http://www.childrensliteracylab.org LECTURA LAB es-es Copyright Lectura Lab, 2010. All rights reserved http://www.childrensliteracylab.org/story.php?id=1898 English author Annabel Pitcher has presented her first two novels in Casa del Lector and explains the keys to writing, telling how her teaching experience has helped her work as an author. Wed, 12 Jun 2013 07:00:00 GMT http://www.childrensliteracylab.org/story.php?id=1897 Casa del Lector is a project initiated by Fundación Germán Sánchez Ruipérez as a centre for the promotion and support of reading and readers. The project can be located at Matadero Madrid, and is a place where research, workshops and experiments all focused on reading and readers, happen everyday. Tue, 04 Jun 2013 07:00:00 GMT http://www.childrensliteracylab.org/story.php?id=1896 Mónica Gutiérrez Serna believes ‘children can understand any artistic proposal thanks to intuition. The more varied and richer images they encounter, the more art can help them turn into critical and creative adults’. Mon, 03 Jun 2013 07:00:00 GMT http://www.childrensliteracylab.org/story.php?id=1895 Tesa González has dedicated the last two decades of her life illustrating children’s literature alongside the biggest publishing houses of the sector in Spain. She is also committed to the promotion of literature and leads workshops and conferences to this end, also participating in meetings between students and teachers. Mon, 03 Jun 2013 07:00:00 GMT http://www.childrensliteracylab.org/story.php?id=1894 British editor Nigel Newton admits how ‘fortunate’ Bloomsbury feel as Harry Potter’s publishing house, adding that they had no idea they would “contribute their part to English editing with a series that would sell over five hundred million copies”. Mon, 03 Jun 2013 07:00:00 GMT http://www.childrensliteracylab.org/story.php?id=1893 Javier Celaya is responsible for the portal Dosdoce.com and an expert in digital communication; as such, he believes everyone involved in the book chain needs to understand the internet and social networks. Mon, 03 Jun 2013 07:00:00 GMT http://www.childrensliteracylab.org/story.php?id=1892 Jaume Vallcorba, editor of Acantilado, analyses the legacy of the renaissance genius Aldo Manuzio who, according to Vallcorba, managed to create the 'perfect frameworks' for his publications, and he explains the demanding nature of publishing in the world today. Sun, 02 Jun 2013 07:00:00 GMT http://www.childrensliteracylab.org/story.php?id=1891 Two science teachers from the American city of Woodland Park in Colorado State, decided in 2007 to change the way they taught. These teachers chose to video record their lessons so their students could watch them at home. Is this an effective model? An article by Karen Springen published in School Library Jounral (SLJ) analyses its pros and cons. Fri, 31 May 2013 07:00:00 GMT http://www.childrensliteracylab.org/story.php?id=1890 With literary dialogues, Fundación GSR has sparked the formative initiative to which Casa del Lector will lend professional intermediary readers. Courses, days, seminars and meetings will be celebrated, coinciding with the seasonal cycles. Fri, 31 May 2013 07:00:00 GMT http://www.childrensliteracylab.org/story.php?id=1888 Chile’s Ministry of Education’s Bibliotecas Escolares/CRA (Centres of Learning Resources) has become a level one associate of the company Canal Lector. For Canal Lector’s efforts to promote reading amongst the youngest members of society, the support of this team of professionals is of crucial importance. Thu, 30 May 2013 07:00:00 GMT http://www.childrensliteracylab.org/story.php?id=1887 The celebrations for ‘Día del Niño’ were held at Biblioteca Vasconcelos for the first time, in the city of Mexico. This was the first step in the transformation of Vasconcelos’ modern space into a centre for citizen interactions, one of director Daniel Goldin’s new objectives. Thu, 30 May 2013 07:00:00 GMT http://www.childrensliteracylab.org/story.php?id=1886 Canal Lector announces IlustraTour will celebrate its conference ‘En otros charcos’ from the 5th to the 7th of July. The meeting is organised by the group i con i and will be held in Valladolid. Wed, 29 May 2013 07:00:00 GMT http://www.childrensliteracylab.org/story.php?id=1885 The act of reading images is an act of contemplation. If the enormous potential of the visual is studied properly, if the creator manages to offer more with less, then the image can become an exceptional ally for the expression and relation between literary and visual text. At least this is the opinion held by Ana G. Lartitegui, illustrator and researcher in the field of children’s literature who participated in Imágenes de cabecera, held at Casa del Lector at the end of March. Wed, 22 May 2013 07:00:00 GMT http://www.childrensliteracylab.org/story.php?id=1884 Illustrator Emilio Uberuaga (Madrid 1954) says his life as an illustrator has turned out much better than he had expected, after thirty years of dedication, he still loves getting up for his job every day. Wed, 22 May 2013 07:00:00 GMT http://www.childrensliteracylab.org/story.php?id=1883 Illustrator Claudia Ranucci and writer Victoria Pérez-Escrivá make books together. During the creative process Victoria usually makes the suggestions and Claudia takes on the illustration. They both agree on the importance of mutual and continual collaboration, simultaneously stressing the need for space to enable artistic license. Wed, 22 May 2013 07:00:00 GMT http://www.childrensliteracylab.org/story.php?id=1882 ‘The princess doesn’t cry, but she doesn’t laugh either’. Patricia Metola’s favourite character is an imprisoned princess. ‘I’ve always wanted to tell stories. As a child I wrote poetry and sometimes I painted. Now I draw stories and imagine tales’.This is how the artist presents herself. She visited Bologna three years ago and there, at the book fair; she remembered her childhood and decided to make a career out of illustration. Wed, 22 May 2013 07:00:00 GMT http://www.childrensliteracylab.org/story.php?id=1881 David Peña, Puño (Madrid 1978) lives in Paris and has worked as a teacher, graphics designer and has had works published in newspapers and books for both children and adults. He emphasises that one of the most important things he gets from his job as an illustrator is ‘moral satisfaction’. Wed, 22 May 2013 07:00:00 GMT http://www.childrensliteracylab.org/story.php?id=1880 ‘Illustration is a passion and a way of life, and reading an illustrated book has three levels’, affirms Javier Zabala: the first reading is the illustration; the second, the text, and the third and most important, the tension between the last two. The third only occurs in the brain of the reader and each person reads differently, ‘that is the magic of illustrated books’. Wed, 22 May 2013 07:00:00 GMT http://www.childrensliteracylab.org/story.php?id=1879 Go through life looking at things and let yourself be surprised. That simple and that complex is Javier Sáez Castán’s outlook as a writer and illustrator, illustrator and writer, as he explains some of his keys to the creative universe and the origins of his stories, which are nothing more than everyday life, because ‘fiction helps us reinvent reality’. Wed, 22 May 2013 07:00:00 GMT http://www.childrensliteracylab.org/story.php?id=1877 To be an illustrator, or many at one time, to work for different mediums, to be loyal to texts and at the same time enrich them with a new reading through images; to form and learn, to take advantage of the growing editorial availability of picture books and illustrated stories, play and work with the image and, of course, to keep drawing. These are some of the key considerations veteran illustrator Juan Ramón Alonso offers us on what it means to be an illustrator. He is a teacher at Bellas Artes, author of tens of illustrated books and covers for well-known authors, and he is still working. Tue, 21 May 2013 07:00:00 GMT