Fusenews: Embarrassing Photo Edition

Time to catch up on ye olde blog reading.  Let’s see what the other people have been talking about these days.  Ah!  Here’s a good one to start with.  Over at Disco Mermaids YA author Jay Asher of the hit novel Thirteen Reasons Why has thrown down the gauntlet in the face of his fellow teen writers.  "Go dig out your remaining senior photos. If you were just so popular in high school that you don’t have any leftovers, go scan the photo in your yearbook. And then post it on your blog! Come back to this post and leave a comment, directing us to your blog, so we can all laugh at…I mean, admire…how much you haven’t changed. (If you write for younger children, or are an illustrator, or blog in any way about books for children or teens, you should play along, too!)"  Oh, this is choice.  You guys have to help Jay out on this one, if only to look at his own senior photos.  I don’t have a scanner so you’ll have to forgive the fuzziness.  So, that lady on the right?  Yeah.  That’s me that is.  I was that.  Lord love a duck, I was not cool but I sure did have a lot of hair.  Particularly between the old eyebrows.

While searching the web for reviews of Wonder Bear, I stumbled across a blog called Every Day Is Like Wednesday (a reference to the fact that comic books are shipped out to comic book stores on that day of the week).  Though mentions of children’s literature are relatively few and far between, this is a lovely example of a blog with a good "voice".  At the moment the creator has been writing comics of various superheroes endorsing one presidential candidate or another.  If you feel like indulging in a little comic book humor in your daily blog reading, this one’s got my vote.

This will come as primarily interesting to New Yorkers, but anyone who has ever visited the city may enjoy it as well.  Now author/illustrator Christoph Niemann has written two picture books and his most recent one The Pet Dragon is coming out this fall (if I’m not too much mistaken).  And a couple months ago he created a magnificent piece in The New York Times on how obsessed his kids are with the New York subway system called The Boys and the Subway.  Last week he followed that piece up with another called New York Cheat Sheets.  It’s a series of drawn Post-its showing the tips and tricks of the town.  The image included here is something I can personally attest to.  For some reason New York is full of mirrors and shiny surfaces, ideal for primping and perfecting.  That Niemann man knows his stuff.  Thanks to Swiss Miss for the link.

Daily Image:

What is the human obsession with the tiny?  I know not.  In any case, if you’ve ever had a hankering for finding a doll house you might actually want to live in, seek no further than these doll houses and living rooms as created by one Kathy Osborne.

Thanks to Children’s Illustration for the link!

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