Bracelet of Books

A gift from my daughter

this treasured bracelet of charms

one charm for each of my books

twenty charms

for which she hunted far and wide

eighteen represent children's books

two represent adult books 

published only in England

below is a list of my books

if you want to match the charms with the books

(though you will have to know something about a few of the books to decipher the charm)

xx

Novels:

Absolutely Normal Chaos

Bloomability

The Castle Corona

Chasing Redbird

Granny Torrelli Makes Soup

The Great Unexpected

Hate That Cat

Heartbeat

Love That Dog

Pleasing the Ghost

Replay

Ruby Holler

The Unfinished Angel

Walk Two Moons

The Wanderer

Picture Books:

A Fine, Fine School

Fishing in the Air

Who's That Baby?

For Adults (but out of print):

Nickel Malley

The Recital

Ruby Holler

This is the new jacket for Ruby Holler.

In the book, Ruby Holler represents a place

of great natural beauty

and comfort

and safety

Do you have a Ruby-Holler-kind of place - 

somewhere that represents

beauty, comfort and safety

for you?

International Dot Day

International Dot Day grew out of Peter Reynolds' book, The Dot.  

On International Dot Day, September 15, 

you are encouraged to make your mark

by starting, simply, with a dot

and then seeing where that takes you

and then signing

your dot

or your dot explosion!

See Fablevision here for more information

and for clips of students celebrating Dot Day

and then see here for librarian Mr. Schu's blog about Dot Day

. . . 

and then, you know,

go make your mark,

mm?

You don't have to wait
until September 15,
mm?

A Dot and a Dash

I'm dashing off to NYC for a few days

but am leaving you with 

this colorful dot

I made it for 

International Dot Day

last year

and when I return

I'll give you information 

about how to add your own dot

to this year's Dot Day

(September)

Meanwhile,

ciao, bellas,

xx

New Book Jackets

Most of my books will receive new covers over the course of the next year or two - 

updating and unifying the 'look.' 

Above are the first five to get their makeover plus the new book (The Great Unexpected.)

What do you think?

Do you have a favorite?

The Basketball Poets, continued

More

Basketball Poets:

In previous years

there were more girls in this group

but now it seems the boys

are in the majority.

I liked this sign over the gym door:

The Basketball Poets

In honor of 

World Read Aloud Day

(today)

I had the privilege of making my annual visit

to the Basketball Poets

of Supply, NC.

The current group are middle schoolers

who combine reading and writing poetry

with playing basketball

!

I know, unusual, mm?

And very, very cool.

Here are a couple of the poets

reciting their poems:

(more pics of poets to come)

After they recited their poems

they moved out on the court.

I sure love this group.

Here is their coach and the founder of the Basketball Poets,

Marty Mentzer (at left):

That's me on the right.

What a day!

New Book: The Great Unexpectecd

Sneak peak at the newest:

THE GREAT UNEXPECTED

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To be published September 2012

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(The above is the advance review copy - ARC -

which arrived today.)

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