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Dashka Slater's Blog
October 1, 2008
- I just got word that nominations are open for the Cybil Awards -- the awards from children's book bloggers for the best books of 2008. I love children's book bloggers because they tend to think about children's literature in a deeper way than many mainstream reviewers. These are people who are educators, librarians, and parents who understand that children's books are literature too, not just a ...
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September 11, 2008
- Earlier this year, I got an email from an editor at On Wisconsin magazine, asking if I would be interested in writing a profile of an environmental activist named John Francis, who spent 17 years without talking, and 22 years without riding in a car, train, or plane. I had never heard of On Wisconsin (I was well into the story before I discovered that the name was a reference to the UW fight ...
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May 30, 2008
- One of the more pointless and addictive things you can do when you have a new book out, is repetitively Google the title to find out what is being said about it. And so, even though I have several articles to work on, final rewrites on a new children’s book due, and a promise to deliver a new fiction manuscript to my agent by the fall, I keep googling The Sea Serpent and Me.In doing so, I’ve ...
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