ALA is NOW -- ALSC Blog

Were you not able to attend ALA (the American Library Association) convention this year -- like me? Well, don't mope about it. Get thee to the ALSC blog to see what's going on in New York City this weekend in the children's book world.

What is ALSC?

The Association for Library Service to Children.

Chocolate

Authors!

Awards are given out

Why series are popular

Storytimes for all ages

Nonfiction Book Blast

Poetry Blast

and more

( did I mention -- chocolate? )

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Celebrate Children's Book Week

Celebrate Children's Book Week this week at Donna McDine's Blog -- Write What Inspires You.

She will be featuring various children's book authors through guest interviews and book review. Not only that, several authors are offering Contest Givaways.

Do click on over and leave comments.

Here's the schedule for this week:

Sunday, May 1, 2011

Book Marketing Idea Exchange with writers doing May blog tours

Monday, May 2,

Author, Cheryl Malandrinos

Tuesday, May 3

Author, Bill Kirk

Wednesday, May 4

Dixie Phillips

Thursday, May 5

Nancy Stewart -- plus a Givaway Contest for the book, One Pelican at a Time

Friday, May 6

A book review of the book, One Pelican at a Time

plus a Givaway Contest again.

Saturday, May 7

Book Review: Ruthie and the Hippo's Fat Behind! by Margot Finke

Plus a Giveaway Contest for a PDF of a short Australian adventure story, if you leave a comment.

Sunday, May 8

Book Review: Caves, Cannons, and Crinolines by Beverly Stowe McClure

All available at Write What Inspires You. Enjoy. -wo

Authors and more Authors

My writer friend, Katie Davis, periodically posts podcasts (which she calls, Brainburps) on her blog. For National Library Week she has a real goodie. She describes it like this:

"On Monday (today) I'll be posting my Library Love episode - an homage - for Library week. In it I have the authors below talking about how libraries or librarians did great things for them as children, and how it helped them grow into authors.
There are songs, jokes (Mordicai Gerstein tells one that cracks me up every time) and it's just a great homage to librarians, who are so slammed right now."

So click on over and enjoy. Or, if you want to tweet it, please use the hashtag #LibraryLove.

Thank you!
Katie DAvis
http://www.katiedavis.com

(Here is a list of all the authors featured in this Podcast. If you click on over to Katie's blog, you'll see that she has set up each of these names with links to THEIR blogs or websites. It's an author lovefest!)
 Laurie Halse Anderson
 Kathi Appelt
 Sarah Aronson
 Jeannie Brett
 Diane deGroat
 Sarah Dillard
 Erin Dionne
 Jan Donley
 Jody Feldman
 Judy Freeman
 Mordicai Gerstein
 Deborah Heiligman
 Amy Huntington
 Lita Judge
 Jarrett Krosoczka
 Sarah Darer Littman
 Eric Luper
 Ann Martin
 Wendy Mass
 Anne Mazer
 Jenny Meyerhoff
 Jenny Moss
 Bernard Most
 Micol Ostow
 Laura Ruby
 Peter Sis
 Hope Anita Smith
 Tanya Lee Stone
 Kyra Teis
 Leslie Tryon
 Kristin O‚Donnell Tubb
 Linda Urban
 Ned Vizzini
 Nancy Werlin
 Karen Romano Young
 Sara Zarr