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Visit our Substack for bonus content and more: https://designbetterpodcast.com/p/gareth-hinds Graphic novels are experiencing something of a renaissance recently. As the medium has gained popularity, notable thinkers like Sapiens author Yuval Noah Harari and the late John Lewis have brought their stories to life beautifully in graphic novel form. Gareth Hinds has played a big role in shaping the medium. His graphic novel adaptations of The Iliad, The Odyssey, Macbeth, Beowulf, and King Lear have brought new readers and new perspectives to these classic tales. Count us in that group of his readers looking at these ancient stories differently. We speak with Gareth about his creative and editorial workflow, and how he turns challenging works from Shakespeare, Homer, and others into a graphic novel. We also talk about how his background in video game design influences his work, and how he chooses stories that lend themselves well to his style of illustration. Bio Gareth Hinds is the creator of critically-acclaimed graphic novels based on literary classics, including Beowulf (which Publisher's Weekly called a “mixed-media gem”), King Lear (which Booklist named one of the top 10 graphic novels for teens), The Merchant of Venice (which Kirkus called “the standard that all others will strive to meet” for Shakespeare adaptation), The Odyssey (which garnered four starred reviews and a spot on ten “best of 2010” lists), Romeo and Juliet (which Kirkus called “spellbinding”), and Macbeth (which the New York Times called “stellar” and “a remarkably faithful rendering”). Gareth is a recipient of the Boston Public Library's “Literary Lights for Children” award. His books can be found in bookstores and English classrooms across the country, and his illustrations have appeared in such diverse venues as the Society of Illustrators, the New York Historical Society, and over a dozen published video games. *** Premium Episodes on Design Better This ad-supported episode is available to everyone. If you'd like to hear it ad-free, upgrade to our premium subscription, where you'll get an additional 2 ad-free episodes per month (4 total). Premium subscribers also get access to the documentary Design Disruptors and our growing library of books, as well as our monthly AMAs with former guests, ad-free episodes, discounts and early access to workshops, and our monthly newsletter The Brief that compiles salient insights, quotes, readings, and creative processes uncovered in the show. Upgrade to paid *** Visiting the links below is one of the best ways to support our show: Masterclass: MasterClass is the only streaming platform where you can learn and grow with over 200+ of the world's best. People like Steph Curry, Paul Krugman, Malcolm Gladwell, Dianne Von Furstenberg, Margaret Atwood, Lavar Burton and so many more inspiring thinkers share their wisdom in a format that is easy to follow and can be streamed anywhere on a smartphone, computer, smart TV, or even in audio mode. MasterClass always has great offers during the holidays, sometimes up to as much as 50% off. Head over to http://masterclass.com/designbetter for the current offer. *** If you're interested in sponsoring the show, please contact us at: sponsors@thecuriositydepartment.com If you'd like to submit a guest idea, please contact us at: contact@thecuriositydepartment.com

