Raising Bookworms

Thursdays with Emma Walton Hamilton — Interview Excerpt, part EIGHT

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We have come to the last excerpt of my interview with Emma Walton Hamilton for the Children’s Book Hub. I have appreciated the opportunity to share it with you, and I hope you’ve enjoyed reading it. You may not know that Emma independently published her book Raising Bookworms: Getting Kids Reading for Pleasure and Empowerment, a book I recommend highly. She and Christian McLean of Stony Brook Southampton, who has indie-published his picture book Duckhampton, talked very knowledgeably about independent publishing in a panel discussion at last summer’s Stony Brook Southampton Children’s Literature Conference. Her independent publishing company, Beech Tree Books, is one of our topics today. For full biographical information on Emma, as well as information on all the services she provides writers of children’s books, please check her website, http://www.emmawaltonhamilton.com And now, for the final part of our interview:

And the winner of Raising Bookworms is…

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KIRSTEN LARSON is the winner of my August giveaway. One copy of Emma Walton Hamilton’s Raising Bookworms: Getting Kids Reading for Pleasure and Empowerment will be winging its way to Kirsten in the near future. Congratulations, Kirsten, and thanks to everyone who reads my blog and takes the time to comment.

Coming Up on By Word of Beth: September edition

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I decided to split the look back at August and look forward to September posts this month. We’ll look back tomorrow. We’re looking forward today. (Don’t spend too much time considering the logic of that. I don’t want you to do yourself an injury.) As you know if you’ve been around my blog over the summer, there have been a few changes in format and in content of posts. I hope you’ll find the changes to your liking. So get on with it, Beth! What’s coming up?

Creating a Reading Culture from a Distance

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Today on Share a Story — Shape a Future, Donalyn Miller (The Book Whisperer) has started the week off with an excellent round-up of ideas on how to encourage one’s children to read. Other bloggers have posted from a teacher’s perspective, from the perspective of encouraging older children, etc. What about people like me, who have no children of our own, are not librarians or teachers — can we play a role in creating a reading culture? The answer is a resounding YES!

And the Winners (of “Raising Bookworms”) Are…

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I want to thank all of you for participating in the giveaway for two copies of Raising Bookworms: Getting Your Kids Reading for Pleasure and Empowerment by Emma Walton Hamilton. I especially want to thank those who posted about literacy on their blogs, and let me know so that I could read their blogs and add their names to the draw an extra time. (And I apologize to Mona Pease for missing her in the shout-out to those who blogged — I have added your name to my shout-out post now, Mona.) I truly wish all of you could have won. This is the part of a giveaway that always gives me a pang — that I don’t have a book for every one of you. I’d urge you to purchase the book for yourself, or for your local school or library. It is an excellent resource. It is available through amazon in either paperback or Kindle format. And now, thanks to random.org, which allowed me to make a completely random selection from the list of numbered names, the WINNERS! (For those who aren’t familiar with random.org, I numbered all the names, which were listed according to the number of times each person had commented and/or posted, then put the number, for example 1 to 63, into random.org and it randomly generates one number.) Susanna Leonard Hill and Julie Foster Hedlund Congratulations to you both!

Spreading the Word about Literacy — through Blogs

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I am delighted that three people responded to my challenge to blog about literacy. Not only did that earn them an extra entry in my giveaway of Emma Walton Hamilton’s book Raising Bookworms, but it reached more people with an important message. One person posted (different posts) on both her blogs! I want to give a shout-out to those people who blogged about literacy this week. If there are others whom I’ve missed, please let me know in the comments, and I’ll add your link to this post (and your entry to the barrel!) And it’s not too late – it’s always time to talk about getting children (and adults) to love reading, and if you post (and let me know) either today, Saturday January 28, 2012, or tomorrow Sunday January 29, 2012, you’ll get another chance at the giveaway.

The Importance of the Arts in Raising Bookworms

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I am a firm believer in the importance of the arts in children’s lives. That is perhaps readily recognizable through the tagline of my blog, “Writing, Reading, the Arts, and Life.” For me, those four things are inextricably entwined. Drama, dance, music, the visual arts – they all have the capacity to enhance a child’s self-esteem. They also have the capacity to enhance a child’s appreciation of and understanding of the written and spoken word.

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