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Thursday, February 27, 2014 11:08:24 PM
Uma Krishnaswami wrote a blog post titled Interview with Kashmira Sheth:
Uma said, "Earlier this year, I was delighted by the chapter book, The No-Dogs-Allowed Rule by Kashmira Sheth, illustrated by Carl Pearce. I raced through the book with its whimsical young Indian American narrator and its family-centered story, and oh so..." more
Thursday, February 27, 2014 11:08:24 PM
Uma Krishnaswami wrote a blog post titled Guest Post by Sarah Aronson: To Look Forward Start By Looking Back:
Uma said, "Sarah Aronson’s new novel, BELIEVE (Carolrhoda Lab), the story of a sole survivor of a suicide bombing, deals with the power of faith, the lure of fame, and the strains of friendship. During the High Holidays, Jews revisit one of the..." more
Thursday, February 27, 2014 11:08:24 PM
Uma Krishnaswami wrote a blog post titled New Books From Karadi Tales: An Aesop Adaptation:
Uma said, "A few years ago, I retold some mythological stories for Karadi Tales, and learned something about writing stories for an audience familiar with their context and background. I wrote about this in a 2010 post:For years I've tried to shape my writing..." more
Thursday, February 27, 2014 11:08:24 PM
Uma Krishnaswami wrote a blog post titled Process Talk: Don Tate on Illustrating The Cart That Carried Martin:
Uma said, "It's a rare picture book with two creators that manages to look as if it came from a single inspirational source. The Cart That Carried Martin from Charlesbridge is such a book. I'm so pleased to be able to interview illustrator Don Tate about..." more
Thursday, February 27, 2014 11:08:24 PM
Uma Krishnaswami wrote a blog post titled Listening with Our Pens: Narrative Humility for Writers (Guest post by Sayantani DasGupta):
Uma said, "Sayantani DasGupta is a physician, a writer, and a teacher with a remarkable voice. Her collection of traditional tales from Bengal, The Demon Slayers and Other Stories, coauthored with her mother Shamita Das Dasgupta, is regionally specific and..." more
Thursday, February 27, 2014 11:08:24 PM
Uma Krishnaswami wrote a blog post titled The Commonwealth Education Trust, MOOCs, and Me:
Uma said, "Sometimes an experience comes along that puzzles you, intrigues you, opens your mind up to possibility and makes you want to learn more. It was in this spirit that I accepted an invitation from Judy Curry of the Commonwealth Education Trust to come..." more
Thursday, February 27, 2014 11:08:24 PM
Uma Krishnaswami wrote a blog post titled Book Trailer and Guest Post: Falcon in the Glass by Susan Fletcher:
Uma said, "Some time ago, I was privileged to host a conversation with my VCFA colleague and gifted writer Susan Fletcher and children's literature scholar Taraneh Matloob. Now it's my delight to invite Susan to write a guest post for me on WWBT--this time..." more
Thursday, February 27, 2014 11:08:24 PM
Uma Krishnaswami wrote a blog post titled Bookaroo 2013:
Uma said, "I'm off to India again this month to speak at Bookaroo 2013. I'll be talking to young readers, families and anyone else who's there (looks like half the children's publishing world of India for starters). Sessions are scheduled at the festival and..." more
Thursday, February 27, 2014 11:08:24 PM
Uma Krishnaswami wrote a blog post titled A Broken Pavement, an Election, a Pile of Books, and Me:
Uma said, "It was a lovely surprise when my chapter book, Book Uncle and Me, published by Scholastic India, recently won a Crossword Book Award in the Children's Category, sharing this hono(u)r with Payal Kapadia's whimsical Wisha Wozzariter. The..." more
Thursday, February 27, 2014 11:08:24 PM
Uma Krishnaswami wrote a blog post titled Happy Holidays, Winter, Snow, Rain, and a Happy New Year!:
Uma said, "WWBT is on winter break/getting ready for VCFA residency break. Happy days to all, and the best of years ahead. This blog will resume in February 2014. "
Monday, September 9, 2013 5:25:23 AM
Uma Krishnaswami wrote a blog post titled Beyond Craft: Reaching for Texts That Do Not Segregate:
Uma said, "My post on the VCFA faculty blog, MFA program in Writing for Children and Young Adults. Excerpt: Most often, when we talk about writing, it’s about craft. Tools. Techniques. Elements of fiction. For me, those things are inseparable from..." more
Thursday, September 5, 2013 7:41:28 PM
Uma Krishnaswami wrote a blog post titled No Crystal Stair Wins the Battle of the Kids' Books:
Uma said, "Illustration by Mark TuchmanNever mind the Oscars.In the children's and YA book universe, here's the competition that counts.Congratulations to writer, librarian, and my critique partner and fellow Autodidactics member Vaunda Micheaux Nelson on her..." more
Thursday, September 5, 2013 7:41:28 PM
Uma Krishnaswami wrote a blog post titled Drop Everything and Read Month:
