Today, I’m pleased to say that I have a guest post for Show Me The Awesome. Give a warm welcome to Leigh Woznick! Leigh Woznick: I am a middle school librarian/media specialist, excited to participate in the “Show Me the Awesome” initiative by Kelly Jensen, Sophie Brookover, and Liz Burns. Thanks to designer John LeMasney [...]
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Weekly Reviews: The Ones that Got Away
By on May 20, 2013
Cover Reveal: Jughead Double Double Digest #196
By on May 20, 2013
The Archie Comics folks have something new going on this year: Each of their Double Digests will double in size, to 320 pages, for one of their releases. Chris Sims took a look at the Archie Double Double Digest for Comics Alliance, and it’s a handful. As I’m a big Jughead fan, I was thrilled [...]
BEA One Stop Shopping: What to See and Do That’s YA & JUV
By on May 20, 2013
Howdy, folks! I can’t take full credit for today’s post since it was my ineffable co-worker Alison Hendon who took the time to cull together all the stuff at this month’s upcoming Book Expo that is children and YA book related. If you have any interest at all in attending but you’re not quite sure [...]
Show Me The Awesome Week 4
By on May 19, 2013
For those readers who are new to the blog or to Show Me The Awesome: Show Me The Awesome: 30 Days of Self-Promotion is being co-hosted by Sophie Brookover, Kelly Jensen & myself for people in library land to share the things they’ve done. It can be about promoting something specific, or about how to [...]
Review of the Day: Hold Fast by Blue Balliett
By on May 18, 2013
Hold Fast By Blue Balliett Scholastic $17.99 ISBN: 978-0545299886 Ages 9-12 I honestly don’t think you can be a reviewer without being honest about your own personal prejudices first. When I pick up a book for children I have to cut through a thick swath of issues infecting my brain that may have little to [...]
Preview: Lego Ninjago, vol. 7: Stone Cold
By on May 18, 2013
The saga of Lego Ninjago continues—no, really!—as our little interlocking-block warriors face off against the evil Stone Warriors in Lego Ninjago, vol. 7: Stone Cold, out this Wednesday in finer bookstores everywhere. Here’s a preview to get …
The Chocolate War Wrap Up
By on May 18, 2013
My The Chocolate War posts: Chapters One to Ten. Chapters Eleven to Twenty. Chapters Twenty One to Thirty. Chapters Thirty One to Thirty Nine. My Review. Let me say: I really enjoyed this reading! Not just reading The Chocolate War; but also doing it as a group; and sharing these posts. And I also liked [...]
Graphic Novel Review: On the Ropes
By on May 17, 2013
from graphic novel guest blogger, Francisca Goldsmith: The Empathy Muscle Vance and Berger practice storytelling and visual art in a manner that brings immediacy to history and universality to distinctly detailed fictional characters. The influences of politics, economics and individual chance all have as much bearing on what we can and do make of ourselves [...]
Networking and the incoming class of 2017
By on May 17, 2013
The deposit checks are in the mail but the college buzz is buzzier than ever. Having survived the arduous college admissions process, our seniors are now taking full advantage of their opportunities to negotiate the social landcape of their newly selected school well before they land on campus in late August. They are so much [...]
Review: The Chocolate War
By on May 17, 2013
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier. Random House. 1974. (over the years, many reprints and imprints!) Library copy. The Plot: Trinity is a school ruled by an elite clique, The Vigils, and the person who runs that clique is Archie Costello. Archie creates “assignments” for his fellow students: various stunts and pranks. Jerry is a [...]
This Week’s Comics: Double the Boom!
By on May 17, 2013
If you like to wait for trade paperbacks, this week’s list is a treasure trove of titles! The fifth trade for Mega Man comes out this week from Archie Comics. BOOM! Studios has two for the adventurer and cat lover with the collection of Adventure Time: Marceline and the Scream Queens and Garfield, and IDW [...]
The Taylor Lautner Problem: When Heartthrobs Go Missing in the Library
By on May 17, 2013
A message to Taylor Lautner: stop being so handsome will ya? It seems like any time your flawless mug appears on a book cover in my school library, it goes M.I.A. It happened last year with this book… …and now it’s happened again. I’m calling it The Taylor Lautner Problem (not to be confused with [...]
Jane Austen, Edtech, and the Promise of ‘Theatrics’
By on May 16, 2013
“A narrative experience like ‘The Lizzie Bennet Diaries’ is compelling in part because of the great bones of Austen’s story and characters, for sure. But equally compelling is the story form, the opportunity for consumers to engage deeply with those characters…”
What’s on YOUR list?
By on May 16, 2013
Katie Bircher and Elissa Gershowitz bring you our annual list of summer reading recommendations for kids. Strictly recreational, of course, and librarians are welcome to place a “COMMON-CORE FREE!” sticker on the PDF. What about your own reading? I’m juggling audio editions of The Woman Upstairs and Inferno on my phone; The Oracle Glass and [...]
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The Chocolate War: Read A Long Part 4
By on May 16, 2013
Now, the next part of my readalong of The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier. Previously: Chapters One to Ten. Chapters Eleven to Twenty. Chapters Twenty One to Thirty. Chapter Thirty One Jerry recognizes the bullies and is confronted by Janza. And, wait, really? “You live in the closet.” This is the big insult? “He wanted [...]
Links: A Flurry of First Second books
By on May 16, 2013
Dave Roman discusses his new release, Astronaut Academy: Re-Entry, the sequel to his first Astronaut Academy book. Here’s a sample to get you started: I pitched “Astronaut Academy” to First Second as two books, because a futuristic space station school is filled with endless possibilities. Book 1 establishes a world where people (like characters in [...]
Fusenews:
By on May 16, 2013
First off, I have to suspect that after this week my blogging stats will be fairly healthy. First I wondered whither the 2013 middle grade black boys and then Sophie Blackall let me become the repository for some truly fantastic stories. Doubling back to that question about diversity in 2013 middle grades, author Varian Johnson [...]
California Core
By on May 15, 2013
I had a great time at the Children’s Literature Council of Southern California Spring Workshop last Saturday in South Pasadena. Kristin Fontichiaro and I each spoke about the Common Core State Standards, she offering a great perspective on the ways school and public librarians can support CCSS curriculums while I pondered what effects and implications [...]
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Welcoming ‘Sanditon’…and a Whole New Level of Fan Participation
By on May 15, 2013
“Fans will not only have the opportunity to interact with the story, but actually be a part of it.”
