MORE POSTS FROM APRIL 2011
I don’t usually promote webcasts, but this one’s special. It’s going to be shot (as they say) in the Rare Book Room of my very own library for one thing. For another it sounds kind of neat: A Live Webcast with Gary Schmidt Join two-time Newbery Honor-winning author GARY SCHMIDT for a live webcast event! […]
All right! Cheryl and I have done the math, figured out the logic, carried the two, all that jazz. The end result is that we have FINALLY come up with a reasonable Kidlit Drink Night time and location in conjunction with BEA this year. But there’s a catch . . . This time around we […]
The other day I spoke on the phone with author James Cross Giblin.
Well, that was satisfying. For those of you unfamiliar with the James Kennedy/Neil Gaiman “feud” (and I use that term loosely) this video may work best with a little background. You see, I first became acquainted with the YA author of The Order of Odd Fish when he wrote this remarkable screed entitled America, Emulate […]
New series! Here’s a hint on how to blog almost daily. Come up with various series so that you don’t have to worry about what kind of content to provide at a given moment. For example, at this point I’ve the Review of the Day series, the Video Sunday series, the Fusenews series, Press Release […]
Kat, Incorrigible By Stephanie Burgis Atheneum (an imprint of Simon & Schuster) $16.99 ISBN: 9781416994473 Ages 9-12 On shelves now Early nineteenth-century child and teen novels written with an equal influence of Jane Austen and Diana Wynne Jones are nothing new. Indeed they’ve been around for quite some time. They’re your Sorcery and Cecelia by […]
Howdy, folks. I’m starting off today with a little podcast-related item. Back in the day I tried podcasting for sport. It was fun (I had my own intro music and everything) but after a while it became clear that podcasting is a labor of love best left to the professionals with their prodigious editing skills, […]
Blue Chicken By Deborah Freedman Viking (an imprint of Penguin) $15.99 ISBN: 978-0-670-01293-0 Ages 4-8 On shelves September 15th Call it barnyard self-actualization. Too heavy an idea for a picture book? Fine. How about breaking down the barn’s fourth wall? Or nine barnyard characters in search of an illustrator? However you want to couch it, […]
Don’t look now but it’s Poetry Month. Yup. It kind of snuck up on me too. For a lot of librarians Poetry Month is that blessed time of year when our Dewey Decimal #811 books start flying off the shelves. The time of year when we can start to seriously recommend those titles that might […]
I am pleased as punch to announce the upcoming nuptials between my fantastic agent Stephen Barbara of the Foundry Agency (also representing Laura Amy Schlitz, Lauren Oliver, Monica Edinger, Peter Sieruta, Jules Danielson, and many others) and Senior Razorbill editor and incipient author Jessica Rothenberg. Huge congratulations to the two of you! Of all the […]