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It’s like the bat signal. Only more circular and delicious. So Cheryl Klein had this magnificent idea. Kidlit Drink Night as a force for good. In short, we’re going to have a Holiday Kidlit Drink Night at a new location with a new purpose. Here are the elemental details: Holiday Kidlit Drinks Night December 10, […]
A week and a half ago was a busy time. The arrival of the NCTE Conference in town led to a significant influx of authors and their kin. In the course of that week-end there was a Brian Jacques event at the Campbell Apartment, a dinner with Gary Schmidt, a Kidlit Drink Night at Faces […]
(CONTINUED FROM PART ONE) Outside the kidlit purview, I met the delightful Keith DeCandido, son of GraceAnne DeCandido and heir to the DeCandido throne. Or something along those lines. Keith’s sort of the go-to guy in terms of Star Trek novels and Buffy ones as well. I met (hastily checks the cards now swimming merrily […]
Iggy Peck, Architect By Andrea Beaty Illustrated by David Roberts Abrams Books for Young Readers $15.95 ISBN: 978-0810911062 Ages 4-8 On shelves now You are a children’s librarian. Your job is simple. People ask you for books. You find books. People ask you for movies. You find movies. It’s all pretty basic, really. You get […]
A big thank you going out to the students of Jill Ratzan at Rutgers University. Liz Burns of Tea Cozy and I were their guests just last night and they couldn’t have been kinder hosts. Personally, I would find the required reading aspect of my blog to be akin to sheer torture. That you guys […]
And things were going so well. This week I got my informational packet from the good people running the SCBWI Conference in Seattle. Their 17th Annual Writing and Illustrating for Children Conference is happening this coming April and I will be speaking three (count ’em) THREE times at one hour apiece. So I glanced at […]
From the press release: MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR MADELEINE L’ENGLE AT THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF SAINT JOHN THE DIVINE ON WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 28 AT 4PM A memorial service for author Madeleine L’Engle will be held at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine on November 28th, 2007 at 4pm. L’Engle, author of more than […]
Co-worker Rebecca finds Sherman Alexie swoonable. Well, swoon it up, Rebecca! That was from bookshelves of doom. Come to think of it, so’s this one. Gosh I love people who make my job easy. This is a live action version of Quidditch. The kid in yellow is the snitch. Apparently instead of just catching him, […]
Zee fam-o-lee is still in town, so I’ve just a couple choice nuggets for you today: A third grade teacher wrote me the other day with a query that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. We all know those Scholastic book clubs they have in the schools. Perhaps we even have fond […]
With the Light: Raising an Autistic Child By Keiko Tobe Yen Press (a Little Brown & Co. imprint) $14.99 ISBN: 978-0759523562 For ages 10 and up On shelves now A show of hands. Don’t be nervous. This is standard operating procedure where I come from. Now, how many of you out there have read a […]