MORE POSTS FROM APRIL 2010
#5 From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg (1967) (#1)(#1)(#1)(#1)(#1)(#1) (#1)(#1)(#1)(#2)(#2)(#2) (#2)(#3)(#3)(#3)(#3)(#3) (#3)(#3)(#3)(#4)(#4)(#4) (#4)(#4)(#4)(#4)(#4)(#4) (#4)(#4)(#5)(#5)(#5)(#5) (#5)(#5)(#5)(#5)(#6)(#6) (#6)(#6)(#6)(#6)(#6)(#7) (#7)(#7)(#7)(#7)(#7)(#8) (#8)(#8)(#8)(#9)(#9)(#9) (#9)(#9)(#9)(#9)(#9)(#9) (#9)(#10)(#10)(#10) – 409 points Ahh, yes. The book that has warped the way I view museums forevermore. Now when I look at rare antique furniture, I think “would […]
Previews previews, lovely little previews. Previews previews, eat them up. Yum! Or rather, eat AT previews. That’s what I was doing, certainly, while Michelle Bayuk of Albert Whitman & Company (based out of Park Ridge, Illinois, doncha know) showed me their upcoming season. Whiteman’s a smaller company than the folks I usually cover, but I […]
#6 Holes by Louis Sachar (1998) (#1)(#1)(#1)(#1)(#1)(#1) (#1)(#1)(#2)(#2)(#2)(#2) (#2)(#2)(#2)(#2)(#2)(#3) (#3)(#3)(#3)(#3)(#3)(#4) (#4)(#4)(#4)(#4)(#4)(#4) (#5)(#5)(#5)(#5)(#5)(#5) (#6)(#6)(#6)(#6)(#6)(#6) (#7)(#7)(#7)(#7)(#7)(#7) (#7)(#7)(#8)(#8)(#8)(#8) (#8)(#9)(#9)(#9)(#9)(#9) (#9)(#9)(#9)(#10)(#10)(#10) (#10)(#10) – 392 points Perfect in every way. – Aaron Zenz Pitch perfect. – Katie Fee, Associate Marketing Manager, Bloomsbury Children’s Books and Walker Books for Young Readers A perfect story arc with a main character we all […]
THAT is how you make a book trailer, people. Wow. Wowzie wow. I am in awe. Suddenly Cameron Tuttle has brand new fan in me. Pity I don’t read YA. Thanks to Little Willow for the link. On a very different note is this book trailer for a potty etiquette title. I’m liking that music. […]
Well, I was in the Greenwillow offices at Harper Collins the other day when my divine editor Steve Geck showed me the big white board where the date for my upcoming picture book (Giant Dance Party) was slotted. It’s due out Fall 2011! I’m thrilled to pieces. For the last day or so I’ve been […]
#7 The Giver by Lois Lowry (1993) (#1)(#1)(#1)(#1)(#1)(#1) (#1)(#1)(#1)(#1)(#1)(#1) (#2)(#2)(#2)(#2)(#2)(#2) (#2)(#2)(#2)(#3)(#3)(#3) (#4)(#4)(#4)(#4)(#4)(#4) (#4)(#5)(#5)(#5)(#5)(#5) (#6)(#6)(#6)(#6)(#6)(#6) (#7)(#7)(#7)(#7)(#7)(#8) (#8)(#8)(#9)(#10)(#10)(#10) (#10)(#10)(#10)(#10)(#10) – 373 points I still get flashbacks to sitting in 7th grade and hearing Mrs. Morgan read it aloud. And then sharing a copy with my best friend so that we could both find out how it ended […]
#8 The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1911) (#1)(#1)(#1)(#1)(#1)(#1) (#1)(#1)(#1)(#1)(#1)(#2) (#2)(#2)(#2)(#3)(#3)(#3) (#3)(#3)(#3)(#3)(#4)(#4) (#4)(#4)(#4)(#4)(#4)(#4) (#5)(#5)(#5)(#5)(#5)(#5) (#5)(#6)(#6)(#6)(#6)(#7) (#7)(#7)(#7)(#7)(#7)(#7) (#7)(#7)(#8)(#8)(#9)(#9) (#9)(#10)(#10)(#10) – 371 points The Next Whole Earth Catalog described this as “a couple of neurotic kids nursing themselves back to health in a garden,” which just goes to show that every generation finds what they need […]