Seven Days of Daisy Beach Party
Author/Illustrator Jamie Hogan and Curious City created a journey into the Peaks Island picture book, Seven Days of Daisy (Down East Books). Families hopped on the Casco Bay Lines bound for Peaks Island. Stepping off the Ferry, they turned down the hill to Ferry Beach to Hogan’s launch party. We celebrated the picture book about island summers with book making (make your OWN Seven Days…) a rowboat picture booth (an image from the book)… …giveaways (the magnifying glass from the title page)… …icy...
Read MoreJoe and Sparky, Superstars!
Joe and Sparky are getting the superstar treatment from Curious City in honor of their book launch! Jamie Michalak and Candlewick Press have just released the second book in the early chapter book series illustrated by Frank Remkiewicz, Joe and Sparky, Superstars! To celebrate we are holding… Educator & Librarian Giveaway! Enter here before 6/15/11 for a chance to win one of Joe and Sparky’s books. Activity Kit! Three madcap activities for public librarians, school librarians, educators, and other swell children’s programmers. Download it here....
Read MoreBases Loaded
David A. Kelly has the bases loaded on the Ballpark Mysteries series (Random House). With Fenway Foul-up and Pinstripe Ghost out now and L.A. Dodger hitting this summer, David is hitting homers. Curious City was happy to be called from the dugout to shape and design the character driven website, The Dugout Scoop: The Dirt on Ballpark Mysteries. (Isn’t great how you can make a zillion cheezy baseball references?) Share...
Read MoreMemento Nora Project
THE MEMENTO NORA PROJECT Publishing Student Comics Inspired by Teen Novel “You said someone needs to remember. I was thinking maybe we could do it with a comic book. Okay, maybe more like a comic strip. With our stories. And maybe other kids could tell us their memories before they are erased.” -from the novel, Memento Nora by Angie Smibert The upcoming teen novel, Memento Nora by Angie Smibert (Marshall Cavendish) is set in a near-future dystopian world where daily attacks by a terrorist Coalition (as well as any other memory) can be wiped from people’s...
Read MoreJunior Musher Video Contest
Attention Junior Mushers! Attention Readers! Terry Lynn Johnson’s novel, Dogsled Dreams is based on her own aspirations as a teenager to become a champion dogsled racer. What are your aspirations? Do you have ‘dogsled dreams’? Produce a video or photo slideshow for YouTube featuring your personal ‘dogsled dreams’ and you could, Win $100 from Komatik Outfitters. This contest is open February 1, 2011 – April 1, 2011 Everyone will be invited to VOTE of their favorite video from April 10 – April 20 with the winner...
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