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SCENE: A small zoo. Preparing for the holiday performance.
At rise: The residents of the zoo are practicing for the annual holiday performance. It's the last dress rehearsal before the actual production and chaos reigns supreme.
ZEBRA Hello? Everyone? May I have your attention, please? There is far too much cacophony among the performers. I can't hear myself think! Not you my dear...you embody the true thespian soul
CROW 1 (laughing while watching from a tree) Uh-oh...zebra says there's too much caca-phony around here. The elephants have been using the toilets, again
CROW 2 (laughing hysterically) Oh Cyril - you're so witty!
ZEBRA You mean, witless. Now where were we? Oh yes...we were discussing your acting abilities, my dear.
FEMALE ZEBRA You think I have talent? My acting coach has offered to give me private lessons
ZEBRA Would your coach anyone I would know? Perhaps we could work together to maximize your performance
FEMALE ZEBRA That's a very kind offer but 'CH' swore me to secrecy. He doesn't want the whole world calling him and begging for private tutoring> He's a very private person
ZEBRA Totally understandable, my dear. Know exactly where he's coming from. I too separate myself from the lesser...well...talent-challenged among us
(ZEBRA admires his frame from all angles, in a full-length mirror)
(cont'd. ZEBRA) 'Perfection!' (whispering) You can share the name of your acting coach with me. There is a professional code of silence among zebra directors that is adhered to. You said his initials were CH? Hmmmm....not familiar with any coaches with those initials...
FEMALE ZEBRA He calls himself cheetah
(ZEBRA reacts with horror)
ZEBRA Cheetah...you did say cheetah? Does this cheetah...would this coach live, perchance, in a cage in this very zoo?
FEMALE ZEBRA He would! How did you know? He said that his style of coaching requires getting down to the bare bones of acting
ZEBRA (horrified) My dear, naïve, zebra! Forget about - um - coach cheetah. I, myself, shall take you on as a client, gratis, and as a cost to myself (aside to himself) ...wait 'til I get my hands on cheetah...' What am I saying? Let's just say, my dear, that his reputation and taste for zebras is well developed. Why don't you go over there in the corner and study your lines
FEMALE ZEBRA If you say so. "I think I hear Santa!....I think I hear Santa....I think I hear Santa...'
ZEBRA Okay...actors - places please! Mr. Squeeze - please tear yourself away from rat? We don't want a repeat performance of last year's incident
MR. SQUEEZE I was just trying to show him some love
RAT (gasping for breath) Surrre! Remember the squirrel incident? We lost our Santa Claus on account of you
MR. SQUEEZE We're good friends! Right rat? Who ever heard of a squirrel playing Santa Claus, anyway?
ZEBRA (admiring himself in the mirror and fixing his cravat) 'You handsome devil! Your stripes don't do you justice. 'kiss-kiss....' For the record and given our budget, which is half of last year's, which was next to nothing, he was the only one who could fit into the Santa suit. Who will play the old elf this year?
(a chicken jumps down from the branch of a tree)
CHICKEN I would like to volunteer my services for the cause
MR. SQUEEZE (slithering up close to chicken) Great idea! And my contribution will be to offer my help We can go over your lines in my den
ZEBRA Not! Thank you for your...offer but I'm sure chicken can remember "ho-ho-ho..." Now if you will put on the suit, we can start our rehearsal
CHICKEN It's a little tight...jacket won't...fit...over my...breast bone...
CHEETAH Perhaps I can fix that problem ...
MR. SQUEEZE ...my particular qualities can definitely fix that...
(both cheetah and MR. SQUEEZE inch closer to the chicken)
ZEBRA Stop where you are, both of you! We will make do with what we have. Please put on the red hat and black shiny boots and get on the sled. The children are arriving
CHICKEN (smoothing his feathers and pulling the jacket over his breast) I'm very nervous.. This is my first acting job
CHEETAH Don't worry my friend. I'll be watching close by...in case you forget your lines, of course
ZEBRA Places people! Mr. Squeeze - you're not in the first scene
MR. SQUEEZE Just helping chicken get over his nerves. Everyone needs a hug
NEXT TIME: THE SHOW MUST GO ON...MAYBE Open the curtains and let the play begin!
