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Grab onto your hats, Golden Compass watchers. Here’s what I just found out via Dark Horizons: Reports first emerged early this week, but have now been confirmed – the ending of New Line’s upcoming fantasy adaptation "The Golden Compass" is getting a major overhaul. Director and scribe Chris Weitz revealed on his official blog today […]
I Am Not Joey Pigza By Jack Gantos Farrar, Straus & Giroux (an imprint of Macmillan) $16.00 ISBN: 978-0374399412 Ages 11 and up On shelves now A good author has the ability to piss off their fans. Pissing off fans is a delicate art, though. On the one hand, if you can emotionally engage your […]
Every time I try to slow down my blog posting, fun stuff just sucks me right back in again. Isn’t there some e-mail I should be answering? I was recently alerted that a whole hosting of big big talent will be on display picture book-wise this coming Saturday at Books of Wonder. I can’t go […]
I’m sure some of you suspect that the whole Hot Men of Children’s Literature is just a great way to get some serious marketing done on the part of authors and publishers. Maybe so. Honestly, on this end of the spectrum my primary concern is the deliciousness of the candidates. But that doesn’t mean that […]
How To Proceed When the Eric Carle Museum Asks You to be Their Guest at the 2007 Carle Honors Benefit Dinner and Awards Ceremony: 1. You say "thank you". 2. You go. My experience with benefit dinners was, prior to the Carle Honors last Tuesday evening, limited. Suffice it to say, I’d never been to […]
(CONTINUED FROM PART ONE) Most of the speeches given for the awards were shockingly short and sweet. I wish in a way that I had gotten the guts to go up to recipient Margaret K. McElderry to say hello. If you are unfamiliar with Ms. McElderry’s many accomplishments, allow me to quote the program I […]
A Coyote Columbus Story By Thomas King Illustrated by William Kent Monkman Groundwood Books $6.95 978-0-88899-830-9 Ages 5 and up On shelves now Happy Fiorello H. LaGuardia Day!* One of the perks that came with attending the Kidlitosphere Conference was free goodies. For example, Ellen Klages was kind enough to hand me The Coyote Road: […]
Well, the first official conference of the children and YA literary bloggers has come to a close and it was, not to put too fine a point on it, a roaring success. Now we hit our dilemma. I am now blogging about a conference on blogging. And others, I’ve little doubt, are blogging about blogging, […]
(CONTINUED FROM PART ONE) Here are some of the notes I took during my lurkage. Kidlit Blogging Part 1 definitely brought up some interesting points. Then Mark Blevis and Andrea Ross (Godparents of the kidlit podcast all thanks to their site Just One More Book) spoke on Podcasting 101. They taped the whole thing and […]
(CONTINUED FROM PART TWO) Promotion Ideas for the Kidlitosphere was led by Jen Robinson once the group had reconvened. Jen had some good points and the conversation on this topic was lively. Someone pointed out that there is no online definition of the term "Kidlitosphere", which should really be a top priority. I was a […]