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Origami n' Stuff 4 Kids
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Sunday, February 19, 2012
SCBWI-Hawaii’s Annual Conference, February 25, 2012
SCBWI-Hawaii's Annual Conference will be held at the Ala Moana Hotel from 9:00 a.m. to 4 p.m. The cost is $95 for SCBWI members and $125 for nonmembers. For details and registration see www.scbwihawaii.org. or download conference and registration information at http/scbwihawaii.org/attachments/info_and_registraton.pdf.
Featured speakers include Kendra Levin, editor at Viking Children’s books, and Peter Brown, award-winning author/illustrator of The Curious Garden and Children Make Terrible Pets.
 Kendra Levin |  Peter Brown |
Kendra will do a general session on Viking and the kinds of books they publish, and what she specifically is looking for, and she’ll also talk about current trends in children’s publishing. She’ll also lead a breakout session called “Meet Your Character: How Motivation Drives Story.”
Peter will do a general session on leading a creative life and a breakout session called “Illustration at Work.” Kendra and Peter will also lead a First Pages/First Look general session. In addition, local author Sue Cowing and local author/illustrator Tammy Yee will lead a general session called “Book Promotion—a Do-It-Yourself Project.”
Thursday, December 29, 2011
Two Hawaiian Monk Seals Murdered, a Third Found Dead...
"The elders are saying that these monk seals are not Hawaiian. Our young people are calling these seals an invasive species brought in by government. The seals are now the easy targets of blame for the many ills of our depleting fisheries. We need to stand up for the truth: These seals are not only Hawaiian, but have been here longer than the Hawaiians."
In addition, Republican Representative Cynthia Thielan has taken a stand against protecting the species: http://www.civilbeat.com/articles/2011/12/05/14137-thielen-takes-stand-against-added-protections-for-hawaii-monk-seal/
Auwe, Thielan. I thought you were cool. No more. Once these creatures are gone, they are gone.
Monday, November 14, 2011
Holiday Book Signings at Barnes & Noble!
Drop by to say hello, or have your books autographed in time for the holidays.
Saturday, November 19, 3-4pm
Barnes & Noble, Kahala Mall
Saturday, November 26, 11am-noon
Barnes & Noble, Kahala Mall
Saturday, November 19, 3-4pm
Barnes & Noble, Kahala Mall
Book Signing, Illustrating and Original Artwork in support of ASSETS School Book Fair
Lynne Wikoff
Tammy Yee
Saturday, November 26, 11am-noon
Barnes & Noble, Kahala Mall
Meet and Greet Mutual Publishing's Authors and Illustrators:
Michael Koyama
Deb McGuire
Matthew Kaopio
Marsha Gibson
Lynne Wikoff
Tammy Yee
Friday, October 21, 2011
Not to be Missed: Fiction Workshop with Donna Jo Napoli
I took a workshop from Donna Jo, and she's stellar:
Fiction Workshop with Donna Jo Napoli
Friday and Saturday, December 9 and 10, 2011
Donna Jo Napoli, multi-award-winning author of dozens of middle grade and YA novels and picture books (and a university professor of linguistics) will be back by popular demand for another great fiction-writing workshop. (See her website at www.donnajonapoli.com) The workshop will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, December 9 and 10; Friday’s location is Paki Hale (adjacent to Kapiolani Park) and Saturday’s location is the Aina Haina Library meeting room. Cost is $200 for members, $225 to nonmembers. Enrollment is limited, and the workshop is almost full. Preference to members. To sign up and/or for more information, please email Lynne at lwikoff@lava.net.
THE WORLD OF CHILDREN'S LITERATURE WITH AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR AND YOSEMITE NATURALIST MICHAEL ELSOHN ROSS
Passing it on...
THE WORLD OF CHILDREN'S LITERATURE WITH AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR AND YOSEMITE NATURALIST MICHAEL ELSOHN ROSS
UHM Outreach College Noncredit Workshop
Writing Your Children's Book
with Michael Elsohn Ross
Tuesday and Thursday, Nov 3 & Nov 8 • 6:00-9:00pm • UHM George Hall 214 • $65 • To register: 956-8400 or www.outreach.hawaii.edu/noncredit
"What impresses me years later is that I wrote a kids' book without knowing much about children's literature. Ignorance was bliss, because I wrote and illustrated free of the constraints of trying to fit a mold. I created with kids in mind..."-- Michael Elsohn Ross
Writing books for children is very different from other genres since the audiences are kids and the publishers, buyers, and librarians are adults. Michael Elsohn Ross, naturalist and award-winning author of over 40 books for children, offers this entertaining and informative class for anyone with a love of children's literature, and an interest in writing or illustrating books.
