MORE POSTS FROM AUGUST 2011
Yup. I’m still on vacation. Soaking in the Shakespeare while I can, since the next few years are going to consist of remarkably few syllables (see: baby). So here are a couple videos I’ve had shaking around for a while but never was able to fit into a post before. Enjoy, enjoy! First, some kids […]
The No. 1 Car Spotter By Atinuke Illustrated by Warwick Johnson Cadwell Kane/Miller (a division of EDC Publishing) $5.99 ISBN: 978-1-61067-051-7 Ages 7-11 On shelves September 1st. When I discovered the amazing, remarkable, one-of-a-kind, never before seen Anna Hibiscus books by Atinuke last year I thought I’d died and gone to heaven. It just didn’t […]
Hera: The Goddess and Her Glory By George O’Connor First Second (an imprint of Roaring Brook) $16.99 ISBN: 978-1596437241 Ages 9 and up On shelves now. Aw, phooey. Phooey and also consarn it. George O’Connor is making me break my usual rules about reviewing. Generally speaking, when I review the first book in a series […]
When Life Gives You O.J. By Erica S. Perl Alfred A. Knopf $15.99 ISBN: 978-0-375-85924-3 Ages 9-12 On shelves now. Children’s librarians can be neatly divided into two categories with relatively little difficulty. Basically, they either love and adore dogs and all things doggie related or they don’t. I don’t. I was never the kid […]
It’s time for my yearly jaunt to Stratford, Ontario to attend the Shakespeare Festival there! That means you’re going to have to be stuck with a mess of reviews in my absence. My apologies. I’ll be back Monday evening, so hopefully I’ll find enough to tide this blog over until then. Tra la!
The Carle Announces Fall Exhibition Growing Every Which Way But Up: The Children’s Book Art of Jules Feiffer (Amherst, MA) August 11, 2011- The Carle is pleased to announce a forthcoming exhibition featuring cartoonist, playwright, screenwriter, and children’s book author and illustrator Jules Feiffer. Growing Every Which Way But Up: The Children’s Book Art of […]
Though I mentioned it yesterday, I was pleased as punch to discover the recent winners of the Society of Illustrator’s Original Art. The Gold? It went to a plucky (and very good) little nonfiction title by the name of Witches! The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem, both written and illustrated by Rosalyn Schanzer. […]
We begin this week with something extraordinary. A book trailer that looks like a movie trailer (no real surprises there) but that includes so many specific details to its book that you’re half inclined to think that the movie version already exists. Super 8‘s actor Joel Courtney stars in trailer for The Dragon’s Tooth by […]
Because I clearly have too much time on my hands (cue raucous slightly unhinged laughter) I recently helped create a little summer reading suggestion video with the help of my bud, fellow blogger Monica Edinger (of the Educating Alice blog) TOGETHER we have created the ultimate in video recommendations. Doubt me? Check out the post […]
A Little Bitty Man and Other Poems for the Very Young By Halfdan Rasmussen Translated by Marilyn Nelson and Pamela Espeland Illustrated by Kevin Hawkes Candlewick Press $15.99 ISBN: 978-0763623791 Ages 3-8 On shelves now. Denmark! Mention the country and children’s literature in one breath and what would most Americans think of? Well, if they […]