I was honored to be invited to the Children’s Book Council Diversity Kickoff event tonight!!! It’s such a wonderful and forward-thinking initiative that I asked CBC’s Executive Director, Robin Adelson, to share the vision and thoughts behind forming this committee.
“The newly formed CBC Diversity Committee is dedicated to increasing the diversity of voices and experiences contributing to children’s literature. The committee is charged with shaping an initiative that will focus on increasing diverse representation within the children’s book publishing industry, comprising those people who work
If you are a teacher, you know about those new year resolutions. This year… I will LIVEN up my bulletin boards! I will be original! I WILL! I WILL! I WILL!Yeah. Yeah. And we never do. SO, whenever I see a winning bulletin board, I do my best to squeeze them into Bowllan’s Blog.
Creating a bulletin board is truly a needle in my shoe and I bet there are other teachers in agreements.
Not this teacher. He’s pretty unique and shares his bulletin board science.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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I’m delighted to invite you to attend the next Conversations with the Cullman Center event with John Jeremiah Sullivan, author of the much lauded PULPHEAD. He will be joined by another critically-acclaimed author Wells Tower, author of EVERYTHING RAVAGED, EVERYTHING BURNED. This literary twosome will discuss the art of the essay. No doubt this will be a fascinating discussion and one I hope you’ll share with your followers.
Pulphead: John Jeremiah Sullivan and Wells Tower
December 15 at 7pm
New York Public Library
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building at 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue
South Court Auditorium
FREE (first come, first seated)
As seen on CBS2NY
Getting Library Books To City Classroom
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My son has been so diligent this summer as he prepares for his departure to boarding school (high school) in September. *sniff* He has been plowing through his summer reading books with a vengeance! He’s such a hardworker but I can’t help but wonder if he’ll he ever develop a passion for pleasure reading? He’s the kid who reads because he has to. (I guess most boys do?) It’s a part of his check off. He LOVES to, what I call, TALKTHEBOOK OUT. Meaning….he talks/fleshes out the marrow of the plot and the characters but I STILL don’t feel it’s pleasure. Maybe I’m wrong, or maybe with boys
So far so good, having finished round 2 of chemotherapy yesterday and a shot of neulasta today. Neulasta is a potent drug administered 24-hours after chemo to generate white bloods cells through the bone marrow.
Drum roll for My Summer Head Scarf – ‘Lemonade Stand’ Contest#3 – Scale of 1 – 5 – Five is top
Author Samantha Vamos will be visiting my school in the fall and I am thrilled to facilitate the visit. Here’s my Mother’s Day children’s book pick – Before You Were Here, Mi Amor.
I was pleasantly surprised to see on the School Library Journal homepage, Newbery Books Lack Characters With Disabilitiesby Debra Lau Whelan. “Although there have been more kids with disabilities portrayed in Newbery Medal-winning titles in recent years, there still remains a huge discrepancy between the number of characters in Newbery Award-winning books and how many children in the general population attend special education classes, says a new report.” (via SLJ article and Debra Lau Whelan)
W.A.R. writer, Jan Godown Annino, sent me Facebook announcement I wanted to pass along to my readers:
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EXCITED to meet the ZORA AND ME team at UCF/Morgridge Intl. Reading Center Book Festival on Saturday, April 17. My panel includes storyteller extraordinaire, Carmen Agra Deedy (yay! GROWING UP CUBAN IN DECATUR,GA): “Presenting Culture & Nature to Young Readers” at 1:30.
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Amy Bowllan began her career as a Television Investigative Producer and Reporter for WCBS-TV NY and KNXV in Phoenix, AZ. She also snagged two Emmy awards for Broadcast Journalism and several Associated Press awards. She now is the Director of Diversity and Educational Technology at The Hewitt School in NYC and is responsible for integrating technological resources into staff and students day to day programs. Contact her via Twitter @abowllan or email her at abowllan.
