Fusenews: Mmm. Crack Me Open a Delicious Can of Library.
There’s a great play-by-play of a teacher reading Blueberries for Sal to a class of well-informed third graders over at the mesmerizingly named Derfwad Manor. I was particularly fond of the moment when a child commented, "I think Sal is a goner." The kid has reason to be wary. Bears are, after all, godless killing machines. J.L. Bell takes it one step farther to discuss bear picture books. Thanks to Oz and Ends and Bartography for the link.
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Oh goody goody goody goody! I know that there’s always a danger in as amiable a sphere as the Kidlitosphere that everything will turn into a doggone lovefest since children’s literary bloggers are almost always nice. And once a blogger compliments another’s site and that compliment is given back in turn the whole procedure begins to resemble nothing so much as those adorable Goofy Gophers from the old Looney Tunes shorts. That said, Collecting Children’s Books is a blog that I watch and read with great anticipation at all times. It appears that its owner does the same in the case of my own blog. So the other day I was discussing endpapers and I said in a pseudo-practiced-offhand manner "Think we can convince Peter from Collecting Children’s Books to post some of his own collection’s beauties?” To my infinite delight he has consented! Hurrah!! So at freakin’ 6:15 in the morning he was pulling down beauts from his shelf and just came up with a whole host of magnificent spreads. My favorite was the one for Maggie MacIntosh. He also makes a point about how few fiction titles today make an effort to really pour on the good looking endpapers. I’d mentioned in a previous post that The Night Tourist won the Best Endpapers in a Children’s Book Award of 2007, but who has a shot at the title here in 2008? And where on earth is the Children’s Endpapers Blog?
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Quiz Question of the Day: What was the 1988 equivalent of Twilight? Think carefully now. You’ll probably get the answer if you were a tween to early teen girl at that time, but I’ll give you a hint. It featured a brooding obsessed male, a relatively useless female, and zippo sex but oodles of longing. Give up? The answer.
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Sure the Book Design Review’s online posting My Favorite Book Covers of 2008 includes only adult jackets, but I think it may be well worth your time anyway. And it would be nice if someone did this for children’s covers or YA covers as well. I mean I’d do it myself but I’ve just developed this nasty cough. *cough cough* Thanks to Bookninja for the link.
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Cece Bell wrote a picture book and the picture book is called Bee-Wigged. Now Cece has dipped her toe into the treacherous waters of blog touring. Here is the information on the matter as it was told to me:
Cece’s "Bee-Wigged" blog tour is ongoing and will wrap up on Saturday (Dec. 6) back at Blog Tour HQ with a contest to win one of the actual illustrations from the book.
Blog Tour HQ is at http://www.cecebell.com
Thanks to Tom and Sam for the link.
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Daily Image:
You can cuddle your Kindles and snuggle up to your Sony E-Readers all you want. Just remember that the so-called death of the paper book isn’t a new notion. As you can see from this ad (follow the link to read it more closely), it dates back all the way to 1936.
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Many thanks to Teacher Ninja for the link.
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About Betsy Bird
Betsy Bird is currently the Collection Development Manager of the Evanston Public Library system and a former Materials Specialist for New York Public Library. She has served on Newbery, written for Horn Book, and has done other lovely little things that she'd love to tell you about but that she's sure you'd find more interesting to hear of in person. Her opinions are her own and do not reflect those of EPL, SLJ, or any of the other acronyms you might be able to name. Follow her on Twitter: @fuseeight.
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Brian Floca says
I’m enjoying the death of the book, c. 1936. I just wish the device had a better (and now sadly dated) name. The Libraritron? Libraritronomatic? Libraritronomatic 2000!
teacherninja says
Knew you’d dig that one.
As for the book covers, maybe we can nudge Jacket Whys to get on that…
rams says
Sorry, “Children’s Endpapers Blog” sounds like it would be about toilet training.
your neighborhood librarian says
I always appreciate endpapers, and I try to note good ones when I do reviews.
Ladybug Girl: Lulu in a variety of costumes and poses, from astronaut to unicorn.
Tupelo Rides the Rails: gorgeous old maps of the heavens and a timeline of canine history (in dog years).
Looking for Loons: pencil sketches of wildlife.
Adele & Simon in America: The author found a gorgeous railway map in the collection of the Library of Congress and uses it as a key to the children’s travels.
Hello Day: gorgeous, dense bands of brilliant flowers.
Lightship (hey, Brian Floca!): labeled cutaway drawing of the ship.
:paula
Fuse #8 says
True. And on the middle grade side I was reminded at the Longstockings party tonight that the endpapers for the new Holes 10th anniversay release are pretty stellar as well.
Molly says
Yay, thanks for the link to our “Twilight the Musical” post! I hafta say that, even a few weeks later, the comments section of that post makes me giggle almost nonstop. It’s hard to express how much delight the drama geek in me is getting from people’s Twilight/Phantom mashup lyrics!
WendieO says
I followed your link to the 1988 Twilight-type thing — and arrived at Bowen press where they were discussing the publishing problems and lovely new art. I’m confused. …. On the other hand, the BEST part of Brian Floca’s Lightship endpapers is that he jogged his ship drawing to the right and to the left, so that the turn-down edges of the bookcover, which libraries tape to the book and usually cover up beautiful endpapers, only clover a blank area — with the ship fully exposed both in front and back. He’s one smart cookie! -wendieOld
Fuse #8 says
Zut. I wish someone had pointed that out sooner. It has been corrected. Sorry ’bout that. Clearly my linking muscles are flabby.
Brian Floca says
This is the best comments thread I’ve ever read. Possibly I’ll make this my new home page. Anyway, thanks, Paula and Wendie. And thanks deeply for noticing the maneuvering of the lightship on the endpaper, Wendie! We do sweat that stuff, and it’s great to have it noticed!
teacherninja says
L. at Jacket Whys is going to do a best of cover post. Send your suggestions to her!