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All right. The fight to prove that picture books can be turned into full-length feature films continues. Thus far, no picture book has ever successfully made the leap from page to screen (though some might count "Shrek"). And since the good doctor is always up for grabs, here’s the trailer for Horton Hears a Who. […]
Evil Genius by Catherine Jinks. Harcourt, Inc. $17.00. On shelves now. Few pleasures are quite as sublime as reading a book, enjoying it, and only afterwards realizing that you’re familiar with the author. Ask me who Catherine Jinks was before I read "Evil Genius" and you’d have met with a blank stare accompanied by some […]
(CONTINUED FROM PART ONE) I mean, I had my reservations about the book too, don’t get me wrong. The man teaching guerrilla tactics at the academy is named Adolf and is nicknamed "The Fuhrer"? Seemed a bit much. And the wrapping up of the school and its gigantic cast of characters (I can’t have been […]
Which, for the record, is fabulous. Michael Cera is, at the tender age of 19, the moral core of America itself. That boy could star in a movie about a guy who blinks at blank white walls and I would watch it. And back on topics we go . . . Alvina spills the dirt […]
Thought I might have run out of poems, but darned if I didn’t find one through mom’s graduate school’s website. Ha HA! The Sow Bear’s Sonnet After that ballot travesty I swore a four year moratorium on news. I waddled into the woods to find a cave, scuffed leaves into a heap and planned to […]
Or something along those lines, anyway. Here are your daily diversions. If you’re anything like me, you wouldn’t naturally gravitate towards something bearing the moniker of The Calvin Festival of Faith and Writing in Grand Rapids. Then you take a gander at their line-up of speakers. Joan Bauer, Barry Moser, John J. Muth (HMOCL possibilities, […]
The Three Cabritos by Eric A. Kimmel, illustrated by Stephen Gilpin. Marshall Cavendish Children’s Books. $16.99. On shelves now. Honesty is a good policy, right? I should be honest with you right from the start then. Ladies and gentlement, I feel no shame when I tell you that I worship at the hallowed shrine of […]
Oodles of caboodles of strudels and noodles for you today…. poodles. Lots of stuff to get through, so let’s make it short and sweet. First and foremost, SPOGG has taken my suggestion (so to speak) for a second name. And with a name like SPOGG, it’s gotta be good. I just found me a new […]
You can’t talk about Australian authors for youth without the name of John Marsden coming up. Sorry. Can’t be done. If we are to believe Something About the Author (Vol. 146) it is because, "First, he is known for not talking down to his audience, fully aware that for many teenagers, life is bleak, challenging, […]
(CONTINUED FROM PART ONE) The Rabbits is the book that drew me the closest to Mr. Marsden. Certainly a fair share of credit goes to Shaun Tan but the writing in this title has a power that is difficult to ignore. For further info, here are Shaun Tan’s comments about The Rabbits as found on […]