Just One More Book!!

 

 Poetry of Motion: Silent Music (A Story of Baghdad) [9:07m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Author: James Rumford
Illustrator: James Rumford
Published: 2008 Roaring Book Press (on JOMB)
ISBN: 1596432764

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Loops, dots, masts and curves glide gracefully across exotically patterned images of football, friends and family as a young Iraqi contemplates practice, peace and beauty.

More of Islam and the Arab World on JOMB:

• Night of the Moon: A Muslim Holiday Story
• 52 Days by Camel
• My Friend Jamal
• The Butter Man
• Lugalbanda: The Boy Who Got Caught Up In The War
• The Rich Man and the Parrot
• Sanji and the Baker
• Interview with Suzan Nadimi

HOTLINE VOICES: Musician and father Curtis Harnanan shares his love for An Island Christmas (by Lynn Joseph and Catherine Stock)

We’d love to hear your thoughts on a favourite children’s book. Leave us a voice message on our JOMB listener hotline, +1-206-350-6487.

 

 A Soothing Celebration: Snow [7:16m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Author: Cynthia Rylant (on JOMB)
Illustrator: Lauren Stringer (on JOMB)
Published: 2008 Harcourt (on JOMB)
ISBN: 0152053034

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Welcoming snowscapes, glowing orange coziness and carefully, crafted verse capture our very personal yet wonderfully universal relationship with snow in this exquisite reflection on the fleeting sweetness of life.

More wintry reading on JOMB:

• Snowsong Whistling
• The Snow Show — with Chef Kelvin
• Treasure for Lunch
• The Lamp, the Ice and the Boat Called Fish
• The Magic Hockey Stick
• Irving and Muktuk: Two Bad Bears
• Cuddly Dudley
• Wenceslas

HOTLINE VOICES: Blogger and soon to be published children’s book author Candace Ryan shares a creative review (with a Thanksgiving twist) of Blue Hat, Green Hat (by Sandra Boynton).

We’d love to hear your thoughts on a favourite children’s book. Leave us a voice message on our JOMB listener hotline, +1-206-350-6487.

Welcome to Just One More Book!! If you’re a newcomer to our website or are unfamiliar with audio podcasts and how the Just One More Book!! audio programs promote children’s books, the people that create them and a general love of reading, you may find this video to be a helpful on-ramp to becoming part of the Just One More Book!! community.

 

 Both Sides Now: Sourpuss and Sweetie Pie [8:24m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Author: Norton Juster (on JOMB)
Illustrator: Chris Raschka (on JOMB)
Published: 2008 Scholastic (on JOMB)
ISBN: 0439929431

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There was a little girl, who had a little curl, right in the middle of her forehead. When she was good she was very, very good and when she wasn’t, well, you didn’t know what hit you — and you never saw it coming, and then suddenly she was good again. And, of course, you love her anyway.

This playfully illustrated confession of an all too familiar Jekyll and Hyde youngster invites us to look at, and laugh at, our many-sided selves.

See photos of the 19th annual Children’s Illustration Show:

• Official photos from the R. Michelson Gallery
• Our photo of Mo Willems, Norton Juster and Richard Michelson

HOTLINE VOICES: Author Sarah Ackerley (on JOMB) calls in to tell us about The Sea Serpent and Me (by Dashka Slater and Catia Chien).

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 Interview with Rebecca Sherman [12:47m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

It’s probably safe to say that most people, even when holding one in their hand, don’t consider all of the work and the people involved in creating a children’s picture book. Behind the names of the authors illustrators, within and beyond the names of the publishing houses are the often overlooked people we call agents.

On this edition of Just One More Book!!, we turn the spotlight on Rebecca Sherman, an agent with Writers House LLC, who tells us a bit about her job as an agent and shares stories about some of her clients.

Authors/illustrators mentioned in this program:

• Grace Lin (on JOMB)
• Jarrett Krosoczka and his video: Making of A Monkey Boy (on JOMB)
• Alvina Ling
• Scott Magoon (on JOMB)
• Rebecca Doughty (on JOMB)
  
• Amy Krouse Rosenthal
• Lisa Railsback
• Ann Halladay
• Dan Santad
• David Ezra Stein

 

 Meteorological Madness: The Snow Show with Chef Kelvin [7:37m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Author: Carolyn Fisher (on JOMB)
Illustrator: Carolyn Fisher
Published: 2008 Harcourt (on JOMB)
ISBN: 0152060197

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Hoopla, bloopers and the rantings of temperamental talent turn a lesson in the science of snow into a boisterous blast of behind-the-scenes TV-making lunacy — who knew deposition, sublimation, sectored plates and radiating dendrites could be so much fun?

