MORE POSTS FROM JULY 2010
Herein lies the third installment of my Storytime Suggestions series. We covered Toddlers. We covered Preschoolers. Now a little something for the older tykes. I’m talking the K-2 crowd. Maybe my favorite age to read books to, truth be told. These are the kids I feel more comfortable experimenting on with new picture books. It […]
Todd’s TV By James Proimos Katherine Tegen Books (an imprint of Harper Collins) $15.99 ISBN: 978-0-06-170985-2 Ages 4-8 On shelves now. You ever have that moment when you find your presumptions so upended that you just want to crawl into a corner somewhere and assume the fetal position? That’s a bit extreme, but it’s not […]
Which is to say, it’s 12:06 a.m. and I haven’t the strength to do a full post. In brief! Seems to me that Weird Al is missing the obvious here. If he’s going to suddenly decide to become a children’s author then he should at the very least have the decency to become a children’s […]
The other day I was talking about some favorite books that were getting re-published when in the comments Annette wrote about another book she would like to see in print again: “The Wedding Procession of the Rag Doll and the Broom Handle and Who Was in It, by Carl Sandburg (pictures by Harriet Pincus but […]
Suzie Bitner Was Afraid of the Drain By Barbara R. Vance Copperplate Publishing $17.95 ISBN: 978-0-615-31444-0 Ages 7-12 On shelves now. When I was a kid, children’s poetry certainly existed but as far as I knew nobody was out there actively promoting the idea that I read the stuff. Our schools didn’t have Poetry Month. […]
All right. Time to bring the smackdown on my Brooklyn colleagues. Um . . . okay, I got one. *ahem* Uh, hey, Brooklyn! Yeah, you! The one across the river! Your libraries are so rodent infested you’ve got raccoons in your main branch! Aw, I’m just messing with ya, Brooklyn. Don’t think of it as […]
Knowing my deep in the bones dislike of The Giving Tree (let it comfort those amongst you who like it that my husband does as well) roundabout five people sent me this Sassy Gay Friend version of the well-known story. Can we get a Sassy Gay Friend version of Rainbow Fish next, please? This gets […]
Yesterday I returned from Minneapolis and already I can’t wait to get back! Those of you who will be attending the 2010 Kidlitosphere Conference probably feel the same way. Unfortunately, it looks as if this year’s conference will be running at the same time as my 10 year college reunion. D’oh! In lieu of my […]
Thresholds By Nina Kiriki Hoffman Viking (an imprint of Penguin) $15.99 ISBN: 978-0-670-06319-2 Ages 9-12 On shelves August 5th. I like to characterize trends with great all-encompassing, massive statements that fail to take into account exceptions to the rule. For example, after reading Thresholds by Nina Kiriki Hoffman, my instinct is to throw my hands […]
The other day a kindly person I spoke with at ALA sent me a beautiful little packet of information they picked up in Tokyo. If I told you that there was an International Library of Children’s Literature in Japan would you be surprised? I’ve not heard much about it myself, but it looks just lovely […]