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As a CLN Friend, for $40 per year, you support our daily efforts to provide you with information. Authors, illustrators, and organizations pay $90 per year for a CLN web page. CLN's Dear Friends sponsor our research and development with $250 per year. |
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CLN members have proven themselves to be generous and caring individuals. Here are possible ways in which you can "pay it forward." |
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Read tributes to those in our children's literature community who have recently passed away. |
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Where We've Been
Author and poet Nikki Grimes shared her new book, Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope, at a CLN Conversation on July 11th. Looking at the galley with illustrations by Bryan Collier, and listening to Nikki read out loud, members were able to ask questions about the way this book was created. Nikki also talked about book promotion, which participants found fascinating. Pictured, clockwise around the table starting in the lower right: Heather Bouwman, Laura Salas, Loretta Ellsworth, Jane Hoffman, Nikki Grimes, Faythe Thureen. (posted 22 July 08)
Members, read more of Where We've Been ... |
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Floating Circus on the Air
Listen to an interview with author Tracie Vaughn Zimmer on WGN (Chicago radio station) on August 3, 2008, at 9:00 am CDT. Tracie and her writing partner Julie Durango will discuss their new books and their writing process. Tracie's newest title is Floating Circus. You can listen online. (posted 22 July 2008) |
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Sigh ... Parody Uses Goodnight Moon
On July 8, 2008, "All Things Considered" on National Public Radio reports on the publication of Goodnight, Bush (Little, Brown), which parodies the beloved Goodnight, Moon by Margaret Wise Brown (Houghton Mifflin). Listen to this interview with authors Erich Origen and Gan Golan. Parody is not considered copyright infringement under US copyright law. (posted 21 July 2008) |
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In the News
"As it turns out, having my book published as Y.A. wasn’t such a shame after all." Read this article by Margo Raab in the New York Times online, Sunday Book Review, 20 July 2008. With provocative comments by an author whose book is purchased by Random House Books for Children ("My literary novel about death and grief, which I’d worked on for eight years, was a young adult book?"), other "adult" authors published in the YA field weigh in on the field in "I'm YA, and I'm OK." (posted 20 July 2008) |
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Brian Lies |
Another Honor for Brian Lies
Congratulations, Brian, for your 2008 Southern Independent Booksellers Award for Deep in the Swamp (Charlesbridge, 2008), written by Donna Bateman. Brian's illustrations of southern swamps have brought him accolades from southerners everywhere who appreciate his work.
Posted 8 July 2008. |
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Vermont College of Fine Arts
It's official. The academic institution which is home to the MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults on the East Coast is once again on secure ground. At one time facing an uncertain future as owner Union Institute and University debated what do with the program, the news is all good. The three MFA programs based at 174-year-old Vermont College (Writing and Visual Arts are the other two) are now independent, operating as Vermont College of Fine Arts, and they are fully accredited. Vermont College of Fine Arts is the only institution of its kind—a low-residency graduate school devoted exclusively to fine arts education. Faculty in this MFA program, including Marion Dane Bauer, Tim Wynne-Jones, Jane Kurtz, Kathi Appelt, Cynthia Leitich-Smith, Rita Williams-Garcia, and David Gifaldi, are gearing up for their summer residency in mid-July.
Posted 26 June 2008.
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