MORE 'HARRY-POTTER' POSTS
Happy Monday to you, everyone. I’ve plenty of tasty treats to bestow on the good little boys and girls this morning. First off, the only thing that I can figure when I look at the baby versions of various Harry Potter characters by Artful Babies is that whomever the creator is they must spend a […]
I hope you will excuse the lateness of today’s post. I was watching Men in Black last night. As excuses go, I’m sure you’ve heard worse. 100 Scope Notes found what has to be my favorite video of the week, bar none. George Kareman reminds me of nothing so much as a slightly less weird […]
Full credit to my co-writer Jules at Seven Impossible Things for bringing my attention to this rather awesome new site. Uncovered Cover Art calls itself a sketchbook of “reimagined children’s books”. What that means is that artists are encouraged to submit their own interpretations of children’s book jackets. The hope is that industry insiders would […]
Maybe half a year ago I mentioned that Ms. Lucy Knisley had created a cartoon poster for the first four Harry Potter books. Now with the final Potter movie coming out, the posters are at long last complete. They follow the plots of the books, not the films, but the look of the characters can […]
The 90-Second Newbery submissions keep coming in!! Remember, there’s still lots of time to have your talented kids/students/neighborhood gamins submit their own shortened versions of Newbery classics. James Kennedy and I will be presenting them at New York Public Library in the fall, but we’d love more titles like today’s musical take on that William […]
Video Sunday: The singer would be significantly less weird looking if he had eyebrows, yes?
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I’ve been asked in the past why it is that I don’t write up the online librarian previews by folks like those at Scholastic. The reason is simple. I figure that if you have access to the online previews you don’t need a recap from someone like me. You can see them for yourself! That […]
Lest you think I overextend myself, I’ll let the resident husband take over the blogging duties of the day. Over at his site Cockeyed Caravan Matt tackles the Harry Potter books. He’ll be covering the series all week, examining what worked and what didn’t (sacrilege?). Here’s the post on the first three books and a […]
With Book Expo going full-blast in town and my library celebrating its Centennial all at the same time, blogging is possible but slightly more difficult than usual. I am amused to find that when I skip a day some folks worry that I might be in labor. Fear not. I’ll find a way to update […]
Matt’s been reading this WWI epic graphic novel called Charley’s War by Pat Mills and Joe Colquhoun where the British soldiers keep going around saying the phrase ‘arf a mo’. We didn’t understand what it meant until we put on some awful faux-British accents of our own. Then it made sense. Anyway . . . […]
Can’t tell you my relief when I realized that this was entirely on-topic. I have Educating Alice to thank for this. I listened to the video first and found myself thinking, “That sounds like Neil Gaiman.” And then, “That singing voice sounds, in fact, PRECISELY like Neil Gaiman.” Well, it is. The creator of this […]