MORE POSTS FROM JUNE 2009
Due to remarkably frustrating circumstances beyond my control, my Fusenews links are currently inaccessible. This makes me a little cranky. Thank goodness for Reviews of the Day, eh? Sweet delicious content. In the meantime, there is one little item I would like you to direct your peepers towards. Jules at Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast […]
Horrid Henry By Francesca Simon Illustrated by Tony Ross Sourcebooks Jabberwocky $4.99 ISBN: 978-1-4022-1775-3 Ages 5-10 On shelves now Naughty bad little boys are the joy of the sometimes naughty, often good little readers. There’s the vicarious thrill of reading about a kid who’s bad, knows it, and still goes through with behavior not always […]
The other day I cooed, gurgled, and generally fell into fits of unmoderated bliss when I saw that Children’s Illustration had linked to Seven Stories, "the first museum in the UK wholly dedicated to the art of British Children’s Books." I said I wanted to go to there. Then someone pointed out that there are […]
The Terrible Plop By Ursula Dubosarsky Illustrated by Andrew Joyner Farrar, Straus & Giroux ISBN: 978-0-374-37428-0 Ages 4-8 August 18, 2009 Before I begin, a word to the adults out there. Ahem. GET YOUR MIND OUT OF THE GUTTER!!! THAT IS NOT WHAT THIS BOOK IS ABOUT! I wish I could say that the creators […]
We’re going to look at three very different book trailers today. Two are for YA novels, and one for a picture book. This first is what happens when a publisher puts a little money into trailer creation. In spite of the wall of keyboards score, this is the pattern I see book previews taking in […]
New York Public Library makes use of a bizarre dual blogging system. There are internal blogs that the public is not able to see (and, sadly, some of these are some of the smartest children’s programming blogs out there… burns me up it does). And then there are the public NYPL blog posts for the […]
I will most certainly be attending the American Library Conference in Chicago this coming July. And one of the highlights (though it’s always scheduled right before the Newbery/Caldecott dinner, which is awkward when you have tattoos to apply) is the Book Cart Drill Team championship. This year’s competitors look pretty slick. I have dreams of […]
Amelia Rules!: The Whole World’s Crazy By Jimmy Gownley Atheneum (an imprint of Simon & Schuster) $9.99 ISBN: 978-1-4169-8604-1 Ages 9-12 On shelves now Roundabout three years ago I was at an American Library Association conference, trolling the aisles of the convention center for goodies. As always, I kept one eye on the comic aisle, […]
This morning, Penguin Young Readers Group launches Penguin Storytime and YA Central, two online video series featuring some of today’s leading children’s book authors and illustrators. Penguin Storytime brings picture books and early readers alive for young readers, featuring: entertaining author interviews book trailers (including a HILARIOUS Skippyjon Jones webisode!) a […]
Oh wow, oh wow, oh wow, oh wow! Oh, I want to go, I want to go, I want to go, I want to go! Oh, puh-leeeze take me! Even the website is awesome. I . . . aw, shoot. Where the heck is the Ouseburn Valley? Newcastle? Note to Self: Create children’s literary tour […]