MORE POSTS FROM NOVEMBER 2008
I think it is safe to say that the very first authors to dip so much as a single toe into the new Children’s Center at 42nd Street were none other than YA mavericks Lisa Yee and Eric Luper. They came when we were still in our crazed are-we-ready-to-open-yet????? phase, and were mighty accomodating to […]
This is a new thing I’d like to try. Each Video Sunday I have fun vids but often they fall, as they say, "below the fold". My individual postings have a limited amount of characters they can display before the infamous "Read More" pops up and everything else I’ve written falls out of sight. My […]
Ain’t It Cool news finally got their paws on Spike Jones and they had him tell everything he knew about the upcoming Where the Wild Things Are movie. There are lots of great tidbits in it, like the fact that Jonze initially wanted to produce Harold and the Purple Crayon. And then there’s this great […]
I was not the only one to become a fan of Frances O’Roark Dowell’s magnificent middle grade novel Shooting the Moon this year. But neither was I under the impression that it was created in a vacuum. Over the years Ms. Dowell has written everything from fun boy-centric early chapter books to mysteries and realistic […]
The final day is upon us. For some kicking interviews elsewhere, get ’em while you can cause they’re going fast. In brief: Mayra Lazara Dole at Chasing Ray J Patrick Lewis at Writing and Ruminating Wendy Mass at Hip Writer Mama Lisa Ann Sandell at Bildungsroman Caroline Hickey/Sara Lewis Holmes at Mother Reader A.S. King […]
The tour in all its unholy magnificence continues! In brief: Martin Millar at Chasing Ray John Green at Writing and Ruminating Beth Kephart at Hip Writer Mama Emily Ecton at Bildungsroman John David Anderson at Finding Wonderland Brandon Mull at The YA YA YAs Lisa Papademetriou at Mother Reader
Penguins are the hip animals right now, so all the more reason for Penguin to be the hip publisher. Though their offices are nearer Film Forum than Midtown, there’s nothing I like more than a nice Penguin preview to liven up my week. Which is to say, this was only the second preview at Penguin […]
Justification! Sweet glorious justification! Last year I cooed and ooed and went seven kinds of gaga over the version of Lear’s The Owl and the Pussycat that was illustrated by Stephane Jorisch. But it didn’t really catch on like I wanted it too. That made me feel sad. But guess what? Canada’s Governor General Literary Awards were […]
Sweet jeebus, Ellen Klages is awesome. No, I’m sorry, I’m not going to pretend to be a disinterested party here. Because it is frigging true, and here’s the proof. The woman, a master of the fantasy genre, goes out and writes a work of children’s historical fiction called The Green Glass Sea, right? Everything from […]
Don’t forget to check out the other interviewers and interviewees around and about the cyberspace. As always, Chasing Ray has the breathtaking round-up, but if you want to go direct: Emily Jenkins at Writing and Ruminating Ally Carter at Miss Erin Mark Peter Hughes at Hip Writer Mama Sarah Darer Littman at Bildungsroman MT Anderson […]