Level3’s Reunited Tour Kicks Off
LEVEL3 and Dilly Dilly Live at the Library! Free Concert, Free Band MP3’s, Free Book Chapters Long before there was One Direction, there was LEVEL3. Luke Dixon, Ryan Hale, and Travis Wyland had taken home two MTV awards and won a Grammy all before they were 18. Then, to the utter shock of their fans, the boys broke up. But, LEVEL3 is back together this summer for one short tour with Portland, Maine Indie girl rocker Dilly Dilly. And they are playing at the Portland Public Library!! Why our library and not a club...
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A road novel should have its very own transportation. Right? To support the Boston to Austin Level3 Reunited Tour for Hilary Weisman Graham’s YA novel Reunited, Curious City created a pop-up photo booth that allows you to be in the PeaPod, the book’s infamous vintage VW van. The photo booth was inaugurated at Hilary’s launch party with all the guests crowding in to wave out the front window. The spare tire happens to sport the national offer to text for free book chapters and band MP3s. As photos of...
read moreArmored Bears and MP3’s: Curious City Blogging for IRA
Delighted to have been asked to write about my audiobook evangelism for the International Reading Association’s ENGAGE Blog. “Why do I devote each summer to facilitating the experience of listening to young adult audiobooks through the SYNC program? Because audiobooks nearly ruined my summer wedding. True, my evangelism for Listening Library’s production of Philip Pullman’s THE GOLDEN COMPASS was renowned, but the bride should not have to tromp outside to locate her mother alone and wide-eyed in a...
read moreSYNC 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...
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...
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...
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...
read morePatsy’s Book Party
Patsy’s Book Party, a set on Flickr. My former English professor, dear friend, and stunning poet Patsy Cumming recently gifted me her collection of children’s books from her youth and from her daughters’ childhoods. Children’s book illustrators, Jamie Hogan and Mary Anne Lloyd joined me to sort through the titles and to spirit away their favorites into the night. Share...
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