Posts by Kendra Ralston

This is a transcript of live IM chat with author A.M. Homes on July 6, 2004.

NYPL: Welcome to our author chat with Ann M. Martin. Ms. Martin is the author of Corner of the Universe, The Babysitters Club series, and Here Today, the story of 11-year-old Ellie who struggles to keep her family together while her mother pursues the dream of becoming a movie star. Welcome, Ann! We've got lots of questions. AUTHOR_ANN: Hi everyone! alvarez: Where do you get your ideas for your books? AUTHOR_ANN: My ideas come from all 

This is a transcript of live IM chat with Dante Tipiani, MSW from June 24, 2004.

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Welcome! Today we are chatting with Dante Tipiani, MSW, project director for The Family Caregiver Program & www.NetofCare.org (a website of info and resources for family & professional Caregivers) at Beth Israel Medical Center's Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care.

We'll be talking about coping with your new role as a caregiver, how to relax, and addressing your 

This is a transcript of live IM chat with Stephan Likosky and Alexandra Sax from June 22, 2004.

NYPL: Welcome to today's online chat exploring NYC resources for recently released inmates, their family, and friends. Our guests are Stephan Likosky, New York Public Library's Correctional Services Librarian and Alexandra Sax of the Mid-Manhattan Library Job Information Center. Let's get started...

NYPL: Stephan, can you talk a little bit about some of the services that the library can provide for ex-offenders?

alex:The New 

This is a transcript of live IM chat with Tim Wadham, Youth Services Coordinator for the Maricopa Country Library District and member of the Pura Belpré Award Committee, from June 15, 2004.

NYPL: Hi Tim, Catherine here... how are you? twadham: Hi, Catherine. I'm fine. NYPL: Welcome to our online conversation with Tim Wadham, Youth Services Coordinator for the Maricopa Country Library District and member of the Pura Belpré Award Committee. NYPL: Today we'll be talking about the best new children's books that 

This is a transcript of live IM chat with author Avi from July 30, 2003.

NYPL: Welcome to the third in our series of four on-line author chats. Today our guest is Avi, the winner of this year's Newbery Medal for the most distinguished children's book published in 2002. The book is Crispin, The Cross of Lead. It is the exciting story of a boy who lived in the Middle Ages who didn't even have a name.

NYPL: Avi, why don't you tell us the story of how you got your name?

Avi: The name was given to me by my twin sister. 

This is a transcript of live IM chat with author Jacqueline Woodson on July 23, 2003.

NYPL: Welcome to today's author chat on-line with special guest author, Jacqueline Woodson. Ms. Woodson is the winner of a Coretta Scott King Award for Miracle's Boys, the story of Tyree's attempts to keep his two brothers together as a family after their mother's death. Her books, From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun and I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This, were selected as Coretta Scott King Award Honor Books. Ms. Woodson's characters search for 

This is a transcript of live IM chat with author Gary Paulsen on July 9, 2003.

NYPL: Good afternoon and welcome to the first in a series of four on-line author chats. Today's special guest is Gary Paulsen, author of more than 180 fiction and nonfiction books. His fiction has ranged from Hatchet, a gripping story of survival in the wild, to risk-taking of different sorts. The Crossing tells of a 14 year-old Mexican boy's attempt to cross the Mexico/US border, while Nightjohn is the story of an old slave who risks punishment for teaching a 

This is a transcript of live IM chat with author Judy Blume on November 19, 2002.

NYPL: Good afternoon, Judy and welcome. We're so thrilled that you are going to answer our questions. We love reading your books and we are so happy that Fudge is back!

Judy: Hi everyone! I'm glad to be joining you today. I'll be doing my own typing so if I make mistakes you'll know I'm going really fast, okay?

Random People: How did you decide to become an 

This is a transcript of live IM chat with author Chris Crutcher from August 7, 2002.

NYPL: Kenny and his family have an eventful car trip to Alabama in "The Watsons Go To Birmingham - 1963," and Bud (don't ever call him Buddy) travels across Michigan to search for the man he believes to be his father in "Bud, Not Buddy." Christopher Paul Curtis' books dance with history, music and adventure, and have won many awards. Welcome, Christopher! Christopher Paul Curtis: Thank you very much. It's a pleasure to be 

 This is a transcript of live IM chat with author Chris Crutcher from July 24, 2002.

Welcome to the second of our Author Chats. This afternoon, our special guest is Chris Crutcher, author of Stotan!, Staying Fat For Sarah Byrnes, Ironman, Chinese Handcuffs, 

This is a transcript of live IM chat with author Jon Scieszka on April 1, 1998.

Who: Jon Scieszka, popular author. What: Questions to Jon Scieszka were submitted. Responses posted weekly. Where: NYPL's "On-Lion" for Kids. When: April 1998 Why: To celebrate National Library Week, April 13-18, 1998.

Books by Jon Scieszka

published by Viking Children's Books, a division of Penguin Putnam Inc.

The Time Warp Trio The Good, the Bad, and the Goofy, illustrated by Lane