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From: writerbabe_at_aol.com
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 19:34:13 -0400 (EDT)
I'm delighted to say that the ALA Poetry Blast is once again back on the me nu! Here's all the info:
The ALA Poetry Blast 2013 will be held on Monday, July 1 from 10-11:30 on t he PopTop Stage at the McCormick Center, Chicago. All of the poets will be signing books there after the event. Here is a list of their other signin gs throughout the conference.
Saturday, June 29
Marilyn Singer, 9:00-10:00 AM, Penguin, Booth #2320
Alma Flor Ada and F. Isabel Campoy, 10:00 – 11:30 AM, Charlesbridge , Booth #1908
Alma Flor Ada, 2:00-3:00 PM, Lee & Low, Booth #2305
Rebecca Kai Dotlich, 3:00-4:00 PM , Boyds Mills/WordSong, Booth #2009-10
Laura Purdie Salas, 3:00-4:00 PM, Lerner/Millbrook, Booth #1820
Sunday, June 30
Marilyn Singer, 10:00-11:00 AM, Lee & Low, Booth #2305
Bob Raczka, 11:00 AM-Noon, Whitman, Booth #2000
Marilyn Singer, 1:00-2:00 PM, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Booth # 2501
Nikki Grimes, 3:00-4:00 PM, Boyds Mills/WordSong, Booth #2009-10
Marilyn Singer, 3:30-4:30 PM, Disney-Hyperion Booth, #2620
Monday, July 1
Tamera Will Wissinger, 9:00-10:00 AM, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Booth #250 1
Sid Farrar, 11:30 AM, PopTop Stage and Whitman Booth #2000
Hope to see some of you there!
Marilyn Singer
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From: CCBC-Net digest To: ccbc-net digest recipients Sent: Sat, Jun 8, 2013 1:21 am Subject: ccbc-net digest: June 07, 2013
CCBC-NET Digest for Friday, June 07, 2013.
1. RE: Keep Them Laughing 2. Re: Keep Them Laughing 3. Corrected: Keep Them Laughing
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Subject: RE: Keep Them Laughing From: "Reid, Robert A." Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 15:06:27 +0000 X-Message-Number: 1
I've possibly mentioned this before in a previous CCBC listserv discussion, but we hold a Comedy Club in my University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Literature f or Adolescents course. Students have to find a passage from a young adult book that "middle school or high school kids will find funny." The caveat is that the
material must be 'clean" enough to read in a public place, such as a librar y. The assignment emphasizes that it's not overly easy to find humor in young adult books. We read the passages to each other in class. The students learn that many books that aren't necessarily labeled "humor" or under "comedy," have funny
passages. I read them the scene from Chris Crutcher's Stotan, where the cok e bottle treatment is used to pop a pimple (a similar scene is from Crutcher' s autobiography King of the Mild Frontier). I read them a series of diary ent ries from Angus Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging where Georgia trims her eyebrow s. I read them Jon Scieszka's puke station wagon scene from the first Guys Read book (that, too, is repeated in his autobiography Knucklehead). Finally, I share a passage from David LaRochelle's Absolutely Positively Not where Steven take s yet another driving test and his old first-grade teacher is the driving tester. She fails him.
Some the titles this past semester's students found came from (in no partic ular order): Sarah Simpson's Rules for Living by Rupp, Zen and the Art of Faking It by Sonnenblick, All American Girl by Cabot, Be More Chill by Vizzini, Flipp ed by Van Draanan, Beauty Queens by Bray, Prom by Anderson, and Dash & Lily's Boo k of Dares by Cohn and Levithan.
Rob Reid University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
From: Megan Schliesman
Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2013 9:52 AM To: ccbc-net, Subscribers of Subject:
Keep Them Laughing
It's time to start our discussion for the first part of June:
Keep Them Laughing: More on Humor. Chris Monroe's new picture book Cookie t he Walker (Carolrhoda, 2013) has us thinking more about what's funny, a discus sion we began in February when we talked about humor in multicultural literature . From an outrageous premise spun into delight to authors and illustrators ad ept at finding humor in situations both likely and unlikely, humor can be broad in appeal and yet so specific when it comes to individual taste.
One of the things we always love seeing here at the CCBC are funny y.a. boo ks. So much y.a. lit is not funny (and isn't trying to be), so books that can
capture dimensions of the adolescent experience with tongue in cheek, or bo th humor and heart, stand out from the crowd. One example from last year that we greatly appreciated is "Me, Earl and the Dying Girl" by Jesse Andrews (Amul et / Abrams, 2012). This year, a stand-out for me so far is "Openly Straight" by Bill Konigsberg (Arthur A. Levine Book / Scholastic, 2013).
