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Interview with Natasha Wing

Monday, January 28, 2008.

Interview with Natasha Wing [20:03m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Natasha Wing in her office (from NatashaWing.com) When she was little she wanted to be a teacher, in high school a tennis player and in college a paleontologist. She eventually went into advertising before starting her own public relations firm and since 1992 has been an author of children’s books.

On this edition of Just One More Book, Mark speaks with author Natasha Wing about writing for 5-8 year-olds, the parallels of baking and writing children’s books, and exploring different styles.

Books mentioned:

The Night Before Halloween
Go to Bed, Monster! ***
The Night Before Easter
‘The Night Before’ series

***Be sure to check out the complete list of Fiction Picture Book Finalists for The 2007 Cybils Awards here.

Photo: NatashaWing.com

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Cybil Resistance: Go To Bed, Monster!

Friday, January 4, 2008.

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Cybil Resistance: Go To Bed, Monster! [6:04m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Go to Bed, Monster! Author: Natasha Wing
Illustrator: Sylvie Kantorovitz
Published: 2007 Harcourt (on JOMB)
ISBN: 0152057757

Featuring playful, childlike drawings, imaginary adventure and the familiar ping-pong interaction of every stall tactic in the book, this 2007 Cybils Award Finalist turns the tables on the theatrical endurance test we call “bedtime”.

Other books mentioned:

Scribble
Harold and the Purple Crayon
Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus
The Prince’s Bedtime

Be sure to check out the freshly announced list of Fiction Picture Book Finalists for The 2007 Cybils Awards here. And stay tuned — the finalists in the Graphic Novels, Non-Fiction Picture Books, Non-Fiction MG/YA and Young Adult Novels categories of The 2007 Cybils Awards will be announced in three short days!

Thanks!

Friday, October 13, 2006.

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Podcasts

101 Uses for Baby Wipes (a reluctant father’s journey through parenthood)
Accident Hash (podsafe music from around the globe)
Answers for Freelancers (the life and business of being a freelancer)
A Life of Play (have fun in your free time)
Answers for Freelancers (discussing the life and business of freelancers)
Barely Podcasting (life isn’t a spectator sport)
Bryper.com (new media and online communications)
Canadian Podcast Buffet (an audio magazine of all things podcasting)
Career Mom Radio (insights, stories & ideas for balancing career & family)
CLIP Podcast (Critical Literacy in Practice)
The DaddyCast (a community for dads)
Daily Source Code (Adam Curry’s podcast)
Dancing with Elephants (family podcast)
Desperate Husbands (keeping you out of the doghouse)
Electric Sky (interviews and documentaries)
GNMParents (multi media parenting channel)
Grammar Girl (quick and dirty tips for writing better)
G.R.I.T.S. Kidz Radio
Growing Enthusiasm (adults and children discovering life)
I Should Be Writing (a podcast by a wanna-be writer, for wanna-be writers)
Information Architecture (I.A.) Podcast
Isaak’s Thoughts about the Library world
JamesPod (a one man show from the bedroom of James Whittingham)
Journey Inside My Mind (Hard Rock Homeschool)
KidsWifeWorkLife (kids, marriage, work and life)
The LD Podcast (for Parents by Parents of Kids with Learning Disabilities)
Manic Mommies (trying to do it all … and do it well)
MommyCast (holding the world together, one child at a time)
Mostly News (the news source of the podosphere)
Missionary Talks (baptist missionaries sharing their life and work)
My Baby Monsters (it takes a web community to raise a literate child)
Podictionary (the podcast for word lovers)
Podonomics (tips on how to use your Podcast to open doors)
Quirky Nomads (the story of a family that moved to Canada from the U.S.)
Seedlings Podcast @ Bit by Bit (by teachers, for teachers)
The SG Show (a father and son talk about life)
Show n Tell (a grade 1 school podcast)
Six Pixels of Separation (a passionate entrepreneur connecting with people)
Storynory (iPod-ready stories for kids)
Swimming in Literary Soup (serving a love of reading & life through children’s books)
Teaching for the Future (implementing media & technology literacy)
The Book Of Life (jewish people and the books they read)
Two Boobs and a Baby (a comedy parenting podcast)
The ZedCast (comedy skits and stories from Canada)

