MORE POSTS FROM JULY 2013
Obviously I can’t read everything in a given year for the kiddos. Someday SOMEDAY this will change. I shall sit upon a velvet cushion while faithful servants serve me peeled grapes as I devour all the books published in the current year. And I’ll have a pony! I mean, while we’re dreaming. In the meantime […]
Well a tip of the hat and an apology to Mr. Schu. Looks like he in the guise of Babymouse came to visit me at The Children’s Center at 42nd Street located in the main branch of NYPL. Alas, I am no longer in that location, having been picked up and dropped off in Long […]
The Year of Billy Miller By Kevin Henkes Greenwillow (an imprint of Harper Collins) $16.99 ISBN: 978-0-06-226812-9 Ages 6-10 On shelves September 17th I don’t readily compare books to Ramona (now THERE’S a sentence opener, ladies and gentlemen). To compare any children’s book to Beverly Cleary’s classic series just leaves one wide open to ridicule. […]
Family Program A Very Special Storytime—The Museum Saturday, July 27, 1:00–2:15 p.m. Bonnie J. Sacerdote Lecture Hall, Uris Center for Education Show location on map The Metropolitan Museum of Art When you see a work of art, does something happen in your heart? Join author Susan Verde and illustrator Peter H. Reynolds for an exciting artistic adventure as […]
I don’t think I’ll shock anyone out there when I reveal that I adore webcomic artist Kate Beaton’s work more than life itself. This past Christmas my husband and I exchanged identical gifts that both turned out to be Hark, A Vagrant! calendars for the coming year. The fact that I ever got a chance […]
Battle Bunny By Mac Barnett and Jon Scieszka Illustrated by Matthew Myers Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers $14.99 ISBN: 978- 1442446731 Ages 4-8 On shelves October 22nd Remember Duck Amuck? I am referring of course to that old Looney Tunes short where Daffy Duck came to the realization that his fourth wall is […]
In which our heroine discovers the true price of donning the outwear of men and takes horrendous advantage of a blood relation Saturday morning bloomed bright and clear. The perfect weather for lugging yourself out of bed at an ungodly hour. At past ALAs I’ve eschewed publishers’ breakfasts since they have a tendency to occur […]
Dwell not on the fact that you were unable to attend the Newbery/Caldecott Banquet whilst your fellows caroused to all hours of the night (or so I assume . . . I left when I felt sleepy, party animal that I am). Now you can feel like you were there in the supple flesh all […]
Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickles, America’s First Black Paratroopers By Tanya Lee Stone Candlewick Press $24.99 ISBN: 978-0-7636-5117-6 Ages 10 and up On shelves now If I were able to sit down with my small, childhood self to render advice about the world, I’d probably just hand myself a […]
Howdy. Well, by this point we’ve all settled back into our daily routines just in time to take a day off for July 4th. What better opportunity than now to finally tackle the question of “How was ALA?”. AL Direct recently released their Top Ten tweets of the ALA conference. I was mighty pleased to […]