Sally Lloyd-Jones's Blog, page 48
May 14, 2009
The Cure To Swine Flu?
If you find yourself in CT, in New Canaan, at Elm Street Books at 2.30pm on Sat 16th... You're in LUCK! we will be curing Swine Flu ...I'll be reading How To Get Married... By Me, The Bride and the VERY TOPICAL (rumored to be The Cure to Swine Flu) Being A Pig Is Nice: a child's eye-view of manners.
More information contact: kathleen@elmstreetbooks.com or here.[image error]
May 13, 2009
BBC interviews with Roald Dahl
Dahl (1916 - 1990) recorded these interviews for the BBC in 1988, two years before he died. He was 71 at the time. Julia Eccleshare was the interviewer.
Listen to extracts from the interviews here.
For even more amazing interviews from the master of storytelling and voice, check out the official Roald Dahl website (once there click on Roald Dahl)
BONUS: Various random Dahl facts (which one isn't true?):
he was a spy
he worked for Shell
he could speak Swahili
favorite music: Beethoven
favorite TV prog
Listen to extracts from the interviews here.For even more amazing interviews from the master of storytelling and voice, check out the official Roald Dahl website (once there click on Roald Dahl)
BONUS: Various random Dahl facts (which one isn't true?):
he was a spy
he worked for Shell
he could speak Swahili
favorite music: Beethoven
favorite TV prog
May 12, 2009
What the Critics are saying about Being A Pig (it's Nice)
the new book's almost out and the reviews are in... from the barn:“A Complete Stinker!”
A PIG
“Horribly Good!”
A MONSTER
“Perfectly Terribly Terrible Table Manners!”
A MONKEY
“Superb Pacing”
A SNAIL
“Krall and Lloyd-Jones's manners are World Renowned and the envy of all the barn.”
SPOKESPIG FOR THE EXTRA STINKY TIMES
To get hold of your copy/find out more, click here.[image error]
Tribeca Wednesday 13th
come along to B&N Tribeca at 11 am Wednesday 13th where I'll be reading from ... How To Get Married... By Me, The Bride.More here.[image error]
May 9, 2009
Fun Finds for May
Thanks to Scholastic Parent and Child Magazine: they included Being A Pig Is Nice: a child's eye-view of manners in their FUN FINDS FOR MAY! read their review here.I found my own fun find of May... some random person I don't know posted this... if you want a laugh check it out here.
Ahh, how very timely the release of Being A Pig Is Nice is turning out to be. (Evil violins here.) Yes, coming as it does right at the very peak of SWINE FLU pig season... (maniacal laughter.)
(Clever marketing on Ran
May 8, 2009
Jesus Storybook Bible Fan Page
The publisher set up a page for the book. Feel free to become a fan here: http://ow.ly/5MDo[image error]
the crocodile
Nothing like a crocodile with your coffee first thing in the morning... Here's one of my favorite things... well two. Lewis Carroll and his Crocodile:
THE CROCODILE
How doth the little crocodile
Improve his shining tail,
And pour the waters of the Nile
On every golden scale!
How cheerfully he seems to grin,
How neatly spreads his claws,
And welcomes little fishes in,
With gently smiling jaws!
Lewis Carroll (1823-1898)
From The Hunting of the Snark and Other Poems and Verses. Lewis Car
May 7, 2009
May 6, 2009
a nice review... wait
S J Perelma's first collection of essays, Dawn Ginsbergh's Revenge, came out in 1929. Groucho Marx wrote him a letter that said:
"From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it."
Genius![image error]
May 3, 2009
your task...
Joseph Conrad said, "My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word to make you hear, to make you feel — it is, before all, to make you see. That — and no more, and it is everything."[image error]
