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The blog is not done yet for the year, but we will take a short break this week. Until then, here are a couple of things you can do to stay in touch with us:
- Visit our website and browse all of the great books we released during the fall - they are still available in their entirety on our site for a few more weeks!
- Become our fan on Facebook: If you don’t have a Facebook account yet, sign up for one and search for Stenhouse Publishers. Or click here and join others who have already became our fans.
- Revisit some of your favorite Questions & Authors articles on our blog
- Read some poetry selected by editor Bill Varner
We will be back next week with another Quick Tip Tuesday selection! Happy Holidays!
December 24th, 2008
We think it is time for all of you who follow our blog to meet Matilda. She is our unofficial Stenhouse office mascot. She comes to our office regularly with her owner, Nate, who is our PD coordinator, podcast creator, and conference organizer extraordinaire. You can also hear his voice on the audiobook version of Boy Writers: Reclaiming Their Voices by Ralph Fletcher.
Matilda, with Nate, during our Wednesday morning staff meeting
December 3rd, 2008
This week, Bill Varner picked a poem to commemmorate Veteran’s Day.
A distant relative of mine recently passed away. I’d only really come to know him recently, and mostly through e-mail. He was a brilliant teacher, and also a fighter pilot in WW II. Yesterday on the radio I learned that on the 90th anniversary of WWI, “The Great War,” there are but a handful of veterans left. And each year we lose more and more veterans of WWII. In honor of Veteran’s Day this past week, here is a poem by James Tate, written as a very young man, about his father, a WWII pilot
The Lost Pilot
By James Tate
for my father, 1922-1944
Your face did not rot
Like the others—the co-pilot,
for example, I saw him
Read the rest of the poem here
November 14th, 2008
This week Bill asked his daughter, Olivia, to pick out a poem. She chose “Brother” by Mary Ann Hoberman, who was recently named Children’s Poet Laureate. “Oh, does this poem ring true in our household!” says Bill. “Except, maybe, that Livvy wouldn’t want a new little brother ‘for a change.’ She’d be happy without one! But I imagine eventually on long car trips, or post-bedtime sneaking around, she’d miss her co-conspirator.”
Brother
By Mary Ann Hoberman
I had a little brother
And I brought him to my mother
And I said I want another
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=171610
October 17th, 2008