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Monday, August 31, 2009

The Back To School Carnival is Up!

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It's the last Carnival of Children's Literature of the summer , hosted at a blog whose name always makes me nod: In Need of Chocolat...
Friday, August 28, 2009

Thoughts turn to Shel Silverstein...

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... on this 100 degree plus Poetry Friday. One could sit around in one's bones here today, and it'd still be hot! For some cool poet...
Monday, August 24, 2009

KidLitCon 3 (three!!!!!) in October!

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On October 17th I'll be speaking at and attending the 3rd KidLitCon - a conference largely for folks who blog about children's liter...
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Thursday, August 20, 2009

A Poetry Re-issue: The First Day of School - a first day of school poem

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(This poem originally ran here at GottaBook in September of 2006 and again last year, I believe. But it is that time of year again!) THE FI...
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Come See Me October in Seattle

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(This post is cross post from my other site, The Happy Accident . If you happen to see it twice, well, the truth is that I really do want to...
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Monday, August 17, 2009

Stretching (poetically speaking)

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I have not been writing nearly as much this summer as I'd like - not poetry, stories, or even blog posts. Sometimes it's nice to get...
Friday, August 14, 2009

Sneaking in a link!

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Sure, it's already Saturday in much of the world, but here it's still Friday, so I feel okay in sending you all over to Andromeda Ja...
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009

A Post-SCBWI Conference Sorta Wrap Up Post

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With the great coverage of the Conference by the SCBWI Team Blog and all the folks tweeting , there's little I can add that hasn't ...
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Monday, August 10, 2009

Overload!

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Heading off for the last day of the SCBWI Conference... and as usual, it's total overload. One of my favorite tiny bits so far came via ...
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Thursday, August 06, 2009

Conference Time!

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Tomorrow starts the SCBWI Summer Conference - four days of learning, fun, and fun learning (plus food and fun and schmoozing and fun and som...
Friday, July 31, 2009

Boogie Boarding - a beach poem, a Fib, a boogie boarding poem

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Boogie Boarding by Gregory K. Waves Break I zoom On white foam ‘Til I glide to shore Then the ocean roars, “One more ride!” Today's Poet...
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Thursday, July 30, 2009

Carnival Time

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Over at Melissa Wiley's Here in the Bonny Glen (which, by the way, you should check out on a regular basis), you can find the most rece...
Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Mellow days here at GottaBook....

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I expect to be on a slightly reduced posting schedule over the next week or two, as I take some summer time off... then get to see many of y...
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Sunday, July 26, 2009

Awful Library Books

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Oh, my... this site cracked me up enough that I felt a need to post simply to refer you there: Awful Library Books I have many favorites but...
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Friday, July 24, 2009

A Poetry Re-issue: I Threw a Baseball - a baseball poem

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This poem originally appeared here in April of 2006 (and the post contains one of my fave comments (at number five)). I THREW A BASEBALL by...
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Thursday, July 23, 2009

Another Reason Not to Judge a Book By Its Cover

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I encourage you all to go over to author Justine Larbalestier's blog to read her post Ain't That a Shame . The post is about how the...
Tuesday, July 21, 2009

The Fib Review #4 is Up!

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For those of you who've been here awhile, you've seen me mention the Fib Review before... and now you get to see me mention it again...
Sunday, July 19, 2009

Next #kidlitchat - Tuesday, July 21st at 9P Eastern/6P Pacific

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Yes, #kidlitchat is coming back this week, but we're trying out Tuesday night. There were 40 of us (!!!!) chatting last week, but we wer...
Friday, July 17, 2009

Poetry Post Squeeze

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Sure, every week you can get a poetry stretch over at the Miss Rumphius Effect , but today I offer you a poetry post squeeze. Yup, Poetry Fr...
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009

A New Twitter Chat - all about children's literature!

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Bonnie Adamson and I are excited to announce a brand new Twitter chat that we'll be co-hosting. The first chat will be Wednesday night,...
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