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photo by Dolmang A Toronto based group plans to lease the bottom seven floors of a brand new office building in Times Square. They want to build a public aquarium, as well as a museum about pirates. The lease would be for 25 years, and the aquarium could open as soon as 2011. There has not been a public aquarium in Manhattan since 1941. I wonder if it will be as good as the Churaumi Aquarium (Okinawa, Japan), shown in the photo. That’s a whale shark, if you’re wondering. Read the SEVENTH page of The Lake Bound Adventures of Chinku and Jabari, and keep coming back for more, every other Monday a new page will be posted for your viewing pleasure. Okay, its the end of a very quiet week where I could have gotten a lot of writing done but instead I hid behind excuses of “research” and “backstory” and “Winter Olympics” instead of tackling head on the Annie’s Fish rewrite that must be conquered. I went through stages of “I’m not good enough,” “the story’s not good enough,” “why did I ever think I could write a book, everyone in the WORLD wants to write a book, the competition is too high,” and other familiar feelings of inadequacy and self loathing. This went to the point of keeping me, and Lake Tanganyika cichlids in the news! A recent study performed by Thomas Stewart and Craig Albertson discusses the strange skeletal anatomy of the Perissodini cichlids, who feed themselves by biting the scales off other fish. These fish often have a mouth that is shifted to one side to make it easier to remove scales from their prey. The study suggests that this evolution comes from how these fish hunt and where they live, and not every Perissodini is born with a mouth off to one side. The scientists wonder whether the shape of the fish’s face changes over its lifetime, Wildlife Forever is a national conservation organization with grassroots projects in nearly every U.S. state. Its mission is “to conserve America’s wildlife heritage through conservation education, preservation of habitat and management of fish and wildlife,” and it is celebrating the 12th year of its conversation education program The State-Fish Art Project. The website offers a free lesson plan called Fish ON! for students in grades 4-12. You just have to email them to get your copy. Wildlife Forever recommends studying the lesson plan, then creating a piece of art for their national contest. The deadline is March 31st, so get As the author of this blog and the book Annie’s Fish, I am in preparation mode for the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, an annual event that could be described as the European Mecca of children’s book publishing. New York has the Society for Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) Conference, as does Los Angeles, but if you want a big English speaking event like this in Europe, where I live, Bologna, Italy is the place. It’s an hour and a half long flight from Paris, and there will be a day long conference put on by SCBWI before the fair starts. An ecosystem is an interacting environment with a working balance of predators and prey. That means every animal in the ecosystem plays a role in the survival of the animals around them, even if they are the predators. But if something new and foreign invades an ecosystem, it can upset the balance and cause a lot of problems. This is happening right now in the United States, and the government is fighting back. On February 8, 2010, Federal officials announced a plan to stop the Asian carp invasion. Scientists are afraid that if these fish get into the U.S. Great Lakes, they Read the SIXTH page of The Lake Bound Adventures of Chinku and Jabari, and keep coming back for more, every Monday morning a new page will be posted for your viewing pleasure. |
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