Other books mentioned:

• The Scrambled States of America Talent Show
• Do Unto Otters

HOTLINE VOICES: Author and Professor of Library Science at Texas Woman’s Universit, Sylvia Vardell explains why Diamond Willow (by Helen Frost) is one of her current favourite books.

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 Everybody Got Their Somethin': Bird [10:05m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Author: Zetta Elliott (on JOMB)
Illustrator: Shadra Strickland (on JOMB)
Published: 2008 Lee and Low Books (on JOMB)
ISBN: 160060241X

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Delicate first-person verse and a stirring orchestration of watercolour, charcoal and ballpoint pen illustrations peek inside a young artist as he wrestles with his family’s issues of addiction and loss.

More dreams of flight on JOMB:

• My Dad’s A Birdman
• Fly, Eagle, Fly
• I Can Hear the Sun
• Tudley Didn’t Know
• Chopsticks
• Falling Angels
• Today I Will Fly!

Pop over to Brimstone Soup for today’s full menu of poetry offerings. Poetry Fridays are brought to us by Kelly Herold of Big A, Little A.

HOTLINE VOICES: Marlive Harris, founder of the gritskids.com book club tells us about Little Lion Goes to School (by Kellie Magnus and Michael Robinson)

We’d love to hear your thoughts on a favourite children’s book. Leave us a voice message on our JOMB listener hotline, +1-206-350-6487.

Welcome to Just One More Book!!
If you’re a newcomer to our website or are unfamiliar with audio podcasts and how the Just One More Book! audio programs promote children’s books, the people that create them and a general love of reading, you may find this video to be a helpful on-ramp to becoming part of the Just One More Book!! community.

 

 No Batteries Required: The Painted Circus [9:24m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Author: Wallace Edwards (on JOMB)
Illustrator: Wallace Edwards
Published: 2007 Kids Can Press (on JOMB)
ISBN: 1553377206

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Mind boggling puzzles, optical illusions and layer after layer of fascinating detail draws the reader into a visual vortex that rivals any handheld game console — and not a single moving part!

Other books mentioned:

• The Rich Man and the Parrot
• Monkey Business
• The Sound of Colors

HOTLINE VOICES: Elsa recounts several of her childhood favourites including the lesser known Spurs For Suzanna (by Betty Cavanna) and tells us why her selections are so important to her.

We’d love to hear your thoughts on a favourite children’s book. Leave us a voice message on our JOMB listener hotline, +1-206-350-6487.

It will take a few weeks to go through the hours of audio and video recordings and photographs we gathered while on our road trip to Connecticut and Massachusetts. In the meantime, we’ve uploaded a small number of photos, 25 to be exact, as a teaser of the content yet to come.

Click here to view all of the roadtrip photos we’ve uploaded.

We’re back from six unbelievable days of revelry and reverence in Massachusetts and Connecticut with some of Children’s Literature’s greatest authors and illustrators. Over the next many weeks, we’ll be publishing audio and video coverage of some of our fun and festivities.

What you will see and hear on JustOneMoreBook!! in the coming weeks:

• studio tour and illustration demo: illustrator Lane Smith
• stop at the Dr. Seuss Memorial in Springfield, MA
• studio tour and illustration demo: illustrator Diane deGroat
• studio tour and visit with author Corinne Demas
• round table discussion: Jeanne Birdsall, Jane Dyer, David Ezra Stein and Jarrett Krosoczka
• hands-on painting session with illustrator Jarrett Krosoczka
• tour of The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art with museum director, Nick Clark
• hands-on painting session with illustrator Jeff Mack
• tour of Richard Michelson’s studio
• round table discussion with author Richard Michelson and illustrators Tony Diterlizzi and Scott Fischer
• interviews with Jane Dyer, Mordicai Gerstein, Jane Yolen, Leslea Newman, Paul Jacobs and Shelley Rotner
• coverage of the 19th annual Children’s Illustration Show at R. Michelson Gallery