Blogs

A Chair, A Fireplace and a Tea Cozy (talk about stories)
A Library by Any Other Name (is Still A Collection of Information)
A Net in Time (blog for homeschooling our son)
A Readable Feast (a blog by Anne-Marie Nichols)
A Scrapbook of Inspiration (A blog by Karen Harvey Cox)
A Year of Reading (two teachers write about their lives as readers)
A Wrung Sponge (a librarian’s blog)
About:Deafness / Hard of Hearing
Accidental Blogger (Cerebral Table Talk)
Achokablog (weblog of Michael Thorn, editor of ACHUKA)
Adventures of Andy & Ali
All up in the Kool-Aid (the Alisha life blog)
Amoxcalli (celebrating reading & treasuring books as sacred)
Ardent Peace (the meaning of life with rhys and Irene)
Beattie’s Book Blog (thoughts of a publisher, bookseller & awards judge)
Bevers Book Blog
Bibliosphere News (news, views and events for school libraries)
Big A Little a (children’s books, writing, and life)
Black Threads in Kid’s Lit (exploring African-American picture books)
Blah, Blah, Blogg (photographer and future librarian)
Blog me til Midnight (be inspired always)
Bloomabilities (a children’s book editor living and working in Manhattan)
Blue Rose Girls (red rose girls reborn in the modern age)
Bob Goyetche (husband, father and technologist)
Bonnie Lass of Bon Accord
Book Buds (kid lit reviews)
Book Lust (a community for people who love books)
Book Moot (a book blog)
Booksprouting (sprouting stories and books to feed your child’s imagination)
Booktalking 2.0 (a blog of Joyce Valneza for The School Library Journal)
Booktopia (book ramblings and recommendations)
Bronwyn’s Resources for Families
Cachibachis (odds & ends about children’s literature and writing for kids)
CBCPL Birth to Six News (literary topics)
Check it Out (books and life in a school library)
Cheryl Rainfield (Avid Reader, Teen Fiction Writer, and Book-a-holic)
Children’s Book List
Children’s Illustration (a blog about children’s illustrations)
Children’s Writings by KarenHarveyCox
Connect 2.0 (connecting the community to The Learning Hub of Elementary School)
Contessa Isabella (cry of the wolf)
Create/Relate (News from the children’s book biz)
Creative Cup Illustrators Group (encouragement & inspiration for illustrators)
Coutts Canadian-Flavoured Education News
Cynsations (reading recommendations, literacy advocacy and more)
DaveLaMorte.com (a digital scratchpad for Dave’s thesis and artwork)
Darcy Pattison’s Revision Notes
Dave Riddell (science and technology educator)
Design Mom (where design and motherhood intersect)
Drawn! (Inspiration is everywhere)
Driving In (a blog by Marjorie Gibson)
Eileen’s Web 2.0 Odyssey (youth services programs, web links & reading lists)
Elms in the Yard (thoughts of a Woman from Jerusalem)
Empty Boxes
Escape Adulthood (secrets from childhood for the stressed out grownup)
Everyday Mom
Everyone Sees Their Own Rainbow
Farm School
First Book Blog (Do you remember the magic of your first book?)
Five and a Half (handmade, recollected)
Fuse8 Productions (children’s librarian) thanks again!
Gabblehatch (read it again!)
Go Barefoot
Gooseberry Lane (tackling the challenges of everyday life)
GottaBook (thoughts, opinions, and ramblings about children’s literature)
Grade 3 Blog Pals (Third Graders communicate with friends around the world)
Great Reads (reviews of great, mostly off mainstream books)
Grow Wings (blog of writer & artist Laini Taylor)
Hand Made Paper (a blog by Nicole)
Happy Antipodean (Book reviews, and commentary from Down Under)
Heart of the Matter
