Sally Lloyd-Jones's Blog, page 49
May 1, 2009
save the dates (MAY)
some happy events coming up. Come and learn all about:how to get hitched and put on the perfect wedding (whether you're only pretending or actually doing it in real life) in the "Stylish and Witty" (Publisher's Weekly) companion volume to the NYT Bestseller, How To Be A Baby... By Me, The Big Sister)
how to behave in Being A Pig Is Nice: a child's eye-view of manners
or just hear a story and get your book signed
Wednesday May 13th, 11 am
Barnes and Noble, Tribeca
Reading and signing How To Get Marrie
April 30, 2009
the new emily post...
resending with FIXED LINKS... sorry!
this is the original one... but now that I've written a manners book I do believe I am the next one. (I probably will lose the hat and the frilly frothy bodice thing though.)
As you probably know my manners are the talk of the barn and I'm known the world over for my exquisite table manners and social graces. Which is why I felt it my duty to share my wisdom and riches. The book comes out May 14th and it is called Being A Pig Is Nice. It is brilliantly illust
this is the original one... but now that I've written a manners book I do believe I am the next one. (I probably will lose the hat and the frilly frothy bodice thing though.)As you probably know my manners are the talk of the barn and I'm known the world over for my exquisite table manners and social graces. Which is why I felt it my duty to share my wisdom and riches. The book comes out May 14th and it is called Being A Pig Is Nice. It is brilliantly illust
April 27, 2009
seeing and dreaming
"You see things as they are and ask 'Why?'
I dream of things as they never were and ask, 'Why not?'"
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)[image error]
April 22, 2009
stars and prisons
In May, 1889, Van Gogh was admitted to Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum in Saint-Remy. One of his greatest paintings, Starry Night was painted in June while he was confined there. He left the asylum for good in the spring of 1890.
In July, just as he was starting to receive favorable attention for his work, he committed suicide. Shortly before he died, he wrote "I feel a failure."
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In July, just as he was starting to receive favorable attention for his work, he committed suicide. Shortly before he died, he wrote "I feel a failure."
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April 20, 2009
Goat Detained over Armed Robbery
April 19, 2009
running and writing: dogs, fights and long distance
Today is the 113th Boston Marathon.
(photo is the earliest known photo of the Boston Marathon, 1904)
Running a marathon is a lot about not giving up, putting one foot in front of the other, listening to what you're telling yourself, keeping going, keeping going long after you think your body is out of gas ("the wall"), keeping going even when your quads are screaming at you to walk, and your brain is bargaining with you (those people over there are walking why can't you?, no one is making you do t
(photo is the earliest known photo of the Boston Marathon, 1904)Running a marathon is a lot about not giving up, putting one foot in front of the other, listening to what you're telling yourself, keeping going, keeping going long after you think your body is out of gas ("the wall"), keeping going even when your quads are screaming at you to walk, and your brain is bargaining with you (those people over there are walking why can't you?, no one is making you do t
April 17, 2009
in love with language
W H Auden said, "A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language."[image error]
April 14, 2009
OUT TODAY! How To Get Married
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY says it's "Stylish and Witty"SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL says it's "bound to be a hit with the Fancy Nancy Crowd"
KIRKUS says "aspiring brides and starry-eyed flower girls alike will be enchanted"
I say quick better go and get it before it sells out.
Here's the perfect book for kids who play pretend and throw mock weddings, and also for grown-ups who are actual brides-to-be.
Our know-it-all narrator is at it again, in this companion to the New York Times bestselling How To Be A Baby...
April 13, 2009
road to the heart
"There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect. Men do not quarrel about the meaning of sunsets; they never dispute that the hawthorn says the best and wittiest thing about the spring."- G K Chesteron, from A Defence of Heraldry[image error]
