MORE POSTS FROM DECEMBER 2007
It began with Philip Nel. It ends with a man no less worthy. Not long ago Roger Sutton’s blog Read Roger featured a long elaborate conversation. And inexplicably, in the course of it, the topic turned to The Hot Men of Children’s Literature. Roger attracts an illustrious crowd. The kind of people for whom this […]
Today I jump on a shiny jet plane and high-tail it to Atlanta, Georgia to stay with my in-laws. While there I intend to: 1. Visit my cat. I gave my in-laws my cat when the creature (named sometimes Larry, sometimes Gimlet, and sometimes Isaac) proved to be too doglike for my tiny Minneapolis apartment. […]
The Black Book of Secrets By F.E. Higgins Feiwel and Friends $14.95 ISBN: 978-0312368449 Ages 9-12 On shelves now The power of the first page. A lot of authors don’t respect it these days. They’ll scribble down the first two mildly exciting sentences that pop into their brains, usually blowing the central conceit of their […]
This week I’m getting a lot of my links from my husband. While I cover children’s literature, he covers screenwriting and graphic novels. Sometimes our interests converge, as they did with a recent link called 10 Best Animated Movies for Traumatizing Kids. Note the appearance of Watership Down. Though, admittedly, it can’t really compete with […]
Monica Edinger has a lovely tribute up right now giving respect to fellow Newbery committee member and uber-librarian Micki Nevett, who passed away this Monday. Micki was, by all accounts, a remarkable human being. Some of you may have even have been her friend on Goodreads. I know that I was, though I am sorry […]
Little Rooster’s Diamond Button By Margaret Read MacDonald Illustrated by Will Terry Albert Whitman and Company $16.95 ISBN: 978-0807546444 Ages 4-8 On shelves now A story, before we begin. All children’s librarians working for the New York Public Library system go through an intensive training process. Part of that training involves storytelling. This means that […]
They tell me that now that everything has shrunk down on this site, I need to write intros and titles that really reach out and grab the average reader. So I’m beginning today with something that makes me so very very happy that my cup overfloweth. This, ladies and gentlemen, is something that will restore […]
America Dreaming: How Youth Changed America in the ’60s By Laban Carrick Hill Little Brown & Company $19.99 ISBN: 978-0316009041 Ages 12 and up On shelves now Essentially what we have here is a book written about the children of the 50s and 60s for the children of the 00s, reviewed by a child of […]
I’ve had a hankering lately to get into the fancy world of children’s literary adaptations. Who can resist the siren call of the theater? Not I! With that in mind, I’m beginning a new spot on this blog: Theater Watch. Or should it be "Theatre" Watch? Hm. I’ll have to check this with my acting […]
(CONTINUED FROM SATURDAY) Oh, that reminds me. S&S isn’t like other publishers in that they don’t leave large piles of ARCs sitting about. So there were copies of most of the books they were talking about present… but only one each. So though I wanted a lot of these titles, I only took one home. […]