| -------------------------
Appearances:
Fall 2010 Events confirmed:
Sept 12 Kerrytown Bookfest, Ann Arbor, noon
Sept 14 Schuler Books Teacher Appreciation/Comics, Eastwood Towne Center
Sept 16 Tuesday Books, Williamston, 7pm
Sept 27 or 28 Pooh's Corner, Grand Rapids, details to come
-------------------------
Ellie McDoodle: Best Friends Fur-Ever is out in stores now! I bought
it on the
first day it was available, because I think it's fun to go into a bookstore
and buy
my book on its laydown date.
-- August 2010
-------------------------
Ellie McDoodle # 4 is in the works! The wonderful folks at Bloomsbury like
my
proposal and will get back to me with notes and publishing details soon.
-- August 2010
-------------------------
Ellie McDoodle: New Kid in School is up for
the 2011 Nene Award,
voted on by 6th graders in Hawaii.
-- August 2010
-------------------------
This photo and article in the Troy School District News is about my school
program.
Reprinted on my website here.
-- June 2010
-------------------------
This facebook page for Willard Library in Battle Creek has a video interview
between
Librarian Claire Ott and
me:
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=393763049905&ref=mf
-- May 2010
-------------------------
This article is about my library program. Reprinted on my
site here.
--April 2010
-------------------------
 We have a cover! And I am thrilled.
-------------------------
From my agent's website:
Ellie McDoodle is being published in Korea!
"A whole chorus of congratulations for Ruth McNally
Barshaw, who's been a magnet
for good news lately! Not only is her latest Ellie McDoodle book slated for
release
this summer (see the just-finished cover, above!), but the first two Ellie
books,
Have Pen Will Travel and New Kid in School will soon be available in South
Korea!
Publisher Jangsoohanulso will release them in the next 18 months.
We can't wait to see how these unique "sketch-journals" look in a different
language!
If that's not enough, New Kid in School is one of eight titles
nominated for the 4th
and 5th grade category of the 2010-2011 Great Lakes Great Books Award, chosen
by
readers in Ruth's home state of Michigan. Congratulations, Ruth!
—Erin"
-- Jan 2010
-------------------------
Ellie McDoodle is mentioned by award-winning children's author and writing
teacher
Darcy Pattison in
an article:
LITERATURE: What the kids will be reading
By Laura Keeney on September 23, 2009
Read the article
online here
and on my website, here.
-- Sept 2009
-------------------------
Ellie McDoodle has been picked up by Scholastic Book Clubs this year!
Look for Ellie McDoodle in those little flyers that teachers hand out:
New Kid in School in the fall, and Have Pen, Will Travel in spring.
I'm thrilled -- this means more readers will be introduced to my books.
-- August 2009
-------------------------
Ellie McDoodle is nominated for the Young Hoosiers Award in Indiana
and
2010-2011 Great Lakes, Great Books Award in Michigan.
-------------------------
Ellie McDoodle: Have Pen, Will Travel is one
of 6 books nominated for the 2010
Beverly Cleary Children's Choice Awards.
Information on the
award here. Children will
read the nominated books and vote in March/April 2010 for their favorite
among them.
I'm thrilled with the nomination. Beverly Cleary was my favorite author when
I was a
kid; I read as many of her books as I could get my hands on. I suffered through
the
school play and the terrible monkey dress and the awful beet, with Ellen
Tebbits.
I wished I had a dog like Ribsy. I felt I had a sister like Ramona. I
<3 Beverly Cleary.
-------------------------
Quote from a Publisher's Weekly article on bandwagon books and the
Diary of a Wimpy Kid phenomenon:
The problem is not the diary format itself. Booksellers cite past journal-style
successes
such as Meg Cabot's Princess Diaries and the more recent Ellie McDoodle series
by
Ruth McNally Barshaw. "You're basically telling a story through a child's
eyes," said
Kenny Brechner, owner of Devaney Doak & Garrett Booksellers in Farmington,
Me.
He calls the Ellie McDoodle series "fantastic, original," despite the similar
diary format.
"The more the merrier, as long as the quality of writing is still there,"
said Heather
Doss, children's merchandise manager for Bookazine. "There's no point in
putting out
books that the kids are going to look at and roll their eyes. Kids are very,
very smart.
They know when they're being taken advantage of." -- written by Karen Springen
for
Publishers Weekly, 3/9/2009, read the article
here on my site
-- March 2009
-------------------------
The Indy Star Online calls Ellie McDoodle a fun book, useful
for reluctant
readers and for teaching children how to write, in an article about teaching.
Read the article
here and on my
site.
-------------------------
The wonderful folks at Ilsley Public Library in Middlebury, Vermont, made
an awesome
book trailer for Ellie! See it
here on youtube.
-------------------------
Detroit's Metro Parent interviewed me -- article by Patti Richards
here on her
site.
-------------------------
I have a blog about
the Ellie McDoodle book process
-------------------------
Here's my ICL Chat on Humor:
ICL
website and also here and
here's more on humor.
-------------------------
The wonderful Barbara Johansen Newman, award-winning
illustrator/author/designer,
features me on her blog here:
http://johansennewman.typepad.com/cats_and_jammers_studio/2007/05/a_closer_look_a.html
-------------------------
|
