Tidbit Week One
"I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I am blessed in that I have found what I am supposed to be doing with my life. It's wonderful to tell stories and have people listen to them."
-Kate DiCamillo
Tidbit Week Two
"You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me."
Tidbit Week Three
No Verbs!
Michel Thaler, a French writer, published a 233-page novel without using any verbs. The novel is Le Train de Nulle Part (The Nowhere Train). Thaler states that verbs are like weeds among flowers; the weeds should be removed
Tidbit Week Four
A teacher affects eternity:
he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry Adams
Tidbit Week Five
It took Noah Webster thirty-six years to write his first dictionary.
http://www.lenasledgeblog.com/2011/12/interesting-facts-about-authors-and.html
Tidbit Week Six
The man who wrote the Sherlock Holmes stories, A. Conan Doyle, was a professional ophthalmologist, an eye doctor. Because in his time specialty medical practices were hard to build and didn't pay well, he had to take up writing to make ends meet.
Tidbit Week Seven
J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the fifth book in the acclaimed series, had a first-run print of 8.5 million copies. This is approximately 80 times the average bestseller!
This beat the previous book, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, which had a first-run print of 4.8 million copies.
Tidbit Week 8
Theodor Geisel wrote under many pen names including Dr. Seuss, Theo LeSieg (Geisel spelled backwards), Rosetta Stone and Theophrastus Seuss
Tidbit Week 9
Why God Made Teachers
by Kevin William Huff
Tidbit Week 10
Tidbit Week Five
It took Noah Webster thirty-six years to write his first dictionary.
http://www.lenasledgeblog.com/2011/12/interesting-facts-about-authors-and.html
Tidbit Week Six
The man who wrote the Sherlock Holmes stories, A. Conan Doyle, was a professional ophthalmologist, an eye doctor. Because in his time specialty medical practices were hard to build and didn't pay well, he had to take up writing to make ends meet.
Tidbit Week Seven
J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the fifth book in the acclaimed series, had a first-run print of 8.5 million copies. This is approximately 80 times the average bestseller!
This beat the previous book, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, which had a first-run print of 4.8 million copies.
Tidbit Week 8
Theodor Geisel wrote under many pen names including Dr. Seuss, Theo LeSieg (Geisel spelled backwards), Rosetta Stone and Theophrastus Seuss
Tidbit Week 9
Why God Made Teachers
by Kevin William Huff
He gave use special friends
To help us understand His world
And truly comprehend
The beauty and the wonder
of everything we see,
And become a better person
With each discovery
When God created teachers,
When God created teachers,
He gave us special guide
To show us ways in which to grow
So we can all decide
How to live and how to do
How to live and how to do
What's right instead of wrong
To lead us so that we can lead
And learn how to be strong.
Why God created teachers,
Why God created teachers,
In His wisdom and His grace,
Was to help us learn to make our world
A better, wiser place.
Jamie DeWitt was 12 years old when he entered his true adventure story “Jamie's Turn” in the 1984 Raintree Publish-a-Book Contest. His story describes an accident on his family's farm in Wisconsin. What is truly remarkable is that Jamie has a learning disability that makes it difficult for him to write down what he is thinking.
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