The theme of this year’s One City, One Story short story writing contest is depicting what being an American means to you, or what your family’s story is, whether your parents or grandparents may have immigrated here, or what your experience has been in this country. That’s a tough subject […]
Kids’ Writing Workshop: Unlocking Your Great Vision
Published on :Today’s Kids’ Writing Workshop was all about discovering and unlocking our visions for the great work that we want to write. First, we talked about some famous writers who gave the world a consistent vision. Charles Dickens wrote about poverty and greed in Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol. Roald […]
Tiny Tales @ PPL: 2014 WINNING STORIES
Published on :In November, we celebrated TELLABRATION!: a week of stories and storytelling. Among the activities was a short-short story contest. Children ages 8-12 were invited to write stories of 55 words or less, and each site choose the best story from their submissions to win a Folkmanis puppet! Here are the […]
Getting your stories published
Published on :Our Kids’ Writing Workshop met today and learned all about the publishing process. To make things really easy and visual for them, I put together a packet of samples. A lot of beginning writers (especially kids) don’t understand what a good submission packet looks like and may get undue rejections […]
Kids’ Writing Workshop: Write This Book by Pseudonymous Bosch
Published on :Today the Kids’ Writing Workshop wrote exercises from Write This Book by Pseudonymous Bosch! Bosch (is that his REAL name??) will be coming to Pasadena on Dec. 13. Everybody got a “Save the Date” to help mark their calendars. He writes hilarious mysteries for kids and has a new book coming out […]
Writing Workshop with Kristen Kittscher
Published on :I have been so busy this summer that I haven’t been able to take the time I’d really like to write blogs showing what’s going on at our programs. Here is a much-belated post I’ve been meaning to write about the wonderful kids’ writing workshop we recently had with middle […]
Toddler Storytime: Writing
Published on :Sorry it took me so long to post this! My daughter was sick, so I was out a lot this week. Last Tuesday’s storytime was about Writing, one of the five early literacy skills your child needs so that they can start school ready to learn how to read. Since […]
Tiny Tales @ PPL: WINNING STORIES!
Published on :We had some wonderful submissions for our Tiny Tales contest during Children’s Book Week. Here are the winning stories from each site. Read and enjoy! CENTRAL ALLENDALE HASTINGS HILL LAMANDA PARK LA PINTORESCA SAN RAFAEL SANTA CATALINA VILLA PARKE
Tiny Tales @ PPL: Honorable Mentions
Published on :We had so many wonderful entries in our Tiny Tales Contest for Children’s Book Week! We will be posting our winning entries soon, but here are some honorable mentions. To see a larger view of the story, just click on the image.
Shared Storytelling for Tweens
Published on :On Saturday, November 23, the Central Library hosted a Shared Storytelling workshop for kids ages 8 -12. We had a lot of fun making stories together in different ways. First, we started off with some exquisite corpse drawing. Exquisite corpse was a game played by surrealist artists in the 1920s. […]