Horton Hatches the Egg

Horton Hatches the Egg http://tinyurl.com/yze48d3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G5g1H08EhY

http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2010/03/horton-hatches-egg.html

http://kevindayhoff.tumblr.com/post/423703924/horton-hatches-the-egg

http://kbetrue.livejournal.com/301064.html



Reading Horton Hatches the Egg for Dr. Seuss day http://www.thetentacle.com/ http://tinyurl.com/yhjlut8 http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=3633

March 3, 2010 Horton Hatches the Egg Kevin E. Dayhoff

Yesterday was the 107th birthday of Theodor Geisel from Springfield, MA. I say with a smile, my little crocodile, you may know him better as an early trendsetter, as the good Dr. Seuss, you may deduce, because I meant what I said, and I said what I meant. To you I’m so faithful one-hundred percent.

Yes, boys and girls, Dr. Seuss was born on March 2, 1904. After he attended Dartmouth College and Oxford University, he began a career in advertising. He published his first children's book, “And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street,” in 1937.

However, it was his book, “The Cat in the Hat,” that really earned him a place in literary history 53 years ago. Dr. Seuss went on to publish 44 children's books, win the Pulitzer Prize in 1984, in addition to three Academy Awards, before his death in 1991.

And so it was, I say because, last Monday I celebrated his birthday early, you must know surely – with his 1940 classic “Horton Hatches the Egg.”

Please don’t complain as I attempt to explain.

The day began early for me as I found myself at William Winchester Elementary School in Westminster. I was among about a dozen local volunteers that day to help celebrate “Read Across America” day, which is celebrated every year in honor of Dr. Seuss’s birthday.

Read the entire column here: http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=3633

19400000 Horton Hatches the Egg TT 20100303 Art Library authors Dr Seuss, Art Library books, Carroll Co Brd of Ed, Carroll Co Brd of Ed Wm Winchester ES, Dayhoff Media The Tentacle

*****

Kevin Dayhoff Soundtrack: http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/ = http://www.kevindayhoff.net/ Kevin Dayhoff Art: http://kevindayhoffart.blogspot.com/ or http://kevindayhoffart.com/ = http://www.kevindayhoff.com/ Kevin Dayhoff Westminster: http://kevindayhoffwestgov-net.blogspot.com/ or http://www.westgov.net/ = www.kevindayhoff.org Twitter: https://twitter.com/kevindayhoff Twitpic: http://twitpic.com/photos/kevindayhoff Kevin Dayhoff's The New Bedford Herald: http://kbetrue.livejournal.com/ = www.newbedfordherald.net Explore Carroll: www.explorecarroll.com The Tentacle: www.thetentacle.com

Heade of the Class

I stumbled upon this post the other night while doing some research on authors and artists...

What a fun post.

J. Kingston Pierce writes in the web publication, "Limbo - The web site that's neither here or there," about book covers for crime detective novels. http://welcometolimbo.blogspot.com/

Saturday, December 29, 2007

Heade of the Class

Readers of this page probably know what a fan I am of ... vintage novels that were ... well, up-front in their commercial enticements. U.S. illustrator Robert McGinnis is a particular favorite of mine (see a gallery of his work here).

But I’ve also developed a fondness for R.A. Maguire and Walter Popp, as well as some of the artists currently working for Hard Case Crime (notably Greg Manchess, who did the front of Gil Brewer’s The Vengeful Virgin, and Glen Orbik, responsible for George Axelrod’s Blackmailer). Oh, and I can’t forget to mention Richie Fahey, who created the jacket of Megan Abbott’s The Song Is You, chosen by Rap Sheet visitors as one of the best covers of 2007.But somebody I’ve said less about is Reginald Heade, who’s been described as “probably the best British ‘girlie’ paperback cover artist of the 1950s.”

