Peaceful & Proud Inside: Muslim Families in KidLit
With the headlines screaming “Muslim Extremists” and “Muslim Terrorists” in wake of attacks in Paris, it is good time to feed your children a good diet of books featuring Muslim families from around the world and from our very own neighborhoods. After 9/11, many looked to the bookshelves in the United States and found them bereft of stories about Muslim children and families. Children’s book authors, illustrators and publishers sought to quickly fill the gap in our literature. We still have so far to go, but there are now so many wonderful stories—including the...
Read MoreGet Your Extraordinary On
Congratulations to Sarah Dillard! Her Extraordinary Warren: A Super Chicken is a Finalist for the Cybils! The Extraordinary Sarah reached out to Curious City looking for ways to get the word out about her two forthcoming picture book/early reader/comic book chicken-hero releases. As with each new client, we started with a brainstorm, That brainstorm looked like this… Makes perfect sense right? The result of the brainstorm was the decision to create a Story Hour Kit where readers could become “extraordinary” themselves. Together Sarah and I developed three...
Read MoreSearching for Silverheels Giveaway
In celebration of the release of the novel and the companion Book Club Kit, Curious City DPW, author Jeannie Mobley and Margaret K. McElderry Books gave away 20 copies of the novel Searching for Silverheels to these ever so fine Book Club leaders and librarians: Aurora Academy Charter School (Aurora, CO) Pasadena Public Library( Pasadena,CA) San Pedro Library (San Antonio, TX) SUNY New Paltz (New Paltz, NY) Attwood School (Lansing, Michigan) Rockford Road Library (Crystal, MN) Deerfield Public Library (Deerfield, IL) Hancock County Library System Bay (St. Louis, MI) Bernice Vossbeck...
Read MoreThe 2014 Curious City Besties
What book will be a child’s “bestie”? What 2014 book will be your child’s favorite companion? Everyone in the book review press is lining up to declare the Best Children’s Books of 2014. They are, indeed, astounding reads all. If you are buying books for children, though, the best route is to approach a bookseller or librarian and describe your young reader by personality and (if you know) by their favorite books. Those booksellers and librarians are magic at making book matches. Let them give you a unique idea for a book gift. If you’re buying gifts...
Read MoreUninvited
What would you think if your school visit was canceled a few days before your arrival? Scheduling error? Budget cut? Bad weather? What if the school told you it was a scheduling error but refused to reschedule you? What if all the book orders were canceled? What would you think then? Young Adult author e.E. Charlton-Trujillo suspected she was canceled because of the content of her novel Fat Angie or her documentary At-Risk Summer. But if no one tells you that is the case, is it Censorship? Curious City joined a league of clever people including the ALA Office of Intellectual Freedom to...
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