On this week's mini-episode, I want to answer a question sent in by a member of our community. Here's what she writes: Hi Betsy, I have classes of 10th graders who are SO divergent in skill levels. Some are reading Murakami for fun, and some are reading at a 5th grade level. I am struggling to differentiate for them and provide challenge for the strong and support for the others.” Today on the show, I'm going to offer some ideas for this listener, and I hope they can help you too, if you find yourself in the same boat. My first thought with this class is to suggest trying hard to have a range of whole class texts, book clubs, podcast clubs, choice reading units, and choice-based projects with lots of final product options. I recently finished reading Katie Novak and her team's Book, Universal Design for Learning in Language Arts, and so much of what she talks about in that book would apply here.  Universal Design for Learning - which by the way I would highly recommend exploring -  suggests that when you plan bearing the needs of all your learners in mind, you better serve every learner. By providing the options and scaffolds that will help one group of students, you'll actually be serving up a stronger learning experience.  One of my favorite quotes from the book is “UDL lives in the OR.” So let's talk about how you might apply the choices inspired by UDL to a unit with a highly varied group of readers. Let's say you're going into book clubs about identity. You want to provide options that can engage every reading level, without simplifying the content since you know your students are mature thinkers.  Maybe you also have several students who have trouble decoding print and several emerging bilinguals who recently immigrated from Latin America. So as you design your book clubs, keeping all these kids in mind, you choose two graphic novels that weave memoir together with stunning illustrations that help to tell the story, one verse novel that is both engaging and accessible, a longer historical fiction novel that you also have the audiobook for, and a contemporary award-winning YA novel that's available both in audiobook and ebook on Libby, which has an option to translate into fifteen other languages including Spanish.  You've now created a lot of different paths into texts that approach identity, providing options for readers and learners with different strengths and challenges.The audiobook version may benefit a student with a high reading level that's incredibly busy caring for his siblings, as well as a student who has trouble decoding print. The graphic and verse novels may help readers who need a ladder back to books, and also open up new genres for your advanced readers. The idea in UDL is that every student benefits from all this “or,” all these choices. Now let's say you're moving into a whole class text - The Odyssey. Again, if you consider the needs of every learner, you can gather different access points for the text. You can make several copies of Gareth Hinds' Graphic Novel version available to check out as well as look at during class time. You can help connect students to electronic versions they can translate. You can look for the best audiobook version of the best translation out there. And you can practice close reading both visual and print passages with your students in class, modeling the strategies all readers need to dig deep into the meaning behind the pages. Then there's choice reading, and you probably know what I'm going to say here. Building a thriving choice reading program is an incredible way to support your readers on every level. When you provide a huge range of options, from picture books to graphic novels to novels-in-verse to short stories to fantasy to the classics, you'll be able to meet your readers where they are and help them progress. I've got a lot of episodes out about this already, so I won't dig in too far. But you can build whole units around choice books, letting kids read what feels right to them and still creating a class curriculum built around the development of skills you want to see improve and projects that offer many choices.  OK, I'm going a bit long on what is supposed to be a mini episode! But if this is an issue that is always on your mind - as it is for so many educators - today I want to highly recommend you remember that one simple phrase, “UDL lives in the OR.” And maybe grab yourself a copy of Universal Design for Learning in Language Arts. It's a quick read, and I'm giving it all the gold stars.   Go Further:  Explore alllll the Episodes of The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast. Join our community, Creative High School English, on Facebook. Come hang out on Instagram. Enjoying the podcast? Please consider sharing it with a friend, snagging a screenshot to share on the ‘gram, or tapping those ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ to help others discover the show. Thank you!    

