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The Best Children's Books of the Year

tundrabooks wrote 5 days ago: The Best Children’s Books of the Year List compiled by the Children’s Book Committee of the Ba … more →

Tags: Author, Books, Fall 2008, Honours, Illustrator, Tundra Books, Alan Grant, bank street college of education, Cam Kennedy

Guest Post: Susin Nielsen

tundrabooks wrote 1 week ago: Author and Blogger, Susin Nielsen, shares with us in this guest post on how she became an author: Ho … more →

Tags: Author, Books, Edmonton, Tundra Books, CBC, degrassi junior high, Guest Post, Louella Hawkins, Susin Nielsen

CBC Salutes our Award Nominees!

tundrabooks wrote 1 week ago: Hannah Sung of CBC Book Club presents the five nominees for the Governor General’s Award for C … more →

Tags: Author, award, Books, Honours, Illustrator, Spring 2009, Tundra Books, Bradley McGogg the Very Fine Frog, Cary Fagan

Reflections from a Word Nerd

tundrabooks wrote 4 weeks ago: Susin Nielsen, author of Word Nerd, holding up her first “published” book – writte … more →

Tags: Author, Books, Tundra Books, Bloggers, IFOA, Susin Nielsen

The 2010 OLA Forest of Reading® Nominees

tundrabooks wrote 1 month ago: Yesterday, the Ontario Library Association revealed the short-listed nominated titles for the 2010 F … more →

Tags: Author, award, Books, Tundra Books, alien invaders, Ann Love, Blue Spruce Award, Bradley McGogg the Very Fine Frog, Cary Fagan

Word Nerd by Susin Nielsen

northchicagopubliclibrary wrote 1 month ago: Word Nerd by Susin Nielsen Ambrose has many problems.  The only one likely to kill him, however, is … more →

Tags: Book Review, Juvenile, Susin Nielsen, scrabble, Allergies

There aren't enough words for things.2 comments

perversecowgirl wrote 1 month ago: I want to do a painting and I’m looking online for a reference photo of a woman.  I want her t … more →

Tags: Philosophy

CBC presents the TD Kids Bookclub

tundrabooks wrote 1 month ago: Tundra would like to thank all the elementary schools in the Greater Vancouver area, the Edmonton ar … more →

Tags: event, Toronto, Author, Illustrator, contest, Books, Tundra Books, award, Halifax

Word Nerd

phillips0609 wrote 1 month ago: Going to the movies is one of America’s greatest past times. We spend upwards of $30 to view a … more →

Tags: trope, macguffin, Hollywood, Independent Film, TVTropes.org, Chekhov's Gun

Word Nerd2 comments

phillips0609 wrote 1 month ago: Oh, how I do love a Friday. I just wish they were not as busy as today. Do you ever play Tetris with … more →

Tags: Non Sequitur, phraseology, tetris

The Mama's and the Papa's

wordnrrrd wrote 2 months ago: Our archaeologists dug up this early example of extraneous apostrophes on the first album by The Mam … more →

Tags: Apostrophe Abuse

Happy National Punctuation Day!

wordnrrrd wrote 2 months ago: Click the image to embiggen. Click here for more from Bob the Angry Flower. … more →

Tags: Apostrophe Abuse, Humor

The Root of All Words

erinstraza wrote 3 months ago: By now you must know I am a complete word nerd. (And yet, you come back!) I like to learn new words; … more →

Tags: Christianity, Life, language, Creation, The power of words!, Order From Chaos, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, pronunciation

2009 Canadian Children’s Book Centre Awards1 comment

tundrabooks wrote 3 months ago: The finalists for the 2009 Canadian Children’s Book Centre Awards has been announced. Congratulation … more →

Tags: Author, award, Books, Illustrator, Tundra Books, Canadian Children's Book Centre Awards, Cary Fagan, Death in the Air, Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction For Young

Cybertext Newsletter: Awesome Tech Writing Resource2 comments

emilie82 wrote 3 months ago: TheBossLady is so excited about this blog she just discovered: Cybertext Newsletter (at wordpress do … more →

Tags: Office Cog, Recommendations, LoTech Me/HiTech World

wrolds

wordnrrrd wrote 3 months ago: wrolds, originally uploaded by wordnrrrd. Possibly my favorite sign wreck ever. Courtesy of Michael, … more →

Tags: photos, spelling, Apostrophe Abuse

"Aspirationally Attractive"3 comments

emilie82 wrote 3 months ago: The husband got an audition call for a national commercial, where the talent was required to be … more →

Postcard Poetry #1

emilie82 wrote 3 months ago: This year I signed up to be a part of Poetry Postcards, a project sponsored by Concrete Wolf each Au … more →

Tags: just write, POSTCARD POETRY

seajo wrote 4 months ago: Thoughts from (500 Days of Summer), which Andrew and I saw last night: I might really want to move t … more →

Tags: film, i'm a girl and i like things, Let's Go to the Movies, List format


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