authorship

Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father Mo, a bookbinder, can "read" fictional characters to life when an evil ruler named Capricorn, freed from the novel "Inkheart" years earlier, tries to force Mo to release an immortal monster from the story. Presented in Spanish.

Presents an introduction to digital storytelling and discusses its use in the classroom, and explains the development of five digital stories, each using a different software package, including Riverdeep's Kid Pix, Pinnacle Studio, Microsoft PowerPoint, Adobe Premiere, and Macromedia Flash.

Offers detailed information on ninety career opportunities in the field of writing including commercial arts, book publishing, media, advertising, and public relations; and provides data on salaries and advancement possibilities, and education and training.

Explores the ways in which selected children's books define female identity, especially when a female character plays a major role; and includes discussion of children's books and female authors and illustrators who propose positive roles for women.

Presents essays by seventy-one contributors, including authors, doctors, religious leaders, historians, chefs, and others, on books that have had a profound effect on them.

Howie the wirehaired dachshund and his friend Delilah collaborate on a novel, trying to win the coveted Newbony Award.

Continuing his search for fame as a writer, Howie the wire-haired dachshund creates a story remarkably similar to the popular one he has heard about a heroic boy wizard.

Contains interviews conducted with sixteen authors between 1953 and 2006, drawn from the pages of "The Paris Review," including conversations with Graham Greene, Eudora Welty, Toni Morrison, and others.