We've all been there. You walk into a class, unveil your lesson plan with all the joy and care of a museum curator lifting the veil on a new Van Gogh, and your students just... don't care. They've got their own problems. Their own stresses. They decided in 4th grade they didn't like reading. In 5th grade that they "weren't creative." In 7th grade that they needed to give serious attention to social media if they wanted to stay cool. And now they're sitting in your class, eyes not-so-subtly glued to the little glowing screen under their desk or the clock above your MLA poster display. So what do you do? In today's podcast, I'll share five different paths you might take to help them tap back into ELA. Choose your favorite, connect the dots on two or three, or try them all. Focus on Connection One way to chip away at apathy is to focus on connecting with students on a personal level. Maybe you come up with fun nicknames for kids you're trying to gently attract back into the ELA sphere. Maybe you make it to some sports games and get to talking with your student-athletes about the season. Maybe you work on some templates for positive notes home, and you send a slew of them every week. Maybe you do some serious student surveying about their interests, past reading lives, favorite types of projects, favorite EVERYTHING, so you can keep their personalities and histories in mind as you design curriculum. When you focus on connection, you help student start to feel more at home in class and more interested in paying attention. The relationships you have with kids can help them overcome their apathy, often in connection with some of the other strategies we're talking about today. One of the quickest, easiest ways to get started with relationship building in my experience is to use Attendance Questions. This quick five minute activity for the start of class is an automatic point of connection with every student. Whether you go with silly or serious questions, you give every student a chance to tell you something about themselves. You can grab three weeks of fun questions to get started for free right here.  Incorporate Student Interests in your Work whenever you Can I was reminded of how crucial student interests can be last year when I interviewed C.J. Reynolds about enjoyable classroom management strategies. He shared his wish that his teachers could have explained the hero's journey to him in terms of the movies he was loving as a teen, and how quickly that would have helped him understand it. C.J. tries hard to keep a handle on the T.V. shows, movies, Manga, etc. that his students love so that he can build it into class content and assignments, and ask kids about it in the in-between times. It's a strategy worth trying. Might your students be excited about writing argument practice about the One Chip Challenge? Might they enjoy analyzing the tone in Taylor Swift Songs? Might they look up in shock when you reference the crazy trend their favorite Tik-Toker just started as you move into your rhetorical analysis unit? Incorporating your students' interests anywhere and everywhere you can will help you build relationships with them (which we already talked about!) and it can also help you reel them in to be more interested in the work. A kid who dreams of being a Youtuber might be a lot more interested in creating a video documentary about a local change-maker than about writing a research paper about a historical changemaker. And you can build in a whole lot of the same skills... Ride your Choice Reading Program to Better Relationships and Motivation As an introvert, it wasn't always easy for me to chat with my students between periods. I wasn't the teacher out in the hall cracking jokes and inventing hilarious nicknames. But once I started working seriously on my choice reading program, it became a major vehicle for helping me connect with my students and motivate them more across all of our class content. I vividly remember my student Toran, in Bulgaria. He seemed to survey our class from some higher plane, smiling ironically at my attempts to engage him and generally staying out of every activity and discussion he could manage to avoid. He was smart, but he didn't really seem to care. After a few reading sessions in our choice reading unit, I realized he was reading nothing but super dense history books, many hundreds of pages long. He was incredibly interested in history, and willing to spend hours poring over it any time he was given the opportunity. Bingo. Our conversations changed entirely. When he realized how eager I was to help him find books that matched his interests, and to hear what he was learning, he warmed up to me and the class in general. I still remember his incredible slam poem about living in Bulgaria from later in the year, when he was one of our class slam winners. What a long way he came. I could tell you a lot of stories like this, but instead I'll encourage you to go and find your own! When you focus significant energy on your reading program, you'll find new ways to connect with kids, see their reading skills, motivation, and stamina improve, AND oten see their interest in your class go up. That's been my experience across classes, years, and even countries. Not sure where to start with independent reading? I boiled down all my best advice and resources into one epic toolkit for you. Grab my free choice reading toolkit here. Choose Projects with a Hook If you've been around here for long, you'll know I think projects can be a powerful motivator for any unit. I like to use the name "Showcase Projects." With a showcase project, students are going to be sharing something amazing that they create, and they're going to be working on that amazing something all through the unit. In fact, that showcase project is going to function as their motivation to learn the skills needed in the unit. To follow up on the documentary project I mentioned before, maybe you're going to host a film festival of short documentaries your students produce at the end of a unit on research and interview skills. As you teach them about hooks, B roll, researching background information on their documentary subjects, building interview questions, effective film angles, media mixing, and more, they'll have a powerful reason to pay attention. Their documentary will soon be competing in your school film festival, and more people will be watching it than just their teacher. Wrapping a poetry unit with a poetry slam, a theater unit with a play performance, a nonfiction unit with a podcast project, a novel unit with a literary food truck festival - these are all examples of connecting a project with a strong hook and an authentic audience with materials students may or may not be excited about at first. I have had consistent success using special projects as a hook to help students get interested in all different types of content, so I can honestly recommend it as a great way to fight against apathy and disconnection. Try Different Types of Texts Sometimes kids who have been turned off to ELA just need another way to engage with a text than a long novel. A novel-in-verse is a great option, and Jason Reynolds has some stellar ones, but so do a lot of other folks! Check out this fun show from last year about a novel-in-verse book club unit that kept seniors engaged all the way to the end of the year in Caitlin Lore's classroom. Book clubs in general can be a great way to reel students back in, since they provide for choice within any genre or theme focus you want to share. A memoir book club with books by people students admire could work well, or an identity book club with titles that students can relate to. Graphic novels are another amazing option. This genre has exploded in recent years, and the research tells us that graphic novels are a major hook for student readers. Swapping in Gareth Hinds' versions of classics like The Odyssey or Romeo and Juliet might help students re-engage, and you can always bring in parts of the traditional text to complement the graphic novel once students have become interested. Then there are all the options available through the media, like National Geographic's amazing series of short documentaries, podcasts, and short films. You can teach ELA skills with such a range of texts, and online multimedia is freely available, so you can always build a short and engaging unit around it to help start a new chapter with students who aren't engaging. Choose your own Adventure You know best which of these pathways might best help you help your students. Maybe it's a combination, but remember, you don't have to put it all in place at once. Try out some attendance questions this week, start working on some content based on students' interests next time you're building new writing or speaking prompts, think about your choice reading program or start previewing some graphic. novels... whatever you can fit, whenever you can fit it. And slowly but surely, I think you'll see more engagement. More students caring. More classes that gain momentum instead of feeling like a struggle. I'll be cheering for you!   Go Further:  Explore alllll the Episodes of The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast. 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In this episode of the podcast ultra runner, Gareth Hinds talks about how he fell in love with trail running and especially the community that he's found in the sport.  We also dig into mediation and mindfulness and how they work together to enhance Gareth's trail running and ultimately his life. Gareth is off to UTMB (Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc) in France to run 160km on the mountains of Chamonix.  As you can imagine, training for this big event is his main focus atm.  However he also talked about a new project he's working on called Trail Nation, which combines running with other forms of wellness inside a community.  You can check it out here - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100087326536508 We wish Gareth and all the other UTMB competitors the best of luck and a day (or 2) full of adventure and big goals ticked off :) “Running and mediation go hand in hand in making somethings in life a little bit easier.”  ~ Gareth Hinds ~ Running tips from Gareth - consistency is key, find a running group to join, have fun exploring nature.

