MORE POSTS FROM JANUARY 2010
When watching The Wizard of Oz, my husband has pointed out that there’s a moment when our four friends have left The Wizard and are entering the scary woods. They’re carrying an odd assortment of objects. I think the lion has a butterfly net and The Tin Woodsman has a strange syringe-looking thing for blowing […]
Wednesday, January 13, 2010 starting at 6:30 p.m. Faces & Names, 159 W. 54th St. in NYC Because the ALA awards will be a scant five days away, we’ll have a Newbery/Caldecott/Printz prediction contest with FABULOUS PRIZES — to be determined, but we promise they’ll be worthy of the all-caps. And we’ll be collecting kids’ […]
There was a conversation recently on the child_lit listserv about women historically making less money than men in terms of book contracts. In conjunction with this Janet Spaeth wrote that in the past, "Books by men were reviewed at in vastly greater numbers than were books by women. Since libraries tend to use book reviews, […]
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Cosmic By Frank Cottrell Boyce Walden Pond Press (an imprint of Harper Collins) $16.99 ISBN: 978-0-06-183683-1 Ages 9-12 On shelves January 19th Close your eyes. Lean back. Take a breath. Now think. Think about the books you read when you were a child. Think about the ones you loved. The ones you still think about […]
I apologize for the infrequency of my recent Fusenews. Fact o’ the matter is, it appears that I’d much rather tabulate the results of my current Chapter Book Poll (enter now!!!) than type up children’s literature news-related items. Can you blame me? Ah well. The news must be newsed. Onward! Coming in on the heels […]
Remember! This Saturday at 11 a.m. we’re having a once in a lifetime event. To wit: The Children’s Literary Café at the new Children’s Center at 42nd Street is pleased to announce our event on Saturday, January 9th at 11:00 a.m.: From the Page to the Screen… Television Screen If you’re a picture book author […]
Consider your Dr. Seuss. Under normal circumstances the name conjures up easy readers, tongue twisters, and heights of creativity too rarely reached in literary history. But did you know he made a movie? A movie in 1952 that was, to put it mildly, just a bit ahead of its time? Consider the 5,000 Fingers of […]
Time was when I could read and review a slew of older children’s books in a given year since I had no access to the newest titles on the bookshelves. Now I can see all the new titles I like, but my reading of older titles has fallen by the wayside. So it was with […]
This was, without a doubt, the most exciting poll I have ever done, i.e. asking my readers what one last book I should review for a coming year. Who knew it would come down to a fight ala the Jets and the Sharks? From the start, fans were lining up behind their favorite books. Quickly, […]