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September
2004
Catching
up on the news from the summer!
At the Calvin
College Festival of Faith and Writing in Michigan last May, I got
to interview one of my heroes: author Katherine Paterson. (Photo:
BJ O'Connor)
Last May I spent
an afternoon at the University Settlement House in Manhattan, as
part of the National Book Foundation's visiting authors program.
Check out the link below for a nice report on the event:
http://www.nationalbook.org/sh2004lspark.htm
I spent a wonderful
week at the Highlights Foundation Writers' Workshop in Chautauqua,
New York, where Kent Brown, the rest of the faculty, and especially
the enthusiastic participants made my stay there most enjoyable.
Have a look around the site to get an idea of what the week is like:
http://www.highlightsfoundation.org/pages/current/chautauqua_top.html
Children's Literature
New England was held at Williams College in August. What an amazing
conference! I got to hear presentations by M.T. Anderson, Katherine
Paterson, Kevin Crossley-Holland, Leonard Marcus, and Daniel Handler
(Lemony Snicket); visit the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art
in Amherst; and talk to participants from all over the world. If
you are interested in literature for young people, I can't recommend
this conference highly enough! Unfortunately, the website doesn't
do justice to the terrific depth and scope of the discussion--nor
what fun it is! But it does provide an e-mail link so you can get
on the mailing list for next year!
http://www.clne.org/
http://www.picturebookart.org/
An
exciting link for teachers! Information on how to integrate a pottery
lesson if your class is reading A Single
Shard:
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/content/2363/
The return of
Recent Reading! At long last, for those of you who have written
to me asking plaintively about what has happened to my Recent Reading
lists...a new development. I've started a blog where I'm going to
record the titles I've been reading. This will enable me to update
on a regular basis, rather than having to bother my webmaster too
often. You can view my journal here:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/lsparkreader/
A busy few months
ahead: Check out my fall speaking
schedule!
Previous 'What's New' pages:
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2004 |
May,
2002 |
| January,
2004 |
April,
2002 |
| October,
2003 |
March
1st, 2002 |
| August,
2003 |
January
28th, 2002 |
| May,
2003 |
January,
2002 |
| March,
2003 |
December,
2001 |
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2003 |
November,
2001 |
| September,
2002 |
October,
2001 |
| July,
2002 |
August,
2001 |
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