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DC Collectible’s popular Bombshells figures have recently been green lighted for its own comic, written by Margurite Bennett with art by Margurite Sauvage and set in an alternate reality of WWII where Super Heroes exist. Bennett talks about her experience with the book at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con 2015.
How did you get into comics?
Batman the Animated series actually, and I was on a panel today sitting next to “Paul Dini” and my heart was going like crazy the entire time. I came off as a huge flake I’m sure… But Batman the Animated series, I was five years old and saw it in this after school program. And it’s actually sort of funny. With that iconic opening sequence, I wildly misinterpreted what Batman was about. From the gangsters, and the zeppelins, and this wonder rich noir feel, I um… thought Batman was a bad guy. You saw these villains and these gangsters, and what really caught my attention was how dark it is. So often in children’s television, especially things that are presented to girls, are these hyper-saturated, very, very bright, abundantly pink things. So Batman stuck out because how different it was.
So in that opening sequence you see these “bad things, bad things, bad things,” and then you see Batman who is clearly king of the bad things in Gotham. And I assumed he was a bad guy. When I watched the episode, he was fighting these people. So I thought he was this bad guy who felt guilty of being a bad guy and then decided to then turn [them] all in and clean up the city that he was responsible for making this evil and dark. I operated off of that for like a year before I was six. I didn’t know what the murder of the Wayne’s had to do with this… So I really misinterpreted this. But because of this, and creating my own wrong canons from the very beginning, it really started it as something creative. Something I could enjoy watching, but also putting my own mark on even from a very young age.
Newest Bombshell addition: Cheetah
How did you get involved with the “Bombshells” project?
Oh gosh. Our wonderful editor, “Jim Chadwick,” approached me last September (that’s how long I had to keep secrets about this). He knew I was a huge fan of the series. I’m very vocal on Twitter about how much I loved it and I collected all manner of things form it, and because of the attention that those August variant covers got, DC was like “There seems to be a lot of enthusiasm for this. What about… we’ve essentially got this whole world waiting to have these stories told, maybe there’s something to this?” And there was that Katniss like, Hunger Games moment where I said “I volunteer!” And as soon as he offered, I was all over it. We’ve hit the ground running, and going ever since.
They’re introducing this as a digital download comic right?
Yes. The digital version, which is in these ten page increments, will be every Saturday of the month. These ten page chapters will feature a different heroine for our first arc. And then for our second arc, their paths start to cross. That starts July 27th I believe. The first print comic is going to be August 12th on Wednesday.
What kind of research did you have to do for a story taken place in WWII?
It’s almost always been a preoccupation of mine even at a young age, and I come from a military family. So it was something that you grew up knowing and learning a lot about. And it’s not precisely World War II. We’re doing an alternate history. But it was something where I was able to incorporate these story telling elements.
Newest Bombshell addition: Killer Frost
Scaling back for a minute, when people try and look at an event that massive, a lot of the times we get caught up in things that are almost too big to tell a story about. Or like when you visit a new country or culture, you’ll go to like the “Great Wall,” or you’ll go to the “Eiffel Tower.” But the thing that you remember coming away from it aren’t these giant vistas. They’re small interactions. They’re small stories. Like the “Eiffel Tower’s” one thing, but the thing that I took away from Paris was that “Spongebob Squarepants” is called “Bob L’eponge.” That sticks with you for some reason, and so it was the smaller stories, the more intimate human stories, that always stayed with me with learning about war as a child. Something that’s so far removed from my generation and my birth, they were always the stories that were too big to hold here in my head. But it was the small stories that were the ones that could stay.
Small stories are what influence the world of Bombshells more than outside events. We’re not trying to tell the battle of the bulge, but we’re trying to tell the stories of human courage and human compassion.
Which one of the Bombshells is your favorite to write for?
Batwoman. Batwoman is my favorite DC hero, period. I think that every DC hero in particular is so iconic. Each one can be boiled down to a single virtue or element. Batman is about justice, or obsession depending on your read. Or Batgirl is about recovery. And I feel like Batwoman is about service.
