Recently AbeBooks has been sponsoring a series of book making events for children around Victoria and now Vancouver. A webpage for these events has now been created and you can see some of the books the children have made. Check out the Story Laboratory
My personal favourite is “Sheep’s on a Plane”
The Times of London carried an interview with Douglas Copeland - creator of Generation X.
“WHEN I GOOGLED DOUGLAS Coupland before meeting him, the first result that came up – out of 1,230,000 – was a quote by Coupland about journalists Googling their interview subjects before meeting them.
‘PreGoogle, a writer preparing for an interview had to do genuine research involving paper, libraries, legwork and some dimension of vim,’ went the quote. ‘These days, one merely Googles and goes to the 137th page of results to give the illusion of in-depth investigation.’”