Friday, July 3, 2009
This nonfiction book weaves together stars, sunsets, comets, meteors, dust, dinosaurs, daily activities and even, in a small way, Martin Luther King. Read this book and think big about very small things. Learn how bits of all of us and all that we do help create the colors of the sunset. Read more…
I loved her presentations! April Sayre enriches the world of non-fiction books both with her wonderfully worded books and her fantastic presentations to students. Her lectures intrigue, excite, and inspire the students.
Creating a whiteboard activity, powerpoint, storytime, or display to celebrate birds, families? Or celebrating my newest book, Honk, Honk, Goose: Canada Geese Start a Family (Illustrated by Huy Vuon Lee and published by Henry Holt, 2009)? Here are some photos I took of geese this year. Click for a larger version. Use how you like. Read more »
I am now offering online author chats via ichat on my mac!
I’ll be at ALA in Chicago. 10:30 am. on Sunday morning is Nonfiction Book Blast: Booktalks for Reluctant Readers. Expand your nonfiction repertoire as 18 authors booktalk their latest work. You’ll leave with postcards with all the booktalks you can use in your library. I’ll be presenting a brief booktalk on bird storytimes, featuring Honk, Honk, Goose and Vulture View.
My signings: Sunday Henry Holt 2-3 pm
Sunday Charlesbridge 4-5 pm Stop by and say hello!
Can’t come? Check out the booktalks wiki for booktalk texts.
Just when I thought the school year couldn’t get any better, it did. Jeff and I drove to the U.P. of Michigan so I could speak at the Marquette-Alger Young Authors Conference.
Wow. This is the largest young author event I have seen. Over the course of 4 days, about 3,000 students from surrounding school districts were brought to Northern Michigan University. Read more »
Wyoming Reads! Thanks to the Sue Jorgensen Library Foundation, approximately 7,000 Wyoming 1st Graders will receive a free hardback book. They can choose from six books and one of them is Vulture View! They will receive the books at one of 35 celebrations on May 19th.
April Pulley Sayre is an award-winning children’s book author of over 55 natural history books for children and adults. Her read-aloud nonfiction books, known for their lyricism and scientific precision, have been translated into French, Dutch, Japanese, and Korean. She is best known for pioneering literary ways to immerse young readers in natural events via creative storytelling and unusual perspectives.
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