My STATE OF THE WORDLE – January 2013
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I don’t know who is the genius behind Wordle but I’m sending out a big THANK YOU!
At Wordle, it’s free to create your own word clouds – and then you can change the orientation, colour, and font. It’s a little tricky to copy the image, but there’s lots of valuable FAQs to help you along.
This Wordle is Exurbanis at the end of January 2013.
Wordies are a great way to see where the emphasis is being placed… yours does not surprise me at all. Sometimes it is fun to do a word count for key words in an article or speech.
Your blog takes me back to the times I taught Primary Junior grades and was training as a school librarian. For favourites, I loved Brian Wildsmith’s illustrations… and Sendak, and Pilcher. Katherine Paterson and Cynthis Voight were favourites with older readers.
I read your blog regularly… read about the Frost picture book… obviously the suicide interpretation has not caught on… and blogged about it last week.
I have just posted a few new links you may find amusing.
Cheers, Ellen
Illustrations can make or break a picture book, can’t they, Ellen? Artists should get better billing.
And authors that illustrate their own books! I’m so very impressed.
Aren’t they fun to do? I did one last year and spent way too long futzing with it. I love how READ is so prominent!