orlando
(Or rather, where I’m supposed to be during the American Library Association annual conference in Orlando. But I’ll try to be everywhere else, too.)
June 13, 2016
How to Make a Kidlit List, Version 2.0
Updated and improved, thanks to some thoughtful feedback, and now available as a Google Document.
