MORE POSTS FROM MAY 2010
This is definitely a local event, but it sounds like a heckuva lot of fun. Plus it’s on-topic. Come by, come by! TGTSNBN Presents John Granger’s :"The Eyes of Deathly Hallows" @ The NYPL Date: Monday, June 14, 2010 Time: 6:00pm – 8:00pm Location: Jefferson Market Public Library Street: 425 Avenue of the Americas City/Town: […]
Big Red Lollipop By Rukhsana Khan Illustrated by Sophie Blackall Viking (a division of Penguin) $16.99 ISBN: 978-0-670-06287-4 Ages 4-8 On shelves now. Yeah, I have a little sister. Have since I was six. And like most older siblings I had the usual older sis/younger sis relationship with her you might imagine. We older siblings […]
I know you probably don’t notice, but it always bugs me when my blog does a standard review / Fusenews / review / Fusenews pattern all week. I feel it’s a lack of creativity on my part. I can promise you, though, that next week will prove to be far more interesting. That’s when the SBBT […]
Born to Be Giants: How Baby Dinosaurs Grew to Rule the World By Lita Judge Flash Point / Roaring Brook (an imprint of Macmillan) $17.99 ISBN: 978-1-59643-443-1 Ages 5 and up On shelves now. Just yesterday I had a very nice children’s author from North Carolina visiting me in my library. She wanted to look […]
Following the days of Book Expo here in NYC in late May I will be taking part in the Book Blogger Convention. Here’s what they have coming up: Agenda The agenda is still being fine tuned, but this will give you an idea of what we’re planning. Registration will begin at 7:30am, and the convention […]
I hadn’t really figured out how to celebrate Margaret Wise Brown’s 100th birthday this year. We’re having Leonard Marcus in to speak at our Literary Cafe about her on June 5th, but is it really enough? Then the folks at NYPL alerted me to this blog post from Brenda Bowen entitled Margaret Wise Brown Birthday […]
Guinea Dog By Patrick Jennings Egmont USA $15.99 ISBN: 978-1-60684-053-5 Ages 7-11 On shelves now. Right over here! Look this way! Over here! TWEET! You looking? Yeah, so right over we’ve got ourselves a Patrick Jennings fan. Yup. Patrick Jennings. The guy who wrote that fantastic We Can’t All Be Rattlesnakes, along with approximately a […]
Aw man. Aw man, oh geez, aw man. Travis Jonker at 100 Scope Notes tosses out the gauntlet, and so we shall obey. Get your creative caps out, kids. There isn’t much time (May 24th is just around the corner). And I have NO IDEA what to do. I liked the pumpkin idea, though. Thanks, […]
May 9th: Mother’s Day: http://www.makingthingsup.com/?p=1480
Really, I wasn’t entirely certain what to expect when the good people of Symphony Space offered me a free ticket to see their Monster Throwdown: Vampires, Werewolves & Louisa May Alcott presentation this past Thursday. I liked the title, certainly. I liked the concept too. And I like Ron Hogan, the current director of e-marketing […]