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Quick posts by Shutta Crum---children's author. For her full blog go to : http://www.shutta.com . Enjoy!
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blogshutta · 9 years ago
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FRANK & LUCKY GET SCHOOLED . . .
In-depth interview with Newbery winner Lynne Rae Perkins book that's making all the best book lists this year. Check it out at my blog:  www.shutta.com/blog
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blogshutta · 14 years ago
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blogshutta · 14 years ago
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Full List of the 2012 ALA Award Winners . . .
A full list of the just-announced 2012 Newbery, Caldecott, King, Sibert, Printz, etc. can be found at my site: http://blog.shutta.com/blog.  Or at the ala.org site.
Congrats to all!!  Enjoy!
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blogshutta · 14 years ago
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A New Year's Gift...
Posted on December 31, 2011 by Shutta
A New Year’s Gift for Lovers of Kid Lit. . . .
What a gift to start out the new year! I absolutely LOVE this funny little article in the New York Times about the science behind some of our favorite children’s books. What, exactly, does brown bear see? Why is George so curious? And could the Pigeon drive the bus better than a human? If, like George, you’re curious to know the answers to these perplexing questions click on the link below. Enjoy!!!!
LOL!
Shutta
STORY TIME, DEBUNKED
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blogshutta · 14 years ago
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SLJ Best Books of the Year, 2011
YAY! MINE was named an SLJ Best Book this year . . . I am so proud of this title. Four starred reviews, a great NY Times review, and now this. And, I do bow down before Patrice Barton’s incredible talent. The artwork makes this book come alive. For all of you with very small children (especially if you have more than one young one). In choosing MINE! as one of those to be included on the list, SLJ said:
“As an intrepid toddler struggles to take possession of a passel of playthings, he is keenly observed by a frolicsome pup and a winsome infant who is preparing to make her move. The characters’ spot-on body language and facial expressions create a virtuoso visual portrayal of nascent social skills. “
The complete list of SLJ Best Books here.
Enjoy!
Shutta
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blogshutta · 14 years ago
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Mourning Poet Ruth Stone
Ruth Stone died.
You may not know her name.
She never stopped loving a husband hung by his own necktie.
Blind, and in her 90s, she dictated poems–
each dressed in weapons-grade plutonium
and the haute couture of grief.
And I mourn her passing.
Shutta
Obit: http://www.legacy.com/NS/Obituary.aspx?pid=154740533
Some Poems (Including MANTRA): http://www.thedrunkenboat.com/stoneinterview.htm
 An interview with Ruth Stone: http://www.thedrunkenboat.com/stoneinterview.htm
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blogshutta · 14 years ago
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Win a copy of the 2012 Children's Writer's & Illustrator's Market guide.
Michigan members of SCBWI: Win a free copy of the 2012 CWIM. (Children's Writer's & Illustrator's Market guide by Writers Digest Books edited by Chuck Sambuchino.) Just go to my site and fill out the form that tells me how you've been feeding & caring for your muse this month. You must enter by Dec. 1st. And you must be a member of the Michigan (USA) Chapter of SCBWI. The link to enter:
  http://blog.shutta.com/blog. Good luck to all of you who enter!!!
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blogshutta · 14 years ago
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The Doors and Reading Rainbow: Jimmy Fallon channels Jim Morrison
What a hoot!  For lovers of the Doors, Jimmy Fallon, and children's books! What more could anyone want?
Video at: http://youtu.be/5gunlBUan8Y .
Enjoy!
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blogshutta · 14 years ago
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CREATIVITY & TIME: Does creativity really depend upon time available? More at http://shutta.com .
(Thanks to KreativMagzin for this vid.)
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blogshutta · 14 years ago
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Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2011
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To see the list click here: http://secure.publishersweekly.com/pw/best-books/2011/childrens-picture#book/book-1 
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blogshutta · 14 years ago
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National picture Book Idea Month is coming!!!
We draw, we write!
We’re outta sight!
That’s right, despite what some prognosticators of doom predict . . . the picture book is not dead. Picture book writers and illustrators are gathering in the blogosphere for a smart mob party to generate ideas for picture books. November has been declared National Picture Book Idea Month. All that is required is that the writer or illustrator come up with one picture book idea a day for thirty days. Ideas do not need to be shared online.
That’s 30 days = 30 ideas. And at the end, participants will have a wealth of ideas from which to work in the upcoming months. In addition, writers and illustrators who sign up by Nov. 3rd at Tara Lazar’s National Pic. Book Idea Month site (or go to http://shutta.com and use the button to the right.) could win one of any number of great prizes. As a bonus, a whole bevy of guest posts by well-known writers and illustrators will be posted at the NaPiBoIdMo site — a new one each day for the month.
Join up, join us, join in!
Shutta
(Proud picture book writer!)
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blogshutta · 14 years ago
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Little Free Library
YAY!!!! I love it . . .
Todd Bol is the co-founder of the Wisconsin-based nonprofit Little Free Library. In less than two years, Bol’s nonprofit has built more than 100 little free libraries.
I want one NOW in my town . . . Friends of Libraries organizations, are you listening? What about using some of those donated books?
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blogshutta · 14 years ago
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Cool idea--free books . . .
In Germany, “free-for-all” libraries are ” popping up across the nation on street corners, city squares and suburban supermarkets,” the Associated Press (via the San Francisco Chronicle) reported. These public bookshelves are “usually financed by donations and cared for by local volunteer groups.”
I know there are variations on this theme in the U.S.—like bookstores or travel resorts with free book shelves. But outside on a sidewalk where visibility is at its max makes a lot of sense. I do wonder about rain and other weather, and vandalism. But I like the idea. We used to have a magazine exchange at the mall library where I worked and the locals loved it. Of course, this kind of thing requires someone to tend it . . . clean up messes, etc. Still what a wonderful way to share and celebrate the written word!!
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blogshutta · 14 years ago
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Youth Lit. National Book Award nominees!
What a great line-up for the National Book Awards!!!
And I just saw that my editor at Knopf, Michelle Frey, edited one of the nominees--- Albert Marrin, Flesh & Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy. She's a great editor to work with. So happy for her, and Knopf.
Click here for the details:
NBA Finalists Announced for Young People's Literature.
Enjoy!
Shutta
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blogshutta · 14 years ago
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The 2011 Ig Nobels Announced . . .
Just in case you missed this . . . here’s a fun alternative to the more staid Nobel Prizes we’ve been hearing about of late.
As Nature Magazine says: “. . . the Ig Nobel awards. These come with little cash, but much cachet, and reward those research projects that ‘first make people laugh, and then make them think.”
Such awards as: PHYSIOLOGY PRIZE: Anna Wilkinson (of the UK), Natalie Sebanz (of THE NETHERLANDS, HUNGARY, and AUSTRIA), Isabella Mandl (of AUSTRIA) and Ludwig Huber (of AUSTRIA) for their study “No Evidence of Contagious Yawning in the Red-Footed Tortoise.”
For more of these interesting awards go to the Ig Nobel site here.
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blogshutta · 14 years ago
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Hah!  Let this be a reminder to all writers everywhere--every comma counts! (Thanks to Paul Jeannotte.)
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blogshutta · 14 years ago
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So true!
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