I Dream in Colors (ramblings of a 24-year-old web and graphic designer)
Il Bloggo (creativity in the everyday life of I, Hanna)
Illustration Friday (weekly illustration challenges for a creative community)
IllustrationMundo (a place where illustration gets all the love)
In the Pages (book blog)
Instigator Blog (podcasting 101)
Invisible Ink (underground tech culture from Zachery Houle)
JacketFlap.com (children’s publishing blog reader)
Jagged Line (the blog from Candlelight stories)
Jen Robinson’s Book Page (promoting the love of books by children)
Jimbo Jabber (Jim Di Bartolo’s Art Blog)
JJK Blog (The official blog of Jarrett J. Krosoczka)
John Gushue … Dot Dot Dot (points east from a St.John’s based journalist)
Just Dewey It (Martin County Library System Staff Web Log)
K-3 Web Site..ings of the Day (resources & lesson plans for the K-3 classroom)
KangaLMT2 (an exploration into the world of Web 2.0)
Kelly Jones (thoughts, reflections and discoveries..)
Kelly’s MySpace page
Kiddie Lit (a librarian’s view of Children’s Books)
KidLit (books and more for children and teens)
Kids Literati (a book blog about the best in children’s literature)
KidzLit Online
Klages (blog of sciFi author Ellen Klages)
Kristina’s Book Blog or here
Langwitches (the magic of learning through technology)
Librarian in Black (resources and discussions for tech-librarians-by-default)
LibrariAnne (librarian, knitter, rocker, reader)
Librarian Bloggers (online community on ning.com)
Library Stew (books, technology and tales from the trenches)
Life As Daddy (a guy, his wife, their son … and other stuff)
Literacy in Public Libraries
Lisa’s CEP 416 Blog
Literary Safari (a writer, editor, teacher, and traveler)
Literati (a Can-Lit blog)
L.M. Montgomery Research Group
Love Yourself (resources for children’s writers)
LS5013 Information Storage & Retrieval (a teacher-librarian explores web2.0)
Mark Blevis (podcast lounge)
Martha Stewart’s Blog
MattapoisettMellos (family blog and Joy Luke Book Club)
Mes Paroles S’envolent (Laurent LaSalle)
Midwestern Lodestar (a joy of reading young peoples’ literature)
Mrs. E’s Excerpts (promoting literacy in the school library)
The Miss Rumphius Effect (a teacher educator discusses children’s literature and issues)
Mitali’s Fire Escape (a chat about life between cultures)
Mother of all Blogs (a blog by Ann Douglas)
My Readable Feast
MotherReader (the heart of a mother, the soul of a reader)
Musings of a Bespectacled Blonde ()
My Thought Spot (art, books, running, annoying salepeople)
My Thoughts
Natasha’s News (a writer’s journey in the Children’s Book World)
National Children’s Book and Literacy Alliance
Nichole’s Auxiliary Storage
Off The Bookshelf (book reviews by a mother of six)
O Gato qe Le (the cat that reads – Portugese blog)
On the Edge
One Moment At A Time (mindful parenting, life learning and radical unschooling)
Oowey, Gooey Marshmallows and other Writeabilities (teaching elementary writing)
OPAL Training (keeping librarians up-to-date)
Paper Tigers blog
Paradise Found (an eclectic home educator and book author)
Parent’s Eye View (a blog by Whitney Hoffman)
PearSoup.com (let’s face it life is pear-shaped)
Pensacola Junior College Library Blog
Petrona (Thinking and linking about books)
Picture-Bookies (collaborative blog of professional book illustrators)
Picture Book Junkies (picture book illustrator’s conglomerate)
Pioneer Woman with Cell Phone
Pixie Stix Kids Pix (thoughts, observations & ideas about children’s books)
Pixiepalace (a children’s book blog)
