MORE POSTS FROM JULY 2008
A good smattering of theater is definitely what the doctor ordered when we hit the bleary days of July. Yet it seems that the only way this particular New York native is able to see the stuff is to hop in a rented car and drive to Canada for the Stratford, Ontario Shakespeare Festival once […]
Colleen Mondor at Chasing Ray and Gwenda Bond over at Shaken and Stirred both have some great posts up that touch on the issue of class in children’s books. Look through the titles on current bookstore shelves and find me the lower income contemporary kids that lead happy lives. As Colleen said, "I don’t think economic […]
Great theater for kids is a hard one to find. Well it looks as if the Lifeline Theatre KidSeries over in Chicago is doing a show well worth your eye. Just in time for the presidential season they are preparing a musical version of Duck for President (book originally by Doreen Cronin). This seems like […]
I get a lot of books. A lot. Of books. And simple mathematics tells me that unfortunately I cannot physically read all these books unless I A) Give up my job and B) Give up my blog (which somehow seems counterproductive). Of course, there are still books I miss on top of this. For example, […]
Over my vacation I ate poorly and often, slept a lot, and didn’t exercise a jot. In short, a good time was had. However, my blogging muscles are now just as flabby as my bodily ones and I must get back in the rhythm pronto. Here then is a little Fusenews, all rather old but […]
The faithful blog failed to be faithful in my absence. So now let’s redo that cover discussion I had. This time . . . with covers! When you’re a librarian your work is never done. My theory is that great librarianship is something you love and nuture. And what better place to love and nurture […]
Aaaaah. Nothing is finer than coming home from vacation and finding that your blog has systematically gotten rid of every image you uploaded to it during your absence. Corrections are being corrected. Good to be back, though. More to come.
Garmann’s Summer By Stian Hole Eerdmans Books for Young Readers $17.50 ISBN: 978-0-8028-5339-4 Ages 4-8 On shelves now In the head of even the most open-minded person there are still in-born beliefs of what purpose a picture book really serves. If you sat your average citizen down and played that old word association game, the […]
Huh! Not a bad idea here. Actors wanting to play Jamaican need to learn how to speak Jamaican patois anyway. Why not learn via YouTube? Here’s a Dr. Seuss title and one by Robert Kraus, read with great aplomb. Thanks to bookshelves of doom for the link. And finally, this made me very happy. Thanks […]