MORE POSTS FROM APRIL 2016
Today we begin with something depressing (happy Sunday, everybody!). On April 4th, all of five days ago, the lovely blog Geekmom (which appears to be an offshoot of Geekdad) premiered the new Adam Rex / Mac Barnett book trailer for their upcoming picture book How This Book Was Made. When you see this trailer you […]
Let play a game. I’ll write out a bit of a professional review from here at School Library Journal and you guess the book. Here goes: “A unique take on the classic tale ‘The Ugly Duckling,’ this is a humorous story of friendship and self-acceptance, set in a dim sum restaurant. … This narrative moves quickly, […]
Here’s an idea for a series on this blog: Authors and illustrators paying tribute to other authors and illustrators in the form of fan art. Oh, it could work. Why do I think it could work? Because that’s what we’re doing today, folks. Consider the author Steve Sheinkin. You may know him from his award […]
My daughter is four going on five at the moment. And though she still reads her fair share of picture books, recently she has become enamored of graphic novels. Particularly those with “bad guys” in them. For this reason, I give great good thanks for Ashley Spires. Granted, in her Binky the Space Cat series […]
The other day I had lunch with a lovely collector of children’s books. Children’s book collectors have always struck me as a the last great unknowable group of people with an active interest in children’s literature out there. Where educators or librarians or even scholars have blogs and annual meetings and newsletters, collectors remain mysterious […]