Where it’s the element of military service, or giving yourself to a larger cause. I think she’s inherently a very selfish person, so it’s something that she struggles with. She had a tendency to really hurt the people that she loves, but she still wants to do this, she still wants to be this thing that can provide for other people, and care for other people. It was so interesting because she comes from a place where she’s flawed. She fails so often, in trying to do this, and trying to be this. And it felt like this really perfect moment of crisis that’s going to define the coming century. Her failings and her strengths are going to be the heart of that story.
What was the most challenging part of writing for Bombshells?
You know, we have so many wonderful heroines. So I do worry about being able to give each of them their do. There are so many people I want to incorporate. The first heroines you’re going to see are the ones that already have their own statues, but there are a lot of ones that I want to hurry and get to. But we do need to do that first and establish them first. Coming from the DC Collectibles needed to be our priority. And so I’m hoping the public will bear with me, because they’ll be times when you’ll see character, and you might not see or hear from them again for a few months… I’m just impatient, and I want all my toys at once, and I want to share them with everyone all at once.
Look out for DC Comics Bombshells releasing on digital starting July 27th, and the physical book releasing August 12th.
1 Comments on SDCC ’15 Interview: Marguerite Bennett talks DC Comics’ “Bombshells”, last added: 7/18/2015
Some of the zoo denizens are gathering together in preparation for the daily opening of the zoo. A whistle breaks the morning silence. The whistle is repeated again and again. A boa constrictor (MR. SQUEEZE) slither's out from the shadows.
MR. SQUEEZE
Hello? Anyone?
RAT
Oh fer… That wasn`t the signal! It was supposed to be a bird call
MR. SQUEEZE
I think not! As I recall during the last meeting, we took a vote and decided on a whistle.
RAT
You left before the meeting ended. Remember?
MR. SQUEEZE
Perhaps…my memory isn’t what it used to be. Um…Ratty dear – you do have a lovely body…so smooth….so tempting…not a blemish anywhere… I mean, you keep yourself in such good shape. Your tail is especially attractive as a nice, little snack… I mean to say, located right there on your back
RAT
(running his hands up and down his tail)
You think so? I have been told that by many… Why are you staring at me like that?
MR. SQUEEZE
How about a nice hug, from one friend-to-another?
RAT
You have had supper, right?
MR. SQUEEZE
If you can call cat food supper. The financial cutbacks here at the zoo leave me hungry and wanting more
RAT
(backing up)
Where is everyone, anyway? MR. SQUEEZE
Is there any more news about the zoo being on the verge of bankruptcy? What will happen to us? It’s getting to the point that everyone is looking very – um – appealing – in the looks sense of course
RAT
There’s no limit to what changes they’ll make to save a buck. We’re at the top of the list for sure.
(A shadow emerges into the zoo light)
(cont'd.) RAT
Well it’s about time!
ZEBRA
I was memorizing my lines my dear man. We must emote. We must open our mouths to properly enunciate the words like this: “loooo-loooo-loooo…la-la-la-la…Me-me-me…” That’s the secret in being an adept thespian, like me. I’ll be doing a solo in the show tonight so I have to be ready RAT
You haven’t heard? The show is cancelled
ZEBRA
Say what?
MR. SQUEEZE
Um…zebra - has anybody told you that you have a striking body structure? Do you mind if I lick you a bit? I mean, to say of course, what makes you tick as an actor?
ZEBRA
Why thank you! Appearance if very important for an actor, y’know! Body appeal and all…audiences expect it, unlike other animals who shall remain unmentioned
RAT
Let's practice in case they want us to perform for the paying customers. Who has the script, anyway?
MR. SQUEEZE
The cheetah was supposed to make copies for everyone
CHEETAH
(bouncing out from behind a tree)
Somebody talking about me? Cheetah’s my name and running is my game
ZEBRA
Where are the scripts or did you use them to line your den, again?
CHEETAH
A cheetah needs to make renovations now and then! You are looking particularly delicious tonight, zebra baby…that is to say, very fat and luscious… Of course I mean to say, so masterful in a leadership kind of way
ZEBRA
You forgot to take your appetite depressants again, didn’t you? Ohmygawd! Run and hide!