Uma said, "Thank you to Joy Chu for cueing me in.Drop Everything and Read Day, begun in honor of Ramona Quimby's creator, Beverly Cleary, is now Drop Everything and Read Month. Ramona fans will get the allusion from Ramona Quimby, Age 8. Thirty-two..." more
Thursday, September 5, 2013 7:41:28 PM
Uma Krishnaswami wrote a blog post titled "Did I Choose You, Or Did You Choose Me?":
Uma said, "Publishers Weekly reports: "Esteemed children’s author E.L. Konigsburg, a two-time winner of the Newbery Medal (From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, in 1968; The View from Saturday, in 1997) and the only writer to have..." more
Thursday, September 5, 2013 7:41:28 PM
Uma Krishnaswami wrote a blog post titled South Asia Book Awards 2013:
Uma said, "The South Asia National Outreach Consortium announces the South Asia Book Awards:The winning books in 2013 are The Rumor by Anushka Ravishankar, illustrated by Kanyika Kini, and Kids of Kabul: Living Bravely Through a Never-Ending War by..." more
Thursday, September 5, 2013 7:41:28 PM
Uma Krishnaswami wrote a blog post titled Lyn Miller-Lachman on Humor and Disability:
Uma said, "Somewhat related to my thinking on humor and cultural contexts, writer and VCFA graduate Lyn Miller-Lachmann muses about humor and disability.Also tangentially related, an earlier post of mine about the fragility and robustness of humor.And in these..." more
Thursday, September 5, 2013 7:41:28 PM
Uma Krishnaswami wrote a blog post titled Writing From the Chakras: An Online Course with Minal Hajratwala:
Uma said, "She calls it the "fastest, fiercest way" she knows to generate work quickly. Body-centered exercises grounded in the deeply personal. Inclusive. Fun. Inspires her students to connect with their own creative expression. That's how former students..." more
Thursday, September 5, 2013 7:41:28 PM
Uma Krishnaswami wrote a blog post titled Cliff Swallows and Building Narratives:
Uma said, "These cliff swallows nest just down the road. (At least I think they're cliff swallows--are they not the only kind to build those gourd-like nests out of river mud?) I've been watching them every summer for over a decade. All those years,..." more
Thursday, September 5, 2013 7:41:28 PM
Uma Krishnaswami wrote a blog post titled Hunger Mountain invites submissions:
Uma said, "Hunger Mountain, the VCFA journal of the arts, invites submissions.Check out Another Loose Sally, the Hunger Mountain blog about writing and writers. "
Thursday, September 5, 2013 7:41:28 PM
Uma Krishnaswami wrote a blog post titled Unpacking the MFA Residency:
Uma said, "It seems the harder I try to get ready for the VCFA July residency the more behind I get. Which makes sense--what could possibly get me ready for that 10-day wormhole experience that swallows us all up and spits us out at the end, exhausted and..." more
Thursday, September 5, 2013 7:41:28 PM
Uma Krishnaswami wrote a blog post titled The Diversity Gap in Children's Books Published in the United States:
Uma said, "A blog post on The Open Book (the Lee and Low blog) reads:Since LEE & LOW BOOKS was founded in 1991 we have monitored the number of multicultural children’s books published each year through the Cooperative Children’s Book..." more
Thursday, September 5, 2013 7:41:28 PM
Uma Krishnaswami wrote a blog post titled Guided Dreams:
Uma said, "Graciela Boulanger is a Bolivian painter. When I first saw her work in an art gallery, I wondered where I'd seen it before. It had a kind of odd familiarity about it, with its stylized renderings of chubby children staring out of the paintings,..." more
Thursday, September 5, 2013 7:41:28 PM
Uma Krishnaswami wrote a blog post titled Octopus Alone:
Uma said, "Divya Srinivasan's charming first picture book, Little Owl's Night, featured a wide-eyed young owl in a dark forest.Her second, out recently from Viking, brings the same kind of gentle whimsy to an ocean setting. A contented octopus watches a whole..." more
Thursday, September 5, 2013 7:41:28 PM
Uma Krishnaswami wrote a blog post titled Anushka Ravishankar of Duckbill Books on her many roles in publishing in India:
Uma said, "Back in 1997, I fell in love with Anushka Ravishankar's picture book, Tiger On a Tree, published by Tara Books in India and later in an American edition by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Together with former Scholastic India editor, Sayoni Basu, Anushka..." more
Wednesday, March 5, 2014 3:58:40 PM
Uma Krishnaswami wrote a blog post titled Downsizing, Simplifying: Moving to umakrishnaswami.org:
Uma said, "I have maintained my web site and this blog for eight years now. They finally became too large a house for me to inhabit and maintain. Too many cobwebs. Too many undusted shelves. Too much space. I couldn't update the web site. I forgot to post on..." more