Author: Loree Burns

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Coming April 2020 …

On April 7, 2020, you’re invited to an epic nighttime adventure. That’s the day my next picture book, illustrated by Ellen Harasimowicz and edited by Karen Boss at Charlesbridge Publishing, will fly into this world.

If you’ve tuned in to my recent moth adventures, here or on Instagram, this is the book that’ll help you and your favorite curious young explorers create moth adventures just like them in your own backyards. YOU’RE INVITED TO A MOTH BALL is written especially for the K-3 crowd, but if you’re reading this post, there’s something in its pages for you, too.

Revealing a new book cover is a delight that only comes ’round once every few years, so I’m going to be celebrating for weeks. The book may not be available until next spring, but there are moths out there right now, people.

Party on!

Edited to add: You’ll be able to purchase this book at your favorite local independent bookstore in April 2020, or possibly before. SUPPORT YOUR INDIES! You can also pre-order now through Amazon. Thank you!

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What the Ocean Carries

I’m thrilled to share a link to my newest essay, an exploration of our plastic world and the things I’ve learned about it while writing books for young readers. It was published in Flyway: Journal of Writing and Environment just last week, and you can read it here.

Thanks for reading, and please feel free to share the link!

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Flyway: Journal of Writing and Environment

Flyway is an online journal housed at Iowa State University that publishes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry “that explores the many complicated facets of the word environment.” Check it out. Come May, you’ll find an essay I wrote in its pages, an essay that won their 2018 Notes from the Field Nonfiction contest. I’m pretty excited about this, so chances are good that I’ll remind you when it’s published. 🙂

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Six Ways of Love (A Literary Reading)

Please join students and faculty from Bay Path University’s MFA in Creative Nonfiction program (including me!) for an afternoon of readings on the subject of love. The event will be held on Saturday, February 16, 2019 at the Mason Square Branch Library in Springfield, Massachusetts, from 12:30 to 2:30pm. (Please note that this event is geared to an adult audience.)  More details, including a full list of the writers who will read, can be found on the flyer below. We hope to see you there!

 

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February 12 Fill-in-the-Blank Book Club

Hello, reader friends!

Popping in to share the topic of our next Fill-in-the-Blank Book Club event. We’ll be meeting in person at the Beaman Memorial Public Library in West Boylston, Massachusetts on Thursday, February 12 at 6:30 pm, but you can join us virtually by reading and sharing your thoughts here.

Our topic this time around is ‘The Other.’

In a time when our world feels divided, let’s use books and our own intentions to bring it a little closer, shall we? Find a book outside your own culture or your own experience, read it, learn from it, and then share what you find with the rest of us.  I kicked off my own reading for this session with #NotYourPrincess: VOICES OF NATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN, and was drawn in by vivid art and compelling words. I was also blown away by Dashka Slater’s THE 57 BUS. And I’ve got a copy of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME on deck in my reading pile.

Explore. Read. Learn. Then join us to spread your (book) love.

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STEMinist Booklist, an NCTE18 Handout

Welcome to all the NCTE18 attendees who joined our Finding Their STEMinist Voice: How Informational Texts Can Inspire Girls presentation on Friday morning. Thanks so much for being part of this important conversation.

Here is our booklist handout: STEMinist Handout

And here is our online resources handout: STEMinist Online Resources

We hope you and your students love these books and web resources as much as we do!

 

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1968: The Audio Book

These beauties arrived in the mail yesterday: audio versions (one digital, one on CD) of 1968: TODAY’S AUTHORS EXPLORE A YEAR OF REBELLION, REVOLUTION, AND CHANGE. This is the first time my work has been presented in audio, and I’m thrilled to give the entire collection a listen. If you’d like a taste, visit the 1968 page on the Brilliance Audio website for a short clip from the introduction, which details the thirteen authors and their stories. Enjoy!

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NCTE 2018

I’m thrilled to be attending the 2018 Annual Convention of the National Council of Teachers of English in Houston Texas next month. In addition to the presentations described in the infographics above, I’m honored to be attending the Children’s Book Award Luncheon on Saturday, November 17; my latest book, Life on Surtsey: Iceland’s Upstart Island, was an Orbis Pictus recommended title this year. I’ll be signing books at the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt booth after the luncheon, beginning at 3pm.

I’d love to see you at any or all of these events!