[3] April 19, 2013
I recently had the opportunity to speak with children’s author and illustrator Jon Klassen. His book This Is Not My Hat [4] just won the 2013 Caldecott Medal.
[3] I recently had the opportunity to speak with children’s author and illustrator Jon Klassen. His book This Is Not My Hat [4] just won the 2013 Caldecott Medal.
[6] Adventure, romance, historical fiction…Above All Things by Tanis Rideout offers something for everyone in this tale of Englishman George Mallory and his final attempt to climb Mt. Everest in 1924.
[8] The Pulitzer committee just announced the 2013 prize winners and finalists [9], and we are happy to say that their numbers include authors who have made recent appearances at the Kansas City Public Library.
[11] April is National Poetry Month, and I like to spend as much time as I can in April focusing on verse. And yet, I set myself the task this year of reading and writing non-fiction works of biography, autobiography, diary and letters.
[13] It's hard to believe that it's already the end of Booketology. Our second annual Booketology tournament started with 64 literary characters from eight genres, each fighting for the title of Booketology Champion.
Links:
[1] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/KC+Unbound/feed
[2] http://drupal.org/node/11816
[3] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/jon-klassen-discusses-his-work-and-caldecott-win
[4] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:Klassen+title:%22not+my+hat%22
[5] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/20110#comment-form
[6] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/above-all-things-tanis-rideout
[7] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/20108#comment-form
[8] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/2013-pulitzer-prizes-can-we-pick-em-or-what
[9] http://www.pulitzer.org/node/8501
[10] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/20104#comment-form
[11] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/epistles-horace
[12] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/20026#comment-form
[13] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/booketology-2013-harry-potter-takes-championship
[14] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/20010#comment-form
[15] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/113
[16] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/113?page=1
[17] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/113?page=3
[18] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/113?page=4
[19] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/113?page=5
[20] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/113?page=6
[21] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/113?page=7
[22] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/113?page=8
[23] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/113?page=112