MORE POSTS FROM DECEMBER 2009
I got this email just the other day and I couldn’t help but post it here. Imagine a whole host of talented authors giving your manuscript in-depth feedback. Sound too good to be true? Check it: "For the next twelve months, The Longstockings will workshop the manuscript of one of our readers. And then, in […]
Pouch! By David Ezra Stein G.P. Putnam’s Sons (a division of Penguin) $15.99 ISBN: 978-0-399-25051-4 Ages 3-7 On shelves now Today I had to tackle a preschool storytime. I am not a particularly brave librarian, though. If I find a picture book that works, I have to really work at not using it over and […]
Recently Entertainment Weekly put out an issue that looked back over the decade from a popular culture standpoint. It got me to thinking: Why haven’t any of the children’s periodicals, publications, and blogs done the same? 2000-2009 was a terrible decade in a lot of ways, but in terms of children’s and YA literature it […]
Adults Go Wild Over Latest In Children’s Picture Book Series Everyone was talking about this Onion News piece this week. And as someone who writes reviews of picture books that are far longer than the books themselves . . . well, this is just fantastic. Thanks to all the folks who sent it on to […]
Looking Like Me By Walter Dean Myers Illustrated by Christopher Myers Egmont $18.99 ISBN: 978-1-60684-001-6 Ages 4-8 On shelves now Says the parent to the librarian, "I need something for my child to improve their self-esteem." Uh-huh. Fine. Self-esteem. That’s the kind of topic that inspires the worst possible books for kids, you know. Cute […]
Colleen Mondor over at Chasing Ray puts a whole new spin on the Kirkus death that I think is worth reading. "I’m wondering why the discussion about Kirkus seems to include only the demise of professional reviewing and the increase in personal reviewing – with the entire middle ground overlooked. I’m talking about the hundreds […]
Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco X. Stork. Overwhelmingly. Lips Touch: Three Times by Laini Taylor was the runner-up, so I will be reading that as well. Which is fortunate since I intended to anyway, and now I have an excuse. In the event that people named more than one book, I simply took […]
Without a doubt this has been the longest preview season I’ve experienced in New York thus far. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not complaining! But I’m going to be just the slightest bit happy once I get this final Spring 2010 preview up and running. That’ll be the last of the lot (unless Egmont suddenly […]
Blue Dream Studios and The Dreamland Chronicles Kick Off Charity Auction for First Book Comic Book and Animation Superstars Bring the Gift of Reading to Children in Need Nashville, TN – December 15, 2009 – The Dreamland Chronicles and Blue Dream Studios kicked off the first charity auction of sketch cards from the […]
The Small Adventure of Popeye and Elvis By Barbara O’ Connor Frances Foster Books Farrar Straus & Giroux (an imprint of Macmillan) $16.99 ISBN: 978-0-374-37055-8 Ages 7-11 On shelves now American children grow up reading so many good British novels that sometimes it’s hard to conjure up similar books of a Yankee nature. Maybe that’s […]