Gareth Hinds has created appealing  graphic novel versions of many great classics of English literature, like The Odyssey, The Iliad, Beowulf, and Shakespeare's plays. Find out how to use them in class to help deepen engagement. We're talking about the visual language of graphic novels, top teaching tips for graphic novels, and how Gareth researches and creates his classic adaptations. 

Welcome back, bookworms! Allegra makes up for lost time by sharing quick thoughts on a bunch of different books she's been into lately. They include The Okay Witch by Emma Steinkellner; The Okay Witch and the Hungry Shadow by Emma Steinkellner; New Kid by Jerry Craft; Class Act by Jerry Craft; Stargazing by Jen Wang; The Odyssey adapted by Gareth Hinds; Romeo & Juliet adapted by Gareth Hinds; Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version by Philip Pullman; The Insiders by Mark Oshiro; Anger is a Gift by Mark Oshiro; The Sun is also a Star by Nicola Yoon; Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon; The League of Seven by Alan Gratz; Allies by Alan Gratz; The Simon Snow Trilogy (Carry On, Wayward Son, and Any Way the Wind Blows) by Rainbow Rowell; Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell; The Fault in Our Stars by John Green; They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera; Aristotle & Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz; and Aristotle & Dante Dive into the Waters of the World by Benjamin Alire Saenz.

A very special guest joins Teffer in the studio to talk about the Graceling graphic novel adaptation by Gareth Hinds! YA: "166. Graceling: The Graphic Novel" -ads: OAF, NBF, G&G, QT, GM, NatToo, SGF1 Support us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/yapodcast Merch! https://www.teepublic.com/stores/up-for-discusssion?ref_id=2539 To suggest a book, email theyapodcast@gmail.com or tweet at us @yapodcast Hosted by: Teffer Adjemian: @tefferbear Bailey: @thebailzasaurus Kadi Diop: @kadi_d Eunice Hong: @theeunicornreadsabook Great Bear Music! greatbearmusic.bandcamp.com/ www.andrewvannorstrand.com www.upfordnetwork.com Send us books! Upford Network ℅ Tom Zalatnai PO Box 22585 Monkland PO Montreal, Quebec H4A 3T4 Canada

