Lost (and Found) at Sea
Curious City has an ocean view. Or at least, if we walk out our doors and down a steep hill we found ourselves on a sheltered bay of the Atlantic. From the beach these last weeks, you can watch people squeezing the last sails of the season before high winds and cold settle in. As the refugee crisis continues to play out on the beaches of the Middle East, Northern Africa and Europe, those images screen in over my idyllic Maine view. And, of course, the image of 3-year-old Aylan Kurdi washed ashore is there. That is an image of lost childhood that we can never unsee. Kevin...
Read MoreNew Orleans Still Needs Us
Author Tamara Ellis Smith, the creator of the acclaimed middle grade novel Another Kind of Hurricane (Schwartz & Wade Books) is giving New Orleans more than one gift. In addition to her deeply compelling story of two boys affected by Katrina, a percentage of her royalties will go to help the recovery of the Lower Ninth Ward. Every book sold helps lowernine.org. Buy the book and/or share this image and you too could help New Orleans. This image and marketing message was created by your friends at Curious City. Share...
Read MoreBoys Who Challenged Hitler: Book Trailer
Curious City was proud to partner with Farrar Straus Giroux BYR (an imprint of Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group) to produce a book trailer for The Boys Who Challenged Hitler by Phillip Hoose. Curious City scripted and storyboarded the piece and then worked with the strong voice talent and audiobook producer William Dufris of Mind’s Eye Productions on narration and sound. The brilliant videography came from our partnership with James Bailey. Pleased to have paid tribute to Knud Pedersen, the brave boys of the Churchill Club and the fine story crafting of author Phillip...
Read MoreMarketing Story: Resources for SCBWI Austin (and Others)
Thank you SCBWI friends for joining Curious City for the webinar Marketing Story: Or How I was Bit by an Ora! Although, it was a little odd to talk at my laptop for 105 minutes, it was grand to know you were on the other end. I offered you some follow-up resources in those sweet minutes. Comment below if I missed any of those promised materials! Discovering Your Readers: An Exercise Use this exercise to investigate who in the reading universe will respond most to your story and how to reach them. Download here. Librarians=Amazon Warriors: Programming Guides Visit our educator and...
Read MoreWho Made You King of the Beasts?
World Lion Day 2015 comes in with a roar and a continued uproar about Zimbabwe’s Cecil the Lion being illegally killed by an American. Like all such things, America’s reaction (by animal rights activists, conservationists, hunters, cat lovers, children, and the mighty media) says more about our culture than it says about one dentist (with too much money and too little respect). And like all such things, it reveals the cultural isolation that is America – living apart from countries like Zimbabwe where lions are a complicated and dangerous affair. And who made the lion...
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