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Nonfiction Monday: Finalist!

April 20, 2008 By Laura

   

I got a nice email from an editor at Compass Point Books a couple of weeks ago:

Hi Laura: Here’s a great way to start the week:

Write Your Own Selected as 2008 AEP Distinguished Achievement Award Finalist
Association of Educational Publishers has selected Write Your Own (Reading and Language Instruction category) as finalist in the Nonfiction 6-8 category.  The Distinguished Achievement Award recognizes the best educational materials ? such as books, periodicals, educational toys, and software within subject categories and by audience.

Awards will be announced June 6 in D.C. 

I wrote Write Your Own Poetry for this series:

The series is aimed at 5th-8th grade kids, and it’s really fun. I got tips from many wonderful poets for my book, including tips and poems by Lee Bennett Hopkins, Rebecca Kai Dotlich, Tracie Vaughn Zimmer, Lisa Westberg Peters, Susan Marie Swanson, and Joyce Sidman.

And not only that, I got to include a few of my own poems and solicit poems from fellow writers, and Kelly Fineman of Writing and Ruminating and Jan Fields both have poems in the book. Cool!

Natalie Rosinsky, a local writer here in Minnesota, wrote 7 of the 8 new titles in the series, while the poetry one is the only one I wrote. So she clearly deserves the lion’s share of the glory. But still, it’s fun to be a small part of a larger effort that’s been so well received. Congratulations, Natalie, me, and Compass Point Books!

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April is busy (which is why I'm late updating this!). Here's a bit of what I'm focusing on. In May, I'll be teaching at two different young authors conferences in Minnesota. More info here and here.

And I'm preparing a bunch of Minnesota library storytimes for this summer! I'll be visiting 3 Dakota County Libraries (MN) with storytimes centered around We Belong and self-worth and identity.

And throughout the summer, author Yvonne Pearson and I will be doing a storytime tour of all 14 branches of the East Central Regional Library system. We're presenting For the Love of Loons, a fun, interactive, and educational storytime about our Minnesota State Bird. Yvonne wrote Little Loon Finds His Voice, and I wrote Secrets of the Loon.

Hope to see you at a summer event! It's lovely to be out connecting with readers again.

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