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Posts like these make my software go funky. Lots of characters, pictures and links. I predict this will take 15 separate postings. Give or take. Mmm. Harper Collins. Housing its preview within the News Corp building, it’s a unique place to visit. The kind of building where you have to tell the elevators where you’re […]
(CONTINUED FROM PART ONE) Quickly before the bell rang, Table #2 told us about K. Applegate’s upcoming early chapter series Roscoe Riley Rules which is being sold as a kind of "Junie B. Jones for boys". We were told that it was difficult to find books of this sort for boys that didn’t include superpowers. […]
( CONTINUED FROM PART TWO) DING! Table #4 was for Elise Howard, Tara Weikum, and Farrin Jacobs. It was the first table to talk about its books in the order that they were printed on the Powerpoint handout. Extra points to them then. This table indulged less in sequels and more in books that continue […]
(CONTINUED FROM PART THREE) No sequels here . . . . oh, who’m I kidding? Of course there were sequels! One good and one unsurprising. The first was the sequel to Swordbird by Nancy Yi Fan called Sword Quest. Of course. The other (and I was excited to see this, even though I never read […]
(CONTINUED FROM PART FOUR) Another example of this was the newly reprinted Caldecott Honor title Marshmallow by Clare Turlay Newberry. It’s pretty cute, I have to say. Initially Harper Collins had to stop reprinting this book because the pages were too big to fit on the … uh …. printing machines (I don’t understand the […]
(CONTINUED FROM PART FIVE) There’s an interesting title on the horizon called Declare Yourself, concerning itself with why voting matters. The group that has written the book intends to register every 18-year-old by the next election. Neat. Kevin Henkes has written an "Olive’s Ocean for boys" called Bird Lake Moon. And the award for Best […]
More snowflakes. Please be so good as to check them out: Carin Berger at Chasing Ray Sophie Blackall at not your mother’s bookclub Erik Brooksat Bildungsroman Marion Eldridgeat Chicken Spaghetti Brian Liesat Greetings from Nowhere
Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow By James Sturm Illustrated by Rich Tommaso Jump at the Sun (Hyperion imprint) The Center for Cartoon Studies ISBN: 978-0786839018 $9.99 Ages 9 and up On shelves now. Graphic novel biographies are touch-and-go affairs. For example, Houdini: The Handcuff King by Jason Lutes and Nick Bertozzi did little for […]
Daily snowflakes, people. Go forth and check them out. Monday, October 22 Rose Mary Berlinat Charlotte’s Library Christopher Demarestat Writing and Ruminating David Macaulayat Here in the Bonny Glen Mark Teagueat The Miss Rumphius Effect Sharon Vargoat Finding Wonderland
This week it seems appropriate to begin with a tribute to the Robert’s Snow snowflakes that will be coming up for auction soon. Thanks to Goading the Pen for the link. That’s a rather Christmassy way to begin this week’s videos, of course. Let’s get into the Halloweenish frame of mind then, eh? According to […]