MORE POSTS FROM OCTOBER 2008
I’ve not much time to post today. I’m holding a 90s Prom Party tonight (long story) and need to figure out how to adequately spike my own punch. In the meantime, why don’t you just sit and ponder these pictures of the Paolini Brisingr egg, currently housed in my library. I only recently came in […]
How big a children’s literary fan are you? What would you be willing to do to justify your love? Would you be willing to buy a home constructed by author/illustrator Barbara Cooney‘s grandparents? Well, sharp-eyed Dan Levy sent me this fascinating item with some additional information: "Brownstoner today has an item about the Bossert Hotel […]
I don’t usually pull out reader comments and make them into full-blown blog pieces, but I found this question posed by Hope yesterday particularly interesting. As she said: Betsy, it seems like your blog focus has shifted somewhat since landing under the SLJ banner. I used to find more titles I hadn’t already heard of […]
Boots and Pieces By Emily Ecton Aladdin (an imprint of Simon & Schuster) $5.99 ISBN: 978-1-4169-6167-3 Ages 8-12 On shelves now Straight-to-paperback works of fiction do not tend to win great and prestigious literary awards. The term “paperback writer” has never been a term one strives to attain (unless you happen to find yourself in […]
This is apt. So I’m currently reading Melissa Anelli’s Harry, A History: The True Story of a Boy Wizard, His Fans, and Life Inside the Harry Potter Phenomenon (due out in November, I believe). Anelli is perhaps best known for her HP fansite The Leaky Cauldron and let me tell you, there is no odder […]
Ooo, lar de dar de dar. Sounds so fancy, doesn’t it. The Society Library. Where one rubs elbows with fellow members of society. Pass me my monocle and my white gloves, won’t you, dear? Well . . . . maybe not so much. When the notice came out from Desk Set (a librarian social networking […]
Time to catch up on ye olde blog reading. Let’s see what the other people have been talking about these days. Ah! Here’s a good one to start with. Over at Disco Mermaids YA author Jay Asher of the hit novel Thirteen Reasons Why has thrown down the gauntlet in the face of his fellow […]
Last week’s videos were just so fabulous that I have to admit I haven’t much for you this week. So when video times are tough I like to turn to the Drawn blog for inspiration. This piece is a combination of stop animation with pixelated cut-out images by a Joseph Mann. For me it highlights […]
Today is national chocolate cupcake day. Celebrate by sending me cupcakes. (stands to one side and wonders if this will work) Thanks to Jaime Temairik for the Cupcake Monster image.
Wonder Bear By Tao Nyeu Dial Books (a division of Penguin) $17.99 ISBN: 978-0-8037-3328-2 Ages 4-8 On shelves now As far as I know there are no hard and fast rules that govern an illustrator’s debut picture book. No guidelines on what to do or what to avoid are written down for easy reference. If […]