We’ve updated the printable list of books featured on the Just One More Book!! children’s book podcast.
To download the PDF of the May 2009 edition of our featured children’s book list, click on the image immediately to the right of this text.
To download your very own Just One More Book!! bookmark, click on the image of the bookmark that appears just below the image of our brochure in the left sidebar of our website.
For the week of May 4 through May 8, we will be publishing audio interviews recorded during our Rock Stars of Reading road trip. We will be featuring the following guests:
We will return to our regular book talk publication schedule next week.
Author and librarian Bridget Zinn had an eventful February. She found an agent for her YA novel, she got married and she was diagnosed with stage four cancer. Mark met Bridget at the second annual KidLit Conference last fall. We were shocked and saddened by her bad news.
Hospital bills are high and health insurance doesn’t cover everything. That’s what inspired Jone MacCulloch to organize a fundraising auction for Bridget.
We’re participating in the auction by offering audio production and creative direction services for a single ten-minute audio production. Depending on the type of work Mark does with the winner, the value will range between $450 and $1000. Bidding begins at $100. To read the details of our auction item or to make a bid, follow this link and leave a comment.
For more about about Bridget Zinn, click here.
Thank you very much to Helen Murray, a University student in Ireland, for creating an incredible poster to promote our Rock Stars of Reading series. Helen and Mark connected on Twitter and Helen offered to create the poster for us on her own time!
Thanks also to Carlina, a professional photographer in South Texas, for allowing us to use her fantastic photograph, Search, which Helen found on Carlina’s Flickr account.
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A lot is changing for our family these days.
On this edition of Just One More Book!! we discuss some of these changes, talk about some of the ways in which this podcast has been affected and ask for your feedback as we work toward building new routines to accommodate changes in work, home and JOMB.
We’d appreciate your thoughts and suggestions. Please call them in to our listener hotline, +1-206-350-6487 or leave them as a comment on this post.
If you’re heading to Podcamp Toronto this weekend, bring along a new or gently used children’s book for the The Children’s Book Bank of Toronto. You’ll feel great!
You can learn all about the book bank and the fabulous people who make it happen and benefit from it here.
Mark’s been hard at work editing 13 hours of video into a series of 15-minute video episodes that document our 6 days with the Rock Stars of Reading this past November. Sadly, maintaining flow and focus in each video means lots of great footage on the cutting room floor.
Members of our free email newsletter are in for a treat. We will be making some of the video outtakes available in our February issue.
Sign up to our email newsletter now so you don’t miss out on this great footage.
Because of the long weekend in Ontario, our interview with author/illustrator Giselle Potter will be published on Tuesday.
Thanks for your patience and thanks for the day off. 
Today was a tough day.
But spending the evening reading aloud Zorgamazoo, Robert Paul Weston‘s incredibly uplifting, completely rhyming adventure novel, has actually whisked me away from the torment of reality.
So I’m stepping briefly out of our Just One More Book! grid to share with you a much-needed rallying cry from the reluctant (furry) hero of this fabulously sweet and exciting adventure:
“Now, sometimes you lose and sometimes you win,
but my Pop always told me: You never give in!
And if he were here now, I know what he’d say:
Morty, my son, when you’re caught in a fray,
or your travels are tough and the going is rough,
or you’re up to your neck in the slippery stuff,
or say some old robots are on the attack,
then I tell you, my son: You start fighting back!”
I’m not fighting back, literally, but I am bolstered. So Thank you, Morty. And thanks to Robert Paul Weston for this great rhyming ride.
Andrea
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We’re thrilled to announce that our Just One More Book! podcast is being re-broadcast on terrestrial radio in Birmingham, UK (Thursday evenings at 9pm GMT). You can also tune in to Unity FM live using the internet, by clicking here.
Unity FM aims to build a confident community at ease with itself where individuals live together in harmony. Many thanks to Unity FM for making us part of it.
A big welcome to Unity FM listeners. We hope you’ll leave us a comment to tell us about your favourite children’s books — and that you’ll find some new favourites here on Just One More Book!
Click here for UK flavours on JOMB.
Mark will be interviewing Paul Rogers, the amazingly talented artist and illustrator of books including Jazz A-B-Z and Forever Young, on Tuesday, February 3 (interview will be published on Monday, February 9).
Do you have a question you’d like to ask Paul? Leave your question as a comment to this post or call it in to our listener hotline (+1.206.350.6487). We’ll do our best to include community questions in the interview.
We’re hard at work editing 13 hours of video, 25 hours of audio and over 2,000 pictures into a series of short documentaries about our 6-day children’s book roadtrip. To reward your patience, we’ve created this quick teaser of our visit with Lane Smith and Molly Leach.
Subscribers of our monthly email newsletter were able to see this video first! Our newsletter also features extra news items and additional audio never published on our website. Don’t miss out! Sign up for our monthly newsletter on our website, justonemorebook.com/newsletter.
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