July 2011 – Booktalking #kidlit

August 2011 online workshops

I begin new workshops on the first Wednesday of the month.
The August 2011 workshops will begin on Wednesday, August 3rd.

Which workshop is best for you?

New to children’s books?
Learn about the different types of children’s books in the Children’s Book Genres Workshop.

Ready to write?
Write and edit your book in the Intensive Picture Book Workshop or the Children’s Novels Workshop.

An online workshop does not have a physical meeting place or classroom hours. You will have 8 weeks to complete the 6 lessons in this online workshop. Turn your lessons in as you complete them, the next day…or on the due date two weeks later.

The August workshop dates are August 3-September 21.

My NEW book is here! Read and Write Sports: Readers Theatre and Writing Activities for Grades 3-8
Copyright © 2011 Anastasia Suen All Rights Reserved.

Join me on Google+

Have you heard about the new social media platform called Google Plus? I joined over the weekend and I have to say, I like it. It has the best of Facebook and Twitter.

I give it 4+!

Like Twitter, it allows people to connect with to me without any “approval” process. (In Facebook I have to take action on each and every connection before anyone is connected to me.)
Like Facebook and Twitter, it allows me to create lists…but the biggest difference is, I can read each list by itself! This is HUGE! (And also why I have churned through several Facebook and Twitter accounts over the years. I like to see info in small bytes. So I tried to make an account for each part of my life, but the people I wanted to connect with added themselves to the social media list they found first, whether it was for their “type” or not. So I regrouped and regrouped time and again… and now… I can have my lists… and
I can mail to ONE list at a time. (This is not possible on Twitter and too difficult to manage on Facebook.)
And to top it all off, I can EDIT my comments AFTER I post. (I can’t type and spell at the same time, so this is another HUGE development for me.)

So about those circles… how do you know who is where?

Well, I’m already on the Book Blogger Google + list and the Kidlitosphere folks to follow list. The Children’s Book Illustrators have a list and Susan Taylor Brown also has a Poets to follow list.

For me, the next step is, creating a new “list” for my picture book writers. If you’re on Google Plus and you WRITE picture books (whether you are published yet or not) add yourself to my G+ picture book writers list! Thanks!

My NEW book is here! Read and Write Sports: Readers Theatre and Writing Activities for Grades 3-8
Copyright © 2011 Anastasia Suen All Rights Reserved.

It’s STEM Friday!

I have a new blog meme logo on my Chapter Book of the Day blog today:

STEM Friday

It’s STEM Friday! (STEM is Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)

I write a monthly column for Booklist’s Quick Tips for Schools and Libraries and as a result have stacks and stacks of GREAT nonfiction books. As you know, I created Nonfiction Monday a few years ago, and now we have a new Nonfiction Monday Round-up host each week.

Nonfiction Monday

The only thing is, once a week is NOT enough when you have all of these great books to share. So…I added another day for nonfiction! (Why not?) On Monday at Chapter Book of the Day I blog about social studies and on Fridays I blog about science and mathematics. Win-win!

(I’ve been blogging STEM Friday books since May 20, so I’ve gone back and added the logo to the older posts as well. I also wanted to send a very special thanks to my daughter, the designer, who created this new logo for me. You’re a genius! 🙂 )