Globetrotting with Flat Stanley
HarperCollins and guided-vacation company Adventures by Disney are launching a Flat Stanley—themed writing contest, in which kids are invited to write their own adventure starring the well-traveled children’s book character, for a chance to win a trip for four. Details and contest rules are available at the contest’s Web site Here, Josh Greenhut, author of the forthcoming Flat Stanley’s Worldwide Adventures #5: The Amazing Mexican Secret, joins third-graders from the Sheridan School in Washington, D.C., to celebrate the start of the contest at the Library of Congress, earlier this week.
Natural Selections?
On Monday, Henry Holt authors Deborah Heiligman (Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith) and Jacqueline Kelly (The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate) stopped by the Bank Street School in New York City to meet with the school’s Mock Newbery and Mock Printz clubs. Seen here (l. to r.), the authors’ editor, Laura Godwin of Henry Holt, Heiligman and Kelly answered students’ questions (Darwin, who is at the center of Heiligman’s work of nonfiction, also factors into Kelly’s novel). Heiligman also wrote about the event on Twitter: “Some great questions, including “Do you get recognized on the street?”
