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Some publishers offer previews, but they like to limit them to a mere season in advance. In the Fall come the Spring/Summer Previews. In the Spring come the Fall/Winter ones, and so on, and so forth. Greenwillow, imprint of Harper Collins, doesn’t play by those rules though, man. They’re rebels. If they want to show […]
(CONTINUED FROM PART ONE) At any rate, the good people at Greenwillow decided to place a single piece of incorrect information up on the board for me to see and like a sap I TOTALLY fell for it. Oh, I’m a ditz. In my defense, I had a very good reason why I believed it. […]
Snowflake o’ rama-rama Cynthia Decker at The Silver Lining Cecily Lang at Kate’s Book Blog Jane Dyer at Whimsy Books Gutierrez at AmoXcalli and Cuentecitos Lee White at Please Come Flying
Howtoons: The Possibilities Are Endless By Saul Griffith and Joost Bonsen Art by Nick Dragotta Harper Collins $15.99 ISBN: 978-0060761585 Ages 9 and up On shelves now Just this past summer my brother-in-law and sister-in-law were in town for a brief little vacation. Whenever relatives come to visit you in New York you end up […]
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you a lightning quick round-up before your very eyes. Don’t blink! You might miss it. It appears to be Children’s Book Week this week. Who knew? Oh. You knew? And you? Shucky darn. Don’t nobody tell me nuthin’. Well let’s celebrate it for all that we’re worth then. I’ll do […]
Come and get ’em! John Nez at ChatRabbit Liza Woodruff at Check It Out Jane Dippold at Just Like the Nut Mike Wohnoutka at laurasalas
Gmail message has picture to use. I’m excited about my ongoing project on Astrid Lindgren: the centennial of her birth is 14 November, and I’ve been celebrating all year with reading, writing, teaching, and travel related to her life and work. I first read _Pippi Longstocking_ when I was nine years old, never dreaming that […]
There was little question regarding which video to open with this week. You see, Brooke of The Brookeshelf has started doing a Video Sunday of her own which thrills me. Why? Because it means that I can find the cool stuff that she has already located and put it on my site as well. Hooray! […]
There was a time in this country when a person could break into a new profession via a fairly generic occupation: greeting cards. It’s thanks to greeting cards that we now have Robert Crumb. And it’s thanks to greeting cards (I consider them the Magic the Gathering of their day, illustrator-wise) that the world discovered […]
(CONTINUED FROM PART ONE) It was about this time that I realized that I didn’t know anybody there. Nada. No one. Where were all the librarians? Here’s a view of how crowded it was: As you can see, it was very busy. Busy and bereft of librarians. You can’t see the wall, but there were […]