Sally Lloyd-Jones's Blog, page 47

ibirds...

the app for iphone: iBird Explorer.

this alone makes you want an iphone doesn't it? (I've resisted it ... so far.)

Here's a photo of the inventor playing sounds from it to attract birds to his feeder in his garden. In Feb, he got a call from Apple's legal dept. He thought he was about to be sued. Instead, he was being chosen out of thousands to be reatured in a tv commercial.

“In many ways, developing a program is like writing a book. You say, ‘I’m going to make something first of all that I like.

an extremely urgent extra important message brought to you by this chatty baby

is this, do you think, what grown ups sound like to her?

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purple monsters and reading to children

Came across this article, giving tips on how to read to children. It suggests that as important as what you read is how you read it.

This has to be true doesn't it? I mean if you read it in a droning monotone, how fun will that be? Who wants to sit through that? You can make even the funniest book sound like a dirge if you set your mind to it.

It's all in the delivery. It's a performance really and you must engage your audience and entertain them. Make them laugh not fall asleep. (Unless, of cour

save the date June!

if you're in NYC on Wednesday June 24th at 10AM come along for storytime at Barnes and Noble 150 East 86th Street (and 2nd Ave) and get your own personalized copy of two very important new books (we'd love to see you for some fun and laughs and very high jinks!):

one tells you all about how to get hitched (or at least pretend to if you're only waist high) and the other tells you all about how to behave (if you're a pig especially)

These are essential things to know. And you need to know them. (Don

how to get wedlocked

Just came across this new book "Wedlock," by Wendy Moore: about how a countess escaped a frightful violent dreadful awful marriage. Back in 1700 and something no less.

The book is called Wedlock: The True Story of the Disastrous Marriage and Remarkable Divorce of Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore and you can check out the review in the NYT here.

It's not just the divorce that was remarkable. There's something else (for those who haven't guessed) which will make you want to read the book a

review in WORLD MAGAZINE: do some cartwheels for joy

WORLD MAGAZINE in their June issue on stands now, reviewed How To Get Married... By Me, The Bride in with their serious reviews about other books on marriage. How cool are they? Very. (The book is proving a hit with real actual grown up brides to be as the ideal shower gift.) Thanks World Magazine and Susan Olasky!

You can read the reviews here.

They said:

"With so much written about the troubles of marriage, it's refreshing to view it from the eyes of a 6-year-old. That's what Sally Lloyd-Jones,

Cicadas on the dot

It's hard to believe this tiny insect is the one making the biggest noise at night. But here's something even odder. Did you know ... cicadas live for either 13 or 17 years? Exactly. On the dot. No exception.

But how?

And why?

No one knows.

Why do they live only in prime numbers–(numbers divisible only by themselves and the number 1.) (I knew that)
How do they know their time is up? Is it up to them?

Scientists have got some guesses of course. They're very complicated so you'd better read them for yo

music and sounds

The genius jazz trumpeter and composer, Dizzy Gillespie (1917-1993) said, "I don't care too much about music. What I like is sounds."[image error]

The lost art of reading aloud

Great Editorial in NYT by VERLYN KLINKENBORG. (Though Children's books I would add to poetry as the other realm where reading aloud has not died out. And I trust it never will.)[image error]

Inspired Bicycles

This is incredible... the light, the music, the guy, the everythingness of it. ( Danny MacAskill April 2009)


(excuse me but I have to go and get on my bike now)

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