http://www.swimminginliterarysoup.com Serving a love of reading and life -- through children\'s books Wed, 19 Aug 2009 06:00:56 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.swimminginliterarysoup.com/about/comment-page-1/#comment-677 Happy Children’s Book Week! | GNMParents - Parenting Tips, News, Discussions, And Diatribes Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:22:37 +0000 1432149627#comment-677 [...] Andrea Ross is co-creator of the Children’s Book Podcasts Just One More Book!! and Swimming In Literary Soup. Through these podcasts and their websites, Andrea and co-creator Mark Blevis are building a lively, interactive community that links children’s book authors, illustrators, readers, librarians and publishers. Andrea lives in the heart of Canada’s capital with her husband, two daughters and a ridiculously large number of children’s books. [...] [...] Andrea Ross is co-creator of the Children’s Book Podcasts Just One More Book!! and Swimming In Literary Soup. Through these podcasts and their websites, Andrea and co-creator Mark Blevis are building a lively, interactive community that links children’s book authors, illustrators, readers, librarians and publishers. Andrea lives in the heart of Canada’s capital with her husband, two daughters and a ridiculously large number of children’s books. [...]

]]> http://www.swimminginliterarysoup.com/about/comment-page-1/#comment-608 Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast » Blog Archive » Seven Impossible Interviews Before Breakfast #56: Andrea of Just One More Book!! Mon, 12 Nov 2007 06:05:30 +0000 1432149627#comment-608 [...] Andrea has also started a new podcast, Swimming in Literary Soup (”Serving a love of Reading and Life through Children’s Books”). “It is meant to provide monthly ramblings about clumps of related books. I haven’t been so good at the monthly part, but I’m working on it,” said Andrea, who is contributing this podcast as a segment of GNMParents (Grasshopper New Media), a multi-media channel featuring blogs, podcasts and video, “aiming to provide a full and rich content experience for parents at all stages of parenthood,” as their site puts it. “Swimming in Literary Soup was named,” Andrea told us, “in an attempt to describe the way that the books we read as children simmer and stew to become an almost 3-dimensional something that fills us, surrounds us and determines the way we perceive and relate to our world. Margaret Shannon used the term ‘literary soup’ to describe the blend of literary ingredients that our reading creates and I thought, ya, that’s just how I’ve pictured it: we’re swimming in literary soup!” Here’s a portion from Andrea’s “about” page at the site: I’ll share with you my thoughts on the quality and quantity of possible ingredients for brewing up delicious, nutritious, leave-them-begging-for-second-helpings-style Literary Soup. I will suggest combinations of books which I hope will inspire, engage, educate and entertain and practices that may nurture strong reading skills and a love of reading in our young swimmers so they’ll not only stay afloat but will enjoy the experience so much that they’ll eagerly continue to add wisely to their own soup as our window of influence diminishes. [...] [...] Andrea has also started a new podcast, Swimming in Literary Soup (”Serving a love of Reading and Life through Children’s Books”). “It is meant to provide monthly ramblings about clumps of related books. I haven’t been so good at the monthly part, but I’m working on it,” said Andrea, who is contributing this podcast as a segment of GNMParents (Grasshopper New Media), a multi-media channel featuring blogs, podcasts and video, “aiming to provide a full and rich content experience for parents at all stages of parenthood,” as their site puts it. “Swimming in Literary Soup was named,” Andrea told us, “in an attempt to describe the way that the books we read as children simmer and stew to become an almost 3-dimensional something that fills us, surrounds us and determines the way we perceive and relate to our world. Margaret Shannon used the term ‘literary soup’ to describe the blend of literary ingredients that our reading creates and I thought, ya, that’s just how I’ve pictured it: we’re swimming in literary soup!” Here’s a portion from Andrea’s “about” page at the site: I’ll share with you my thoughts on the quality and quantity of possible ingredients for brewing up delicious, nutritious, leave-them-begging-for-second-helpings-style Literary Soup. I will suggest combinations of books which I hope will inspire, engage, educate and entertain and practices that may nurture strong reading skills and a love of reading in our young swimmers so they’ll not only stay afloat but will enjoy the experience so much that they’ll eagerly continue to add wisely to their own soup as our window of influence diminishes. [...]

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