MORE POSTS FROM SEPTEMBER 2008
There’s a new blog in town and it just happens to be my neighbor. Welcome, neighbor! If you’ve a moment I’d like you to check out fellow SLJ blog Heavy Medal: A Mock Newbery Blog in that it is awesome. Created by Sharon Senser McKellar (a Children’s Librarian at the Oakland Public Library) and Nina […]
Today I take off in a plane to swoop across this grand old country of ours to the stomping grounds of my post-collegiate youth. This week-end marks the 2nd Kidlitosphere Conference and I intend to be ready. My camera is in my hand and I’m ready to do a little V-Blogging once more. Some of […]
Amulet (Book One: The Stonekeeper} By Kazu Kibuishi Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic $21.99 ISBN: 978-0-439-84680-6 Ages 10 and up On shelves now Meh. Every story, whether it’s being told orally, as a book, as a graphic novel, or in a kind of performance is allowed to reuse old tropes. Particularly when the story being […]
No fooling. I don’t mind not getting them because in the blogger world most awards mean doing some kind of work, and I am lazy. Still, I say that I don’t mind not getting them, but secretly I want them. I want them all. So it was with great joy that I found that Just […]
Today, if you happen to be in New York (too many of my dang posts begin this way) you can be a part of the Harry Potter Cover to Cover readathon. Actually, depending on when you are reading this, you’ve probably already missed the kick-off. It’s at 8 a.m. and the live webcast of the […]
I attended a librarian bachelorette party this past Saturday which was exceedingly fun. As we walked from one point of entertainment to another in the heart of Soho (or was it Chelsea?) we passed an Anthropologie. Anthropologie normally does not interest me, but note this bizarre display that was in the window: If I am […]
The Penderwicks on Gardam Street By Jeanne Birdsall Alfred A. Knopf (a division of Random House) $15.99 ISBN: 978-0-375-84090-6 Ages 7-13 On shelves now I can’t exactly remember what it was that kept me from reading The Penderwicks of Gardam Street the minute it came out on bookstore and library shelves. As a children’s librarian […]
It was a slow week for videos (read: I didn’t have time to look for videos this week) so what I’m offering today is going to be a little more random than usual. First off, I was delighted to find that there is new online show called Cartoon Brew TV. Their first episode just aired […]
If you know me then you know that I am cheap. I don’t dole out the cash for every two-penny Tom, Dick, and Harry to come to town. New York is the center of all things free and it takes something extra special to get my attention and my interest. But when Lisa Von Drasek […]
Here’s another option, if you’re in the New York area and you want to do something cool. The Little Red Lighthouse Festival (which ties in beautifully with that classic picture book The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge) is happening today. Here’s the info: JOIN US FOR A DAY OF FAMILY FUN! September […]