School Library Month 2017

No foolin'!

 

April is

 School Library Month

 

This year's theme is



How will you support your school?

Use the #SLM17 on social media to raise awareness of the needs and services of your local school libraries.

Authors, illustrators...Why not make a donation?

• You can donate money or books.
• Offer to autograph library copies.
• Sponsor a fund-raiser or giveaway.
• Design a poster or a framed piece of art.
• Schedule an author or illustrator visit FOR FREE or do a presentation with the other members of your critique group.
• Stop in at your local school for a surprise lunch. Sign a few books. Answer a few questions.

Go to the American Library Association for more ideas and bookish booty.

And watch this space for upcoming events through out the month!

All Things Bookish

I am adding a poll today.  I would like to know what you as the readers find interesting or valuable in this blog.  Please take a moment to cast your vote.  I will continue to publish posts on all aspects of children's books and publishing, but I would be happy to feature items which you, the readers, find interesting.  If there are any of you out there . . .?
Thanks for your time.  As always. I love hearing from you.

Writing Letters by Kecky 
AKA Kristin Kemper on Etsy

Attention Adult Harry Potter Fans

Little Brown has just announced details of J. K. Rowling's new adult novel due later this year.  According to Hachette Book Group, the new dark comedy,  The Casual Vacancy is due September 27, 2012.  This news follows the announcement Rowling would be signing with a new publisher back in February.  We look forward to more great characterizations and a bewitching sense of place. (Pun intended.)

We wish her much success, and hope afterwards that she will grace us with another venture into the world of YA.

J. K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series and . . .

Resurrection Day

"And one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answering said unto Him, Art thou a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known the things which are come to pass there in these days? . . . Concerning Jesus of Nazareth . . . how the chief priests and our rulers delivered Him to be condemned to death, and have crucified Him.  But we trusted that it had been He which should have redeemed Israel:  and beside all this today is the third day since these things were done. . . . and certain women also . . . said that He was alive. . . The Lord is risen indeed."

-Luke 24:18-34

April Fool or Just Foolish?

The Quaker Make-Over
2012

 Haddon Sundblom was a Chicago artist who mainly produced advertising art from the late 1920's through early the 1970's.  He painted the Quaker Oats man logo in 1957 to color and update the look of the product.  But has Pepsi Co, owner of the Quaker Oat Company,  gone too far?  The corporate mascot was not redesigned, but photo-shopped to look thinner, lose his double chin, enhance his neck and shoulders, and cut his hair.

I am so glad Quaker is owned by Pepsi and not Coke.  Can you imagine the consequences?  Sundblom also designed The Coca-Cola Santa.

Haddon Sundblom
Santa 1947

Haddon Sundblom
Aunt Jemima ad 1955