Ben and Hank did a deep dive into all things Beowulf. They talked about the Seamus Heaney and Maria Dahvana Headley translations of the original text, the Santiago García and David Rubín Beowulf comic, the Gareth Hinds comic, the DC Comics Beowulf Dragon Slayer comic, the 1999 Beowulf movie starring Christopher Lambert, the 2005 Beowulf movie Beowulf & Grendel starring Gerard Butler along with the documentary Wrath of Gods about what a nightmare making that movie was, and the 2007 animated Robert Zemeckis movie written by Neil Gaiman and Roger Avery. Email: SaltCirclePodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @SaltCirclePod Hank's Twitter: @ComicPanels The Burning Barrel Discord: discord.gg/jBDGW5j Logo Artist: bellamy.world/

My guest this month is graphic novelist Gareth Hinds. He's famous for doing amazing Graphic Novel reinterpretations of classics like the Odyssey, the Iliad, Shakespeare, Poe and more... and we'll talk about how he chooses projects, and how he adapts them for modern readers and a graphic format, tips for aspiring graphic novelists, and so much more. We'll also get into his NEWEST project -- a modern classic -- GRACELING, THE GRAPHIC NOVEL, adapted from the YA fantasy by Kristin Cashore, which is on shelves now. For links to all the books we chatted about, go to the show notes: https://www.jenniferlaughran.com/literaticast

Hosts Dylan Posa and Barb Leitschuh talk about our Library Show with Mike Kletzly. Then, we have a little fun with Mike pretending he's now a huge star because of the show! Lastly, we return to 'Barb the Bookie' to recommend 'Macbeth' (the graphic novel) by Gareth Hinds.

Jeff, Nadine, Robin, Nikki, Lindy, and Elizabeth joined me on a Saturday afternoon to discuss the most recent Reading Envy Readalong - The Odyssey by Homer, most of us reading the translation by Emily Wilson, some reading the translation by Wilson as narrated by Claire Danes. We reflected on favorite moments, memorable characters, and our own experiences with this (literally) epic work. Did you readalong or have more to share? Please leave a comment!Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 185: Loyal Swineherd Subscribe to the podcast via this link: FeedburnerOr subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: SubscribeOr listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Listen via StitcherListen through Spotify Other mentions:The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Robert FaglesThe Odyssey by Homer, translated by Samuel ButlerThe Odyssey by Homer, translated by Alexander PopeThe Odyssey by Homer, graphic novel adaptation by Gareth HindsThe Penelopiad by Margaret AtwoodHouse of Names by Colm ToibinUlysses by James JoyceCirce by Madeline MillerThe Silence of the Girls by Pat BarkerA Thousand Ships by Natalie HaynesOrfeo ed Euridice by Wilhelm Gluck (opera)Hadestown (musical)As I Lay Dying by William FaulknerODY-C by Matt FractionMemorial by Alice OswaldBlack Odyssey by Marcus Gardley (play)Ransom by David MaloufRelated Episodes:  Episode 090 - Reading Envy Readalong: East of Eden with Ellie and Jeff Episode 099 - Readalong: The Secret HistoryEpisode 118 - Reading Envy Readalong: To the Bright Edge of the World Episode 137 - Reading Envy Readalong: The Golden Notebook Episode 157 - Joint Readalong of Gone with the Wind with Book CougarsBook Cougars - Joint Readalong of Sapphira and the Slave Girl Stalk us online:Jenny at GoodreadsJenny on TwitterJenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and LitsyAll readalongs are #readingenvyreadalong on all social media

Authors Tui Sutherland and Grace Lin answer the question Why do you write about dragons? and kid reviewer Kobe reviews The Odyssey by Gareth Hinds.        

