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Roger has announced that the very first Horn Book podcast is up and running at the moment. You may listen to the melodious strains of his voice at your leisure. When Bookninja linked to this he decided to call it horror writing for children. You may test the appropriateness of the title on your own […]
Nope. Nothing underrated here today. For a bit of the old how’s-your-mother, I recommend that you check out the blogs listed below. What else are you gonna do, after all? It’s only Wednesday. WEDNESDAY A Chair, A Fireplace & A Tea Cozy: The President’s Daughter series by Ellen Emerson White Big A, little a: The […]
The Professor’s Daughter by Joann Sfar. Illustrated by Emmanuel Guibert. First Second (an imprint of Roaring Brook Press). $16.95. Ages 11 and up. The romantic implications behind classic horror monsters are usually explored only when horror remains the primary focus and romance a secondary characteristic. There are exceptions to this rule, but they tend to […]
(CONTINUED FROM PART ONE) I’d not seen Guibert’s art before, but after reading this book I feel I should seek him out. For example, I enjoyed how the colors in this book shift at the most interesting moments. At first, everything is all brown sepia. As if we’re watching a photograph from the time period […]
I received my degree in library and information science in a small midwestern college going by the name of St. Catherine. Librarianship was one of those occupations I fought against. I was the kid who made a cataloging system for the family videotapes. Who tried to work out a pre-computer list of searchable terms for […]
First KT Horning (former president of ALSC, doncha know) goes and makes a blog called Worth the Trip. Cooler still, it’s a gay children/YA book blog AND AND AND she features the newest Pija Lindenbaum book in a recent post. A book I would rather like to get my hands on. *cough cough* Thanks to […]
Time to bring even more recommended books. Go wild with the choices we are offering: TUESDAY A Chair, A Fireplace & A Tea Cozy: A discussion of author Ellen Emerson White and why she is "under the radar" Big A, little a: Ingo by Helen Dunmore Jen Robinson’s Book Page: The Changeling and The Velvet […]
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 […]