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Dear Diary, Day One: In the jungles of School Library Journal’s website our first day passed without incident. Granted, there were some truly frightening incidents but my faithful IT guides got us through the worst of it in one piece. I’ve already lost some dear friends along the way, I’m afraid. Colonel Blogroll was the […]
Particularly when they’re better at reporting on something than you are. Flee me and go read the Big A little a piece on England’s brand spanking new British Children’s Laureate. I can’t imagine a person in the world who’d be displeased that the winner is (dum dum da dum!) Michael Rosen. His Sad Book is […]
I’m as big a Harry Potter fan as the next guy, don’t get me wrong. But am I the only one who finds the whole Make Your Own Death Eater Mask part of the Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix website a bit… gruesome? Kind of makes people play the part of Death […]
Deep shame filters through my soul. Shame based on the fact that because I fell down on the job you, gentle viewer, may have never seen the pen-and-ink wizardry of one Ruth McNally Barshaw. Perhaps you never saw her remarkable encapsulation of the 2007 SCBWI Conference or knew that she penned Ellie McDoodle: Have Pen, […]
Why, hello there. Don’t mind me. I’m just going to poke and prod around the place. Get a feel for it. Test the floors. Check the locks. Bounce about on the sofa cushions. You know. Really dig in. Change is scary but this is a nice little place for A Fuse #8 Production and I’m […]
So I’m in my library, minding my own business, and who should walk through the door but none other than newly minted fresh-as-a-daisy YA author Jay Asher! Such a nice fellow. I don’t usually note the nice guests to my library on my blog, but Jay has presented a fabulous encapsulation of the 4 Days […]
No, really! If you’ve a spare $1,200 to $1,800 floating about in your pocket, of course. I was recently drawn to a little place called Illustration House here in New York City. If you select the Index By Artist you may note that a couple big name children’s illustrators are up for purchase. The aforementioned […]
Bookninja recently turned me onto a great article in the Guardian Unlimited called The name of the prose: what makes a great title? It’s a worthy question. Children’s book titles have to walk a delicate line. Too looney and parents and children might both be turned off. Too subtle and everyone remembers your book’s plot […]
As first paragraphs go, this one from another recent Guardian article takes the cake: Appointed as "ambassadors" of that most wholesome of sanctuaries – children’s books – the four children’s laureates have now been penetratingly transformed in holographic portraits unveiled this week at the Unicorn Theatre for Children in south London. The four lucky laureates […]
So I’m in my library, minding my own business, and who should walk through the door but none other than newly minted fresh-as-a-daisy YA author Jay Asher! Such a nice fellow. I don’t usually note the nice guests to my library on my blog, but Jay has presented a fabulous encapsulation of the 4 Days […]