Megan
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 19:34:13 -0400 (EDT)
I'm delighted to say that the ALA Poetry Blast is once again back on the me nu! Here's all the info:
The ALA Poetry Blast 2013 will be held on Monday, July 1 from 10-11:30 on t he PopTop Stage at the McCormick Center, Chicago. All of the poets will be signing books there after the event. Here is a list of their other signin gs throughout the conference.
Saturday, June 29
Marilyn Singer, 9:00-10:00 AM, Penguin, Booth #2320
Alma Flor Ada and F. Isabel Campoy, 10:00 – 11:30 AM, Charlesbridge , Booth #1908
Alma Flor Ada, 2:00-3:00 PM, Lee & Low, Booth #2305
Rebecca Kai Dotlich, 3:00-4:00 PM , Boyds Mills/WordSong, Booth #2009-10
Laura Purdie Salas, 3:00-4:00 PM, Lerner/Millbrook, Booth #1820
Sunday, June 30
Marilyn Singer, 10:00-11:00 AM, Lee & Low, Booth #2305
Bob Raczka, 11:00 AM-Noon, Whitman, Booth #2000
Marilyn Singer, 1:00-2:00 PM, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Booth # 2501
Nikki Grimes, 3:00-4:00 PM, Boyds Mills/WordSong, Booth #2009-10
Marilyn Singer, 3:30-4:30 PM, Disney-Hyperion Booth, #2620
Monday, July 1
Tamera Will Wissinger, 9:00-10:00 AM, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Booth #250 1
Sid Farrar, 11:30 AM, PopTop Stage and Whitman Booth #2000
Hope to see some of you there!
Marilyn Singer
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From: CCBC-Net digest To: ccbc-net digest recipients Sent: Sat, Jun 8, 2013 1:21 am Subject: ccbc-net digest: June 07, 2013
CCBC-NET Digest for Friday, June 07, 2013.
1. RE: Keep Them Laughing 2. Re: Keep Them Laughing 3. Corrected: Keep Them Laughing
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Subject: RE: Keep Them Laughing From: "Reid, Robert A." Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 15:06:27 +0000 X-Message-Number: 1
I've possibly mentioned this before in a previous CCBC listserv discussion, but we hold a Comedy Club in my University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Literature f or Adolescents course. Students have to find a passage from a young adult book that "middle school or high school kids will find funny." The caveat is that the
material must be 'clean" enough to read in a public place, such as a librar y. The assignment emphasizes that it's not overly easy to find humor in young adult books. We read the passages to each other in class. The students learn that many books that aren't necessarily labeled "humor" or under "comedy," have funny
passages. I read them the scene from Chris Crutcher's Stotan, where the cok e bottle treatment is used to pop a pimple (a similar scene is from Crutcher' s autobiography King of the Mild Frontier). I read them a series of diary ent ries from Angus Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging where Georgia trims her eyebrow s. I read them Jon Scieszka's puke station wagon scene from the first Guys Read book (that, too, is repeated in his autobiography Knucklehead). Finally, I share a passage from David LaRochelle's Absolutely Positively Not where Steven take s yet another driving test and his old first-grade teacher is the driving tester. She fails him.
Some the titles this past semester's students found came from (in no partic ular order): Sarah Simpson's Rules for Living by Rupp, Zen and the Art of Faking It by Sonnenblick, All American Girl by Cabot, Be More Chill by Vizzini, Flipp ed by Van Draanan, Beauty Queens by Bray, Prom by Anderson, and Dash & Lily's Boo k of Dares by Cohn and Levithan.
Rob Reid University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
From: Megan Schliesman
Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2013 9:52 AM To: ccbc-net, Subscribers of Subject:
Keep Them Laughing
It's time to start our discussion for the first part of June:
Keep Them Laughing: More on Humor. Chris Monroe's new picture book Cookie t he Walker (Carolrhoda, 2013) has us thinking more about what's funny, a discus sion we began in February when we talked about humor in multicultural literature . From an outrageous premise spun into delight to authors and illustrators ad ept at finding humor in situations both likely and unlikely, humor can be broad in appeal and yet so specific when it comes to individual taste.
One of the things we always love seeing here at the CCBC are funny y.a. boo ks. So much y.a. lit is not funny (and isn't trying to be), so books that can
capture dimensions of the adolescent experience with tongue in cheek, or bo th humor and heart, stand out from the crowd. One example from last year that we greatly appreciated is "Me, Earl and the Dying Girl" by Jesse Andrews (Amul et / Abrams, 2012). This year, a stand-out for me so far is "Openly Straight" by Bill Konigsberg (Arthur A. Levine Book / Scholastic, 2013).
Megan
-- Megan Schliesman, Librarian Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison 600 N. Park Street, Room 4290 Madison, WI 53706 608/262-9503 schliesman_at_education.wisc.edu www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/ ---Received on Mon 10 Jun 2013 07:34:13 PM CDT
