MORE POSTS FROM AUGUST 2008
Alert alert alert! There’s a new Elephant and Piggie book coming out soon. Check out Mo’s blog for the cover, running free and wild in its natural environment. And he has another post up about a very different picture book coming out this January. The cover is a bit of a problem since I looked […]
Sometimes when there’s not a whole lot happening at the library I look at covers like this one and speculate. I think about trends, and how what’s seriously uncool one decade will suddenly be the height of fashion the next. I think about the 1980s (and, let’s face it, the early 90s) and how big […]
Cybil sibilance is nigh. The call has gone out to fill the children’s and YA panelists and judges are needed. The Cybils, in case you hadn’t heard, are the awards given out by the Kidlitosphere community to their picks of the best books of the year. A mix of official awards and the Quills, essentially. […]
Knucklehead: Tall Tales and Mostly True Stories About Growing Up Scieszka By Jon Scieszka Viking (a Penguin imprint) $12.99 ISBN: 978-0670011384 Ages 9-12 On shelves now To adults that don’t normally wander through the shelves of children’s literature the notion of the autobiography for kids is a pretty odd beast. You write a book about […]
You know how those karaoke books full of songs you can pick songs from always contain a weird section full of "Children’s Songs"? Yeah. We’re not doing that. What we are doing is meeting up at the nicest karaoke bar in New York City. Which is to say, Brooklyn. What does this have to do […]
I like this. Apparently there’s a writer out there named Jackson Pearce who does weblogs containing useful writing advice. This one was discovered by Cheryl Rainfield and involves critiquing manuscripts. When I grow up, I wanna have a name as cool as "Jackson Pearce". I’d post this here but I can’t find a high enough […]
Bump in the Night By Edward Hemingway G.P. Putnam’s Sons (a Penguin imprint) $15.99 ISBN: 978-0-39-24761-3 Ages 4-8 On shelves now I’m awful proud of humanity for coming up with the idea of the monster. And what a wonderfully convenient metaphor it is too! The monster as a symbolic hodgepodge of all our fears and […]
I mentioned the other day that of all the interviews I’ve conducted the one I consistently get the most feedback from was when I interviewed Kirsten Miller, author of the Kiki Strike books. It struck me as a little odd that tween girls were locating me and, through me, Kirsten but I didn’t think much […]
I spend my days pawing through books, books, books, discovering titles I missed along the way. Titles that if I knew about them I might find very useful indeed while on the reference desk. Reference Desk work is such a crap shoot that way. You prepare yourself in a variety of different subjects, learning as […]
Trick of the Tale: A Collection of Trickster Tales By John & Caitlin Matthews Illustrated by Tomislav Tomic Candlewick $18.99 ISBN: 978-0-7636-3646-3 On shelves now I think that there might be a point at which a children’s book becomes so physically lovely that its beauty becomes a kind of liability. Some parents are already afraid […]