Neil Gaiman has released a book of his great commencement address, Make Good Art.
When things get tough, this is what you should do: Make good art. I’m serious. Husband runs off with a politician — make good art. Leg crushed and then eaten by a mutated boa…
Look what i found at rite aid
I don’t know, but I find Bad Dad more interesting.
dude, it’s totally Goofus & Gallant as adults
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psdo:
“Friendship, knitting, ….murder”
omg
calling butteredtart, come in butteredtart
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OK SO I WNET TO MY THERAPISTS TODAY RIGHT YKNOW THERAPY AND SHIT
AND WHILE I WAS W AITING I FOUND THIS BOOK
AND IT WAS THE BEST MOME NT OF MY LIFE
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Today my first Published Picture book “Jackie and Me” is released! you can buy one here http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/jackie-and-me-tania-grossinger/1113641854
Boy, 6, writes book, raises $92,000 for best pal’s rare disease
Dylan Siegel, 6, is a master Monopoly player. Boardwalk is his favorite property, and he loves to be the banker and make change.
His family members have learned not to underestimate him. “Do not play Monopoly with Dylan — he dominates!” said his mother, Debra Siegel, 37, of Los Angeles. “He’s a businessman! We all joke in our family that we’ll all be working for Dylan someday.”
In a sense, they already are. A few months ago, Dylan announced his idea to help his best friend, Jonah Pournazarian, 7, who has a rare liver disease. He’d write a book, sell a whole bunch of copies and make heaps of money to help researchers find a cure.
And then, without hesitation, he did it.
One afternoon Dylan sat down with his mom’s best stationery paper and wrote and illustrated a 16-page book called “Chocolate Bar.” Next, he doggedly pressed his key support staff — his mom and dad — to get the book published and ready for wide distribution.
After days of persistent reminders, Dylan’s parents handled the self-publishing angle for their pint-sized idea man in November. Ever since then, Dylan has been on a ride that would make many grown-up authors salivate.
He and his fun-loving pal Jonah have led a high-profile book-signing at a Barnes & Noble and laughed hysterically together during multiple televised media interviews. They’ve watched their website and Facebook page explode, and they’ve received hundreds of supportive messages from all over the world.
To date, Dylan’s “Chocolate Bar” sensation has raised more than $92,000 to support a University of Florida research team that is working to cure Jonah’s disease. But as impressive as that is, Dylan isn’t content to stop there.
“My goal is to raise a million dollars!” he told TODAY.com. “Then I think I’ll make a whole series of ‘Chocolate Bar’ books so I can raise money for different diseases.”
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In case you miss it as library…
Kansas City Public Library, Missouri. The building was designed by Dimensional Innovations. Local residents selected the titles of the books that are displayed on the bookshelf.
I love this.
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Skull of Books
Incarnate (Three Degrees of Certainty II) by Maskull Lasserre is a nearly perfect hand carved rendering of a human skull, from a thick stack of outdated computer manuals.
— genisisaguirre17"
People don’t mostly write in girls’ perspectives. People mostly write from male perspective. It’s late, so Wikipedia:
For instance, in 2010 only 37% of the books published by Random House were written by women, and only 17% of the books reviewed by The New York Review of Books were written by women.[2] Research conducted by VIDA in 2010 found that men wrote the vast majority of articles and book reviews in leading magazines in the United States and the UK.[3]
Research by Dr. David Anderson and Dr. Mykol Hamilton has documented the under-representation of female characters in 200 top-selling children’s books from 2001 and a seven-year sample of Caldecott award-winning books.[4] There were nearly twice as many male main characters as female main characters, and male characters appeared in illustrations 53 percent more than female characters. Most of the plot-lines centered around the male characters and their experiences of life.
Books are grouped together by genre for a reason: most readers (not all!) go into a bookstore looking for books like other books they have read and liked. If you have read and liked a YA book with a female protagonist, and you go into a bookstore looking for a book like it, you will find that the bookstore is designed to show you other books that have female protagonists. Ditto with Amazon.
If you want YA books with male protagonists, they are not hard to find. Paper Towns, Will Grayson, Will Grayson, White Cat, Anna Dressed in Blood, Beautiful Creatures, The Demon’s Lexicon, The Marbury Lens, Boy Toy, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, The Maze Runner, I Hunt Killers, Where She Went, Thirteen Reasons Why, Warm Bodies, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Beastly, The Knife of Never Letting Go, ShipBreaker, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Ashfall, Ready Player One, The Amulet of Samarkand, I Am the Messenger, Slam, Feed, Thirsty, Octavian Nothing parts one and also two, House of the Scorpion, Stargirl, The Warrior Heir, I Am Number Four, In Darkness (this year’s Printz winner), When Things Come Back (last year’s Printz Winner) Going Bovine (the year before that’s Printz Winner), Looking For Alaska (2006 Printz Award winner) (Goblin Secrets (this year’s National Book Award Winner), The Graveyard Book (last year’s Newbery Winner) Peter and the Starcatchers, Garth Nix’s Keys to the Kingdom series, The Percy Jackson series, the Eragon series, and of course, Harry Potter.
That’s a tiny fraction, and then of course there are the books that have multiple perspectives split between genders: the Wolves of Mercy Falls series, The Wicked Lovely series, The Gone series, and also mine, but if I tried to list them all my head would explode.
When I was in high school I was given only one book to read as part of my curriculum that was from a girl’s point of view: To Kill A Mockingbird. Nothing against Catcher in the Rye, A Separate Peace, The Outsiders, The Giver, Hatchet, All Quiet on the Western Front, and Holes, but I wish I’d had then the variety of books from girls’ perspectives on the shelves of bookstores that are available now. If you are finding that all the books you’re picking up have girls’ perspectives and you don’t want that, move a little to the left in your perusal of the bookstore. :)
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A very cool Cambridge bookstore, Lorem Ipsum, is trying to punch its way out of some recent financial difficulties. I’m a fan of what they do and thought maybe I could help out a little. So we’ve set up some eBay auctions to benefit the shop. First up: the luxury Subterranean Press editions of Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft and Locke & Key: Head Games. These include the original scripts, and each comes signed. Six days to bid. Check it out.
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