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Though the primary focus of this particular blog is to look at the books that come out in the current year, I acknowledge that with every passing season, great titles fall through the cracks. They’re forgotten, forlorn, and all but gone once they go out-of-print. Poor babies. So it was that Colleen Mondor had an […]
Someone Named Eva by Joan M. Wolf. Clarion Books (a Houghton Mifflin imprint). $16.00. On shelves now. Don’t blink or you’ll miss it. The arrival of a noteworthy work of historical fiction for kids tends to work one of two ways. Either the marketing machine behind the book hits bookstores and libraries full-force, cramming said […]
(CONTINUED FROM PART ONE) Distinguishing between "nice" and "good" proves to be difficult for most adults I know. Imagine how much harder it would be for a child who misses her mother and has a loving enemy there to give her whatever she wants. If for no other reason, Wolf allows her book to explore […]
I think I overstretched myself last week. Not as much in the realm of video-laden fun came to my attention in the past 7 days. Just one or two pleasing points. So I’m sitting in the movie theater getting ready to see Once (so so so sososo good) and I see this trailer for a […]
Well, it’s Saturday and the temperature is 142 degrees. Earlier this week we were wearing sweaters. Now we’re sweltering before the weather gods. What have we done to anger them so? I will go burn an offering of highly combustible plastic to appease them so that they bring back the San Francisco-like conditions. In the […]
As you may have heard, the CBC recently decided to move Children’s Book Week from November to May. Some people are not happy about the change so here is what CBC Marketing Director Michelle Bayuk had to say of the matter: "Thank you for concern about the change in dates for Children’s Book Week. This […]
Lip Service I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues. Duke Ellington And oh, it does take energy and stubbornness, ‘cause if you laugh, you lose. My cousin warning “You don’t pull in that lip a little bird is gonna come along and do something on it.” The hero of […]
There was no new news yesterday. Not true, but easier than confessing that in the midst of our Summer Reading Party planning madness and a quickie viewing of Stardust last night (the thumbs have turned decidedly upward on that one) I’ve been lazyish. Here are a couple trifles in the meantime. The Wizard of Oz […]
A Crooked Kind of Perfect by Linda Urban. Harcourt, Inc. $16.00. On shelves September 1st. Humor is just so hard in children’s books. You either crash too hard on the adult side of the equation (see: The Manny Files) or you end up going too far the other direction and end up ridiculously scatological (see: […]