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Four Legs Bad, Two Legs Good! By D.B. Johnson Houghton Mifflin $16.00 ISBN: 978-0618809097 Ages 4-8 On shelves now I remember the first time I saw this book. It was at an American Libraries Association meeting and I was strolling leisurely through the Houghton Mifflin booth on the convention floor. The order in which I […]
I was on vacation until recently (cat and niece are well, thank you) and so my abundant videos are not necessarily on hand. Still, there were a couple links I discovered mere moments before taking off in that jet plane. This first one comes from Children’s Illustration and it is an ideal video to watch […]
Nacky Patcher and the Curse of the Dry Land Boats By Jeffrey Kluger Illustrations by David Elliot Philomel (Penguin imprint) $18.99 ISBN: 978-0399246043 Ages: ???? On shelves now As a children’s librarian who reviews a book or two on the side, I’ve seen my fair share of new titles. And the one thing I almost […]
If you guys got the Special Double Issue of the December 28 – January 4th Entertainment Weekly (and really, who didn’t?) then turn to page 70. It’s the "Celebrity Must List" where famous people talk about the things they like. And look! Isn’t that Julia Roberts? What’s on her "must list"? Could it be . […]
Phooey! By Marc Rosenthal Joanna Cotler Books (Harper Collins imprint) $16.99 ISBN: 978-0060752484 Ages 4-8 On shelves now This will probably mark the fourth time today that I have attempted to sit down and write my review of this book. Attempt #1 was foiled when I looked at the art and was reminded of old […]
Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown! Yep. I’m in Atlanta. Toasting my toes, watching my niece grow. And in keeping with the season I am gonna be good today. Entirely on topic. To begin, check it out. I give you Moomin gingerbread houses all thanks to bookshelves of doom. They’re even holding a raffle for the molds. […]
It began with Philip Nel. It ends with a man no less worthy. Not long ago Roger Sutton’s blog Read Roger featured a long elaborate conversation. And inexplicably, in the course of it, the topic turned to The Hot Men of Children’s Literature. Roger attracts an illustrious crowd. The kind of people for whom this […]
Today I jump on a shiny jet plane and high-tail it to Atlanta, Georgia to stay with my in-laws. While there I intend to: 1. Visit my cat. I gave my in-laws my cat when the creature (named sometimes Larry, sometimes Gimlet, and sometimes Isaac) proved to be too doglike for my tiny Minneapolis apartment. […]
The Black Book of Secrets By F.E. Higgins Feiwel and Friends $14.95 ISBN: 978-0312368449 Ages 9-12 On shelves now The power of the first page. A lot of authors don’t respect it these days. They’ll scribble down the first two mildly exciting sentences that pop into their brains, usually blowing the central conceit of their […]
This week I’m getting a lot of my links from my husband. While I cover children’s literature, he covers screenwriting and graphic novels. Sometimes our interests converge, as they did with a recent link called 10 Best Animated Movies for Traumatizing Kids. Note the appearance of Watership Down. Though, admittedly, it can’t really compete with […]