Chris Barton's Blog: Bartography, page 4
April 8, 2025
Feedback from my 2024-25 author visit hosts, pt. 3: “What do you wish that Chris had done more (or less) of during his presentation(s)?”
These are the books I'll be featuring in my 2025-26 author visits. Find out more about hosting me! I've done 167 author presentations so far this academic year, and often at the end of a visit a school principal or other administrator will ask me how things went. I always tell them, honestly, [...]
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April 7, 2025
Feedback from my 2024-25 author visit hosts, pt. 2: “What was the most valuable or beneficial aspect of Chris’ presentation?”
These are the books I'll be featuring in my 2025-26 author visits. Find out more about hosting me! I've done 167 author presentations so far this academic year, and often at the end of a visit a school principal or other administrator will ask me how things went. I always tell them, honestly, [...]
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April 6, 2025
Feedback from my 2024-25 author visit hosts, pt. 1: “Were there any moments that stood out as particularly memorable?”
These are the books I'll be featuring in my 2025-26 author visits. Find out more about hosting me! I've done 167 author presentations so far this academic year, and often at the end of a visit a school principal or other administrator will ask me how things went. I always tell them, honestly, [...]
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April 1, 2025
April 2025 book giveaway: Win 1 of 4 signed copies of The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch
As I write this, it's the tenth anniversary of the publication date of The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch, which I wrote, Don Tate illustrated, and Eerdmans Books for Young Readers published. It's also the 22nd hour of U.S. Senator Cory Booker's epic filibuster. It seems like a good time to dust off this [...]
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March 9, 2025
March 2025 book giveaway: Win 1 of 4 signed copies of What Do You Do with a Voice Like That?
Growing up in the Fifth Ward of Houston, Texas, Barbara Jordan stood out. She may have looked like other kids. She may have acted like other kids. But she sure didn’t sound like other kids. Not with that voice of hers. That voice. That big, bold, booming, crisp, clear, confident voice. It caused folks to [...]
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March 2, 2025
Celebrating the 32 new inductees into the Texas Institute of Letters
The 32 new inductees into the Texas Institute of Letters are shown here in random order. To put faces with names (and a bit about their work), please read the TIL press release announcing their induction. I'm nearly halfway through my two-year stint as the vice president of the Texas Institute of Letters, [...]
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February 15, 2025
February 2025 book giveaway: Win 1 of 4 copies of Spinning Toward the Sun
Five years ago, on the occasion of the publication of my nonfiction picture book All of a Sudden and Forever: Help and Healing After the Oklahoma City Bombing (and, as it turned out, perfectly timed for the onset of the pandemic) I wrote an essay for School Library Journal about why those of us who [...]
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February 6, 2025
This One’s Dedicated to… Episode 72 & giveaway: The Gray, by Chris Baron
Welcome to the 72nd episode of This One's Dedicated to..., in which Jennifer Ziegler and I share our quick conversation with author Chris Baron -- who is an entirely different person from me, author Chris Barton -- about the dedication he wrote for his middle grade novel The Gray (Feiwel & Friends, 2023). The Gray [...]
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February 5, 2025
This One’s Dedicated to… Episode 71 & giveaway: Ode to Grapefruit, by Kari Lavelle
Welcome to the 71st episode of This One's Dedicated to..., in which Jennifer Ziegler and I share our quick conversation with author Kari Lavelle about the dedication she wrote for her picture book biography Ode to Grapefruit: How James Earl Jones Found His Voice (illustrated by Bryan Collier; Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2024). Ode [...]
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February 3, 2025
Dollar-for-dollar grant funding available for my Texas author visits in summer and fall 2025
As a Texas Commission on the Arts (TCA) Texas Touring Roster artist, I have some timely info that might be of value to you or a school, library, or nonprofit organization you know: There's a May 1 deadline for applying for Arts Respond Performance Support grant funding for an author visit from me in summer [...]
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