Excavating the secrets, scandals, and untold stories hiding below the surface of life, and giving voice to the characters who make or made those hiStories happen.
A revolution in poetry for the iPad is here! A Word's a
Bird, Spring Flies By in Rhymes, is a brand new interactive bilingual poetry app that appeals to children and
adults alike, whether French- or English-speaking. It’s a great
language-learning tool, with interactive glossaries that include
touch-activated sounds, making the rhymed metaphors accessible to even
the youngest
readers.
The app is candy for the eyes, boasting hundreds
of hand-painted watercolors by Jeanne B. de Sainte Marie that are then beautifully
animated.
I caught up with Jeanne on my way to the 42nd Annual Summer Conference of the Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators in LA. (Only two more days!) I asked her to tell us all about her process of going from a traditional art form to a state-of-the-art one. I will be sharing what I learned from her during my Sunday and Monday presentations with Julie Hedlund.
In the meantime, here's a Sneak Peek just for you, dear reader. Enjoy! And feel free to pass the juicy goodness on. We all have much to learn from Jeanne!!
