It’s Monday, Mrs. Jolly Bones! By Warren Hanson Illustrated by Tricia Tusa Beach Lane Books (an imprint of Simon & Schuster) $16.99 ISBN: 978-1-4424-1229-3 Ages 4-7 On shelves March 19th Older children are not big fans of reading about middle-aged adults. That’s just obvious. Unless that adult is a furry woodland creature, of course. Then [...]
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Children’s Literature: The Movie
By on February 6, 2013
CAST: Theodor “Dr. Seuss” Geisel … Daniel Day Lewis Roald Dahl … John Lithgow JK Rowling … Helen Hunt (via Heidi F.) Jack Gantos … Chris Cooper (via Shannon O.) Jerry Spinelli … Sam Waterston (via Erica) Louis Sachar … Larry David (via John S.) Kate DiCamillo … Meg Ryan John Scieszka … Tom Colicchio Daniel “Lemony [...]
Best of 2012 compilation
By on February 5, 2013
There are three sources for the annual best of the best adult books for teens: Booklist Editors Choice Adult Books for Young Adults (listed here; blogged about here), the Alex Awards (listed here; blogged about here), and right here at AB4T – our Best Adult Books 4 Teens, 2012. YALSA has also released the 2013 Alex [...]
Review: Ask the Passengers
By on February 5, 2013
Ask the Passengers by A.S. King. Little, Brown. 2012. Reviewed from ARC from publisher. The Plot: Astrid lives in a small town where everyone knows, or thinks they know, everyone’s business. Everyone judges. So Astrid keeps some things to herself: like that her father is smoking pot. Like how she and her younger sister Ellis are [...]
Review: Hikaru no Go, volumes 1-23
By on February 5, 2013
You wouldn’t think a story about an ancient Japanese game that consists of placing stones on a board would be very exciting. But in the case of Hikaru no Go, you would be very wrong. The writer-artist team of Yumi Hotta and Takeshi Obata created a series of well developed characters and games filled with [...]
Another Gone Girl
By on February 4, 2013
This weekend I happened upon Paul Collins’ essay “Vanishing Act,” about the writing prodigy Barbara Newhall Follett, whose The House Without Windows was published by Knopf in 1927 when the author was twelve. Our own Bertha Mahony loved the book, devoting three pages to it in the February 1927 Magazine. While Follett would go on to publish [...]
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Resources for Black History Month
By on February 4, 2013
I’ve been gathering a few Black History Month resources to share with teachers here at our high school and thought I’d share them here as well. African American History Month, a collaborative government-sponsored site, provides links to primary source-driven lessons from the Library of Congress, the National Archives, the National Gallery, the National Park Service [...]
Brown Bookshelf: 28 Days Later
By on February 4, 2013
It’s Black History Month, and you know what that means! The Brown Bookshelf is celebrating children’s literature with 28 Days Later. From the website: “To celebrate children’s authors and illustrators of color, during the twenty-eight days of Black History Month we’ll profile a different artist. Vanguard artists are those who have paved the way for [...]
Weekly Reviews: New Look Snow White
By on February 4, 2013
Today we have two brief books, each a “fractured fairy tale” version of Snow White. First up, Catherynne Valente’s Six-Gun Snow White shares connections with a couple of recent posts on this site. As the first half of the title should make clear, it shares with Six-Gun Tarot a Western setting, but also partakes of the same intense genre-blending [...]
Review: Fluffy, Fluffy Cinnamoroll Vol. 5
By on February 4, 2013
Fluffy, Fluffy Cinnamoroll Vol. 5 By Yumi Tsukirino Viz Media The fifth volume of this series is also its final volume, and it probably shouldn’t prove all that surprising that at its end it simply stops rather than concludes. Based on a super-simple, super-cute Sanrio character that’s only a few degrees more complicated than [...]
