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It’s that time again. Like the Bat Signal I’m shooting this image across the blogosphere and I shall continue to do so until we get a goodly quantity of folks noting it. As some of you are aware, this coming Thursday is the Society of Illustrators show here in NYC. There will be a whole […]
Grumpy Bird By Jeremy Tankard Scholastic Press $12.99 ISBN 978-0439851473 Ages 4-8 On shelves now Grumpy Bird and me, we got off to a rough start. I first laid eye on the impossibly irritable fowl one day while traipsing about a local bookstore. There on an upper shelf sat, “Grumpy Bird”. He was grumpy. He […]
Good Sunday to you, poppins. At this moment in time I’m sitting at a table at Columbia University at the New York Times Great Children’s Read. As I soak up what little sun remains of the year, enjoy some videos on my behalf. I’ll have to see this first one when it comes out to […]
The Aurora County All-Stars By Deborah Wiles Harcourt, Inc. $16.00 Ages 8-12 On shelves now Idolizing an author, any author, does no one any good. The reader who expects only pearls of infinite wisdom to drop from the fingertips of their self-appointed god too soon finds that most writers are only human in the end. […]
(CONTINUED FROM PART ONE) Don’t get me wrong. There were things I liked in the book as well. I imagine the character of House being played by a twelve-year-old Gary Cooper. House has the same good-hearted reticence as Cooper, complete with strong short sentences and a kind of basic decency you look for in an […]
HA! Sounds interesting, no? Well before we get to Shaun Tan, let me tell you a little about this here snappy Children’s and Young Adult Literary Cafe we’re starting up at New York Public. Due to the fact that I live in a town where the literary greats have gathered for decades upon decades, it […]
From the official press release: W. W. NORTON ACQUIRES EXTRAORDINARY GRAPHIC MEMOIR BY CALDECOTT MEDAL WINNER DAVID SMALL New York, October 10, 2007—W. W. Norton & Company has acquired world rights, exclusive of Canada, to STITCHES, a brilliant, visually arresting graphic memoir by bestselling, award-winning children’s author and illustrator David Small. This will […]
Don’t believe me? Well the proof is in the pudding. The pudding, in the particular case, being an announcement made on the ALA Editions blog. It’s non-fiction, so don’t get too excited. Library-related non-fiction. Still, it will be fun to get it done. And after that, who knows?
An ALSC blog? It was just a matter of time, my friends. The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), has launched an ALSC blog at http://www.alsc.ala.org/blog/. The blog provides a venue for coverage and interactive discussion of time sensitive news in children’s librarianship, current issues in […]