SYNC YA Lit Into Your Earphones
Why not listen to lit? Curious City is proud to have partnered with AudioFile Magazine to create and manage SYNC, an audience building literacy project for Young Adult and Classic/Required Reading audiobooks. We have not only built a list of 20 FREE audiobooks that will be available in the Summer of 2012, but have created a complete promotional tool kit to allow librarians, educators, literacy folks, and bloggers to spread the good news to teens and other listeners. SYNC YA Literature into Your Earphones 2 Free Audiobook Downloads Each Week June 14 – August 22,...
Read MoreStudents Send New Year’s Greeting to Cambodian American Neighbors
This weekend, Cambodians Americans in Maine and Cambodians around the world, celebrate the New Year. In celebration of that holiday, third and forth graders from Canal School in Westbrook, Maine joined Peaks Island, Maine author/illustrator Anne Sibley O’Brien to listen to a reading from O’Brien’s book about Cambodians Americans, A Path of Stars. Together they created greeting cards with “Happy New Year” written in Khmer, the language of Cambodia, and hand-drawn lotus blossoms for the Buddhist temple in Buxton, Maine. Canal School librarian, Susan Brown invited Anne Sibley...
Read MoreAuthor Phillip Hoose Given Katahdin Award for Lifetime Acheivement
With the announcement today of the Katahdin Award by the Maine Library Association, Phillip Hoose becomes one of the most honored writers in Maine’s history. In its announcement of The Katahdin Award, designed to honor an author’s body of work of outstanding merit, the Maine Library Association acknowledged that Phillip Hoose’s books for children, young adults, and adults have “brought the under noticed and overlooked to stunning clarity and inclusion with the power of his storytelling.” Hoose became known nationally when his book, Claudette Colvin: Twice...
Read MoreCurious City in the Wheaton Quarterly
Helping readers uncover good stories “The advent of e-readers has revolutionized how people read. In seconds, readers can have a new book in hand. What has not changed is the fact that they have to know that a book exists before they can want it. “In the end, the challenge still is, how does a reader find that story or author in the first place?” says book marketing consultant Kirsten Cappy ’92…” Helping readers uncover good stories – Wheaton Quarterly. Share...
Read MoreTalking Inner & Outer Demons
Curious City had a haunting afternoon with writers Amalie Howard, Elizabeth Miles, and Sarah L. Thomson at Maine Festival of the Book! Readers had a little scare or at least a little banter with our panel… Facing Your Inner & Outer Demons: Teen Issues in Paranormal Fiction Young Adult authors discuss incorporating real life teen issues into their paranormal novels Mercy, Fury, and Bloodspell with moderator Kirsten Cappy of Curious City. Share...
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