Test Your Vocabulary to Support the World Food Program

For vocabulary fans everywhere, if you're looking for a way to do your tiny bit for those with less than yourself, you might want to check out freerice.com, a chance to provide food for the starving and a bit of entertainment at the same time.

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Congratulations to Montreal, Quebec who had the winning bid to host The World Science Fiction Convention in 2009. Guests at Anticipation 2009 are scheduled to include Neil Gaiman, and canadians Elisabeth Vonarburg and Julie Czerneda.

Kimbooktu points to this YouTube video of what to do with a naked wall and an old, unwanted book.

Personally, I don't own any old, unwanted books (except for maybe that box of university textbooks that I just know is going to be useful one day).

Amber Thody, who used to manage McNally Robinson for Kids in Saskatoon, points us to a great book blog out of New Zealand:

I was very happy to see the familiar logo as I called up Beattie's blog this morning. it's the source for everything one ought to know about the English language book industry down here; everybody in the industry reads it religiously; so now Australia and New Zealand will know about the wonders of McNally Robinson Booksellers!

Graham Beattie is a consultant within the New Zealand publishing industry, a book reviewer, book blogger and a former Managing Director/Publisher of Penguin Books NZ Ltd., and Scholastic NZ Ltd. Former Books & Poetry Editor, Citymix Magazine.

You can read his post about McNally Robinson here and his main blog page here.

Thanks Amber!