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BLAM!!! And they’re off! Yes, we’re nearing the finish line of the final auction in the Robert’s Snowflake series and money is going down! This week we are going to give you play-by-play coverage on this blog of all the hot snowflake action and which flakes are going where. You had your chance to buy […]
Lord help those of you who rely on inspiration from megalomaniac Manhattan librarians . . . but for those of you who DO, here’s a doozy. This one came at me via author Marlane Kennedy. And no, to the best of my knowledge she does not want to write the tale herself. News story: 6-year-old […]
Kidlit Drink Night is a week from today, sweet tarts. Bring GOOD children’s books for us to give away to charity. Awesome ones. Bring the books that the other kids are going to look at and go ooooooh over. If you’re an author, sign your own book. They’ll undoubtedly think that that’s pretty cool. And […]
The other day Alison Morris at ShelfTalker was discussing my favorite independent children’s bookstore in Minneapolis/St. Paul, The Red Balloon, and it got me to thinking. We all know the film about a boy who finds a red balloon, only to have it popped by other unfeeling kids, right? It looked like this: Well, years […]
I wasn’t always a resident of New York. Nope. In my day I’ve lived in every exotic locations from Richmond, Indiana to Kalamazoo, Michigan. In my travels I’ve also run across my fair share of public art, and I like what I’ve seen. Public art is great. New York really doesn’t have as much of […]
Hoo-boy. Things are coming to a head. I feel I’ve been neglecting my regular news features on that blog and that will just NOT stand. So here, today, I’m going to give you the full complement of everything I could find, with an eye on my character limits. Let’s see if we go over! From […]
Nope. Almost fit everything in, but two little items remained. Here they be: And I’ve come to this a bit late, so if you’ve all already seen this, forgive me. In Where the Wild Things Came From: How Children’s Books Evolved from Morals to Madcap Fun, the online magazine Slate has this odd little slideshow […]
Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood By Ibtisam Barakat Melanie Kroupa Books – FSG $16.00 ISBN: 978-0-374-35733-1 Ages 12 and up On shelves now There aren’t many books on the Palestinian situation available for children, and fewer still that are memoirs. I actually managed to pick up and read Ibtisam Barakat’s, "Tasting the Sky: A […]
(CONTINUED FROM PART ONE) For many kids, the conflict in Palestine is a difficult topic to grasp. That probably goes for teens and adults as well, I’d wager. What Barakat’s book offers is a modest introduction to the history behind some of the troubles via her own personal history. People who would like to include […]
From the press release: The PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship of $5,000 is offered annually to an author of children’s or young-adult fiction. The Fellowship has been developed to help writers whose work is of high literary caliber but who have not yet attracted a broad readership. As a result, an author’s books may not […]