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I’ll never learn how to parcel out my blog posts. Never. Here’s an abundance of good stuff then. A Galleycat piece on the recent Katonah Museum of Art panel includes a quote from David Levithan talking about, "the curse of Goodnight Moon." Tell me you wouldn’t read a children’s book with such a title as […]
One more thing. The newest episode of my podcast is up and running. Be sure to check out Deep Dark Caves and Peculiar Truths if you get a chance.
Wow. I miss a week of videos and suddenly I have more than I can handle. Magnificent! Let’s start off with some book trailers then. Leila at bookshelves of doom turned me onto this stellar trailer for a picture book. Scieszka/Lane fans rejoiceth. The time for mixing seafood and flour biscuits is nigh. My friend […]
Mrs. Marlowe’s Mice By Frank Asch Illustrated by Devin Asch Kids Can Press $17.95 ISBN: 978-1-55453-022-9 Ages 4-8 On shelves now I used to think that employing a computer to handle all your illustrating needs in a picture book was a risky proposition. Then we entered into 2007 and suddenly there were books like Bow-Wow […]
The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World By E.L. Konigsburg Ginee Seo Books – Atheneum Books for Young Readers An imprint of Simon & Schuster $16.99 Ages ????? On shelves now A question was posed recently on the Horn Book blog run by Roger Sutton about what it would be like if reviewers never knew […]
(CONTINUED FROM PART ONE) One of the other problems I had with this book was the character of Mrs. Zender herself. The intention here is to display someone eccentric and extraordinary. A person who has her faults but is, in the end, lovable because she is true to herself. And while that may have been […]
I had just such a lovely day yesterday. The patrons were sweet and asked questions that I could actually answer. The children crushed only one Lifesaver candy into our carpet. The weather was soft and sweet, the city full of last minute film shoots, and all was right with the world. Aaaaaaaah. From the Department […]
Running a literary children’s blog requires a certain level of restraint. The person who reviews picture books and middle grade novels and YA titles is going to have a gap in their repertoire here and there. Unless, of course, they do it for a living (which, insofar as I know, is not yet an option). […]
(CONTINUED FROM PART ONE) Oh, but he’s a sweet guy. When I got to the front Perry gave me a great big hug, remembered my name, and even had the first ever Hot Man of Children’s Literature story, which I shall recount here. *ahem* How People Magazine Found Perry Moore Because I do not have […]
Last year I served on the Newbery committee which was fun, awesome, and ultimately very exhausting. Attempting to read every children’s book published in 2006 turned out to be quite a feat. After a while I would notice weird trends in the titles that passed under my nose. Kids who got their hands injured in […]