CHEETAH
He’s at it again, accusing me that I’m off my meds! Anybody tell you you’re very appealing – in an intellectual sort of way, zebra? Why don’t we go back to my den and discuss it? I’d like to show you my etchings…
ZEBRA
Oh you’d like that, wouldn’t you? Just like the last actor you invited up. All we found of him was a paper fragment with the word HELP! You disgusting beast!
RAT
Enough! Everyone – back to your cages. It’s almost dawn and the visitors will soon be arriving. Does everyone know their parts?
MR. SQUEEZE
I lay around and look hungry. No problem there.
ZEBRA
I’m supposed to run back and forth and chew what is left of the one pathetic patch of grass. The ground is almost bare and my bones are beginning to stick out
CHEETAH
I like to suck bones… I mean, that is so sad!
RAT
And we rats will be…rats. A few fights - a few deaths… Okay – places everyone. The zoo is opening
CHEETAH
Mmmmmmm – that young visitor looks quite delicious…of course I’m referring to that cotton candy he’s eating
RAT
Now Cheetah, let’s not have a repeat of last week’s incident. Okay everyone – look cute! The paying customers are here! Places everyone! The show must go on!
0 Comments on ZOO DIARY: Entertaining the visitors as of 11/28/2014 11:41:00 AM
I've always been a big fan of National Geographic they are one of (if not) the best at environmental and world focus magazines and books.
Recently I had the pleasure of reviewing "Soul of a Lion" by Barbara Bennett. If you love animals and/or Africa and feel strongly about the plight of both, this is the book for you.
A dream of mine has always been to snuggle with the large jungle cats of Africa - not normally possible unless you want to become lunch. However, Harnas Wildlife Foundation in Africa allows this experience. And it's totally safe!
Can you imagine feeding baby baboons, sleeping with a cheetah, bottle-feeding a young giraffe or just experiencing wildlife at its fullest? Author Barbara Bennett did this and more at Harnas in Nambia where nearly 400 orphaned, injured and abandoned wild animals are cared for by a team of volunteers, family and one dedicated, loving women - the owner of Harnas - Marieta van der Merwe.
Soul of a Lion: One Women's Quest to Rescue Africa's Wildlife takes the reader on an incredible journey of one women's quest to make a difference in the lives of so many hurting animals and the lost and needy children and bushmen of Nambia Africa.
Marieta never thought this would be the road her life would take. Being the only child of a cattle farmer she assumed this would be her calling in life, but after she rescued her first animal in 1978 word soon spread that she would take in needy animals. With the help of her animal-loving husband, Nick, Harnas was on it's way.
Come take the journey with Bennett as she personally experiences the hard work, hardships and pure joy of spending time with a menagerie of animals, including Boertji, the baboon with epilepsy and Down syndrome; Savanna, the one-eyed lioness; Gumbi the brown hyena and many many more. No animal is too "wild" or too "far-gone" for the caring hands of Harnas Wildlife Foundation.
"I live my dream every day. Taking care of animals was an easy choice for me. I am the happiest woman on Earth, not only because I can do what I've always dreamed about, but because I have the opportunity to share my dream with thousands of people in Nambia and around the globe..." [excerpt from foreword by Marieta van der Merwe]
Bennett's own personal, hands-on experience at Harnas makes this book a heart-warming and a must read tale of survival and dedication. Bennett writes, "saving animals because each deserve to live is a guiding force at Harnas. Virtually every animal at Harnas is being given a second chance and would most likely be dead if not for Marieta vander Merwe..."
To order a copy of Soul of a Lion by Barbara Bennett click here. Also available in book stores.
About the Author
Barbara Bennett is a professor of English at North Carolina State University and a frequent volunteer at Harnas Wildlife Foundation. She has written numerous articles for local magazines and scholarly publications. This is her first book.
Kids, Moms and Dads check out the new and exciting articles over at Imagination-Cafe. This weeks feature comes from the Doggy Bag.
Check out the preview...
SPOTS AND DOTS
by Ann Deiterich
If you were a big cat in Africa with spots, what would you be – a leopard or a cheetah? Leopards have spots, and so do cheetahs. Which one is which? These cats often get mixed up, but they are easy to tell apart.