While the world was focused on impeachment, it seemed like nobody was really paying attention to the story of Mina Chang, a lounge singer from Dallas who somehow wormed her way into the upper echelons of the State Department. Meanwhile, “dopamine fasting” has overtaken Silicon Valley, where–despite all evidence to the contrary–people are allegedly too happy to function. Northwestern University’s student newspaper apologized for committing acts of journalism. Finally, “chicken parm bros” have seized control of the dating app Hinge.    HEAR US ON ITUNES https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-nope/ OVERCAST https://overcast.fm/itunes1312654524/this-week-in-nope  SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/show/07WFZhd5bgY1l1BspArfRJ STITCHER https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/this-week-in-nope SOUNDCLOUD https://soundcloud.com/user-518735966/tracks POCKET CASTS https://pca.st/SrJY  RADIO PUBLIC https://radiopublic.com/this-week-in-nope-GAOx3N    In this week’s episode:  Here’s senior State Department official Mina Chang talking about her fake Time Magazine cover. Read more about Mina here.  The “dopamine fasting” story is not to be missed.    Big #YUPs to… David Byrne’s “American Utopia,” now on Broadway. Get tickets now. Gareth Hinds’s graphic novel interpretation of “The Odyssey.”

Eric and Kelly talk about YA adaptations of all stripes and share their spring YA TBRs. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, The Iliad by Gareth Hinds, and Chicken Girl by Heather Smith from Penguin Teen Canada. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter!   Show Notes: Hungry Hearts edited by Elsie Chapman and Caroline Tung Richmond It’s a Whole Spiel edited by Katherine Locke and Lauren Silverman This Time Will Be Different by Misa Sigiura The Weight Of Our Sky by Hanna Alkaf I Don’t Want To Be Crazy by Samantha Shultz Parkland by David Cullen The Shadow Queen by CJ Redwine A Long, Long Sleep by Anna Sheehan Hunted by Meagan Spooner Sherwood by Meagan Spooner The Forest Queen by Betsy Cornwell I, Claudia by Mary McCoy Cinder by Marissa Meyer Ash by Malinda Lo Blanca and Roja by Anna-Marie McLemore Forest of a Thousand Lanterns by Julie C. Dao Stepsister by Jennifer Donnelly Splintered by AG Howard His Hideous Heart edited by Dahlia Adler A Blade So Black by L.L. McKinney A Sky Without Stars by Jessica Brody and Joanne Rendell Heart of Iron by Ashley Poston  The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh Ordinary Girls by Blair Thornburgh Bookish Boyfriends: The Boy Next Door by Tiffany Schmidt With The Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo Forward Me Back to You by Mitali Perkins Finding Yvonne by Brandy Colbert All Of Us With Wings by Michelle Ruiz Keil We Are The Perfect Girl by Ariel Kaplan Somewhere Only We Know by Maurene Goo Brave Face by Shaun David Hutchinson There’s Something About Sweetie by Sandhya Menon

