Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Blog Tour Continues with Children's Book Biz News
Children's Book Biz News covers 14 Cows for America. Post includes lesson idea for teachers:
Monday, August 3, 2009
The Picnic Basket Blog
Next stop on the 14 Cows for America blog tour,
The Picnic Basket Blog, the blog for "librarians, teachers and other gluttons for good books"!
http://www.thepicnic-basket.com/14 Cows for America Twitter Contest!
We're giving away some great 14 Cows prizes on our @thefourteencows Twitter this week! 1 Grand Prize winner will receive a Carmen Agra Deedy prize pack, and 5 runners up will receive a hardbound copy of 14 Cows for
- You must have a Twitter account to participate. If you don't have one, click here to sign up for a free Twitter account. No purchase necessary.
- 2. From your Twitter Account, follow us @thefourteencows.
- 3. Once you are following us, then simply tweet any message containing both "#14cows" and "@thefourteencows" between August 3rd at 12:00PM EST and August 7th at 5:00PM EST to be entered in the contest. A maximum of 10 tweets per day will apply towards the contest entries. Multiple retweets will increase your chances of winning. Winners will be selected randomly. Check out our Contest Rules for more information.
Bonus Blog! Nonfiction Monday Round up on SLJ's Practically Paradise
Every week, School Library Journal's Practically Paradise blog does a Nonfiction Monday round up of what's happening in children's non-fiction across the kidlitosphere. Today, Anastasia Suen's post about 14 Cows for America is one of the featured posts:
You can see Anastasia's post directly here:
AND you can see Practically Paradise's coverage of 14 Cows for America from last week here:
Stay tuned for Anastasia's post tomorrow on her Children's Book Biz News Blog tomorrow!
Maw Books Blog Review of 14 Cows for America
The blog tour continues with another incredible review, this one from Natasha at Maw Books:
http://blog.mawbooks.com/2009/08/03/14-cows-for-america/
Publishers Weekly review of 14 Cows for America out today
14 Cows for America Carmen Agra Deedy with Wilson Kimeli Naiyomah, illus. by Thomas Gonzalez.Peachtree, $17.95 (36p) ISBN 978-1-56145-490-7
A native of Kenya, Naiyomah was in New York City on September 11, 2001. In Deedy's (Martina the Beautiful Cockroach) lyrical account, he returns to his homeland and tells the members of his Maasai tribe a story that had “burned a hole in his heart.” The narrative avoids specifics and refers to the events of 9/11 obliquely as the villagers listen to him with “growing disbelief”: “Buildings so tall they can touch the sky? Fires so hot they can melt iron? Smoke and dust so thick they can block out the sun?” Until they read Naiyomah's concluding note, children may not fully comprehend either his story or the villagers' subsequent actions: the tribe elders bless 14 cows, revered in Maasai culture, and symbolically offer them to the American people to help them heal. Featuring luminous images of the Maasai in vivid native dress and sweeping African landscapes, Gonzalez's pastel, colored pencil and airbrush paintings appear almost three-dimensional in their realism. A moving tale of compassion and generosity. Ages 6–10. (Aug.)
Sunday, August 2, 2009
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