MORE POSTS FROM SEPTEMBER 2007
By and large, if an artist is generous and draws something nice and pretty for me I won’t usually blog about it on this site. I may love the work but how is it applicable to A Fuse #8 Production as a whole? Today’s image is therefore an exception to this rule. Jon Buller must […]
You can live a long time in New York City and never know about rather large, rather important, rather influential literary organizations until they pop up in front of your nose. So it was that had you said the words, "PEN American Center" or "PEN Children’s Book Committee" to me roughly one week ago I […]
(CONTINUED FROM PART ONE) Being that the evening was based on the concept of providing honest books for young readers, it seemed logical for the discussion to take into account the idea of what it is to "lie". Lipsyte was adamant on this point. He made it very clear that lying is NEVER acceptable in […]
(CONTINUED FROM PART TWO) It all got me to thinking too. I mean, what do we consider "lying" in fiction? Remember the anger that was lobbied against The Boy in the Striped Pajamas? Were people mad because they felt that the whole fable aspect wasn’t a delightful trope but, instead, a very painful lie? How […]
Hugo and Miles in I’ve Painted Everything Written and Illustrated by Scott Magoon Houghton Mifflin $16.00 Ages 4 and Up On Shelves Now There are some ideas out there that are tailor made subject matter for kids’ books. Penguins. The story of Pale Male. Dust bunnies. There are also ideas out there that SEEM tailor […]
Ah well. You can’t win them all. I didn’t have time to organize my videos before I went on vacation. Tune in next week for Video Sunday – Overcompensation.
Some things are meant to be. In this topsy turvy world, it’s good to be able to count on a daily dose of pure, undiluted weirdness. To this end I present to you to the more than somewhat inspired Beckett for Babies. It makes the world feel good. Thanks to Chicken Spaghetti for the link. […]
On a Saturday at that. HA HA! Betcha you didn’t see THAT one coming, did you? Well, I’m on vacation and we haven’t had one of these in a while. Why not roll one out then? Now if you take a good long look at past HMOCLs (visible here but you have to scroll down […]
Middle School is Worse Than Meatloaf By Jennifer L. Holm Illustrated by Elicia Castaldi Comics by Matthew Holm Ginee Seo Books, (Simon & Schuster) $12.99 Ages 9 and up On shelves now I remember being 13 or so and talking with a much older cousin of mine. When he asked me what grade I was […]
Pictures are difficult to blog on this SLJ site. They convince the format that I’m using more characters than I am. So I’m just going to do an all-picture, all the time posting. Ooo, lookie!. Paper dodo. Ooo. Ooo, I love you Paper dodo. I love you, I do. Thank you bookshelves of doom (who […]