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More snowflakes! Go and check them out: Selina Alko at Brooklyn Arden Scott Bakal at Wild Rose Reader Alexandra Boiger at Paradise Found Paige Keiser at Your Neighborhood Librarian Janet Stevens at The Miss Rumphius Effect
As you may recall, the good women of 7-Imp have organized a massive never seen before gathering of the children’s literary blogosphere to support Robert’s Snow, a fundraiser for cancer research. Called Blogging for a Cure, each day for the next few weeks bloggers will be highlighting the snowflakes created by some of the best […]
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 […]