MORE POSTS FROM MARCH 2012
I was going to spend a lot of time on this Fusenews. Then I picked up Doug TenNapel’s Cardboard and lost most of my evening in the process. So it goes. I really am going to have to be brief today. To sum up: The Battle of the (Kids’) Books rages on in earnest! Wish […]
Announcing the New Top 100 Polls!
Best Books, Top 100 Children's Novels (2012), Top 100 Picture Books Poll
|Three years ago I had the idea to have a Top 100 Picture Book Poll here on the blog. Actually, I didn’t have the idea. My husband did and he got the idea from the Comics Should Be Good Top 100 Comic Book Runs poll. My poll was such a success that I followed it […]
Green By Laura Vaccaro Seeger A Neal Porter Book – Roaring Brook (an imprint of Macmillan) $16.99 ISBN: 978-1-59643-397-7 Ages 4-8 On shelves March 27th Sometimes you just want to show a kid a beautiful picture book. Sometimes you also want that book to be recent. That’s the tricky part. Not that there aren’t pretty […]
For the final prediction edition of the 2013 Newbery/Caldecott Awards be sure to see my latest post here. By my reckoning the minute Daylight Savings occurs it is high time to start throwing out some of the old predictions for a healthy, happy new year. By now we’ve all processed the shock of the previous […]
It is a well-established fact that a new Dan Santat book trailer is a cause for celebration. I hadn’t heard of this one before, so this makes for a good introduction. Could be a good pairing with John Rocco’s Wolf! Wolf! It also makes me wonder why there aren’t more fairytale ninja mash-ups out there. […]
A Stick Is an Excellent Thing By Marilyn Singer Illustrated by LeUyen Pham Clarion Books (a Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) $16.99 ISBN: 978-0-547-12493-3 Ages 4-8 On shelves now If the helicopter parents don’t smother `em then the death of recess by test-minded schools will. Kids today have a heck of a time playing like they used […]
Granted we are currently IN the Spring of 2012 so this is probably less of a preview and more of a . . . uh . . . here and now discourse. But by my reckoning Blue Apple Books is one of those smaller pubs that don’t get a lot of airplay next to the […]
The One and Only Ivan By Katherine Applegate Illustrated by Patricia Castelao Harper Collins $16.99 ISBN: 9780-06-199225-4 Ages 9-12 On shelves now All right, the topic is Famous Ape Books of Children’s Literature. And . . . go. Care to name any? Well there’s Curious George, of course (often mistakenly called a monkey in spite […]
Folks, I know I’ve said it before and then fallen through but this time I mean it. Honest! Cross my heart and hope to die, stick a needle in my eye, eat a something something pie (it’s been a long time since I was twelve). The Top 100 Picture Books Poll was fun and the […]
So I’m sitting doing my blogging the other day while my husband was playing some good old-fashioned 60s tunes on the computer when “Ode to Billie Joe” by Bobbie Gentry comes up. I don’t know if you’re familiar with it or not but if you aren’t you can see what may well be the creepiest […]