Its a freezing start to this month but we have stacks of new books that can keep you company at home and away from the cold. But before giving you the list, I wanted to share the news that we will soon post up the revised rules for the 8th annual Red Wheelbarrow Children's Writing Contest. One of the more important changes, I can already tell you is that, this year the deadline for the submission of entries has been extended from April 1st to May 1st. Keep reading the blog for further information.
Now for those books..
New in Nonfiction
1. Byron in Love by Edna O'Brien
2.Up From History: The Life of Booker T. Washington by Robert Norrell
3. The Forever War by Dexter Filkins
4. The Dark Side by Jane Mayer
5. Angels and Ages by Adam Gopnik
6. The Widow Clicquot by Tilar J. Mazeo
7. Love's Civil War: Elizabeth Bowen and Charles Ritchie: Letters and Diaries 1941-9173 edited by Victoria Glendinning
8. Passing Strange by Martha Sandweiss
9. Great Powers: America and the World After Bush by Thomas Barnett
10. Fidel and Che: A Revolutionary Friendship by Simon Reid-Henry
New in Fiction (Hardcover and Trade Paperback)
1. The Women by T.C. Boyle
2. The Devil's Brood by Sharon Penman
3. The Associate by John Grisham
4. The Naqib's Daughter by Samia Serageldin
2. The Other Queen by Philippa Gregory
3. The Truth about Love by Josephine Hart
4. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
5. UFO in her Eyes by Xiaolu Guo
6. The Chalk Circle Man by Fred Vargas
7. The Great Lover by Jill Dawson
New in Fiction Paperback
1. The Miracle at Speedy Motors by Alexander McCall Smith
2. Death at Intervals by Jose Saramago
3. Sorrows of an Amerian by Siri Hustvedt
4. A Partisan's Daughter by Louis de Bernieres
5. The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
6. Beaufort by Ron Leshem
7.The Room of Lost Things by Stella Duffy
8. Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie
9. The Last Queen by C.W. Gortner
10. Submarine by Joe Dunthorne
11. God's Own Country by Ross Raisin
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The Annual Red Wheelbarrow Children's Writing Contest
Its that time of the year once again when children have a chance to show off their writing skills with the annual Red Wheelbarrow Children's writing contest. The deadline for this year is the 1st of April.
Here below are the newly updated rules for the contest. Please make sure that your entries correspond to the rules in order to be included in the contest.
1) The Red Wheelbarrow contest is open to all school-aged children (5-18) in Paris and its surrounding suburbs who write in English. The contest is for children enrolled in Grande section de l’école maternelle (Kindergarten) through Terminale (12th grade/class level or senior year of high school).
2) Only ONE story per person may be submitted.
3) Your story must be original and written by you, with a beginning, middle, and end.
4) NEW!!! In 2008 stories will ONLY be accepted electronically (by e-mail) to save trees. Please include the information listed on the following cover page in the BODY of your e-mail message so we can clearly identify your story. Just COPY and PASTE the lines listed and FILL IN your own personal information. Then type your class level in the SUBJECT LINE of your e-mail message. (For example, SUBJECT: Red Wheelbarrow Writing Contest Entry, 4th GRADE.) You MUST include this information.
5) ATTACH your story to the e-mail as a DOCUMENT/TEXT file with the TITLE of your story as the name of the file – DO NOT type your name anywhere on the story. We MUST receive an anonymous copy of the story itself attached to your e-mail, or it will be rejected. When we receive your entry, we will send you a return confirmation of receipt. If you do not receive this confirmation, we may not have received your story. So be sure to double-check!
6) No hand-written stories will be accepted; if you can’t type, please have someone help you.
7) While we love art, please do not illustrate your stories. This is a writing contest only. Stories with art or wild type and colors will be disqualified.
8) Stories must be TYPED 12 POINT TIMES NEW ROMAN or COURIER, and DOUBLE-SPACED. Be sure to follow the formatting guidelines in the attached WRITING SAMPLE and TYPE your story, with one-inch margins, EXACTLY like in the sample.
9) Stories should be fresh and written after 2 September 2007.
10) If you must use sensitive language, please use symbols to represent this (i.e., &%$#!); otherwise your story risks being rejected. All ages read the winning stories. Thanks for your understanding.
11) Story word length limits per grade:
K-5th Grade (GS through CM2): 750 words MAXIMUM. (If it’s longer, it will be rejected.)
Middle school-High school (collège through lycée): 1,000 words MAXIMUM. (If longer, it will be rejected.)
12) Stories MUST be received by 1 April 2008. Stories received after 1 April 2008 will be disregarded.
13) No work will be returned. Only e-mail submissions will be accepted.
14) There is no entry fee.
15) Winners are announced at the Awards Party on Saturday, May 31st, 2008, where Jack Gantos will be our Master of Ceremonies! Authors are STRONGLY encouraged to attend.
16) Questions? Please contact RWContest@scbwifrance.com
Here below are the newly updated rules for the contest. Please make sure that your entries correspond to the rules in order to be included in the contest.
1) The Red Wheelbarrow contest is open to all school-aged children (5-18) in Paris and its surrounding suburbs who write in English. The contest is for children enrolled in Grande section de l’école maternelle (Kindergarten) through Terminale (12th grade/class level or senior year of high school).
2) Only ONE story per person may be submitted.
3) Your story must be original and written by you, with a beginning, middle, and end.
4) NEW!!! In 2008 stories will ONLY be accepted electronically (by e-mail) to save trees. Please include the information listed on the following cover page in the BODY of your e-mail message so we can clearly identify your story. Just COPY and PASTE the lines listed and FILL IN your own personal information. Then type your class level in the SUBJECT LINE of your e-mail message. (For example, SUBJECT: Red Wheelbarrow Writing Contest Entry, 4th GRADE.) You MUST include this information.
5) ATTACH your story to the e-mail as a DOCUMENT/TEXT file with the TITLE of your story as the name of the file – DO NOT type your name anywhere on the story. We MUST receive an anonymous copy of the story itself attached to your e-mail, or it will be rejected. When we receive your entry, we will send you a return confirmation of receipt. If you do not receive this confirmation, we may not have received your story. So be sure to double-check!
6) No hand-written stories will be accepted; if you can’t type, please have someone help you.
7) While we love art, please do not illustrate your stories. This is a writing contest only. Stories with art or wild type and colors will be disqualified.
8) Stories must be TYPED 12 POINT TIMES NEW ROMAN or COURIER, and DOUBLE-SPACED. Be sure to follow the formatting guidelines in the attached WRITING SAMPLE and TYPE your story, with one-inch margins, EXACTLY like in the sample.
9) Stories should be fresh and written after 2 September 2007.
10) If you must use sensitive language, please use symbols to represent this (i.e., &%$#!); otherwise your story risks being rejected. All ages read the winning stories. Thanks for your understanding.
11) Story word length limits per grade:
K-5th Grade (GS through CM2): 750 words MAXIMUM. (If it’s longer, it will be rejected.)
Middle school-High school (collège through lycée): 1,000 words MAXIMUM. (If longer, it will be rejected.)
12) Stories MUST be received by 1 April 2008. Stories received after 1 April 2008 will be disregarded.
13) No work will be returned. Only e-mail submissions will be accepted.
14) There is no entry fee.
15) Winners are announced at the Awards Party on Saturday, May 31st, 2008, where Jack Gantos will be our Master of Ceremonies! Authors are STRONGLY encouraged to attend.
16) Questions? Please contact RWContest@scbwifrance.com
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