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Blog: drawboy's cigar box (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Blog: HOOK KIDS on READING (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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*Trial by Walkabout is a great Aussie outback adventure--
a multicultural tale of sibling rivalry, aboriginal culture, danger,
and Dreamtime pirits--plus a friendship between two young teens
a rhyming story that tells how sudden BIG changes
can turn a sweet girl into a brat!
(parent teacher guide included)
survived the arrival of the white man, and eventually created
a place for themselves and their culture
in the present day.
REVIEW SNIP:
SAMPLE from Book REVIEW on Penny's Reviews and Chat:
http://pennyreviews-chat.blogspot.com/
"I'm a great, and long time fan of Margot Finke’s children’s stories, as you know. I’m completely enthralled with this new one, Dreamtime Man. It is absolutely one of her best. It’s in rhyme and powerfully relates the stories of ancient Australian aboriginal tribes who used to roam the wild, untamed lands of Australia. Her word pictures are perfect jewels."
**The illustrations, by Ioana Zdralea, are amazing.
This SUPER Review is a huge thrill!!
**You can also LISTEN to me read the story HERE
Manuscript Critiques
Blog: sketched out (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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More animal combo silliness! I think I found a theme for this year’s SkADaMo!
What is SkADaMo you might ask? Check it out here.
Blog: the dust of everyday life (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Blog: Aris blog (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Blog: Frizzelstixs (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Blog: Ginger Pixels (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Blog: OUPblog (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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This Day in World History
November 13, 354
Augustine of Hippo born
On November 13, 354, in a small town named Tagaste in Roman Numidia (modern Algeria) near the port of Hippo (now Annaba), Augustine—one of the preeminent early Christian thinkers—was born. Though his mother was a devout Christian, he was not baptized as an infant.
As a child and young teen, Augustine proved a ready scholar. While his family owned land, they could not afford further studies. However, a wealthy man from Tagaste paid Augustine’s expenses for more advanced study in Carthage. Three years later, the young man returned to Tagaste and opened his own school; soon after, he moved to Carthage to teach rhetoric. He gained some success, had a son with the young woman he lived with, and became attracted to the dualistic religion of Manichaeism. In 384, he moved to Italy and gained a teaching post in Milan. By this time, he had lost interest in Manichaeism but was in the midst of a period of intense spiritual turmoil. After two years of professional success and this inner tumult, he resigned his position and prepared himself to adopt Christianity. Baptized by Ambrose, bishop of Milan, in 387, he soon suffered the death of his mother and his son. (The son’s mother he seems to have cast aside.) Back in Africa, Augustine became a priest in 391 and was named bishop of Hippo just five years later.
For the next 35 years, he became one of the leading thinkers of the Church. His Confessions, written around 400, recounts his own spiritual journey and celebrates God’s glory. He played significant roles breaking the Donatist and Pelagian heresies, thereby helping shape orthodox Roman Catholic beliefs. His masterwork, The City of God—written in the wake of the sack of Rome by Visigoths led by Alaric—is an extensive argument against paganism and offers a vision of the true destiny of the world as the unfolding of God’s will. Ironically, he died not long before invading Vandals captured Hippo and Carthage, putting his homeland into non-Roman—and non-orthodox Christian—hands.
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Blog: sketched out (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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The Illustration Friday word for the week is “burning”. Ok, this is a bit of a stretch, but it sort of works, eh?
I’m heading to the SCBWI L.A. Illustrator’s Day tomorrow and this is what I entered for the illustration contest they are having. We were asked to illustrate something for the following sentence:
“It was night, and the rain fell; and falling, it was rain, but, having fallen, it was…”
So I thought … a flood. A flooded zoo to be exact. I know, always with the stretching I am.
Anyway, wish me luck!
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Knee surgery grounded me for the last 6 months of this year, and I can see no end in sight. My 9 th. picture book is just out, and my 10th book, a mid-grade adventure for boys, is due for publication.
- literally! Pilots fly planes by the seat of
their pants, but authors must have
two good legs to get out
there and SELL!!
This means that between countless daily exercises, I sit at my computer and scrounge for ways of putting "Ruthie and the Hippo's Fat Behind" on bookstore shelves, in children's hands, and on the minds of children's relatives as possible gifts.
"sell" by the seat of my pants
really DOES give me
a pain in the ass!
Blog: Monday Artday (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Loosely based on Favourite Food theme (forgive me...)
Blog: Picture Bookies Showcase (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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I am still experimenting with various forms of scratch techniques in Painter. This is from an image I created for "My African Bedtime Rhymes" by Brettell Hone. I like the way the black can soften the hippo's skin and the overall effect. I'll play around with this more but there are only certain subjects that seem to be good candidates for this sort of work.
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So. I've been a Nerdfighter since the very beginning of the calendar year, when John Green and his brother Hank Green formed Brotherhood 2.0, a videoblog based on their mutual decision to forego textual conversation for the year of 2007.
Those of us who are fans and have been following along have been called Nerdfighters ever since February 17, 2007 when John posted this video, during which he sang the Nerdfighter's theme song. Other verses have since been written by various and sundry Nerdfighters, including yours truly.
Back in March, the Green brothers formed the Foundation to Decrease WorldSuck, which collects monetary donations from folks, then uses the funds to make the world a better place. But recently, after a family vacation in the Dominican Republic, the Greens got the Nerdfighters all fired about being microfinanciers, through Kiva.org.
And, as of today, John has figured out the Law of Compound Nerdfighting, which means that NERDFIGHTERS NEED YOU! To enlist as Nerdfighters or at least to help with the Kiva sponsorships going on over at B2.0.
Nerdfighters! Hoo-ah!
great drawing, great colors
I am Soooo on this. Thank you for this fun fun theme!
Cute face on this one. And the wings aren’t bad either.
Thanks, Kev!!!
Thanks Madre! This one is my favorite so far.
Thanks, Susan! Will you be trying the animal combos as well? It’s been a blast so far!
Nice one! :)
Good one!