PLA Blog (the official blog of the the Public Library Association)
Planet Esme (the best children’s books from Esme’s bookshelf)
Play Library (two mommies chatting toys, games, books, etc…)
Propernoun (Mindy’s book journal)
PuppetPerson
Quill and Quire (Canada’s magazine of book news & reviews)
Random Thoughts (thoughts, readings and doubts of Ranjani and Sathish)
Rebecca’s Pocket (a blog by Rebecca Blood)
Read, Write, Believe (blog of writer Sarah Lewis Holmes)
Reading Moms (news, views, reviews and interviews)
Reid Elizabeth (tales of life with a girl on the go)
Saffron Tree (a multi-cultural experience book blog)
Scholar’s Blog (blog of an English independent scholar of fantasy fiction)
ScottMerrick (blog of an educator and a learner)
Scrub-a-Dub-Tub (the Reading Tub blog)
SemiColon (homeschool teacher & book lover)
Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast (a blog about books)
Shaken & Stirred (a reader’s martini glass)
Shelf Elf (read,write, rave)
Smoke & Mirrors
Space Junk (interstellar flotsam & jetsam)
Special 2 Me (about being a mom, teaching,..)
Sprittibee (homeschooling mom)
Storytime Standouts Weblog
Students for Literacy Ottawa (volunteer literacy work with children & teens)
Subscribe to Literacy (feeding kids & families hungry to read & succeed)
Suburban Hostage (thoughts of a mom)
Susan Sandmore (stuff and weirdness at a low, low price)
Sweet Serenity of Books
sysrick.com
TeachieTech (tech literacy for “old school” teachers)
Texas Technophobe (a blog by Librarian Specialist, Rebecca)
The Fun Stops Here
The Learning Guys (guys that know a lot about learning and love to learn)
The Taming of the Muse (how to find it, catch it, feed it & make it stay)
The Sandbox
The Well-Read Child (instill a joy of reading in your child)
think:lab: (future of learning, fueling creativity)
Thoughts from a TechnoSpud (technology tips & occasional ramblings)
Three Silly Chicks (readers, writers and reviewers of funny books for kids)
Tiny Treasury
The Kingdom of Books (reading rules and readers reign)
The Little Bookroom (reviewing books for children and families)
Three Silly Chicks
Through the Studio Door (the quest to create children’s picture books)
Toe Jam & the Toenail Fairies
Top Ten Sources (web content directory)
Tough City Writer (writer, editor, mom)
U Tech Tips (tech tips for Educators)
Unabridged (blog of Charlesbridge children’s book publisher)
Unsell Family Blog
Using Mentor Texts to lift the level of writing in my classroom
Valerie’s EDLI 276 blog
Vintage Kids’ Books My Kid Loves
Web2pid? (don’t let Web2. 0 make you feel 2pid)
Wendy Priesnitz – Challenging Assumptions (author, journalist, editor, public speaker)
What Adrienne Thinks About That (children’s librarian on books,… & life)
What Counts! (A blog by Susan Ens Funk)
What Fred Read (reading young adult literature)
What is Toby Reading Now? (reviewing books that don’t insult kids’ intelligence)
What The Tech! (faculty and staff of Portage Township Schools)
Where’s My Cow (random musings of a children’s librarian)
Whimsy Books (a blog by the picture book girl)
Whole New Minds (english in the flat world)
Wild Rose Reader (children’s books and children’s poetry)
Wizards Wireless (life, children’s books, comic books & HP)
Womb To Grow (BabyNut.com organic & natural parenting blog)
Word Power
World of Words (thoughts on children’s books and writing)
WRB (Words, reading and books)
Writing For Children
Young EBUS Writers
Your Neighborhood Librarian (waxing gibberish)