Plain or Fancy
Both cats have yellow or tan fur with black spots, but their spots are not the same. Leopard spots are big, black dots in the shape of a circle. Sometimes the dots are so close together that they form the letter “O”. The circle of dots is called a rosette because it looks like a little flower.
Cheetah spots don't look like little flowers. They are small, plain dots. They are not as fancy as leopard spots. Plus, cheetahs have stripes! A cheetah has stripes on each side of its face from its eyes to its mouth. There are no stripes on a leopard’s face...
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there'll be time for me to come back and linger, but for now i'm just sending love and telling you he is magnificent: drew thomas is his name, he is 24 hous old, and i love him
Laurel of course it holds magic. Everything you do is magic.
I totally knew that you have been busy. But for the first time ever you have been wrong in that I wouldn't miss you. Of course I have.
I may have plenty of friends but I only have one Raven Sister even if she never lived in Manitoba.
Today I was out for lunch with Angelique, Josephine, and Nadalene and on the chalk board of the restaurant there was writing that made me think of you right away.
"It was after midnight and it was raining. The birds were wet, but one bird was still able to fly and it was the raven."
I blew you a kiss when I read it. Did you get a kiss today around 12:30?
I am sad about Bailey and happy for him at the same time.
Sister Raven, of course you have a vusova. I have three of her necklaces and two of her prints. Nothing original but I love them all.
By the way, again I love my doorway. Are should I say our doorway.
Now write me only when you have time, and I know you won't forget me, just like I will never forget you.
an african talisman, just what i plan to do for if, you are in my heart lo and i love cheetahs, have actually stroked one (brought to my classroom in cape town to show the kids)...they are superb.
This drawing has a spiritual feel about it Lolo. Well done even if you were in a rush. I hope you get to slow down this weekend and enjoy life a little.
Indeed it is super magical!!!! I just love it! Love cats you know, king of all animals and the crow talisman is so you. For something domne so fast it has remarkably details and you have captured so well the soul of this beautiful animal!
ps Me too, I can´t wait until you get your parcel! At the post office they told me that it would take 4 to 6 days , so it can be there any day now.......
I just love the way you take patterned paper and use it - I always think of it for scrapbooking only. Have a good week dear - I'm off to sunny fla today!
We all have totems, and these two are so powerful! I love how you paired it with a textured background, it's all so complex, beautiful and simple at the same time. Now that's magic!
hop, hop, hopping along and into your blog again because you are so awesome! lolo, i didn't tell you that i noticed the raven scarf right away, but i thought it was a designer scarf, which now makes me chuckle.
MY o MY o MY o MY o MY o MY o MY o MY o MY o MY o MY o MY o MY o MY o MY o MY o MY o MY o ..... BEAUTIFU.....MY o MY o MY o MY o MY o MY o MY o MY o MY!!!!
Oh oh and oh, that is simply gorgeous. I love the cheetah and the raven too. They seem to sit so well together and your use of subtle colours is superb.
What does Tea Cozy look like? My photo is at my seldom used MySpace page. Well, this is me at BEA; and scroll down the link at Laura Bowers' LiveJournal for another photo of me.
The photo on the sidebar is of my maternal grandmother as a child; and those of you on GMail? That artwork is by Cheetah. Let me do a little bragging; at Cheetah's school, each year the school picks one work of art by one child in each grade. That one artwork by grade is then mounted and put on display; when the child graduates, they can take it with them. The child selected for first grade? Cheetah! She, of course, is cooler than cool about it. "What is it," I ask. "I forget," she said. "C'mon, I want to play."
But what does Tea Cozy sound like? Now that can be answered! I am in a YALSA Podcast, talking about the ALA preconference. I have to say, it was fun. I may just buy a microphone and start podcasting.
And what does Tea Cozy look like when she dances? Mitali Perkins made sure that question would be answered! But thanks to my being behind Fuse # 8, you can barely see me; I'm in the white shirt and green pants. And yes, they are baggy. And yes, I have to lose a few pounds. And yes, you can tell it's me because I'm waving my arms at all the wrong times.
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Tea cozy? Hmmm--not your regular tea cozy I presume? Coming from England, I know a thing or three about tea cosies (like we spell it with an s). Not that I drink tea, mind you, but my mother still does--without the cosie. Now grandma--she used a cosy and it fit real snug on that old teapot of hers. I think she crocheted it--the cosy that is. And yes, it did smell. Sweaty hands, if I remember right.