Our Distinguished Judges…
By on February 4, 2013
Fusenews: Aw, pfui
By on February 4, 2013
It is WAY too late in the day for me to be only starting a Fusenews post now. All right, guys. Looks like we’re gonna have to do today double quick time. Sorry, but I’ve a ticking time bomb in the other room (sometimes also known as “my daughter”) and I gotsta gets to bed [...]
Review: Open This Little Book by Jesse Klausmeier
By on February 4, 2013
Open This Little Book By Jesse Klausmeier Illustrated by Suzy Lee Chronicle Books ISBN: 9780811867832 $16.99 Grades PreK-2 In Stores Find it at: Schuler Books | Your Library Some books, you just have to see. When a title like the inventive Open This Little Book arrives, a description alone doesn’t do it much justice. But [...]
More on the Awards
By on February 3, 2013
Someone is wrong on the Internet….
By on February 3, 2013
And haters gonna hate. Conversation online (and by conversation I include both articles and posts as well as social media) can be tricky. We’ve all seen “someone being wrong,” and snark, and hurt feelings, and “that’s not what I said” and “haters gonna hate.” It’s tricky and it’s complex. I know I’ve written things that [...]
List O Mania – Popular Paperbacks and Graphic Novels
By on February 3, 2013
In addition to the Awards announced at the ALA Youth Media Awards, during Midwinter a number of committees work very hard to put together lists. Popular Paperbacks is four themed lists. Those themes this year: Boarding Schools to Summer Camps: “Leaving home to find”; Gowns, Greasepaint and Guitars: “Not the same old song and dance,” I’m New Here Myself: [...]
Preview: Jughead Double Digest #189
By on February 2, 2013
It’s short and sweet today. Here’s the scoop on the latest Jughead Double Digest: It’s time for the big rematch! The ice shuffleboard championship of the universe is on and Archie and Reggie intend to school their Central High rivals good! But when Reggie suffers a sprain that prevents him from playing, it’s up to [...]
American Indian Youth Literature Award
By on February 2, 2013
The American Indian Youth Literature Award is on a two-year cycle. It was announced last year, but because a, I didn’t blog about it then, and b, I’m blogging about Awards and lists now, I’m posting about it now. An explanation from the American Indian Library Association website: “The American Indian Library Association announces the [...]
The First Peanut Gallery for the 2013 Battle
By on February 2, 2013
These Peanut Gallery posts are where we highlight responses to the latest BoB activity. And so here are some celebrating the announcement of the 2013 Contenders and the Brackets. If we missed yours, let us know in the comments and we’ll add them in here.
First of all, if you didn’t see it, be sure to check out SLJ’s “Our Battle of the Kids’ Books Back!.” On the day ALA’s Youth Media Award’s were announced The LibrarYAn, in a post, had this to say:
This morning the brackets for the SLJ Battle of the Kids’ Books were revealed. And something tells me that yesterday’s Youth Media Awards announcements figured into these match-ups.
(A brief interjection from the Battle Commander: Ha and no! We did this way back in early December when the contenders list went to SLJ. And none of us, not even Newbery Committee Member Roxanne, is prescient enough to have known how the awards would play out.)
In “So Much for a Career in Divinations” Jen reflects on previous battles and gears up for this year’s. CBC pinned us on Pinterest. Random Musings of a Bibliophile has a few thoughts about this year’s list of contenders. And there were loads of tweets. (FYI: the hashtag is #sljbob.) Here are a few of them: NewsCLN SLJ Battle of the Books brackets are UP! I’m reading, I’m reading … rebeccazdunn SLJ‘s Battle of the Kids’ Books 2013 Brackets Revealed! The match-ups this …
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Press Release Fun – Middle Grade: Surviving the YA Onslaught
By on February 2, 2013
The Children’s Literary Salon is pleased to announce our next event on Saturday, February 2nd at 2:00 p.m. Middle Grade: Surviving the YA Onslaught Join authors Jeanne Birdsall ( The Penderwicks), N.D. Wilson ( The Dragon’s Tooth), Adam Gidwitz ( In a Glass Grimmly) and Rebecca Stead ( Liar & Spy) for a discussion of [...]
