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22Aug

Pass Go

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The story of an invention can be surprisingly convoluted. Pass Go and Collect $200 does a great job of tracing the complicated story of the boardgame Monopoly. Monopoly arguably started as Landlord’s Game, a game created by Elizabeth Magie to critique capitalism. Tanya Lee Stone deftly describes the social conditions that led Magie to patent the idea in […]

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18Apr

Boston Marathon!

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For years now I’ve been immersed in all things Boston Marathon while writing and promoting Girl Running, my biography of Bobbi Gibb, the first woman to run the famous race. But I’d never actually seen, in person, the Boston Marathon! This week I had the incredible privilege to travel to Boston for the marathon, and the […]

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3Jan

Chef Roy Choi

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Chef Roy Choi and the Street Food Remix is another title about contemporary food producers by the Seattle publishing house Readers to Eaters. They’ve published nonfiction picture books about urban gardener Will Allen and celebrity chef Alice. This title is a biography of a Korean-American, Roy Choi, who cooked in haute cuisine restaurants until he […]

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15May

Charlesbridge Giveaway!

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Charlesbridge Publishing has issued an educator’s guide for Mountain Chef. It’s available in a beautifully-formatted form on their website or in a bare-bones format here on mine. And they’re also offering a Charlesbridge giveaway! With summer approaching, Charlesbridge is offering five lucky people two of their national parks related titles–Mountain Chef and John Muir Wrestles a Waterfall. The giveaway […]

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21Apr

Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award

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I’m thrilled that my book, Mountain Chef, was chosen as a Notable Book in the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award. I’m especially flattered to be in such august company. Here are the winners in the children’s division: Children’s Winner “Journey: The Most Famous Wolf in the West,” by Emma Bland Smith with illustrations by Robin […]

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18Jan

Sibert Guesses

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This Monday the Siberts will be announced. I would love to see Preaching to the Chickens: The Story of Young John Lewis honored–the art is stunning and the voice is pitch-perfect, but it has only a short author’s essay at the end. It would be a stronger contender if it had a more complete bibliography. […]

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17Jan

Metalmouth

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My eighth grader got braces today. I got braces in eighth grade, too. I remember spending a long time with the orthodontist with his hands in my mouth, tugging and yanking. When I went home with my mouth full of metal, it felt like he had installed a set of doll knives in my mouth, […]

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10Jan

Ebelskiver Portal

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My grandmother was a great cook. Of course, she spent most of her life cooking. She woke up early, often before the sun was up, stoked her coal stove (yes! she cooked on a coal stove into the 1980s), and made hearty breakfasts for Grandad and my uncles before they tramped out for their irrigation […]

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14Dec

Mock Sibert

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Alyson Beecher of Kid Lit Frenzy and Michele Knott of Mrs. Knott’s Book Nook are hosting a Mock Sibert. I’m thrilled to join, remembering my favorite nonfiction picture books from 2016. My nominations are:   Esquivel! Spage-Age Sound Artist (my post about the book coming soon) I loved the lively language and the great onomatopoeia […]

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10Aug

Rich Lo and the art of Mountain Chef

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Last week my nonfiction picture book, Mountain Chef: How One Man Lost His Groceries, Changed His Plans, and Helped Cook up the National Park Service, was published. Some of the process of creating the book was just what I expected: I spent time in archives, poring over crumbling newspapers and gazing at hundred-year old photographs, I […]

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29Mar

ReFoReMo

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 I love Carrie Charley Brown’s Reading for Research Month. The idea is simple: for 20 days in March, you read picture books every day, write about what you learn from them, and read a blogpost about picture books that have taught them something about writing. There’s a mix of old and new, fiction and nonfiction, […]

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18Nov

Mock Siberts, Part 1

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KidLitFrenzy is running a mock Sibert competition, asking people to nominate their favorite contenders for this years ALA award for the most distinguished informational books for children. Right up my alley! So I’ve spent the last two weeks revisiting my favorite 2015 nonfiction picture books and reading them aloud with my family. So many great books! […]

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17Nov

Look Up! Henrietta Leavitt, Pioneering Woman Astronomer

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In writing biography, it’s tempting to start at your subject’s birth and finish at your subject’s death. But usually that’s not the structure that will best tell the story. In this biography of an astronomer, the book starts with her gazing at the stars as a child and wondering about them. We see her work […]

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12Nov

Fish for Jimmy

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[booknet booknumber=9780823423750] Historical fiction can be used to present troubling topics in a controlled way appropriate for young children. In this historical fiction, Yamasaki skillfully tackles a difficult subject–World War II Japanese-American internment camps. Her story shows the triumph of brotherly kindness and courage, without glossing over the institutional cruelty of the camps. Her narrative voice is […]

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