MORE POSTS FROM NOVEMBER 2009
Ann Marie Fleming at Chasing Ray Laurie Faria Stolarz at Bildungsroman Patrick Carman at Miss Erin Jacqueline Kelly at Hip Writer Mama Nova Ren Suma at Shelf Elf And, of course, Chasing Ray has the round-up.
Attention public and school librarians! You have a chance to win a whole bunch o’ fabulous books for the lovely folks at The Class of 2K9. Forewarned is forearmed. Note this release: The weather’s getting cooler, the leaves are falling… That means it’s time for one last giveaway before 2009 comes to an end! Between […]
One of the most striking works of fiction for young people this year won’t be winning any Newberys. That’s because Frances Hardinge, the brains behind the extraordinary Gullstruck Island (called The Lost Conspiracy here in the U.S.), is also a resident of the British Isles and is technically ineligible. A true pity since as novels […]
The Winter Blog Blast Trou begins today, you lucky ducks! For some insightful, downright intriguing interviews with the top writers out there, boy are you in luck. Check out the offerings of the day: Jim Ottaviani at Chasing Ray Courtney Sheinmel at Bildungsroman Derek Landy at Finding Wonderland Mary E. Pearson at Miss Erin Megan […]
"Make a World : the Film" Teaser from makeaworldfilm on Vimeo. A show of hands. How many of you knew that there was a documentary about Ed Emberley being made called Ed Emberley’s Make the World: A Film? Well, the film is on FaceBook and Twitter, in case you’d like to support it. Thanks to […]
It’s chicken-with-your-head-cut-off week, folks! But I think I’ve enough spare moments in my day to share with you some very quick tidbits of things I’ve found. In brief (and I do mean brief)! Next week we’re going to see the kick-off of the fantabulous Winter Blog Blast Tour. For the full schedule, head on over […]
This past Saturday, my library had the pleasure of hosting some of the representatives of the Cybils organizing committee for a Children’s Literary Cafe discussion with the public. These women included Pam Coughlan of MotherReader, Susan Thomsen of Chicken Spaghetti, Liz Burns of Tea Cozy, and Anne Bowles Levy who helped to found the Cybils […]
One Last Time: Good-Bye to Yankee Stadium By Ray Negron Illustrated by Laura Seeley Collins (an imprint of Harper Collins) $19.99 ISBN: 978-0-06-147162-9 Ages 4-8 On shelves now It’s always difficult for a reviewer to critique a book if it’s discussing a subject they’re not intimately familiar with. Fortunately, children’s picture book reviewers have a […]
Let’s just get this out of the way right from the start. If Victoria Stapleton, marketing/publicity/guru makes it her job to wear magnificent shoes on her teeny tiny feet, then it is our job to take pictures of them. Like so: Yes, Little, Brown once again decided to leave the competition in the dust with […]
I don’t ever hope to know all the treasures my workplace has squirreled away, but the New York Times article Secrets of the Stacks makes it all the more ridiculous how little I truly know about NYPL. We have Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s slippers? I knew about the tobacco room, but the embalmed paw of Charles […]