windowviewblog.blogspot.com
Pendred Noyce: View from the Windowseat: Remembering Kit Ward
http://windowviewblog.blogspot.com/2012/12/remembering-kit-ward.html
Friday, December 7, 2012. I met Kit Ward when she was an acquiring editor at Little, Brown. She had just read the manuscript of my novel Tulku. And through my agent she asked me to come in and talk about it. Needless to say, I jumped at the chance. My agent called. "I'm sorry. They said no." He told me he had nowhere else to send my novel. It was over. Years later, when I had written Lost in Lexicon. Penny, I was just thinking about you! I sent her Lost in Lexicon. Won awards and succeeded in the marketp...
windowviewblog.blogspot.com
Pendred Noyce: View from the Windowseat: Visiting Pineland
http://windowviewblog.blogspot.com/2012/10/visiting-pineland.html
Monday, October 15, 2012. Over the weekend we took four of our kids and some friends to visit Pineland in New Gloucester, Maine. The Pineland story is one of renewal and vision, so I wanted the kids to learn about it. For corporate retreats, or for educational events from cheese-making to felting. We have sheep, chickens, beef cattle, prize milkers, dressage horses, and seasonal pigs. Which is stocked full of Maine products and wonderful sandwiches. Downstairs, visitors rent skis in the winter, and j...
windowviewblog.blogspot.com
Pendred Noyce: View from the Windowseat: Ten sharp facts about glass
http://windowviewblog.blogspot.com/2012/10/ten-facts-about-glass-natural-and-man.html
Wednesday, October 17, 2012. Ten sharp facts about glass. In my middle grade novel The Ice Castle. Daphne's friend Mr. Silica runs a glass factory that plays an important role in the story. As I poked around researching the book, I learned a lot of fascinating tidbits about glass. 1 The definition of glass is "an amorphous solid," which means a solid with no crystal structure, where the atoms and molecules are arranged more or less at random. The sand cast of a fulgurite several inches long. 6 The most c...
windowviewblog.blogspot.com
Pendred Noyce: View from the Windowseat: Tumblehome Talks
http://windowviewblog.blogspot.com/2013/01/tumblehome-talks.html
Tuesday, January 8, 2013. Most readers of this blog know that a year and a half ago I joined with three friends to start Tumblehome Learning. A company that seeks to inspire kids about science and engineering through adventure stories, mysteries, and associated activity kits and games. And what a ride it's been. If you want to learn more about Dr. Tan's Supergrams, please visit our Kickstarter project. Maybe you can even help us reach our fundraising goal. The Desperate Case of the Diamond Chip. I'm a do...
windowviewblog.blogspot.com
Pendred Noyce: View from the Windowseat: Fun with Malapropisms
http://windowviewblog.blogspot.com/2012/11/fun-with-malapropisms.html
Sunday, November 11, 2012. What is a malapropism? It's a form of speech error named after the comic character Mrs. Malaprop in Richard Sheridan's 18th century play The Rivals. Here she is: a talkative woman with intellectual pretensions, using words whose meanings she doesn't really know. Celia Imrie as Mrs. Malaprop. These examples illustrate several important points about malapropisms. 1) A proper malapropism is always a real word. In my novel The Ice Castle. And envoyed from which commune, shall I ask?
windowviewblog.blogspot.com
Pendred Noyce: View from the Windowseat: Six more cool facts about water ice and dry ice
http://windowviewblog.blogspot.com/2012/10/six-more-cool-facts-about-water-ice-and.html
Thursday, October 18, 2012. Six more cool facts about water ice and dry ice. For my first ten cool facts about ice, visit this post. And now, on to six more! 1 There are a couple of places in the world- Quebec City and Jukasjaarvi, Sweden among them, where you can stay in a hotel made of ice. These hotels are a little fancier than the ice castle occupied overnight by the Diva in my novel The Ice Castle. My sister-in-law has stayed in an ice hotel and slept in an ice bed. Her verdict? It was cold.". 5 Mar...
windowviewblog.blogspot.com
Pendred Noyce: View from the Windowseat: Gun control and gun rights: Can we find a middle ground?
http://windowviewblog.blogspot.com/2012/12/gun-control-and-gun-rights-can-we-find.html
Saturday, December 15, 2012. Gun control and gun rights: Can we find a middle ground? Another week, another mass shooting in America. This time it was children who were slaughtered. Another disturbed young male, suicidal, decided to go out with a bang. Some people slit their wrists or hang themselves, some get roaring drunk and drive into a tree, and some load up the guns and ammunition and drive to a crowded place to shoot strangers. In this case, children. How can we stop this? Suggests that this is so.
windowviewblog.blogspot.com
Pendred Noyce: View from the Windowseat: Dry ice and water ice - ten cool facts
http://windowviewblog.blogspot.com/2012/08/dry-ice-and-water-ice-ten-cool-facts.html
Wednesday, August 22, 2012. Dry ice and water ice - ten cool facts. In honor of the publication of The Ice Castle, an Adventure in Music,. Here are 10 random facts about ice. 2) Ice covers about 10 percent of the Earth’s land mass and about 7 percent of its oceans. 4) The reason ice looks cloudy is because of tiny air bubbles trapped in the water as it freezes. You can actually get clearer ice cubes by starting off with warm or hot water, which has less dissolved air in it than cool water coming stra...