MORE POSTS FROM AUGUST 2010
It’s an understood fact that toddlers, when placed in large groups, respond to only a few things the poor librarian schmuck sitting in front of them might care to do during a storytime. The poor librarian schmuck (or PLS) is then faced with several options. I cannot vouch for everyone, but usually this means just […]
You gasped over the Month at the Museum video by my buddy Davin. You raved over the Month at the Museum video by YA author James Kennedy. Now one of our own has entered the fray. Yes! Tis blogger extraordinaire Leila Roy coming to you via bookshelves of doom. She tosses her hat into the […]
I am indebted to Jenny Schwartzberg for bringing to my attention the fact that the BBC’s extensive archives are offering up recordings of some of the great British Novelists of the past. These are both television and radio programs and they are intoxicating. You can hear the very voice of Virginia Woolf herself. And on […]
Bamboo People By Mitali Perkins Charlesbridge $16.95 ISBN: 978-1-58089-328-2 Ages 10-14 On shelves now. There is a perception that many children acquire over the course of their education that learning and fun are mutually exclusive ideas. If a book has so much as a smidgen of a fact in it then it’s no good to […]
In the last few weeks, my husband has been working on something he’s calling The Hero Project. The concept is simple. Matt is searching for the universal structure that underlies all heroic myths. He started out by reading Joseph Campbell’s The Hero With a Thousand Faces but says that in terms of myths, “I started […]
Here’s the pretty lady I occasionally do podcast reviews for. She’s got herself a sweet little press release. Heads up: THINKING ABOUT CHILDREN’S BOOKS? THERE’S AN APP FOR THAT! Author/illustrator creates kidlit-centric podcast with bonus-laden app Online talk radio attracts over 2.6 million listeners each month and practically all of them listen to Katie Davis’s […]
So I finally sat myself down and watched the Diary of a Wimpy Kid movie the other day. I felt properly prepared to do so. I had read the review by Claire E. Gross over at Horn Book. I had read The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary. I was pumped. I was ready. So my husband […]
Cooking with Henry and Elliebelly By Carolyn Parkhurst Illustrated by Dan Yaccarino Feiwel and Friends (an imprint of Macmillan) $16.99 Ages 4-8 On shelves October 26, 2010 Since I work in the main branch of New York Public Library, sometimes I get to see the occasional celebrity. Not long ago, Mario Batali was in my […]
We begin today with a mild pet peeve of mine. Here we go. You see this lovely new paperback edition cover of the book Neil Armstrong Is My Uncle and Other Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me? Well I had great affection for the original story, though I was relatively lukewarm on its first cover. […]
Ah. Sweet screen capture. Only you could give me the chance to get just the right angle on this video of M.T. Anderson singing (YES, singing!) his Delaware song. And truth be told, the man does a lovely acapella rendition of the ode. The only thing that could make it even more complete would be […]