There are many varieties. Or there were years ago. Many colors (colours), sizes, shapes, materials.
So to what kind of cosy are you referring? :-)
Anne Bradshaw said, on 7/4/2007 3:35:00 PM
Ooops! Spelled one "cosy" wrong. Sorry. A writer should know better. Now if it had been plural, then the ie would work. Okay, time for a break.
TadMack said, on 7/5/2007 12:01:00 AM
I'd say you're being silly about the diet thingy, but then, you notice there are no pictures of ME online at ALL. Go you doing your podcast! How cool and tech-ish is that? Can't wait to hear!
Jen Robinson said, on 7/5/2007 1:08:00 PM
Thanks, Liz! It's neat to hear someone's voice, after only seeing their words in print. I'm glad you're having such a great time with YALSA.
Robin Brande said, on 7/6/2007 8:22:00 PM
I keep trying to listen, but the program says I'm a spammer and won't let me in.
Did you report me? I promise I'll stop sending you Viagra ads.
Kyra said, on 7/7/2007 7:46:00 AM
Liz - I always thought that was your photo on the sidebar! It's a bit like learning that Lucy and Ricky got divorsed! Smile!
Kyra www.BlackThreadsinKidsLit.blogspot.com
syferium said, on 7/8/2007 4:13:00 AM
YOU CAN DELETE THAT POST, JUST TRY THE TLA!!
I saw your website and all the blgs are very good, so you have the opportunity to sell space ads on you blogs...
i receive 72$ every month doing nothing, there is just 4 links at my website)))And you're website is much more better then mine. Payments via PAYPAL and CHECK!!
The people who read the February issue of School Library Journal read my article Curl Up With A Cup Of Tea And A Good Blog and also saw this photo. (Edited to add: New! Startling! Revelations about the photo shoot at the bottom of the post.)
When SLJ said they needed my photo for the article, my first thought was I'd ask my sister to take a few photos. I didn't realize they meant a REAL photo. Or a real photo shoot. As happens with these things, it turned out that it was a week I could not take a day off from work; and a weekend when my sister (Pixie) and her husband (her husband) were out of town on business so I was babysitting Cheetah and PeterParker in their house.
Which meant that the photo shoot took place at their house, not mine.
Things I learned during my mini session as a star: it takes a long, long time to set up lights. Even longer than you think.
Children insist on being involved in everything. Until they get bored and go do something else.
This one photo was the result of about 4 hours and hundreds of photos. I am not making that up. The photographer, Will Taylor, was great.
Because it was at Pixie's house, I brought a bunch of ARCs and books with me, partly for the photo shoot, partly for the kids to look at it, partly in the hopes of getting some blog work done. Me being me, I made a list of the books I brought. The ones in bold are the ones you can see in the photo:
Tips On Having A Gay (Ex) Boyfriend by Carrie Jones Good Girls by Laura Ruby Pale Immortal by Anne Frasier (this is on the sofa) Bindi Babes by Narinder Dhami The Fat Girl by Marilyn Sachs Devilish by Maureen Johnson The Monstrous Memoirs of a Mighty McFearless by Ahmet Zappa Mommy? by Sendak Yorkins & Reinhart (this is a fave with Cheetah & PeterParker) The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon: A Pop Up Book by Stephen King (illus. by Alan Dingman, paper engineering by Kees Moerbeek) (another fave of the kids) The Day of the Scarab by Catherine Fisher Ancient Egypt: Archaeology Unlocks the Secrets of Egypt's Past by Jill Rubalcaba (right by the laptop) Goy Crazy by Rachel Lowenstein (between Egypt and the tea cup.) The Fetch by Chris Humphreys River Secrets by Shannon Hale Chloe Doe by Suzanne Phillips Julia's Kitchen by Brenda A. Ferber Beige by Cecil Castellucci The Braid by Helen Frost Martha Ann's Quilt for Queen Victoria by Kyra E Hicks, illus by Lee Edward Fodi Kali and the Rat Snake by Zai Whitaker, illus by Srividya Natarajan (PeterParker is reading it. I cannot figure out which book Cheetah is looking at.) Santa Knows by Cynthia & Greg Leitich Smith, illus by Steve Bjorkman Poetry Speaks to Children One White Wishing Stone by Doris K. Gayzagian, illus by Kristina Swarner
I also brought: Knopf Delacorte Dell (Random House) Young Readers Group Spring 2007 Catalog Random House Golden Books Young Readers Group Spring 2007 Catalog Book Page November 2006 Kane/ Miller Spring 2007 Catalog Chronicle Books Children's Spring/ Summer 2007 Book Page December 2006
I think Cheetah was looking at one of these catalogs.
