Sunday, October 25, 2009

Exquiste Corpse Adventure News!!!


View the
The Exquisite Corpse Adventure Webcast
Exquisite Presentation at the 2009 Library of Congress National Book Festival Featuring E.C.A. Contributors-
Jon Scieszka, Kate Di Camilla, Nikki Grimes, Megan McDonald, Shannon Hale, and Steven Kellogg!


Illustration ©2009 Chris Van Dusen


If you were unable to attend the Center for the Book and the National Children's Book and Literacy Alliance Exquisite Corpse Adventure launch event this September at the Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington DC, you can watch a podcast of this rollicking event at:
http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=4648

Future episodes of The Exquisite Corpse Adventure will be written and illustrated by this wily, witty bunch of young people's authors and illustrators:

M.T. Anderson, Natalie Babbitt, Calef Brown, Susan Cooper, Kate Di Camillo, Timothy Basil Ering, Nikki Grimes, Shannon Hale, Daniel Handler aka Lemony Snicket, Steven Kellogg, Gregory Maguire, Megan McDonald, Patricia and Fredrick McKissack, Linda Sue Park, Katherine Paterson, James Ransome, Jon Scieszka, and Chris Van Dusen.

Read the first episodes of The Exquisite Corpse Adventure at:

http://www.read.gov/exquisite-corpse/

And make sure you check out the NCBLA's The Exquisite Corpse Adventure Educational Resource Center which we have designed for parents, family member, teachers, and librarians to help you help your kids read and write better! The resource center includes book suggestions, discussion questions, activity ideas, and art projects all inspired by the episodes in The Exquisite Corpse Adventure!

Find the NCBLA's The Exquisite Corpse Adventure Educational Resource Center at:http://www.thencbla.org/Exquisite_Corpse/exquisite_home.html







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Thursday, October 22, 2009

The Exquiste Corpse Adventure News!!!



Episode Three of
The Exquisite Corpse Adventure--
THE FOUND CLUE-- written by none other than the illustrious, lively, and down-right adorable Kate Di Camillo, and illustrated by that handsome man-about-town
Calef Brown-
Goes Live Tomorrow at
WWW.READ.GOV!!



WHAT DO NANCY AND JOE HEAR TICK, TICK, TICKING?
WHY IS BOPPO PULLING A MEATBALL OUT OF HIS POCKET?

WHAT ARE JOE AND NANCY TO DO WITH A NARCOLEPTIC CLOWN?
WHAT WOULD YOU DO?


Find out the answers to these questions and much more in the continuing saga of--
DA, DA, DAAAA!!!

The Exquisite Corpse Adventure!!!


And make sure you check out the
NCBLA's Exquisite Corpse Adventure Educational Resource Center at: http://www.thencbla.org/Exquisite_Corpse/exquisite_home.html

Monday, October 19, 2009

Exquisite Corpse Adventure News


James Ransome is the Exquisite Corpse Adventure Illustrator for The Exquisite Corpse Adventure Episode Two: The Lost Clue by Katherine Paterson!

"In all my work, while reading the text, I mark it for what I consider are ‘visually dramatic’ phrases that would inspire interesting images. For this image, I was inspired by the potential for dramatic lighting." James Ransome



James Ransome's mysterious and evocative illustration for Episode Two of the Exquisite Corpse Adventure is painted in luminous watercolor washes. The NCBLA and the Library of Congress are thrilled that Mr. Ransome is contributing to The Exquisite Corpse Adventure!


You can find out all about James Ransomes' work and his many delightful books at: http://www.jamesransome.com/


And in the NCBLA's Exquisite Corpse Adventure Educational Resource Center you will find an ART TALK article about James Ransome's illustration as well as ideas, discussion questions, and art activities inspired by his work for The Exquisite Corpse Adventure!--at--

http://www.thencbla.org/Exquisite_Corpse/exquisite_ep2.html





And make sure to look for James Ransome's latest books at your library and bookstore!












SKY BOYS by Deborah Hopkinson, illustrated by James E. Ransome


What Lincoln Said

What Lincoln Said
by Sarah L. Thomson, illustrated by James E. Ransome





Helen Keller: The World in Her Heart
byLesa Cline-Ransome, illustrated by James Ransome