In his 2-day workshop, Ross explores the wide variety of styles and formats of current books, and shares some useful writing and publishing tools gleaned from his extensive experience in the field. Participants will have a chance to write and edit short pieces, as well as gain an overview of the publishing process.
Michael Elsohn Ross lives on a bluff overlooking the Merced River, right next to Yosemite National Park. Since 1975 he has worked as a naturalist in Yosemite where he continues to lead field classes for the Yosemite Association. He is the educational director of Yosemite Guides and teaches writing workshops at Cal State Fresno and other US Mainland colleges.
Ross' nature and science books include Sandbox Scientists, a guide to setting up science activities for 2-8-year-olds; Cycles, a series of books introducing young people to various cycles in nature and the environment; You're the Scientist books, providing a creative outlet for young experimenters; and The Happy Camper Handbook, a guide to help kids prepare for camping in the great outdoors. Picture books include Snug as a Bug, Baby Bear Isn't Hungry, and What's the Matter in Mr. Whisker's Room? Turning from science to art, Ross wrote Nature Art with Chiura Obata, a biography of a Japanese-American artist who was interned during World War II and
a related title, Salvador Dali and the Surrealists: Their Lives and Ideals. Ross also added to the "World's Children" book series with Children of Northern Ireland and Children of Puerto Rico.
Visit the author's website at: http://www.bugauthor.com/
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Debate Debacle
Mitt Romney wants to restore foreign policy based on American interests (hmmm...didn't we support a lot of tyrants based on our own interests...and are now paying the price?) and thinks corporations are people (who have the right to bear arms!).
Despite the Wall Street fiasco, Ron Paul believes in more deregulation, because corporations can police themselves. He used the Industrial Revolution as an example (yeah, we're all beneficiaries of the IR, but I seem to recall that before evil labor laws, there was child labor. Not so good at self-regulating back then, were we?).
Michele Bachmann would eliminate corporate taxes and believes we should raise revenues not by taxing the rich, but by "broadening the base" (that's YOU, seniors, single moms and impoverished families).
Sarah Palin skirts the issue of declaring her candidacy by saying she can do more good if she's not limited by a title--aka, the Presidency (You betcha! Just like all the good you've done for Alaska after bailing on them!).
And Rick Perry, dear Rick Perry, resorts to throwing incoherent sucker punches at Romney.
What a line up.
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Keeping it Simple: Fareed Zakaria Explains the Debt Ceiling
Fareed's Take: The damage is already done!
"The vote to have higher expenditures than tax revenues is - in effect - a vote to borrow money to cover the difference. And in the United States, Congress - including Republicans - voted for a budget in which expenditures exceeded tax revenues.
The logical consequence of that budget - again, passed by Republicans and Democrats, is that the government has to make up the difference by borrowing. To come at it now after the budget has been passed is like getting your Visa bill and calling up the company to say, 'Actually we don't want to buy all that stuff we bought.'
That's not how it works. First you pay the bill, then you can change your spending habits."
Read full article on CNN
Thursday, July 21, 2011
What Next, Slavery?
I like listening to both sides of the political spectrum. I'll even pop an antacid, swallow my gastric reflux, and stomach Ann Coulter because the lady sometimes makes a reasonable, albeit shrill, argument for conservative policy (until the voices in her head take over and she succumbs to her paranoid delusions). Michelle Malkin, on the other hand, drives me crazy. I don't know how that woman looks at herself in the mirror each morning, with all the hate oozing from her pores.
But what I don't understand is how anyone can put on blinders and rationalize what Tea Party Nation President Judson Phillips had to say about the Constitution in regard to voting rights:
Compounded with Rush Limbaugh's stance that we should question voting rights for those "who can’t even feed and clothe themselves," and I'm about ready to hurl.
Cutting services to the poor while extending tax cuts to the rich, granting corporations the constitutional right to free speech, and now, even discussing restricting voting from those who can't feed themselves and who don't own property—seems to be an assault on everything noble and decent in America.
©2011 Tammy Yee
But what I don't understand is how anyone can put on blinders and rationalize what Tea Party Nation President Judson Phillips had to say about the Constitution in regard to voting rights:
"The Founding Fathers originally said, they put certain restrictions on who gets the right to vote. It wasn't you were just a citizen and you got to vote. Some of the restrictions, you know, you obviously would not think about today. But one of those was you had to be a property owner. And that makes a lot of sense, because if you're a property owner you actually have a vested stake in the community. If you're not a property owner, you know, I'm sorry but property owners have a little bit more of a vested interest in the community than non-property owners."Defenders argue that Phillips made it clear that restricting voting rights to land owners is something "you obviously would not think about today"—but you can't deny he's waxing nostalgic, not when he says in his own words, that the restriction "makes a lot of sense."
