[CASL-L] Nonfiction news

[Irene Kwidzinski]

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> From: Sally Isaacs <sisaacs at starconsultinginc.com>
> Date: October 21, 2014 at 10:08:51 AM EDT
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> Subject: 21CNFC E-NEWS: 2015 Program Themes and Faculty News
> Reply-To: Sally Isaacs <sisaacs at starconsultinginc.com>
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> June 2015 Program
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> We will once again be BRINGING EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE TOGETHER™.
> This is the one place where everyone concerned with children’s nonfiction comes together to learn, inspire, and connect!
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> You can participate in workshops, intensives, and panels on these important themes:         
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> Understanding Common Core,
> STEM, STEAM, 3C
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> What you can do with e-books,
> apps, gamification ...
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> Learn the range of children's nonfiction
> -- how to create it and sell it
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> How some publishers and individuals make it work so successfully
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> Learn about outlets for your work
> from agents, editors, packagers,
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> Hands-on workshops on creating picture books and storyboards
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> Publishers’ marketing cycles
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> Create your website and blog; boost you presence on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest
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> Arlene Hirschfelder is a professional educator and author with decades of experience in Native American education and Native American studies. She and another author, Paulette Molin, recently donated part of their collection to an exhibit called “Toy Tipis and Totem Poles: Native American Stereotypes in the Lives of Children,” at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s Sequoyah National Research Center. The exhibit will run through December 19, 2014.
> Joane Mattern is working on a manuscript for Learning A-Z. This contract is a direct result of a contact made at this year’s 21CNFC.
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> Hilarie Staton, Alicia Klepeis, Lionel Bender, Jeri Cipriano, and Alison Pearce Stevens have all been commissioned to work on children’s illustrated nonfiction books at National Geographic Kids or Crabtree Publishing  -- as a direct result of contacts made at 21CNFC 2014.
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> Sally Isaacs (co-chair of 21st Century Children’s Nonfiction Conference) is pictured here (center) with Anne Rachel (Teachers with Apps) (right) and Roxie Munro (left) at the Launch Event for K.I.W.i Storybooks on September 9 in New York City. Roxie illustrated all the life-size storybook backdrops for this engaging classroom product. It brings imagination, reading, and technology together for Pre-K through Grade 5. The free app meets kids’ thirst for technology with Explore & Learn, Search & Find, and Movie Making.  K.I.W.i Storybooks also include Reader’s Theatre with a standards-based curriculum created by award-winning education innovator, author, and playwright Douglas Love. To learn more about this, check out kiwistorybooks.com.
> Lionel Bender, co-chair of the 21CNFC, will be attending the National Council for Teachers of English exhibition in Washington, D.C., November 21-23.
> http://www.ncte.org/annual/exhibit. He wishes to meet with publishers and producers of children’s nonfiction. He will also be pleased to meet anyone interested in learning more about and attending the 21CNFC 2015. For a meeting, contact Lionel at lionel at brw.co.uk
> The Nonfiction Minute -- brainchild of Vicki Cobb and 21CNFC sponsor iNK Think Tank -- is averaging 1200 page views a day and trending upwards. Check it out at http://www.nonfictionminute.com/. There's a new nonfiction story every day!  iNK Think Tank authors will be doing a panel discussion using their virtual conference room on November 4 for three middle schools in the Pennridge School District in Pennsylvania.
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> MORE NONFICTION HITTING THE SHELVES according to the
> New York Times, October 8, 2014:
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> “Until fairly recently, trade publishers focused on fiction and largely overlooked the market for nonfiction books aimed at young adults, ceding subjects like history, science and biography to textbook publishers.”
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> Now publishers are releasing more nonfiction titles for children and dealing with the issue: Can we include the gory details of life and death in children’s nonfiction?
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> Read the article: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/08/business/media/laura-hillenbrand-jon-meacham-adapt-titles-for-children.html?_r=0
> Photos that Will Make you Want to Research and Write ….
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> Check out these photos of 
> Spectators standing upon couches, tables and chairs to see the signing of the Treaty of Versailles and the end of World War I. [1919]
> The traffic jam at the Brandenburg Gate as East and West Germans cross freely on the first Saturday after the fall of the Berlin Wall. [November, 1989]
> A view from behind the Lincoln statue during Martin Luther King Jr.’s
> “I have a dream” speech. [28 August, 1963]
> And more at http://news.distractify.com/culture/views-of-famous-events/?v=1
> Library of Congress Has Primary Source Materials for Teachers and Researchers ...
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> Did you know that the Library of Congress has three primary source sets that were designed with the early elementary grades in mind? They are: Symbols of the United States, Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln: Three Great Presidents, and Children’s Lives at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. Each one contains a selection of primary sources – all available as easy-to-use PDFs – with historical background information, teaching ideas for the early childhood classroom, and an analysis tool and teacher’s guides.
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> Learn more from this article by Anne Savage from:
> http://blogs.loc.gov/teachers/2014/10/library-of-congress-primary-source-sets-for-the-k-2-classroom/
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> Let us know of any books or illustrations you’ve published, exciting school visits you’ve had, a promotion or move, a new skill you’ve learned, or anything else you consider good news! We especially want to share news about any projects you secured as a result of the 2013 or 2014 conference. If you are interested in hearing responses from our readers, please include your email address with your one-paragraph announcement.
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