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On paper, plastic, or cloth; decorated with rubber stamps, stencils, and markers: get your work into print! Every lively page, bursting with boxed tips, full-color photos, and drawings, turns the publishing process into a fun adventure. These unique projects display dozens of creative ways to showcase words, from books to beyond. Want to write about someone you love? Put your thoughts on a memory frame around a photograph. Have a jewel of a poem? Copy it onto a sheet of shrinkable plastic, cut the words into cool shapes, stick them in the oven, and voila! They've become charms to hang on a bracelet. Light up language with a literary luminary, record a story on tape, fold an accordion book, and lots more. Plus: amazing writing secrets revealed; advice on making design decisions; inside info on famous authors; comments from real kids about how they get ideas; and more.
Reviews (4)
School Library Journal Review
Gr 4-6-This attractive book includes many projects that showcase poetry and writing. The emphasis is not so much on the written word, but rather on crafts to encourage kids to turn their writing into gifts or visually appealing projects. Layout and design decisions, including colors, space, paper, binding, and handwriting styles, are covered. Projects include a memory frame, a calendar of words, accordion books, a literary luminary, a book on tape with sound effects, magnetic words, a mood mobile, place mats and dinnerware, scrolls, a poetry lightbox, newspapers, plays, and more. Full-color photos of kids and their finished projects appear on every spread. Boxes also highlight well-known writers, such as Jane Yolen, and interesting facts about their success and publishing secrets. This book is not for beginners as the ideas and instructions assume some knowledge and the directions are not completely clear. While it may not encourage quality writing, it does encourage children to showcase their work, and it's full of ideas not easily found elsewhere.-Susannah Price, Boise Public Library, ID (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publisher's Weekly Review
In Print! by Joe Rhatigan explores a plethora of projects for kids to turn their writing into something concrete. Why be limited to plain sheets of paper when kids could create a calendar of seasonal poetry, or a "memory" picture frame about a loved one, or a haiku T-shirt? Includes tips on the writing process and on submitting works for publication, with a list of magazines that accept the work of young writers. (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Horn Book Review
A chatty narration cheerleads young writers into getting started, then offers design tips, provides a host of art projects that showcase poems and stories, and gives advice for getting published in children's magazines. The book design, cluttered with drawings and retouched photos in collage style and an overlarge amount of text, is rather tight, but the projects are creative and varied. Glos., ind. From HORN BOOK Fall 2003, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Booklist Review
Gr. 3-7. Kids who love words and want to do something with them will enjoy this handsomely designed cornucopia of ideas. Among the 40 projects are poem bracelets, books on tape, family newsletters, and books to house a young writer's words. This is more than just a craft book. Introductory and closing chapters help children kick off their writing careers by advising them on where to get ideas, design strategies, and how and where to publish. Even those not initially attracted to the subject may be enticed to the projects by the look of this book. Fresh, white pages feature cutout photographs, brightly colored boxes of information well integrated with the easy-to-read text, and tempting pictures of the projects. --Ilene Cooper Copyright 2003 Booklist
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. 6 |
| Amazing Writing Secrets Revealed Here | p. 8 |
| Design Decisions | p. 12 |
| The Projects | p. 21 |
| Getting Published | p. 106 |
| Cool Places to Send Your Writing | p. 116 |
| Appendixes | p. 122 |
| Glossary | p. 125 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 126 |
| Index | p. 128 |
