The End

I recently published my first edited book,  Labor of Love: A Literary Mama Staff Anthology ,  with  Small Harbor Publishing . It's an anthology of writing from  Literary Mama  staff over the past 20 years. It's a beautiful collection and I am proud of the writers and proud to share the book.  It seems a fitting moment, as I pondered sharing about the book here on the blog, to reflect on my life as a blogger, and acknowledge that it is time to officially end this blog.   I started blogging in about 2007, when my baby was learning to toddle, when I was learning how to be a mother and stepmother, when I was just starting to see my way as a writer. I needed it back then. I craved it. I had a variety of blog iterations--family, art, creativity, writing things I delved into. There's a freedom in blogging, a casualness, an easy familiarity that's lacking (for me anyway) in other kinds of writing. I loved blogging and the words came pouring out.  Ove...
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Redwoods

Redwoods by Jason Chin is a stunning new kind of nonfiction picture book. If you were to read the text only, you would learn quite a bit about Redwood trees. There are well researched facts on every page that will give any reader a good idea of how a Redwood tree grows, why they live so long, and how big they really get. Just as any decent science book would, the facts offered are well written and useful, and work to convey to us all the importance of understanding science. 

 But what makes this book special, and relevant to our technologically overloaded kids, is the way the text fuses with the watercolor paintings on each page to tell a fantastical story. The pictures give us character, conflict, setting, and plot, without speaking one single word about any of it. 

 Nonfiction done with style, plain and simple.  But, not plain, nor simple... rather, excellent.
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Comments

Sue Heavenrich said…
Definitely going to look for this - I love it when illustrations extend the science into something new.
February 22, 2013 at 10:18 AM
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