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It’s All Relative: An Unexpected Trend in What We Value
Children find great comfort in absolutes. That which is right and that which is wrong. But the world we live in is filled with gray. It's chock full of different perspectives and points of view. So kids would do well to learn how to consider something, whether it's a number, a time of day, or a snowy sky, from a multitude of angles. A list of 2019 books for our times.
2015: The Year of the Spiders and the Flies
Let’s face facts. When doing a trendwatch piece, it’s almost impossible to top Travis Jonker’s 2014 bit of brilliance 2014: The Year of the Whale. Prior to that piece I had done The Year of the Chloe, The Year of the Jackalope, and The Year of the Raven. And now, in 2015, I’m calling it […]
Trendwatch: Tweet Tweet. Year of the Bird.
I don’t do all that many trendwatch posts on this site, if only because it’s impossible to keep track of them all. One minute you’re seeing tons of picture books involving whales. Another minute you’re noticing more than one book about encouraging your pet to become atheist (see this and this). If you do notice […]
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Fusenews: Shelve the books but shelve them slant
“I just finished a poem where St. Francis and St. Clare double-date with Thoreau and Evita and it just makes me very happy.” My mother was the winner of the 2011 Prairie Schooner Book Prize because she is as good as it gets. No brag. Just fact. Prairie Schooner recently interviewed her as well and […]
Fusenews: She could be Fuse #8.1
Okey-doke. So today we begin with an addendum. I believe that it was not long ago that with the announcement of the new Printz Award blog Someday My Printz Will Come I mentioned its existence without acknowledging that there may have been another and previously existing Printz Award blog out there. Well slap my sides […]
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