Monday, August 29, 2011

Literary Giants Sign iPad

The following people signed my iPad while I was at the SCBWI (Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators) Conference in L.A. last month.

I think it is the coolest iPad in the world!


Bruce Coville - Author "My Teacher Is An Alien, Aliens Ate My Homework" Series, Literary Legend

Marla Frazee - Illustrator, Author (2 Time Caldecott Honor, Golden Kite Award)

Kadir Nelson - Illustrator (2 Time Caldecott Honor, Coretta Scott King Award, Sibert Award)

Jerry Pinkney - Illustrator (5 Time Caldecott Honor, Caldecott Medal 2010 "The Lion and The Mouse")

Richard Jesse Watson - Illustrator (New York Times Bestseller List 2006 "The Night Before Christmas," Golden Kite)

Jay Asher- Author ( 2007 New York Times Best Seller "Thirteen Reasons Why")

Libba Bray - Author (New York Times Best Seller "A Great and Terrible Beauty," 2010 Michael L. Printz Award "Going Bovine")

David Small & Sara Stewart- Illustrator & Author (Caldecott Honor, 2001 Caldecott Medal "So You Want To Be President?", #1 New York Times Best Seller) (Caldecott, Michigan Author Award)

Gary Paulsen - Author (3 Time Newberry Honor, Completed 1985 Iditarod Trail Race (1,049 Mile Sled Dog Race, Alaska)

Norton Juster - Author, Academy Award 1963 - "The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics," "The Phantom Tollbooth"

Arthur K. Levine -  Editor (Harry Potter, Scholastic), Author

Diane Muldrow - Editor (Golden Books), Author

Paul O. Zelinsky - Illustrator (Caldecott Medal "Rapunzel," 3 Caldecott Honors)

David Diaz - Illustrator (Caldecott Medal "Smoky Night," 3 Pura Belpré Awards)

Mark Twain - Author … Wait, no, ... scratch that. Mark Twain didn't sign it.



Related Link: Paul O. Zelinsky thought I was so weird he posted a picture of me with my iPad on his Facebook page.



You'll have to scroll down to Aug.6. to see it.

Happy Creating,
Carolyn Dee Flores

3 comments:

  1. You're absolutely right. This is the coolest iPad in the world. Congrats!

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  2. Thank you, Nikki Loftin, fellow SCBWI member. You have a book coming out, don't you? August 21, 2012? Congratulations! Keep us posted!

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  3. I love it! What a great idea. And, yes, it definitely is the coolest iPad in the world.

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