MORE POSTS FROM DECEMBER 2008
Well, I have to say that this was by far the most exciting vote I’ve had on my blog in a while. If you will recall I offered a challenge to my readers. I would select six of the most discussed YA titles of the year and you, dear readers, would tell me which one […]
Half the discoveries I mention on this blog come about through incessant self-Googlization (note: find better term for this). For example, the other day I saw that my blog was on the blogroll for something called Authors Now! And I probably wouldn’t have paid it too much mind even then had it not been for […]
Y’all know that I am prone to exaggeration. But when I say unto you that the site Austenbook (it tells the story of Pride and Prejudice in terms of Facebook updates) is the greatest thing since sliced bread, I mean it. Sliced bread ain’t got nothing on this site. It had me at "Mrs. Bennet […]
In The Norton Anthology of Children’s Literature the Preface says that "The development of children’s literature has to be understood within a context that is international, not just national…" (pg. xxxiii). To which we reply, but of course! Yet how much interaction do we everyday schlubs have with the larger international children’s literary community? As […]
Bad news, chicky babies. I’ve a book due on the 15th of this month, and I need to devote some extra time, love, and attention to it. That means no book reviews for the next week and a half. I can’t justify it (though it may explain why wrote a bunch of them last week). […]
This is a video I sincerely wish I could embed on this blog, because it is without a doubt a magnificent idea. Award winning photographer Eamonn McCabe went about Britain photographing various writers’ studios. You can see the results here, and it’s a delight. Russell Hoban’s is described as "the best room ever" shortly after […]
The Savage By David Almond Illustrated by Dave McKean Candlewick $17.99 ISBN: 978-0-7636-3932-7 Ages 11 and up On shelves now By all logic, the melding of Dave McKean to David Almond should be a bad idea. David Almond tends to write YA novels with adult sensibilities gnawing away at their cores (and I include My […]
And now, for this week’s entry in our regular series Great Slush Piles of the Ages, we have a photograph that comes all way across the country from San Francisco. Yes! You guessed it! It’s from Chronicle Books! So let me hear you put your hands together for . . . . Chronicle SLUSH! Boy, […]
Did you miss the rivers of blood flowing through the offices of New York on Wednesday? Yes? Well the wonderfully named The Antick Musings of G.B.H. Hornswoggler, Gent blog has done a round-up of the horrid lay-offs, cuts, and other painful maneuverings that happened this past week to the folks in the publishing industry. Even […]
I’ve always felt bad that I never posted anything on this blog about Readergirlz. I mean, they’re such a nice crew. Getting teens excited about reading. But I’ve always had this thing against YA info on this site. However now all is well and right with the world. Behold! Readergirlz goes youngish. From the press […]