NEWS AND APPEARANCES
See Marilyn's new photo page! Enjoy pictures from her travels with her husband Steve Aronson and their standard poodle Oggi (o-jee), including a trip to the Mississippi River for her forthcoming book MONDAY ON THE MISSISSIPPI (Holt).
Oggi
Where to see Marilyn:
Children's Book Week Kick-Off
Saturday, May 10, 4
p.m.
Bryant Park, between
40th & 42nd Sts., 5th-6th Ave., NYC
Out Now:
CITY LULLABY (Clarion)
Is Number 9 on Time
magazine's list of the Top Ten Children's Books for 2007!
http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/top10/article/0,30583,1686204_1686244_1691829,00.html
Has gotten a rave
review in the New York Times: "There have been lots
of love songs to the city, of course, and when the subways rumble
and the taxis rattle across these pages, parents who know their
show business may find themselves unconsciously whistling
'Lullaby of Broadway.' But in this vibrant, terrific picture
book, Marilyn Singer and Carll Cneut summon a hip-hooray and
ballyhoo all their own."
Read the entire review at: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/11/books/review/Cowles-t.html?_r=1&ref=authors&oref=slogin
VENOM! (Darby Creek)
Has won an Orbis Pictus Honor Book Award!
Has been named one of the New York Public Library's One
Hundred Titles for Reading and Sharing and has received a
starred review from Booklist: "Browsers and
dedicated young naturalists alike will enthusiastically dig their
teeth into this substantial survey."
Errors in this book will be corrected in the second printing.
Here's is a link to the Errata.
LET'S BUILD A CLUBHOUSE (Clarion)
Has been selected as one of the Bank Street College Best Children's Books, 2007!
WHAT STINKS?
Plants and Animals that Smell Bad (Darby Creek)
Has been named an NSTA-CBC Outstanding Science Trade Book, 2007 and a Best Book, 2006, by Science Books & Films!
Starred review in Booklist: "Readers will initially be drawn by the illustrations and silly puns...but they'll also find a wealth of fascinating, quite complex information about biology."
MAKE ME OVER: 11 Original Stories About Transforming Ourselves
(Dutton)
Starred review in Kirkus Reviews: "Every
story is a winner. A real joy from start to finish."
A NYPL Books for the Teen Age selection, 2006
CENTRAL HEATING: Poems about Fire and Warmth (Knopf)
Has received an ALA NOTABLE, 2006!
School Library
Journal: "This title, along with Singer's Footprints on
the Roof and How to Cross a Pond, belongs on library
shelves everywhere."
(Starred Review)
FACE RELATIONS: 11 Stories about Seeing Beyond Color (Simon & Schuster)
Selected
as an IRA Notable Book for a Global Society, 2005.
Richie's Picks: "Thoroughly entertaining, and consistently
thought-provoking, FACE RELATIONS will serve superbly as
both a component within a middle school short story unit, and as
a prelude for catalyzing change for the better among
diverse middle school students."
New Awards/Nominations:
CREATURE CARNIVAL (Hyperion) has been named a Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award Honor Book, 2005. Marilyn's acceptance speech: Pennsylvania Center for the Book.
Kirkus Reviews:
"A true feast for all monster fans...This attention-getting
menagerie will have readers and listeners sitting on the
edges--and probably falling right out--of their seats..."
(Starred Review)
School Library Journal: "CREATURE CARNIVAL is worth any
admission price."
(Starred Review)
FIREFLIES AT
MIDNIGHT (Atheneum) has been selected as one of School Library
Journal's Best Books of 2003.
The Bulletin of
the Center for Children's Books: "A poet always at her best
when writing about the natural world here offers fourteen new
poems about animals and, in some way or another, about
time."
(Starred Review)
School Library
Journal: "The various rhythms and unique 'voices'
masterfully capture the nature of the beasts from the otter's
playful insouciance...to the frog's lordly calm.
(Starred Review)
Kirkus Reviews:
"Luminous poems that will stand the test of time."
(Starred Review)
What is Marilyn working on now?
1) A novel about a boy named Remy, a long-lost twin, and a planet called Replica.
2) A collection of poems about first times for young kids.
3) A book about
venomous and poisonous animals.
Family News
Here's a fond remembrance of Marilyn's dear friend Easy, who died in January, 2002. And here's Oggi (o-jee), who arrived shortly thereafter.