Authors & Illustrators

Publishers

Annick Press
Barefoot Books (Celebrating Art & History)
Flashlight Press (Picture story books that explore and illuminate)
Gumboot Books (Treats for the eyes and the imagination)
Iris the Dragon (Helping detect & deal with mental illness in children)
Nickname Press (Open-minded, diversity-friendly children’s books)
Red Cygnet Press (Nurturing new literary talent)
Richard C. Owen Publishers (Meet the author autobiographies)
Shen’s Books (children’s books that promote cultural understanding)
Sylvan Dell Publishing (Science and math through literature)
Woza Books (Children’s books that raise the spirits)

Libraries

American Association of Library Service to Children (ALSC) ChildTech Wiki
American Library Association (ALA) – Great web sites for kids
American Library Association (ALA) – Web connections for Sept 2007
Annapolis Valley Library Kids’ Corner
Chemung County Library District
EBSCO Information Sevices (Research Database)
Harford County Library (Kidzone Adult/Caregiver Resources)
Greater Victoria Public Library (Literacy Links)
Just Dewey It (Martin County Library System Staff Web Log)
Kitchener Public Library (Ontario, Canada)
Memorial Hall Library Parenting Picks
Monroe County Library System
PLA Blog (The official blog of the the Public Library Association)
The Kiddosphere @ Fauquier County Public Library
San Francisco Community School Library: Tawnya’s Favorites
SRSD Libraries Blog
Strathcona County Library (Alberta, Canada)
Washington Free Public Library

Schools/Universities

Ã…bo Akademi University Library (Finland)
Academy at Carrie F Thomas Library Media Center
Arapahoe High School Teacher’s Blog (The Fischbowl)
Bennett Elementrary School (Library)
Central Michigan University Libraries
Chapman’s Retreat Elementary Library
Charles Sturt University (Education Virtual Library)
Community Consolidated School District 46 (Lake County, Illinois)
Connersville Middle School Library Media Center
Convent of the Sacred Heart Elementary School (San Fransisco, CA)
Critical Literacy Trends and Issues (American University, Washington D.C.)
Delany College (Granville, Australia)
Fairview School
Fremont Elementary School
Georgia Children’s Picture Storybook Award 2008
Graded School — Library News (San Paolo Brazil)
Hong Kong International School (Hong Kong)
Kowloon Junior School (Hong Kong)
Linden Meadows School Tech Talk (Media Literacy in the classroom)
Mead School District: Media Specialists
Mount Holyoke College
Mrs. Hinten’s Kindergarten Class (Great Web Resources)
Nob Hill Media Centre (Broward County Public Schools, Florida USA)
Northern Parkway School Library Tech Fair Projects
Partners in Literacy at Harwinton Consolidated School
Pensacola Junior College Library Blog
Pillager Public Schools ISD0116
Sabal Palm Elementary
San Francisco Community School Library (California USA)
St. Joseph School Library
Simmons College (Graduate School of Library & Information Science)
The Webb School, Bell Buckle TN
Trillium Woods Elementary School (Barry, Ontario)
University of British Columbia (Canada)
University of Texas at San Antonio
Westmoreland Central School (Library page)
Willard R2 Schools
Wiltshire College

Media

ABC Channel 7: The Denver Channel (Colorado, US)
All About Kids Magazine (Richmond, VA)
Books for Keeps Magazine (UK)
Book Links Magazine (September 2007, American Library Association)
Canadian Living Magazine (June 2007, print edition)
ForeWord Magazine (Reviews of good books independently published)
Glebe Report (Ottawa, ON)
Horn Book (publications about books for children and young adults)
Keith Runyon Book Reviews (Courier-Journal, Louisville, KY)
Learning Magazine
Life Learning Magazine (Inpiring Families around the world who learn without schools)
Microsoft Home Magazine (articles, tips and tools for better living)
Ottawa City Journal (Ottawa, ON)
Ottawa Morning (CBC Radio, Ottawa, ON)
Parksville Qualicum News
Points North (CBC Radio, Sudbury, ON)
Publishers Weekly (Shelftalker Blog)
Salt Lake City Tribune (Family Briefs)
School Library Journal (New York, New York) and again!
The Edge of the Forest (a children’s literature monthly)
The Great Northwest (Thunder Bay, ON)
The Telegram (St. John’s, Newfoundland. Nov. 2007)