According to a quite wonderful site called Vintage Paperbacks: Good Girl Art,

"[Heade] was born in 1902 or 1903--there is no record of his birth in England. He died in 1957, leaving no children, no will and no evidence of his existence other than his signatures on those gorgeous covers he produced. And in 1954, he even stopped signing his work, when the publisher of the books he illustrated went to jail on obscenity charges. Heade produced over 300 covers, most of them impossible to find. He is not listed in any British standard artist references--no one even recalls meeting him. A true man of mystery.

He’s hardly been forgotten, though. Independent Crime’s Nathan Cain has showcased several of Heade’s pulp jackets as part of his “book porn” series. And there’s an abundance of his lurid work on the Web. There was also, apparently, a digest-size book published in 1991--Reginald Heade: England’s Greatest Artist, by Steve Chibnall--that contains “[a] biography of this prolific artist, plus a complete checklist of his work.” It’s long been out of print, but I have given serious thought to buying one of the last-remaining used copies, even if it’s at a premium.

[...]

If, when I sat down to write this post, I was intrigued by Reginald Heade, I now find myself still more curious about him and his work. In our modern age, it’s hard to imagine a publisher producing a title such as The Filly Wore a Rod, much less hiring an illustrator to give it a cover that is at once compelling and sexy as all hell. Heade remains a standout. Guess I’ll have to Steve Chibnall biography after all.

posted by J. Kingston Pierce at 4:54 PM Read the entire post here: Heade of the Class Lots of links and the images from the book covers are lots of fun.

*****

Kevin Dayhoff Soundtrack: http://www.kevindayhoff.net/ Kevin Dayhoff Art: http://www.kevindayhoffart.com/ Kevin Dayhoff Westminster: http://www.westgov.net/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/kevindayhoff Twitpic: http://twitpic.com/photos/kevindayhoff Kevin Dayhoff's The New Bedford Herald: http://kbetrue.livejournal.com/

After Words: "House of Cards" author William Cohn interviewed by Deborah Solomon

"After Words" interview by Deborah Solomon

Sunday, March 29, 2009

I watched this program on Book TV on C-Span2 and William Cohn really made a lot of sense about the behind the scenes machinations that went into our current economic mess.

I will look forward to picking up a copy of his book…

9:00 PM 59 min After Words: William Cohan, author "House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street; interviewed by Deborah Solomon, Wall Street Journal

About the Program: William Cohan details the rise and fall of Bear Stearns and focuses on the choices executives made that ultimately led to the government-forced merger with J.P. Morgan.

About the Author: William Cohan was an investment banker for 17 years. He worked at Lazard Freres, Merrill Lynch and JPMorgan Chase, before leaving Wall Street to write his first book, "The Last Tycoons." Mr. Cohan has written columns for the New York Times and The Washington Post. He regularly writes for The Daily Beast, Financial Times and Fortune magazine.

20090329 After Words House of Cards interviewed by Deborah Solomon
http://www.booktv.org/program.aspx?ProgramId=10358&SectionName=After%20Words&PlayMedia=No

Kevin Dayhoff www.kevindayhoff.net http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/

C Span2 Book TV Almost Astronauts by Tanya Lee Stone

C Span2 Book TV Almost Astronauts by Tanya Lee Stone

Watching C-Span2 Book TV: History Almost Astronauts: Thirteen Women Who Dared to Dream Author: Tanya Lee Stone This program began at 4:00 PM and last for 50 min http://www.booktv.org/schedule.aspx

“Tanya Lee Stone recounts the thirteen women who trained to become astronauts in 1960, many years before the first woman would be accepted into the NASA program. Known as the "Mercury 13" all the women passed their required tests but ultimately had their career advancement blocked due to what the author posits was gender prejudice. Ms. Stone's book is written for a young adult audience and she presents it to a class of students at Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, DC.”

