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A couple days ago I got this e-mail from author Rose Kent, that I would like to share with you. Rose says this far better than I ever could: I know that many bloggers like you use your hearts & your minds when chosing content, so I am passing on that November is National Adoption […]
Regular readers of this blog will recall that on the first of every month I give away ARCs to people willing to receive them in the mail. This month I present to you the following titles that were reviewed or mentioned on this site in the past 30 days. The books are: Satchel Paige: Striking […]
After a gander at the achingly beautiful Artist to Artist: 23 Major Illustrators Talk to Children about Their Art, Roger Sutton poses the following query: "But I couldn’t help noticing that only five of the twenty-three artists included are women. Having no idea if this representation is proportional, I compared it to the last 23 […]
A little about myself. I am the kind of person who finds a link out of season and then clings to it for months on end, just waiting for the right time of year to pop up. As such, I’ve had this link to the skeletal systems of cartoon characters for almost a full year. […]
. . . . normal news. Depending on your definition of "normal". Depending too on your definition of "news". From Cynopsis: Kids!: Ballet Shoes (1×95) is a family drama produced by Granada for the BBC . Based on author Noel Streatfeild’s 1936 book Ballet Shoes , the movie stars Emma Watson (ya know Hermione from […]
And, of course, here are today’s snowflakes. Shawna Tenney at Kate’s Book Blog Adam Rex at Booktopia and Welcome to my Tweendom Mo Willems at MotherReader Rolandas Kiaulevicius at a wrung sponge
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow By Gris Grimly Atheneum (S&S imprint) $16.99 ISBN: 978-1416906254 Ages 5 and up On shelves now You ever get that feeling where a book comes out and your immediate reaction is, “WELL, IT’S ABOUT BLOODY TIME!”? I tend to get this feeling only about books that it never would have […]
(CONTINUED FROM PART ONE) Let’s admit something together right now. A certain strain of American has probably seen the Disney version of the "Legend of Sleepy Hollow" at least once in their lives. As such, certain images and phrases from this book have a hard time separating themselves from that oddly faithful (just our luck) […]
Monsters are as big a part of Halloween as ghosts, vampires, and pumpkins. They feed off of our fears and they’ve been around for quite some time. Today, an interview with Nina Hess. She is the author of A Practial Guide to Monsters. Fuse #8: The rise in guides to magical creatures of one sort […]
The newest podcast for A Fuse #8 Production: Podcast Edition is live and there are some changes. First, I am now saving these files as MP3 files, which are far easier to download than previous shows have been. Second, instead of doing book reviews (which aren’t particularly original or interesting) I will now be doing […]