December 15, 2008
It’s The Twelfth Day of Christmas, so today I’m giving away a signed copy of my picture book poem, Delivery.
The idea for this picture book came to me as I was driving on the freeway in Los Angeles. As I drove over the hill past Mulholland Drive I passed a car carrier loaded with California Highway Patrol cars and realized, everything gets delivered! The entire book came to me as I drove on the freeway.
I wrote down my ideas when I returned home. I wrote draft after draft and collected rejection letters for years. Then one day I took out the very first draft, that page of notes I’d scribbled down after my trip on the freeway. I turned that draft into a poem and sold it!
Booklist wrote: “Using a simple rhyming text and bold graphics, this book, by the author and illustrator who produced Window Music (1998), offers youngsters an introduction to the many kinds of deliveries that take place within a day.”
Today’s 12 Days of Christmas Book Giveaway winner is Beverly Bixler. I’ll send Beverly a signed copy of Delivery.
Congratulations, Beverly!
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December 1, 2008
It’s The Second Day of Christmas (and Nonfiction Monday), so today I’m giving away a signed copy of my nonfiction picture book, Wired.
One night while I was driving to pick up my son from school, a poem jumped into my head:
Humming, thrumming,
power’s coming.
Light shone down from the street lamps. Wires stretched from pole to pole along the side of the road. The wires were bringing power to the city. That was how Wired got started.
It was a book I had to write. I lived in Los Angeles for many years. Whenever we travelled north, we drove up through the farmlands of the Central Valley. We drove past hundreds of miles of farms, and saw the huge transmission towers carrying power from one part of the state to the other. We weren’t the only ones on the move. Power travelled too.
I’m very pleased to say that Wired is a National Science Teachers Association Recommended Book. The NSTA reviewer wrote:
“Electricity is often a subject elementary teachers try to avoid. This book makes the concepts understandable and provides the background to help teachers help their students understand these concepts as well as comprehend those concepts themselves.”
Today’s 12 Days of Christmas Book Giveaway winner is Terri Schmitt. I’ll send Terri a signed copy of Wired.
Congratulations, Terri!
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