The Editorial Calendar

Welcome to the Through the Looking Glass Editorial Calendar. On this page you will find a list of the topics that will be covered in the upcoming issues of the journal. Here you will also find information about the journal, notices, and book requests.

  If you have books on your lists that would suit any of the topics, features, or birthdays mentioned below please send review copies to:

Marya Jansen-Gruber

TTLG

1380 N. Mountain Ave.

Ashland, OR 975205

May 2009

Welcome to this month’s editorial calendar. If you have any books that would suit the holidays, anniversaries or birthdays listed below please contact me or send review copies (no ARCs or galleys please) to:

 

TTLG

1380 North Mountain Ave

Ashland, OR 97520

Best wishes,

 

Marya

Topics covered in the “The Bookish Calendar” for June 2009

1^st – National Hurricane Season begins

3^rd, 1808 – Jefferson Davis, president of the confederacy, is born.

5^th – World Environment Day

6^th, 1944 – Anniversary of D-Day

6^th , 1755 – Nathan Hale, a soldier of the American Revolution, was born

7^th, 1848 – The birthday of painter Paul Gauguin

8^th, 1815 - Napoleon was beaten at Waterloo by Wellington

8^th, 1867 – Frank Lloyd Wright is born

10^th, 1830 – French painter Camille Pissarro was born

11^th, 1880 – Jeanette Rankin, the first American woman to become a member of Congress, was born

11^th, 1910 – Diver and undersea explorer Jacques Cousteau is born

12^th, 1929 – Young diarist, Anne Frank, is born

14^th, 1919 – Alcock and Brown complete the first non-stop transatlantic flight

14^th, 1811 – Harriet Beecher Stowe is born

15^th – Magna Carta Day – Anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta

18^th, 1812 – The war of 1812 begins

19^th, 1903 – Baseball player, Lou Gehrig, was born

19^th - Juneteenth

21st – Father’s Day

21^st – The first day of Summer

23^rd – Midsummer Day, Midsummer’s Eve

24^th – Fairy Day

24^th, 1948 – The Berlin Airlift begins

24^th, 1314 – The Anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn

25^th, 1950 – The Korean War began

27^th, 1880 – Hellen Keller was born

27^th – The 150^th birthday of the song “Happy Birthday To You”

28^th, 1919 – The Treaty of Versailles is signed

 

Features

 

Special Feature

Fairies and Elves

 

Season Features

Summer is Coming
 

Author and Illustrator Birthdays

 

2^nd, 1929 – Norton Juster

2^nd, 1938 – Helen Oxenbury

3^rd, 1934 – Anita Lobel

5^th, 1919 – Richard Scarry

5^th, 1938 - Allan Ahlberg

6^th, 1954 – Cynthia Rylant

6^th, 1927 – Peter Spier

7^th, 1954 – Louise Erdrich

7^th, 1943 – Nikki Giovanni

8^th, 1935 – Carolyn Meyer

8^th, 1945 – Judy Sierra

10^th, 1928 – Maurice Sendak

11^th, 1945 – Robert Munsch

12^th, 1936 – Helen Lester

14^th, 1958 – James Gurney

14^th, 1945 – Bruce Degen

14^th, 1948 – Laurence Yep

15^th, 1939 – Brian Jacques

18^th, 1951 – Connie Roop

18^th, 1949 – Chris Van Allsburg

19^th, 1951 – Elvira Woodruff

21^st, 1925 – Robert Kraus

24^th, 1944 – Kathryn Lasky

25^th, 1929 – Eric Carle

26^th, 1922 - Walter Farley

26^th, 1938 – Nancy Willard

26^th, 1915 – Charlotte Zolotow

27^th, 1891 – Esther Forbes

29^th, 1919 – Julia Kepes

29^th, 1900 – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

30^th, 1940 – David McPhail

 

 

 

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