Edited to add: Robin Brande asks, Liz, you're such a celeb! Great photo!Did you do your own hair/makeup/stunts? If so, all the more impressive!
Oh, go on. No, seriously, go on!
Hair: As soon as I knew I was getting the photo taken (and it was a short time frame) I called the salon and BEGGED for an appointment to get rid of the gray (I started going gray in my early 20s) and get my hair cut & styled. De Jensen was awesome & fit in me in. Makeup: I am not a big make up person. I use it, but as with everything, I take a minimalist approach. I used a combo of Benefit (I adore Dr. Feelgood) & Bobbi Brown products. Stunts: I did them all. This is when I learned how the models & celebs have stand ins for things like setting up the lights; I'm the one who sat there, instead of a stand in.
And have I mentioned? I'm one of those people who dread getting my picture taken!
What a great picture, Liz! I do know how many photos it can take to get one good one. It's very demoralizing. But the trick is to only focus on the good one, and quietly forget that the 400 others exist.
JMac said, on 4/9/2007 6:06:00 AM
Liz -- Congratulations! 1. For the SLJ article 2. For being such an expert and an asset @ OCL 3. For being the best aunt a child could wish for - they are DAMN lucky! 4. For obviously being a great older sister with all that babysitting you do! She is double DAMN lucky! 5. For ALWAYS being "on fire" about books and reading 6. For always taking a great picture - you are VERY photogenic!
Robin Brande said, on 4/9/2007 11:01:00 AM
Liz, you're such a celeb! Great photo!
Did you do your own hair/makeup/stunts? If so, all the more impressive!
zeelibrarian said, on 4/10/2007 10:59:00 AM
Who knew one picture could be so much trouble! I have some of the same ARCs:-) I can't wait to read Fat Girl
Melissa Schorr said, on 4/10/2007 5:30:00 PM
Hi Liz, Thanks for helping my book get its "15 minutes" of fame in the photo. Just wanted to clarify your list above, I'm actually the author of Goy Crazy -- Rachel Lowenstein is my character (I know, it's confusing, since her name is the one printed below her yearbook-like photo on the cover, and mine is stuck up in the corner.) Anyway, hope you and your family enjoyed the book! Melissa Schorr www.melissaschorr.com
Robin Brande said, on 4/11/2007 9:59:00 AM
Thank you for the additional scoop, Liz. Inquiring minds did want to know.
Chris said, on 4/11/2007 4:53:00 PM
Liz, Loved the photo! You are a great poster-woman for librarians - you make us look hip, cool, and happy and excited about what we do. And I have been meaning to tell you, I figured out who should play you, should your life ever get adapted for tv - Emily Blunt. What do you think?
Many thanks to Jennifer L. Holm & Matthew Holm; and the lovely copy of Babymouse: Heartbreaker, along with a copy for MPOW, along with a Babymouse doll that Cheetah will adore.
Are you sure you're going to be able to part with the Babymouse doll? Very nice.
Liz B said, on 2/16/2007 5:27:00 PM
The Babymouse Doll: Based on past experience, it goes on my shelf.
Cheetah visits.
At some point she approaches with asking about the toy (Jane Austen action figure, Buffy Beany Baby, or, now, Babymouse) and asks "Is that yours?" with a look that clearly says both "you are way too old to be selfish about your toys, set an example and share" and "I'm so cute, how can you say no?"
The best I'll be able to do is to perhaps convince her that Babymouse stays in my house so it's always here for her to play with.
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Great post! It seems amazing idea. Thanks.