MORE POSTS FROM NOVEMBER 2007
Gmail message has picture to use. I’m excited about my ongoing project on Astrid Lindgren: the centennial of her birth is 14 November, and I’ve been celebrating all year with reading, writing, teaching, and travel related to her life and work. I first read _Pippi Longstocking_ when I was nine years old, never dreaming that […]
There was little question regarding which video to open with this week. You see, Brooke of The Brookeshelf has started doing a Video Sunday of her own which thrills me. Why? Because it means that I can find the cool stuff that she has already located and put it on my site as well. Hooray! […]
There was a time in this country when a person could break into a new profession via a fairly generic occupation: greeting cards. It’s thanks to greeting cards that we now have Robert Crumb. And it’s thanks to greeting cards (I consider them the Magic the Gathering of their day, illustrator-wise) that the world discovered […]
(CONTINUED FROM PART ONE) It was about this time that I realized that I didn’t know anybody there. Nada. No one. Where were all the librarians? Here’s a view of how crowded it was: As you can see, it was very busy. Busy and bereft of librarians. You can’t see the wall, but there were […]
The last of the WBBT interviews shall be: Blake Nelson at The Ya Ya Yas And your week-end snowflakes are: Saturday, November 10 R.W. Alley at at Jama Rattigan’s Alphabet Soup Jeannie Brett at cynthialord’s Journal Daniel Mahoney at Paradise Found and Great Solutions to Team Challenges Amy Young at Kate’s Book Blog Sunday, November […]
The Lonely Moose By John Segal Hyperion $15.99 ISBN: 978-1423101734 Ages 4-8 On shelves now Sometimes I try to begin a review of a children’s book with some kind of quick association or personal recollection. Other times I’m stumped. Today, looking at the copy of "The Lonely Moose" sitting cheerily at my side, I am […]
Wanna meet Shaun Tan? Dude, I totally have the hook-up. From our press release: On Saturday, October 27, the NYPL "Children’s and Young Adult Literature Cafe" held its first meeting at the Donnell Library Center. This meeting was a smashing success, with over 40 attendees from all over the city (including writers, publishers, public librarians, […]
Today we’ve the following hotsy totsy authors on "the radar" (as it were): Loree Griffin Burns at Chasing Ray Lily Archer at The Ya Ya Yas Rick Riordan at Jen Robinson’s Book Page Gabrielle Zevin at Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast Dia Calhoun at lectitans Shannon Hale at Miss Erin Jane Yolen & Adam Stemple […]
. . . . is what you might say to me if you met me on the street. Apparently a frightening number of you read The New York Times architectural section on Wednesdays. Who knew? Had you done so yesterday you might have stumbled on a lovely little piece by Robin Pogrebin called, New York […]
Some of you spent Halloween duct taping together costumes for you little ones at the last minute ("Look, honey! You’re Florida!"). Some of you spent it frantically eating all the good Halloween candy you purchasED so that the only things left for the trick-or-treaters would be SweeTarts and Mentos. Others amongst you finally had an […]