Recycle the Dead
Events are tricky. How to make the event experiential enough that readers want to share the event and book with friends and how to give them something to easily share with those friends. With the launch party for Mercy: The Last New England Vampire we nailed it on both fronts by recycling the dead. We invited back the lovely and haunting Emily who played (the dead) Mercy in the book trailer to stand beside a reproduction of her gravestone. We then we dared readers from the mist and fog covered cemetery launch party to step...
read moreMercy: The Last New England Vampire (The Trailer!)
We are proud to release our latest Curious City produced trailer. Share...
read moreHeart Burn
We could not resist merging our client Sarah L. Thomson’s novel about the true 1892 exhumation and heart burning of an accused 19-year-old vampire with the popular tattoo graphic of a burning heart. Yes, the giveaway for this book IS a temporary tattoo. Thanks to illustrator/designer Marty Braun for this beauty. Where can you sink your fangs into one? At the launch party for Mercy: The Last New England Vampire (Islandport Press) on 10/1/11 in Portland, Maine or ask for one (or more if you are a librarian) to be mailed to...
read moreChildren’s Lit Party for Marriage Equality
Author/illustrator Charlotte Agell, Author Maria Testa, Curious City, and Zero Station hosted an event for fellow children’s book creators, publishers, librarians, education advocates, and readers to learn more about the effort to win the freedom to marry for LGBTQ families in Maine in 2012. WHY CHILDREN’S LIT? Opponents to marriage equality continue to use the picture book King and King (a fairy tale about two princes falling in love) as an indication that children are being inappropriately and dangerously educated. ...
read moreGobble, Gobble Activity Kit
Cathryn Falwell has released another ‘perfect summer’s day’ of a picture book with Gobble, Gobble (Dawn Publications). Jenny, the young naturalist in the book, discovers arrow prints in the spring mud and follows her curiosity to…wild turkeys. She continues to watch them throughout the year and her days come to mimic theirs. “Not just for Thanksgiving, this should be a welcome addition to nature shelves all year round.” —Kirkus Reviews Cathryn Falwell and Curious City under the ‘wise...
read moreGobble, Gobble at Maine Audubon
Illustrator/author Cathryn Falwell read and “talked turkey” about her new picture book Gobble, Gobble (Dawn Publications) as part of Maine Audubon’s Apple Day. Maine Audubon staff shared facts about the wild turkeys, young naturalists followed the tracks of Maine wildlife in the Gobble Trail Game, and created nature journals with the wildlife facts they gathered. Cathryn signed her many nature picture books throughout the event. Share...
read moreMERCY: The Last New England Vampire Launch Party
Mercy, the last New England vampire, was pulled forcibly from her tomb in 1892. The teen novel about this horrific true incident and the present-day girl who uncovers it, was launched at the Eastern Cemetery in Portland, Maine under the appropriate cover of thick fog and gray drizzle. Per your usual event, the author, Sarah L. Thomson read and signed her novel… …but she did so while the ghost of Mercy walked the graveyard beyond her. Some readers were able to catch Mercy on film and…...
read morePond Babies Shower
Quack away, my dear friends, because a group of national schools and libraries just won signed copies of Pond Babies by Cathryn Falwell (there she is signing right now!) Thanks to the kind and clever folks from Down East Books, this toddler picture book will be paddling through the mail to the fine folks below. But, my dear ducks, you can all win by downloading a FREE Pond Babies Story Hour Kit with animal matching games, fun movement prompts, and a rather sweet craft. Dedham School Dakota County Heritage Library MCLS:...
read moreLibrary PSA PDQ
Gen-u-ine voice. Boy, oh, boy does Tommy Greenwald have it in his new chapter book, Charlie Joe Jackson’s Guide to NOT Reading. It was not surprise, then, when Tommy told me that Tim Ditlow of Brilliance Audio had acquired the title. Tim has impeccable instinct for narrative voice. In the hotel lobby of the NESCBWI conference, Tommy played me a clip of Odyssey Honoree, MacLeod Andrews voicing Charlie Joe. In the words of the character, “Awesome.” As you know, we DO love creating tools for the...
read moreJoe & Sparky Zooming
Copies of Joe and Sparky Superstars! and Joe and Sparky Get New Wheels are zooming through the mail thanks to the kind folks at Candlewick Press and author Jamie Michalak. The fine libraries below should keep their eyes peeled for a special delivery by Super Flash 5000 (and stay safely inside until the vehicle is safely parked). Safety First! All others should remember to DOWNLOAD the Activity Kit and take the Joe & Sparky Personality Test for a spot of fun. Congrats to these Superstar Libraries… Hillcrest...
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