MORE POSTS FROM NOVEMBER 2009
Interview with Dan Santat from Elizabeth Bird on Vimeo. A man so nice I’ve blogged him twice. This is a pretty little reposting of a video I put up earlier this week. There may be some amongst you who missed it the first time. Who were previously unaware of the awesome power of chicken puppets […]
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon By Grace Lin Little, Brown and Company $16.99 ISBN: 978-0-316-11427-1 Ages 8-12 On shelves now. When an author wants to write their first fantasy novel for children, they’ll sometimes fall back on the books they themselves loved as kids. If they were Alice in Wonderland fans they might go […]
This has been a season of firsts. I did my first Albert Whitman preview a week or so ago. I’ll be doing my first National Geographic preview in the future. And I’ve certainly never done a Lerner Publishing Group preview before! That’s the nice thing about New York. Even if the publishers ain’t local, there’s […]
And all too soon it’s over. Here’s the last of the best of the week, my loves. Lisa Schroeder at Writing & Ruminating Alan DeNiro at Shaken & Stirred Joan Holub at Bildungsroman Pam Bachorz at Mother Reader Sheba Karim at Finding Wonderland R.L. LaFevers at Hip Writer Mama And Chasing Ray has the round-up.
I’m allowed to be a fangirl once in a while, I think. Now I don’t often get a chance to interview an author or illustrator from my own youth. Inevitably they’re either dead or no longer working in the field of children’s literature. But you know, there was one artist around when I was a […]
Here’s who’s on the menu today! Sy Montgomery Pt 2 at Chasing Ray Laini Taylor at Shelf Elf Jim DiBartolo at Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast Amanda Marrone at Writing & Ruminating Thomas Randall at Bildungsroman And Chasing Ray has the round-up.
A conflict of interest question has arisen regarding the National Book Awards in the Young Person’s category over at One-Minute Book Reviews. The writer is Janice Harayda, an award-winning journalist and former book editor of the Plain Dealer in Cleveland who has been a vice-president of the National Book Critics Circle. It makes for interesting […]
I may not be doing an interview today, but check out this line-up: Sy Montgomery Pt 1 at Chasing Ray Jacqui Robbins at Bildungsroman Sarwat Chadda at Finding Wonderland Cynthia Leitich Smith at Hip Writer Mama Beth Kephart at Shelf Elf Annie Barrows at Great Kid Books
Last week, our neighborhood middle school (Whatcom Middle School – Bellingham, WA) burned, causing devastating losses not only for the school district but the teachers and students. The District is doing an amazing job of stuffing the students into other schools’ vacant rooms for the time being. Here is a link to our local paper […]
For the first time ever, I am indulging in a Video Interview for the WBBT. Our subject is Dan Santat, one of the wonders of the illustration biz. This is, without a doubt, one of the best interviews I’ve ever done, and it’s all thanks to Dan. The following will appear during this interview at […]