MORE POSTS FROM MAY 2011
Oh, doggone it. I can’t do a full Book Expo this year and these sound good. Check ’em out, oh fellow librarians, if you get a chance. Particularly the first. Free Speech Rights of Kids Are Focus at BookExpo America NEW YORK, NY, May 4, 2011 – Attacks on the free speech rights of kids […]
ANNOUNCING THE PEN/STEVEN KROLL AWARD HONORING THE AUTHOR OF AN ILLUSTRATED CHILDREN’S BOOK $5,000 Prize to Recognize Exceptional Writing in a Picture Book PEN American Center announced today the establishment of the PEN/Steven Kroll Award Honoring the Author of an Illustrated Children’s Book. The prize was established in memory of Steven Kroll to acknowledge the […]
From sopping wet New York City here is your philosophical question of the day: If April showers bring May flowers, what the heck do May showers bring? Ponder that while I hand you a piping hot plate o’ Fusenews. My library branch is turning 100 next week (you may have noticed the pretty New Yorker […]
Come gather round me children and hear the tale I tell. Cute goose, right? Well I don’t usually recount stories from my workplace, it being all marbley and imposing and such, but this is a good story. It involves a goose rescue mission, Long Island City, and Brian Selznick, not necessarily in that order. I […]
Chuckling Ducklings and Baby Animal Friends By Aaron Zenz Walker & Company $15.99 ISBN: 978-0-8027-2191-4 Ages 4-8 On shelves now They say that humor is subjective. They might as well just go and say the same thing for what folks find cute. What positively reduces one person to a pile of babbling goo might strike […]
I first noticed it when I was a kid. Growing up a fan of the comic page, my family owned some bound book collections of comics like Doonesbury and Garfield and B.C. I rather liked the old B.C. comics by Johnny Hart, actually. In spite of the fact that characters had names like The Fat […]
Oh, wow. Just . . . wow. Some of you may already be aware of the Boogie Woogie blog, run by author/illustrator Aaron Zenz and his three kids. The fact that it may be the best blog out there in which kids participate in the discussion of children’s literature is evidenced by nothing so much […]
I just searched my archives to see if I ever made a “monted eggs” joke in conjunction with Egmont USA. To my chagrin, I did that very thing during the last Egmont preview. Gah. I hate being so predictable that even I can figure out what old jokes I’ll be pulling out at a given […]
Lemonade: And Other Poems Squeezed from a Single Word By Bob Raczka Illustrated by Nancy Doniger Roaring Brook (a division of Macmillan) $16.99 ISBN: 978-1-59643-541-4 Ages 4-10 On shelves now. The lady from Manhattan would like to register a complaint. The lady from Manhattan is aware, perfectly aware, that there are plenty of fabulous children’s […]
Well, first things first! The Ezra Jack Keats New Writer and New Illustrator Awards were handed out two days ago, and at long last I can finally tell you the winners. These awards are given out to new authors and illustrators of children’s books with no more than three books to their names that “portray […]