MLK ‘s Young Citizens
Children attending the 32nd Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Breakfast Celebration in Portland, Maine will be treated to a series of art activities and games about cooperation, citizenship, and American history. Children ages 4-7 will meet Maine children’s book author/illustrator Cathryn Falwell and hear a reading of her award winning picture book, David’s Drawings (Lee & Low Books) In the story, a boy walks to school in the winter and is struck by the beauty of a leafless tree. He makes a drawing of the tree in class, and then welcomes crayon contributions from his...
Read MoreMoonbird and Bunny Ears
Curious City accompanied Phillip Hoose to Harpswell Community TV to record his acknowledgement speech for the YALSA Excellence in NonFiction Award for his book Moonbird: A Year on the Wing with the Great Survivor B95. Passing sunlit coves and stands of pine, we kept an eye out for the tower that would mark America’s last non-digital community station. A map inside the door was marked with red dots showing their transmission range down the pennisulas and up the rolling hills of Downeast Maine. Don, Donna, and Donelle invited us into the studio complete with...
Read MoreAll But the Kitchen SYNC
Curious City is selecting the new titles for the fourth summer of FREE audiobook downloads from SYNC YA Literature Into Your Earphones. So many tremendous listens to choose from! We are also awash in colorful design work from Marty Braun Design as we get materials ready for our publisher partners at ALA Midwinter. Share...
Read MoreIntern on Self-Taught Artist Bill Traylor
CURIOUS CITY, a children’s book consulting company that builds creative marketing projects and outreach for authors, illustrators, and publishers focused on engaging readers with story, is looking for an intern(s) for Winter/Spring 2013. That intern can be a college student from anywhere in the U.S. THE INTERNSHIP would be focused on the picture book It Jes’ Happened: When Bill Traylor Started to Draw by Don Tate and illustrated by R. Gregory Christie. “…the story of this man’s life is an introduction to a noted American folk artist of the 20th century, and...
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