I am soooooooo excited!
CITIZEN SCIENTISTS, photographed by the amazing Ellen Harasimowicz and (soon-to-be) published by Henry Holt, hits bookstores on February 12, 2012. Until then, I plan to gaze at the cover and pinch myself.
Waiting
My daughter and I found this lovely fellow in the garage this morning, as we headed out to survey ladybugs at our local Audubon sanctuary. While we traipsed through woods and meadows, sweeping for ladybugs and bumping into all manner of other cool creatures (several tiger swallowtails, a red-tailed hawk pestering a squirrel ’round a red maple tree, a wood frog, and far too many ticks), the moth slept.
We drove out to the farm for seedlings and milk, stopped for lunch, came home, cleaned up; the moth slept.
He’s out there now, sleeping, waiting on dusk I suppose.
I’m enchanted, and waiting, too.
Nonfiction Book Love
© Loree Griffin Burns
I posted over at the Nonfiction Book Blast blog today, and I hope you’ll check it out. The comments section is full up with great nonfiction reading ideas. Click on over.
(What’s up with the chives? Everything. They are digging all this rain. Can’t say the same for the Little Leaguers living in this house …)
Anastasia Suen on Read and Write Sports
Anastasia Suen is one of nine fabulous writers who will be helping me celebrate nonfiction this June at the American Library Association conference in New Orleans. You can find a whole lot of information about our Nonfiction Book Blast panel and presentation at our Nonfiction Book Blast blog, and you can learn more about Anastasia’s latest book, READ AND WRITE SPORTS, here.
Hope to see you in New Orleans!
Cool Honey Bee Video from MonarchWatch
Monarch Watch recently put out this great video of Chip Taylor, who is the Director of Monarch Watch and will be featured in my upcoming book on citizen science, capturing a honey bee swarm. Check it out:
And, while we are on the topic, now would be a good time to order tags for the 2011 monarch butterfly tagging season. You can learn more about tagging itself at the Monarch Watch Migration & Tagging page, and you can order tagging supplies at the Monarch Watch Shop.
Darcy Pattison on Writing (and Researching) Nonfiction
This week on the Nonfiction Book Blast blog, Darcy Pattison talks about her transition from writing fiction to writing nonfiction. Read what she has to say about researching for the two genres here.
And don’t miss the kickin’ book trailer she made to show of the many authors and books (including me and THE HIVE DETECTIVES) that will be featured at the Nonfiction Bookblast panel presentation this June at the American Library Association annual conference in New Orleans:
I’m looking forward to meeting you in person, Darcy!
Deborah Heiligman’s Spring Thoughts
This week on the Nonfiction Book Blast blog: Deborah Heiligman on street lamps and horse poop. (I kid you not.)
Nonfiction writers, don’t miss her wise words!
Nonfiction Book Blast
I’m excited to be part of a panel of nonfiction writers sharing books with librarians at the American Library Association annual conference in New Orleans this summer. To give everyone a taste of ourselves and our books, we’ve started blogging together over at Nonfiction Book Blast .
This week’s featured author is the weird and wonderful Kelly Milner Halls.
Last week’s featured author was the multi-talented Shirley Duke, who is hard at work on a video trailer for our panel. (More on that soon. And, yes, I’m a week late getting this post up; I’ve been doing my taxes!)
The ladies of Nonfiction Book Blast will be blogging each week on Nonfiction Monday and I’ll be linking the posts here each week. Stay tuned.
Some Buzz in the Mailbox
On Saturday, our mailman delivered a package of vibrant, buzzy Thank You cards from students at Cluny School in Rhode Island. The stupendous weather, garlic plants bursting through straw mulch in the garden, long days outdoors, the Red Sox taking a couple from the Yankees, and those sweet cards made for a happy, happy weekend. Here are just a few of the smiles sent my way …
“You have inspired me to try and get over my fear of sharks.”
“I also learned what I should do if I run into a bee hive: calm down and get some smoke.”
“”If someone came up to us asking about bees, we could give them something to listen to.”
“The Hive Detectives is a very clever name.”
“Your scarf was so beautiful.”
“Come visit us again soon!”
Thank you, Cluny kids. I hope I can visit you again soon. In the meanwhile, Happy Spring to each and every one of you!
The Bears and the Bees
© Loree Griffin Burns
The White Oak Land Conservation Society‘s Wildlife Saturdays programming this spring has been dubbed The Bears and the Bees. On March 19, Laura Hajduk, Black Bear Project Leader for the Division of Fisheries and Wildlife, talked about her work with black bears here in Massachusetts. And this week, I’ll be giving a family presentation on honeybees.
Yes, admission is free.
Yes, you can buy local Worcester county honey at the door.
Come one, come all!
Wildlife Saturdays: Honeybees
A Family Presentation by Loree Griffin Burns
Satuday, April 2, 2011 at 11 am
Holden Senior Center
1130 Main Street
Holden, MA