What you won’t see or hear on JustOneMoreBook!!:

• Lane Smith’s Flashlight tour in search of a spooky log cabin in the woods
• dinners with Lane and Molly (who knew Molly was also an awesome cook!)
• watching videos with Lane and Molly
• Lucy & Bayla’s love affairs with cats Pretzel and Noodle, and dogs Mollie, Argos and Ralph
• the tragic loss of Desperaux
• getting lost on the way to Richard Michelson’s Gallery
• getting lost on the way to Richard Michelson’s house
• dinners with Richard and Jennifer Michelson
• getting lost on the way to Jarrett Krosoczka’s house
• breakfast with Paul O. Zelinsky and his wife Deborah, and Richard and Jennifer Michelson
• Lucy and Bayla clowning with Mo Willems and his daughter, Trixie
• fabulous post-gallery pizza with the KidLit stars
• our sobbing daughters when we had to come home

A massive thank you to all the talented, generous and extremely down-to-earth geniuses who made our Picture Book Pilgrimage a vacation of a lifetime.

We hope you’ll join us for, and enjoy, our Mass. Creativity coverage. Stay tuned….

 

 Peggy Collins and Kendra Marcus and the pursuit of representation [9:56m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

On Saturday, October 4, 2008, the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators held an event in Ottawa, Canada that focused on the relationship between children’s book creators and agents.  The day included presentations, group discussions and private meetings with agents to review manuscripts.

On this edition of Just One More Book!!, Mark speaks with author/illustrator Peggy Collins and Agent Kendra Marcus about their private meeting in which Kendra reviewed and commented on Peggy’s latest project.

We’ve stayed in contact with Peggy since this interview was recorded.  We provide an update on Peggy’s career and agent representation at the end of the interview.

 

 A Roving Rover: Owney the Mail-Pouch Pooch [8:32m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Author: Mona Kerby (on JOMB)
Illustrator: Lynne Barasch (on JOMB)
Published: 2008 Farrar, Straus and Giroux (on JOMB)
ISBN: 0374356858

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Neither wind nor rain nor the dog-catchers of Quebec can keep the unofficial mascot of the America Railway Mail Service from crisscrossing the continent and, eventually, the globe in this surprising but true tale of a nineteenth century Littlest Hobo.

You can read more about Owney here.

More dogs on JOMB:

• Night Running: How James Escaped with the Help of His Faithful Dog
• Stella, Unleashed!
• Little Lions, Bull Baiters & Hunting Hounds: A History of Dog Breeds
• Biscuits in the Cupboard
• Good Dog
• Heroes of Isle aux Morts
• May I Pet Your Dog?
• Rosie: A Visiting Dog’s Story
• “Let’s Get a Pup!” said Kate
• The Pound from the Hound
• Poodlena
• The Trouble with Tilly Trumble
• The Outside Dog
• Lady Lupin’s Book of Etiquette
• Dogs’ Night
• I Want A Dog
• Safe and Sound
• Dirty Dog Boogie

HOTLINE VOICES: Author Linda Collison shares a recent favourite, Newbery Award winner Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village (written by Laura Amy Schlitz and illustrated by Robert Byrd).

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 Makes No Difference Who You Are: Wish (Wishing Traditions Around the World) [6:49m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Author: Roseanne Thong (on JOMB)
Illustrator: Elisa Kleven (on JOMB)
Published: 2008 Chronicle Books (on JOMB)
ISBN: 0811857166

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Splashing, soaring, leaping and dreaming, gorgeously detailed watercolour and collage illustrations whisk us into the midst of vivid wishing traditions across the globe in this beautiful reminder of our universal desires.

Other books mentioned:

• Snowsong Whistling
• The Puddle Pail

Pop over to Yat-Yee Chong for today’s full menu of poetry offerings. Poetry Fridays are brought to us by Kelly Herold of Big A, Little A.

HOTLINE VOICES: Thanks to Illustrator Chris Forrest for sharing two of her favourites, Make Way for Ducklings (by Robert McCloskey), The Sky is Falling on Henny Penny (by Marie Schubert).

We’d love to hear your thoughts on a favourite children’s book. Leave us a voice message on our JOMB listener hotline, +1-206-350-6487.