This is such a cool thing.
Some months back I had a nice email from Melissa Elliott, who’s the Senior Librarian in charge of Young Adult Services at the Burbank Public Library in southern California. (You know, as in “Beautiful Downtown Burbank.”) She was asking whether they could use a quote from one of the Young Wizards books (from So You Want to Be a Wizard, in fact) to decorate one of the walls in their new teen section.
It was absolutely charming to be asked something like this, so naturally I gave my permission, and didn’t think much more about it. But this morning, I had another email from Melissa… with pictures.
It’s funny the impact it can suddenly make on you when something like this happens. You find yourself thinking, “Wait. Somebody took something I said and painted it on a wall? And not as graffiti? What planet is this?”
…Whatever: it’s a planet I like. I very much hope I have a chance to get out to LA some time in ’12, as I’d love to head over to Burbank and see it in person.
(ETA: I didn’t even realize we had these in the CafePress shop, so if anyone wants one, feel free…)
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 Oops! Nice catch. Fixed now. Thanks, B!
The link to theseÂ
http://www.cafepress.com/youngwizards/3808673 is broken 🙂
 Oops! Nice catch. Fixed now. Thanks, B!
Huzzah! Huzzah! Congratulations, Diane! Huzzah!
Huzzah! Huzzah! Congratulations, Diane! Huzzah!
Congrats! This is too awesome. I’m checking this out the next time I’m visiting LA!
Congrats! This is too awesome. I’m checking this out the next time I’m visiting LA!
The year after I graduated from high school, one of my senior year english teachers called me and asked if they could use one of my poems to tie the next years yearbook together. Same feeling, I bet. Compilation of “I’m honored” and “I’m so proud.”. I’m tickled for you. Have been a huge fan since Door Into Fire. Thanks, and keep on keepin’ on!
The year after I graduated from high school, one of my senior year english teachers called me and asked if they could use one of my poems to tie the next years yearbook together. Same feeling, I bet. Compilation of “I’m honored” and “I’m so proud.”. I’m tickled for you. Have been a huge fan since Door Into Fire. Thanks, and keep on keepin’ on!
If you do get to Burbank, there’s a small cafe in the Burbank airport that makes incredible chocolate chip cookies. Really incredible.Â
If you do get to Burbank, there’s a small cafe in the Burbank airport that makes incredible chocolate chip cookies. Really incredible.Â
I’m please to find such and obvious truism with which the developing reader/mind can use, but as you know, in the uk and I suspect most of the emerald isle, chips and crisps are quite different items( crisps are what our across the pond cousins would call ‘chips’ and ‘chips’Â are a kind of butcher french fry or perhaps in some cases, even wedges, might one humbly suggest a translation to ‘reading one book is like having a bag of crisps and only eating one’
 It’s pretty hard to eat only one chip of either kind. (At least if they’re good.)
I’m please to find such and obvious truism with which the developing reader/mind can use, but as you know, in the uk and I suspect most of the emerald isle, chips and crisps are quite different items( crisps are what our across the pond cousins would call ‘chips’ and ‘chips’Â are a kind of butcher french fry or perhaps in some cases, even wedges, might one humbly suggest a translation to ‘reading one book is like having a bag of crisps and only eating one’
 It’s pretty hard to eat only one chip of either kind. (At least if they’re good.)
Kudos to you! As a veteran college English teacher now in his fifty-first consecutive year in the classroom who looks with dismay at how unread so many college students are, I wish to declare that we need all the potato chip eaters we can get.Â
Kudos to you! As a veteran college English teacher now in his fifty-first consecutive year in the classroom who looks with dismay at how unread so many college students are, I wish to declare that we need all the potato chip eaters we can get.Â
I’ve always loved and related to this truism.
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I’ve always loved and related to this truism.
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Is this a line from one of the characters in SYWTBAW? Â I don’t remember it! Â Oh dear, I guess that means I’ll have to read it again… (I was waiting for the, um, New Millenium ebook edition before doing that, but an older revision will have to do for now…)
Is this a line from one of the characters in SYWTBAW? Â I don’t remember it! Â Oh dear, I guess that means I’ll have to read it again… (I was waiting for the, um, New Millenium ebook edition before doing that, but an older revision will have to do for now…)
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