Compounded with Rush Limbaugh's stance that we should question voting rights for those "who can’t even feed and clothe themselves," and I'm about ready to hurl.
Cutting services to the poor while extending tax cuts to the rich, granting corporations the constitutional right to free speech, and now, even discussing restricting voting from those who can't feed themselves and who don't own property—seems to be an assault on everything noble and decent in America.
©2011 Tammy Yee
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Pregnant Dolls and Breastfeeding Toys
Eager to satisfy the monster retailer, Mattel re-packaged the baby momma. This time around, Midge wasn't pregnant. And to make sure things would stay that way, cardboard cutout Alan stood guard beside her.
According to Mattel's Consumer Relations Answer Center, Midge came complete with
"wedding ring, earrings and shoes plus baby plus accessories."Now THAT's a Happy Family! With Midge no longer pregnant, she could have her shoes back! Mattel's official description also added, "Doll cannot stand alone." Apparently.
A decade later, we're still hung up—how else to explain the extremes that assail us? On one hand, out-of-touch idiots at Abercrombie & Fitch believe padded bikinis and thongs are the next best thing for little girls; on the other hand, reality TV families like TLC's Duggars defy common sense with their compulsive and irresponsible display of fecundity—if kids were cats, they'd be labeled animal hoarders. It comes as no surprise then, that the Bebé Glotón (literally, "gluttonous baby") breastfeeding doll has come under fire. In America, it's okay to have 19 kids, but God forbid if you breastfeed your baby at the mall.
©2011 Tammy Yee
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
New ways to embarrass your child...ideas for fathers everywhere
This guy wins my vote for best dad, ever. From the Telegraph:
"It can be embarrassing when your parents wave you off to school, but you have to feel especially sorry for 15-year-old Rain Price, whose father insists on dressing in a different comical outfit every day. Dale Price has adopted 170 wacky costumes to see off the school bus as it passes the family home in American Fork, Utah."
View full slideshow here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/howaboutthat/8559331/Father-waves-at-his-sons-school-bus-wearing-a-different-costume-every-day.html
It transforms, but can it save the world from Megatron?
Mind-blowing transforming, space-saving furniture from Italian designers--though I do wonder how durable they are. I'm just disappointed the Swiss Army didn't think of it first:
Monday, May 2, 2011
NPR: "Is Rejoicing (bin Laden's death) Morally Justified?" What the hoo ha?
CNN correspondent Ali Velshi got jostled by the fist-pumping, flag-waving crowd at Ground Zero and there I was, barely able to muster a "what does it mean?" à la Double Rainbow Guy. What good is astonishment without celebration? What good is a double rainbow without the interpretation of a stoned, rotund hippie? I felt cheated.
Revelry was rampant. In front of the White House, at baseball games and through the streets of Waikiki. Meanwhile, I channel surfed. I wanted a glimpse of folks like me—not unpatriotic, but in quiet reflection. So when Velshi reported there were some who made the Ground Zero pilgrimage with photos in hand to kneel and pray in solitude, then didn't produce, I was cheated once again.
Or maybe, like me, they wanted to be left alone to sort through the horrific memory of 9-11 and come to some sort of acceptance that a body slipping quietly into the Arabian Sea was as much closure as could be hoped for—justice without joy.
So when NPR asked, "Is It Wrong to Celebrate Bin Laden's Death?" I was more than peeved. The last thing I need right now is moral preaching from the Left, the Right, or anyone in between about how I should deal with bin Laden's death. According to University at Buffalo minister Mike Hayes,
Revelry was rampant. In front of the White House, at baseball games and through the streets of Waikiki. Meanwhile, I channel surfed. I wanted a glimpse of folks like me—not unpatriotic, but in quiet reflection. So when Velshi reported there were some who made the Ground Zero pilgrimage with photos in hand to kneel and pray in solitude, then didn't produce, I was cheated once again.
Or maybe, like me, they wanted to be left alone to sort through the horrific memory of 9-11 and come to some sort of acceptance that a body slipping quietly into the Arabian Sea was as much closure as could be hoped for—justice without joy.
So when NPR asked, "Is It Wrong to Celebrate Bin Laden's Death?" I was more than peeved. The last thing I need right now is moral preaching from the Left, the Right, or anyone in between about how I should deal with bin Laden's death. According to University at Buffalo minister Mike Hayes,
"We are called to forgiveness. And that is the only way that we can be truly free. Holding onto our hatred keeps us in slavery to bin Laden's madness and gives the terrorists continued power over us."I am sorry, Mr. Hayes. I respect your path toward acceptance, but I am not consumed by hatred because I choose not to forgive bin Laden. Some acts are unforgivable.
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