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Tag: Summer 2011 books
Review of the Day: The Princess and the Pig by Jonathan Emmett
The Princess and the Pig By Jonathan Emmett Illustrated by Poly Bernatene Walker & Co. (a division of Bloomsbury) $16.99 ISBN: 978-0-8027-2334-5 Ages 4-8 On shelves now The princess craze is a relatively new phenomenon. I’m sure that little girls have pretended to be princesses for as long as the occupation has existed, but the […]
Librarian Preview: Egmont (Summer/Fall 2011)
I just searched my archives to see if I ever made a “monted eggs” joke in conjunction with Egmont USA. To my chagrin, I did that very thing during the last Egmont preview. Gah. I hate being so predictable that even I can figure out what old jokes I’ll be pulling out at a given […]
Librarian Preview: Penguin Young Readers Group (Summer 2011)
I’d been feeling a bit guilty about Penguin recently. If my calculations are correct (and I think that they are) I haven’t been to a Penguin preview since April of 2010. The timing just never worked out! I do hold down a 9-5 job in the library, after all, so angling my free days to […]
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Librarian Preview: Egmont (Spring & Summer 2011)
All right! Egmont time! A time for monted eggs (wait . . . . what?). Yes, Egmont doesn’t always put on a librarian preview, but once in a while they do and I was pleased to partake of their copious heaps of cheese (cheese = always good) when seeing the latest titles they have on […]
Librarian Preview: Little Brown and Company (Spring 2011)
“I’m feeling very refreshed because I just washed my hands with the mouthwash in the bathroom.” When one finds oneself invited to a librarian preview at the Yale Club for the Little Brown Spring/Summer 2011 season, it is useful to remember the following: – Do not appear in jeans. I know it is your day […]
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