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Blue Balliett grew up in New York City, where she often visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Frick, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Guggenheim. She studied art history at Brown University. Balliett and her family lived year-round on Nantucket Island for many years, and now live in Chicago, within walking distance of Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House. She taught at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools before becoming a full-time writer. In The Calder Game, Balliett celebrates Alexander Calder's sculpture, and in the process draws the reader into thinking about art and its context, and what it means for a piece of art -- or a person -- to be "foreign." As in the first two in the series, Balliett uses setting that she knows first-hand. While Chasing Vermeer and The Wright 3 are set in her neighborhood of Chicago, The Calder Game takes place in a small community in England, a 1,000 year-old-town that Balliett visited while on a book tour. She states, "I had a wonderful time writing this book I had to do lots of eavesdropping, poking-around, tip-toeing through graveyards, and climbing walls, and then there was all the Cadbury chocolate I had to eat."
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Jim Arnosky began his career in children's books as a response to the time when fears of Lyme disease took over the media and families were being discouraged from spending time outdoors. Determined to share his enthusiasm for nature with kids, he began writing and illustrating the books that have proved so popular ever since, including All About Rattlesnakes, All About Deer, and other “All About” books for Scholastic. Arnosky advises sensible precautions when exploring outdoors – boots and a hat, for example – but emphasizes that curiosity and a spirit of discovery are the most important traits of young adventurers. His “All About” series is back, and better than ever!
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Bring in Lisa Yee to speak to your 4th – 7th graders and let her use her lively and informative presentation to give them the secrets the successful writing style behind So Totally Emily Ebers and her other popular titles.
Bring Hans Wilhelm to your school, and he can demonstrate how he creates his stories, including his latest, Noodles the Puppy. He will also let your students develop their own stories while he illustrates them.
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