This Easter, Save the Egg
This Easter you might consider giving the bunny a rest and helping out the dragon instead. Author, Sarah L. Thomson and Curious City devised a Dragon Egg Hunt where young readers can solve runes, protect a dragon’s egg and deliver the egg safely to the Hatching Grounds. The downloadable event kit allows bookstores and libraries to feature Sarah’s wonderful book, Dragon Egg and highlight the rest of their dragon book collection. Share...
read moreAnts Spared Across the Country
It has been an absolute honor to have imagined, designed and managed The Hey, Little Ant Essay Challenge for authors, Phillip & Hannah Hoose and the 10th Anniversary of their thought-provoking picture book, Hey, Little Ant. Kids from all over the country have been answering the question, “What do you think that kid should do?” in reference to a Kid considering squishing an Ant (who is being uncommonly vocal about her place int he world). A sampling of kids answers can be viewed on the Hey, Little Ant blog. Share...
read moreRaising Readers Books Ahead
Curious City was pleased to once again head up the book committee in their review of over 80 books for consideration in the Raising Reader 2009 (or beyond) collection. This incredible program has given over ONE MILLION picture books and board books to Maine children under five (thanks to the Libra Foundation). The swell staff at Raising Readers and I anxiously await the final scores from the committee and the day we get to select the 12-15 books that will be given out in 2009. Share...
read moreThe House of David
The HTML has been flying around our offices as of late. Author, David Elliott is releasing so many new books this year (5?!) that our intrepid web designer had to rework his site.We added a feature that allows him to easily edit his own Homepage and Events page. Our web impressario also redesigned his My Books page to display the myriad covers quite nicely. Congrats, David on the plethora of publications. Share...
read moreD is for Dinosaur Dinner
It is with a big toothy T-Rex grin that we announce that we are working with Lita and Dave Judge to create a promotional treasure hunt for D is for Dinosaur for museums, libraries and bookstores.”Avoid being the dinner of the T-Rex by finding all the hidden letters of the alphabet.That T-Rex is hungry, strong and terrible, but he is not very smart. You can outwit him by finding the letters and knowing your dinosaur facts.Each letter you collect gets you farther from the jaws of the T-Rex that could be behind any corner! Go!” Share...
read moreSweet on Shelter Dogs
Tupelo and his sock doll, Mr. Bones are in search of a pack. They discover the Boneheads, a group of stray and otherwise misplaced pups who worship the dog star, Sirius in hope of finding a home. Garbage Pail Rex (smelling of wieners) gathers them all aboard a train and takes them to a town for adoption.Author/illustrator, Melissa Sweet and Curious City have devised a plan to help dog shelters by getting dog lovers all over the nation to register their dogs as “Boneheads.” Boneheads will receive a doggy bag full of things good...
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