Literary Arts Lenses by LindaJM

My TBR List 

Books I intend to read this year.

My TBR List: Books I Plan to Read Soon

Wherever I go, a book must be my companion. Though I love hard-copy books, sometimes I listen to audio books instead. I don't have a Kindle yet, but a friend recently got one and she loves it. I hope someday I can put a Kindle in my arsenal of elect...

Newbery Medal Winners & Honor Books 

...great books for children (and adults like me)

Newbery Award Winning Books

Winning the Newbery Medal is the greatest thrill and honor for an author of middle grade or young adult literature. It means that the chosen book has been read and enjoyed by experts in the field of children's literature, and that the book has lastin...

Newbery Medal Winners, 1922-1929

Early Newbery Medal winners included short story collections, non-fiction, and novels. Many are out of print, difficult to locate, and rare. Books older than 1927 may now be in the public domain. This lens has links to Amazon pages for all the Newbe...

Newbery Medal Winners, 1930-1939

During the 1930s, Newbery winners were mainly fiction, with a few fictionalized biographies and non-fiction titles. The quality of children's literature started to improve though it was nowhere near the high standards expected of writers today. Still...

Newbery Medal Winners, 1940-1949

Every book on this list is a treasure in its own right. Each is unique, lovable, different. But if you only read two of them, don't miss Johnny Tremain and The Twenty-One Balloons. They are my two favorites for quality and originality. Of course, I'm...

Newbery Medal Winners, 1950-1959

At the beginning of this decade, children's books were still fairly simplistic, but by the end, we're favored with an outstanding historical novel, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, that sets a precedent for the increased quality of children's books in th...

Newbery Medal Winners, 1960-1969

There are some excellent novels in this, plus at least one great non-fiction reference book. My picks for best children's novels from this decade are From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, I, Juan de Pareja, A Wrinkle in Time, and Isla...

Newbery Medal Winners, 1970-1979

There are some outstanding novels in this collection of Newbery books, and I get excited when I remember reading and enjoying them. Some of my favorites are Sing Down the Moon, The Westing Game, and The Periolous Gard. There are other excellent novel...

Newbery Medal Winners, 1980-1989

This was an amazing decade for Newbery Medal and Honor Books. During this period two of the winners were poetic. A non-fiction book won the medal for the first time in many years, and two others were honor books. Plus there were many excellent novels...

Newbery Medal Winners, 1990-1999

Writers are under a lot of pressure these days to produce high quality novels. The competition is enormous. Consequently the cream of the crop books on this list are excellent. My favorite novels from this list are Holes and Walk Two Moons. I'm als...

Newbery Medal Winners, 2000-2009

Amazing things are happening in the world of children's literature. Authors are striving to write outstanding novels and non-fiction for children. This can be directly attributed to award programs like the Newbery Medal. My favorite from this decade...

More Books For Children 

...mostly novels.

King of the Wind

King of the Wind, a children's novel that won the Newbery Medal in 1949, is a retelling of the classic story of the Godolphin Arabian, the renowned horse that fathered a line of outstanding race horses. Among those whose ancestry is traced back to th...

Secret of the Andes

The Secret of the Andes is a classic of children's literature. The Secret of the Andes won the Newbery Medal in 1953. Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark is a short, culturally rich novel about the life of a young boy who lived in the Andes Mount...

Reading Novels To Children - Twenty-Five Recommendations

I'd heard that some parents were reading books to their children - and not just picture books. They were reading long novels - not only children's novels but sometimes novels meant for adults as well. When I started reading to my youngest during his...

Young Adult (Teen) Novels 

...I'm reading a lot of this these days.

Crispin - The Cross Of Lead, by Avi

Crispin is a bright, healthy thirteen year old boy living in a 14th century English village during the opening pages of his book. Unfortunately, his mother just died and he is soon accused of a crime he didn't commit. To make matters worse, his house...

To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee

She said it was a love story, but most people think of it as a great classic of Southern life. She never had another book published, yet this one, written early in life, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961--the highest honor for great literatu...

Burned, by Ellen Hopkins

Burned is a young adult (teen) novel about a sixteen year old Mormon girl who questions her religion and gets into a lot of trouble. I will say up front, if you're a devoted Mormon, you probably won't like it and may think it misrepresents your relig...

Non-Fiction  

...I have a wide range of interests.

Books For Writers

What a writer needs is inspiration, and these books will give it to you. You'll find the power to go on, motivation to meet your goals, ideas for streamlining your writing process, suggestions for bringing your characters to life, exercises to improv...

Time Management For Unmanageable People

Time Management for Unmanageable People is an amazing book, and not at all like what I expected. I guess what I thought I'd be reading is a collection of stringent ideas on what I should be doing to control and manage my time. But instead I'm learnin...

Becoming A Writer, by Dorothea Brande

Dorothea Brande's classic book on the profession of writing and creativity was originally published in 1934. Brande, a creative writing teacher, learned to teach students how to see and think as a writer, and shared her insights in this book. On thi...

Raymon Grace: The Future is Yours - Do Something About It!

The Future is Yours - Do Something About It! is the title of a book by Raymon Grace, an energy dowser. He combines dowsing with years of spiritual training to clear negative energies and create positive ones, bringing health and well-being into the l...

Tribal Bigfoot

Tribal Bigfoot contains fascinating Bigfoot encounter stories written by David Paulides in his thorough investigative style. The book also features the amazing Bigfoot sketchings of forensic artist, Harvey Pratt, originally seen in Paulides' first bo...

