MORE POSTS FROM MARCH 2008
This just in (ratta tat, ratta tat, ratta tatta tatta tat) from Michell Bayuk (Marketing Director of The Children’s Book Council), "The Children’s Book Week website and Children’s Choice Book Awards voting went live this morning. We want to maximize the number of kids participating." By criminey, so they did! Check out those nominees for […]
My birthday isn’t until the end of April, but this week something particularly tasty came to my attention. I received a mysterious package in the mail. Note how it exudes mystery. Exude exude. When I cracked it open I got a hint of what lay inside . . . But NOTHING could have prepared me […]
Lest you forget, tomorrow marks the One Shot World Tour celebrating all things Canadian. Various bloggers will be posting Canadian trifles so don’t you be a fool and miss it. For my part, I will be examining a large monster. And no, it isn’t bigfoot. Thanks to Little Willow for the image.
An Artist’s America By Michael Albert Henry Holt and Company $17.95 ISBN: 978-0-8050-7857-2 Ages 5-10 On shelves April 29, 2008 Non-fiction Monday, yet again. Picture Book of the Day has the round-up. Pop quiz, hotshot: Name me all the children’s autobiographies of artists you can think of: GO GO GO! Not biographies, mind you. Autobiographies. […]
Can I get an amen? Over at the Longstockings blog Lisa Graff wrote the following: "I’ve just read three alphabet books in a row, and here’s a thought: If you can’t think of something clever to do for X, don’t write an alphabet book. Next time I see one of these suckers I’m skipping directly […]
For no reason whatsoever I felt inclined today to repost this video I showed on my blog at least a year and a half ago. This is a 14-year-old kid who, according to the video’s profile, wrote, directed, and starred in this film. In an odd kind of way, I believe it. Tired of doofuses […]
What? Seriously, if you know of a more famous bunny in children’s literature, I’d like to hear it (Peter Rabbit, Little Bunny Foo-Foo, Brer Rabbit . . . .). Thanks to Gina Gagliano for the picture. She’s always good for a splendid vampire pic, that Gina. And if you’d like less fangsome Easter fare, Crooked […]
The Storyteller’s Candle / La Velita de los Cuentos By Lucia Gonzalez Illustrated by Lulu Delacre Children’s Book Press $16.95 ISBN: 978-0-89239-222-3 Ages 4-8 Bilingual – English/Spanish On shelves March 28, 2008 We children’s librarians are used to picture books pandering to us. It’s common knowledge. If an author wants some easy library lovin’ they […]