Telemachus, Odysseus and Penelope's whiny, grown son, with the help of Athena, is a on a mission to find information about his father. CW/TW: far too many Greek myths involve assault. Given it's fiction, and typically involves gods and/or monsters, I'm not as deferential as I would be were I referencing the real thing. Sponsor! Dropps: www.dropps.com/myths (code "myths") for 30% off your first order.  Sources: Homer's Odyssey, both the version translated by Emily Wilson, and the one adapted into a graphic novel by Gareth Hinds. Attributions and licensing information for music used in the podcast can be found here: mythsbaby.com/sources-attributions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Telemachus, Odysseus and Penelope's whiny, grown son, with the help of Athena, is a on a mission to find information about his father.CW/TW: far too many Greek myths involve assault. Given it's fiction, and typically involves gods and/or monsters, I'm not as deferential as I would be were I referencing the real thing.Sponsor! Dropps: www.dropps.com/myths (code "myths") for 30% off your first order. Sources: Homer's Odyssey, both the version translated by Emily Wilson, and the one adapted into a graphic novel by Gareth Hinds.Attributions and licensing information for music used in the podcast can be found here: mythsbaby.com/sources-attributions. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this interview I talk with writer Pamela S. Turner and illustrator Gareth Hinds about their book Samurai Rising: The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune. Pam has written historical fiction, biography and science for young readers and has won numerous awards. Gareth is the creator of the critically-acclaimed graphic novels based on literary classics like Beowulf, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, and Macbeth. Together they make for a powerhouse team in bringing to life the amazing story of legendary samurai: Minamoto Yoshitsune. In this episode Pamela, Gareth, and I discuss: The development of an author/illustrator partnership Inspiration born of personal interests Bringing the story to life on the page Knowing your audience and writing for children The importance of having a crack design team in creating quality books Plus, Pamela’s and Gareth’s #1 tip for writers.   About the Author and Illustrator Pamela S. Turner has written historical fiction, biography, and science on diverse topics. She the author of five books in the Scientists in the Field series, including The Frog Scientist (AAAS Science Writing Prize winner) and The Dolphins of Shark Bay (a Kirkus and School Library Journal Best Book of the Year). Her newest book is Samurai Rising, a biography of famed Japanese warrior Minamoto Yoshitsune. She lives in Oakland, California and is a black-belt practitioner of kendo (Japanese swordfighting). For more about Pamela, visit her website at www.pamelasturner.com Gareth Hinds is the creator of critically-acclaimed graphic novels based on literary classics, including Beowulf (which Publisher’s Weekly called a “mixed-media gem”), King Lear (which Booklist named one of the top 10 graphic novels for teens), The Merchant of Venice (which Kirkus called “the standard that all others will strive to meet” for Shakespeare adaptation), The Odyssey (which garnered four starred reviews and a spot on ten "best of 2010" lists), Romeo and Juliet (which Kirkus called "spellbinding"), and Macbeth (which the New York Times called "stellar" and "a remarkably faithful rendering"). Gareth is a recipient of the Boston Public Library’s “Literary Lights for Children” award. His books can be found in bookstores and English classrooms across the country, and his illustrations have appeared in such diverse venues as the Society of Illustrators, the New York Historical Society, and over a dozen published video games. To learn more about Gareth, visit his website, or follow him on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, or Pinterest. For more info and show notes: DIYMFA.com/097

Gareth Hinds (@GarethHinds),creator of graphic novel adaptations of literary classics, including Beowulf, The Odyssey, and Romeo and Juliet, stops by to talk about Macbeth, his newest graphic novel wihich will be released in early 2015 through Candlewick Press (@Candlewick), as well as the the difficult task of abridging literary mainstays, maintaining a painterly sensibility, and taking on The Illiad.

This is our final Denver Comic Con 2014 Special. This week, we bring to you three one-on-one interviews from the con. First up, Emily interviewed Denver Comic Con director, Christina Angel. Next, Michelle sat down with Greg Weisman of Gargoyle fame. And Giles finishes the episode with artist Gareth Hinds.

The first of three volumnes of The Graphic Canon is a collection of the world's great literature interpreted by artists and illustrators including R. Crumb, Will Eisner, Molly Crabapple, and Gareth Hinds. Volume One: From The Epic of Gilgamesh to Shakespeare to Dangerous Liaisons covers the earliest iterature through the end of the 1700s. Russ Kick has edited the bestselling anthologies You Are Being Lied To and Everyone You Know is Wrong.The New York Times has dubbed Kick "an information archaeologist" and Utne Reader named him one of its "50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World." Recorded On: Wednesday, May 30, 2012

'Fuel cells: making the transition to a low carbon economy' by Gareth Hinds.Recording Crown Copyright 2007. Reproduced by permission of the Controller of HMSO and Queen's Printer for Scotland.

Dr Gareth Hinds outlines the current status of fuel cell research at NPL. The aim of the work is the development of measurement and modelling tools for UK industry, with the focus on polymer electrolyte membrane and solid oxide fuel cells. Recording Crown Copyright 2006. Reproduced by permission of the Controller of HMSO and Queen's Printer for Scotland.