More Non-Fiction 

Writing The Breakout Novel

Donald Maass, a top literary agent, penned this highly successful writing book that I'd recommend for anyone who wants to create a top quality novel.

Bigfoot Sasquatch Evidence

Is Bigfoot real? Dr. Grover Krantz, a professor of anthropology at Washington State University examined the evidence starting in 1963. This book was originally published in 1992 by Johnson Books, Boulder, Colorado, with the title, Big Footprints: A S...

My Writing Lenses 

...I love to share what I've learned about writing.

Top 10 Reasons to Become a Writer

These are my top ten reasons for becoming a writer. Perhaps you can identify with one or more of these reasons why writing could be a good profession for you. I will warn you in advance -- I tossed a bit of what I consider humor into this list, alon...

Tips For Writing Middle Grade Novels

If you have any writing skills at all, you are able to write a middle grade novel. It is easy to do and I'll show you how. A middle grade novel is intended to appeal to children ages 8 to 12. If you want to write a middle grade novel, the best way t...

Creating and Using Your Writer's Notebook

Writers need notebooks. That's where they record all the flash inspirations the Muse sends them. Thoughts are fleeting. If you have a good idea for a writing project, you need a place to write it down. The logical place, the place thousands of writ...

Website Content Writing Tips for Squidoo, Your Website or Blog

This lens focuses on writing web content that will entertain site visitors, do well in search engine queries, and provide helpful answers to those who seek your information. If you want your pages to be noticed and to be used as reference pages peop...

Great Writing Resources, Tips, Twitters, and Inspirations

This lens is filled with information to help writers develop their craft. Writing is a way of life that many of us cannot live without. A day without writing seems . . . imbalanced, don't you think? You can meet some great writers through Twitter a...

More About Writing 

Get Ready For NaNoWriMo

National Novel Writing Month, NaNoWriMo, encourages ordinary people to write a novel during the month of November. The novel must be at least 50,000 words in length, which is short by most novel writing standards. This feat can be accomplished by wri...

My Writing Protection System

When challenged this week to say what I'd grab first if I had to run out of the house due to a fire, I was hard pressed to decide between my external hard drive and my journals. Then I realized it was all the same issue. I want to protect the things...

NaNoWriMo Notations

This is a guide to finding news, hints, tips and suggestions for NaNoWriMo inspiration and success. NaNoWriMo = National Novel Writing Month (every November!) During NaNoWriMo thousands of writers and aspiring writers get together to write their nov...

2009 Descriptive Writing Contest

This contest for writers exercises creative imagination by asking you to write descriptions for each of the photos or paintings below. This contest is the creation of Linda Jo Martin of Perspectives on Writing and is not affiliated with Squidoo in...

Great Writing Resources, Tips, Twitters, and Inspirations

This lens is filled with information to help writers develop their craft. Writing is a way of life that many of us cannot live without. A day without writing seems . . . imbalanced, don't you think? You can meet some great writers through Twitter a...

Still more about writing 

Top 10 Reasons to Become a Writer

These are my top ten reasons for becoming a writer. Perhaps you can identify with one or more of these reasons why writing could be a good profession for you. I will warn you in advance -- I tossed a bit of what I consider humor into this list, alon...

Books For Writers

What a writer needs is inspiration, and these books will give it to you. You'll find the power to go on, motivation to meet your goals, ideas for streamlining your writing process, suggestions for bringing your characters to life, exercises to improv...

My Writing Protection System

When challenged this week to say what I'd grab first if I had to run out of the house due to a fire, I was hard pressed to decide between my external hard drive and my journals. Then I realized it was all the same issue. I want to protect the things...

Writing Topics from A to Z

Ever felt writing-obsessed? If you're a writer, most likely you'll identify with that term. We who write are usually thinking or learning about writing when we're not actually doing some writing. I like to write novels, but in my spare time I write...

When Writers Need Websites 

...here are a couple of lenses I made to help out.

Websites For Writers

This lens is a collection of links to websites owned by writers. They are organized according to the style of web design used and site elements included. This lens is a teaching tool intended for use by participants in my workshop for writers, Crea...

Creating An Impressive Writing Website

This page gives a broad overview of information you'll need to make a professional-looking writing website. I originally created this lens as preliminary information for writers participating in my workshop at the 2008 Muse Online Writers Conference...

Read the Classics! 

...if your time is limited, read the best.

Ten Must-Read Classics of Great Literature

Because I love to read good books - I want to have the honor of introducing you to ten favorite classic novels that have enchanted and entertained readers for decades. I feel one of the saddest effects of modern society has been to take young people...

Spiritual Topics 

Lao Tse

There is as much controversy about whether Lao Tse existed as there is about whether Jesus existed. Maybe more. According to tradition, Lao Tse was a great philosopher who lived about 400 BC. He is the author of the Tao Te Ching.!

Raymon Grace: The Future is Yours - Do Something About It!

The Future is Yours - Do Something About It! is the title of a book by Raymon Grace, an energy dowser. He combines dowsing with years of spiritual training to clear negative energies and create positive ones, bringing health and well-being into the l...

Mary Summer Rain

There isn't much on the web about Mary Summer Rain. She apparently loves her privacy and doesn't maintain her own website. Therefore the best way to learn about her is through reading her books. This painting of Mary Summer Rain was done by Carole B...

Books About the Sixties 

Messenger from the Summer of Love

This book inspires us to remember that love is the most important thing, and that we can live life in a way that brings joy to our souls and thereby uplift the consciousness of others whose lives we touch. Messenger from the Summer of Love is a fun...

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