Here’s a great way to connect children’s authors and readers, and it’s a WIN-WIN-WIN for schools, authors and school book fairs everywhere! AUTHOR SPOTS FOR SCHOOLS! Author Spots are FREE mini-commercials created by children’s authors that schools can broadcast to promote their book fair to kids and parents. I’m not talking about anything fancy here… Read more »
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTS FictionThis Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz (Riverhead)A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers (McSweeney’s)The Round House by Louise Erdrich (Harper)Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain (Ecco)The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers (Little, Brown) NonfictionIron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1945-1956 by Anne Applebaum (Doubleday)Behind… Read more »
Dear President and Mrs. Obama, Thank you for being the honorary chairs at the National Book Festival in Washington D.C. this weekend. I hope you can stop by the Colorado booth at the Pavilion of States on Saturday to take a look at my children’s book, LIGHT UP THE NIGHT. There, you’ll meet a nice… Read more »
And here’s what it’s all about … For more information go tohttps://jeanreidy.com/Time_Out_for_Teachers.html I hope to hear from you soon!Jean
WOWEE! My calendar is filling up nicely. Here’s my schedule thus far: 9/21/12 – Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association Trade Show, Children’s Author’s Tea 9/22 – 9/23/12 – RMC-SCBWI Instructing “Minding Your Ps &Qs: A Picture Book Re-Vision Workshop” 10/1/12 – Castlewood Library 4-5 P.M. “CASTLES, CROWNS, CORNERS,CREATIVITY!” 10/3/12 – Koelbel Library 7-8 P.M…. Read more »
It’s my book birthday for TIME OUT FOR MONSTERS! To celebrate the release, we’ve got a lot going on! And there’s something for EVERYONE!CHECK IT OUT! Time Out for Teachers – Free Skype Visits and Resources for Teachers and Librarians for the 2012-13 School YearTales from the Time Out Corner – A fun video… Read more »
The week before the Colorado Book Awards ceremony, I debated whether or not to type out my 1.5 minute (Note: Well under the 3 minute limit!) “thank you” speech and book reading. After all, it was 3 measly sentences and one verse from my book. AND I’ve had my book memorized since long before it… Read more »
The container arrived, the boxes transported, the books sorted and now libraries are being built in multiple Ugandan schools and communities. Andrea Pauline, the executive director of Musana Children’s Home writes: Hi Jean!! I wanted to send you an update on the books! They are here and they are AWESOME! We spent the week before last… Read more »
While I hinted about this on Facebook, I’m posting the entire Publishers Weekly review here.Time Out for Monsters! Even kids can get the fixer-upper urge—especially when the real estate in question is the time-out corner. “Mom says it’s fine, but I know better. I spend a LOT of time there,” says the refreshingly unapologetic young… Read more »
