MORE POSTS FROM AUGUST 2008
Astronaut Handbook By Meghan McCarthy Alfred A. Knopf (Random House imprint) $16.99 ISBN: 978-0-375-84459-1 Ages 4-9 On shelves now Back up! Back up swiftly now, because I don’t know how much longer I can hold her in. She’s coming out, I can feel it. Yes… YES… It’s the return of Curmudgeonly Old Lady and there’s […]
Ever since I read American Born Chinese and The Sign of Qin (sequel please!!!) I have desired that someone, somewhere make a Monkey King movie. Isn’t it odd that there hasn’t been one in America yet? Trickster gods in general don’t tend to appear on the big screen, but who wouldn’t love watching a monkey […]
Flickr, will you marry me? Oz and Ends discovered via the I’m Learning to Share! blog that the old Random House early reader title Do You Know What I’m Going to Do Next Saturday? is up for viewing on Flickr. Whoever posted it asks at one point, "I wonder what ever happened to this kid? […]
Into the Volcano By Don Wood Blue Sky Press (an imprint of Scholastic) $18.99 ISBN: 978-0439726719 Ages 9 and up On shelves October 1st Look, I hate to burst your bubble but not every picture book illustrator born is necessarily cut out to write his or her own graphic novel. It’s an entirely different set […]
Oh, you beauties. You are my collective brain. The wisdom of the masses flows in your very veins. I am in a bit of a quandry and I wonder if you might be able to help me out. Here’s the deal: I want to come up with a list of mouse-related graphic novels. Preferably recent. […]
You just never can guess where your college buddies will end up in this world, can you? Well, when I found that my pal Chris Maddocks was the Director of Information Management and Technology at Children’s Hospital Boston, I thought that was pretty neat. Little did I know, however, that Children’s Hospital Boston has been […]
You know, at heart I’m a company woman. And my company of choice is New York Public Library. A good place to work and it contains some fabulousness in other quarters as well. For example, you have perhaps heard of a fellow by the name of Jeff Kinney, yes? Wrote a little something called Diary […]
You know when you’ve had a crummy day and then you run across an old title on the shelves that has a great cover you’d forgotten? I was in just the right mood to see this puppy today: Better than chocolate.
Illustrator Pauline Baynes died on August 1st. You can find her obituary here on The Guardian. Jane Yolen called her, "C. S. Lewis’ favorite Narnia illustrator," and if you’ve ever read a Narnia book with the original pen-and-ink illustrations inside then you have seen her work. Thanks to Jane Yolen for the information. Jo Walton over at Tor.com […]
The Graveyard Book By Neil Gaiman Illustrations by Dave McKean Harper Collins $17.99 ISBN: 978-0060530921 Ages 11 and up On shelves September 30th I’ve noticed that there’s been an increased interest in the macabre in children’s literature lately. Sometimes when I’ve had a glass or two of wine and I’m in a contemplative mood I […]