Table 4: Origami (4th grade) or MYOB Remember: Limit of 1 bookmark! Table 5: Bean Bags on the carpet after checkout

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1 Table 4: Origami (4th grade) or MYOB Remember: Limit of 1 bookmark! Table 5: Bean Bags on the carpet after checkout Table 3: Black saucer chairs after checkout Table 1: Morning classes may choose 1 Ripleys or Weird-But-True to check out Tables 1, 2, and 6 read at their own table after checkout In the Tub: #7

2 Word of the week: Collaborate What have you collaborated on recently and with whom?

3 What s wrong with this picture?

4 What s wrong with this picture?

5 Let s all collaborate to find ways to keep our library one of the best in the district. If we all do our part it can be!

6 This month s Awesome Authors! From the library web page click here to find out more about this month s featured authors!

7 Carmen Agra Deedy Sept. 11, 1960 Havana, Cuba She came to the U.S. as a refugee in 1964 and grew up in Decatur, Georgia carmenagradeedy.com Her favorite author: E.B. White (Charlotte s Web) I have thus far written for the picture book genre, but my first chapter book will come out soon. I will keep writing picture books because I love to see wonderful art find a great story. Those books can be like gems. Writing did not come naturally to me. Stories came more naturally. This is true because I grew up with great storytellers.

8 Carmen Agra Deedy It is about our friends, the Massai, who gave 14 cows to America after September 11th. I read about it in a New York Times article by Marc Lacey. A young man takes his EYEWITNESS account of another nation s pain back to his small Kenyan tribe (in Africa). His people offer a COMPASSIONATE gesture to strangers half a world away. A journalist writes a feature story in a major NEW YORK newspaper. A storyteller TRANSFORMS the events into a tender and moving story for children. An artist is inspired to translate the dramatic story into STUNNING works of art. And the young man COLLABORATES with the storyteller and the artist to create a remarkable children s book. (14CowsForAmerica.com)

9 Tony DiTerlizzi Sept. 6, 1969 Florida Growing up in South Florida he enjoyed collecting insects, camping, snorkling, drawing and reading. After college, Tony began a freelance illustration career, working for TSR s Dungeons and Dragons role-playing game. He wrote the Spiderwick Chronicles with friend, Holly Black, from an idea he had bouncing around in his head for 20 years. Diterlizzi.com Never Abandon Imagination

10 Tony DiTerlizzi Sept. 6, 1969 Florida Author and illustrator Tony DiTerlizzi was interviewed by students and teachers on Scholastic.com What made you want to start writing? I love books, and I love to read, and I had ideas for books that I thought would be neat to read. How many books have you written? I've written two picture books, and I helped write the Spiderwick books with Holly Black, and there are five of those. When you were a kid who was your favorite author? I loved Roald Dahl and Dr. Seuss. I loved the Brothers Grimm too. How is it different illustrating your own story versus illustrating someone else's? Which do you like better? That's a good question. Well, if it's a story I've written, I can see the whole story in my mind a lot easier because I created it. The exciting thing about doing art for someone else's story is how I can translate their world through pictures, and that's always a pretty big challenge. How did you have the right people to contact? I know a lot of writers who just can't get published! We moved to NYC about eight years ago, and I just went from publisher to publisher, visiting editors until I met someone I really connected with. And it took me about two years of rejection before I found someone who really liked my stuff. What do you enjoy better, writing or drawing your pictures? The metaphor I always use is that I'm a sponge. I get ideas from everywhere: movies, books, movies, nature - it comes into my brain, it sits there for a while, and it starts coming back out. What was your inspiration for The Spider and the Fly? Was it the movie A Bug's Life? Actually, it was Chas Adams, who created The Adams Family, and Edward Gorey. If I was inspired by any movies, it would have been Tim Burton's movies and old silent movies. How many pets do you have? Any frogs? Do all of your books have animals? We have our dog, Goblin, who's a pug, and we have two pet mice named Humbug and Honey. (And probably about 30 other mice in our walls.) If you had to say one thing to someone that wanted to become an illustrator, what would it be? Draw every day. And never lose your imagination. Diterlizzi.com Never Abandon Imagination What words of encouragement do you have for the young writers of tomorrow? Believe in yourself. If its something you really want to do, don't take no for an answer. If you want to tell stories, keep telling stories. Tony, do you have anything else you would like to add? One last note: the great thing about reading is that it really excites your imagination in a way that you don't get from movies or video games. There's something special about a book.

11 Maurice Charles Willems aka Mo

12 Tony and Mo collaborated on this book: Listen for last week s word aspire in this video: The term flâneur comes from the French masculine noun un flâneur [ahn flah-nur] which has the basic meanings of stroller, lounger, saunterer, loafer which itself comes from the French verb flâner, which means to stroll. Charles Baudelaire developed a derived meaning of flâneur that of a person who walks the city in order to experience it. brooklynflaneur.wordpress.com

13 What did What was the genre of you the book? Why like did you about Let s add 3 choose it? If you have recently finished it? your library book and you can recommend it to your classmates, let s add that book to your class s list of recommended books!

14 How much knowledge did your sponge brains just absorb? Let s have some fun and find out!