About the Author Tanya Lee Stone is the author of close to ninety books for young readers, including "Up Close: Ella Fitzgerald" and "Elizabeth Leads the Way."

http://www.booktv.org/program.aspx?ProgramId=10323&SectionName=History&PlayMedia=No

20090329 C Span2 Book TV Almost Astronauts by Tanya Lee Stone

Kevin Dayhoff www.kevindayhoff.net http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/

Annual Random House Carroll Community College Book Fair article by Bob Allen

New chapter for books, community college By Bob Allen

Random House Book Fair also includes movies

Posted on http://explorecarroll.com on 3/04/09

Steven Wantz, executive director of the Carroll Community College Foundation, describes the Random House Book Fair, held on the Westminster college campus for the past 11 years, as both a fund-raising and a friend-raising event.

"Over the past 12 years, it has raised over $200,000," Wantz said of the fair, which takes place Friday, March 6 and Saturday, March 7.

Proceeds from the two-day fair provide scholarships and financial aid to the college's students. In recent years, the fair has drawn about 3,500 people to the campus.

"It's an opportunity for people who have never been on our campus -- or who don't get here very often — to come out and get a peek at an institution that our county commissioners have described as 'the gem of Carroll County,' " Wantz said.

"People can come out and see what's changed and what's new here," he added. "Elements of the book fair (see related article "Books are back in town" for full schedule) are spread throughout the campus, so they get to see what's going on around the college."

Wantz said that in the past five or six years, he and his colleagues at the foundation have gone to great lengths to make the fair a family-oriented event. The Saturday schedule, for example, features a children's activities area ($2), and free events including story times, science presentations and even free children's books, while supplies last.

The emphasis, he said, is "creating a passion for reading in young people."

"There are so many activities this year for young families that you'll need at least a couple of hours to experience the whole thing," he added.

"We're hoping that at this point of the winter, people are fed up with being stuck at home and will come spend the day with us," Wantz said.

In recent years, one of the fair's most successful draws is the Friday night movie at the college's Scott Theater. This year, the Walt Disney movie "Bolt," will be featured — twice.

"We actually sold out and had to turn people away from the movie for the past two years," Wantz recalled. "So this year, we're having two showings, one at 4 p.m. and another at 7 p.m.

"Also, 'Bolt' isn't out yet on DVD, so you can come out to the college and still see it on the big screen," he added.

Wantz said it's yet another barometer of the book fair's appeal that many authors and vendors return year after year.

One of these is John Hoffert, a Hanover, Pa., resident who has written several thrillers, including "The Zero Factor," "Aphrodite's Redemption" and "The Time of Reckoning" — part of what he calls "The Lion" Series.

Hoffert has rented a table and been selling and signing copies of his books at the fair every year for the past five, and he'll be back again this year.

"It's a really good venue, and ... they don't charge vendors an exorbitant up-front fee," said Hoffert, who hopes to finish the latest novel in the Lion Series, "Pyrrhic Victory: The Lion's Wrath," later this year. (For an excerpt, visit www.JohnHoffert.com.)

"As book fairs go, it's just the right size," he added. "I was at a really big book fair in Philadelphia not too long ago, and there were hoards of people, but most of them had come to see the big-name writers. Independents like me really did get lost in the shuffle.

"It's definitely much friendlier — and much more manageable," he said.

20090304 Random House Book Fair article by Bob Allen

Kevin Dayhoff www.kevindayhoff.net http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/

Random House Book Fair set for March 7

Random House Book Fair set for March 7

February 6, 2009

http://explorecarroll.com/news/2258/news-briefs/

Carroll Community College, 1601 Washington Road, Westminster, will host the annual Random House Book Fair, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, March 7.

The day's events will include: new book sales discounted by 20 percent, presentations by local authors, a silent auction, a children's story time and children's activity area ($2 admission fee), a family literacy resource area and free children's books, while supplies last.

There will also be presentations by three national authors: Lisa Gardner, Dan Yaccarino and Leo Bretholz.

Proceeds from the Random House Book Fair go toward student scholarships at CCC. For more details, call 410-386-8155.

20090214 SDOSM Random House Book Fair set for March 7

Kevin Dayhoff www.kevindayhoff.net http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/