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iPad Use and Babies: Throwing a Wrench in the Works
I think we all uttered a collective scream as one when news of this particular Fisher Price toy came to our attention this holiday season past: It’s called the Newborn-to-Toddler Apptivity Seat and out of curiosity I wondered if it was still on the market. Indeed it is, and the comments on Amazon make for [...]
Review of the Day: The Fox and the Crow by Manasi Subramaniam
The Fox and the Crow By Manasi Subramaniam Illustrated by Culpeo S. Fox Karadi Tales $17.95 ISBN: 978-81-8190-303-7 Ages 4 and up On shelves now In the classic Aesop fable of The Fox and the Crow where do your loyalties lie? You remember the tale, don’t you? Long story short (or, rather, short story shorter) [...]
Press Release Fun: Voting Now Open for the 7th Annual Children’s and Teen Choice Book Awards!
So I don’t know if you’ve been following but there’s been quite a sane, collected, interesting discussion going on in my last Press Release about the CBC’s Children’s and Teen Choice Book Awards. Long story short, Rush Limbaugh’s book was nominated and folks are debating the merits or demerits of its inclusion. I feel like [...]
Librarian Preview: Simon & Schuster (Summer 2014)
Foof! It’s been a while! At least it feels like it has. For whatever reason I haven’t posted a good Simon & Schuster Preview since . . . um . . . since their Spring 2011 list was premiered. Whoopsie! Let’s make up for lost time then. First off, Simon & Schuster does their librarian [...]
Video Sunday: And to think . . .
And here I thought that Dr. Seuss films began with The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T and those short animated specials and ended with stuff like the CGI fests we’re seeing in theaters practically every year. Not so! Good old stop-animation also has had a hand in Seuss’s silver screen career. Interestingly, this is the [...]
Fusenews: Abundant Smart Cookies
Oh, what fun we shall have now that the weather is better. Here in New York spring sprang yesterday and all the New Yorkers, as one, exhaled in relief. We are perfectly aware that it can’t last (can anything?) but we’re enjoying it while we can. So sit back and glue your eyes to a [...]
Press Release Fun: The CBC and the 2014 Children’s Choice Book Awards
As some of you may have heard, the Children’s Book Council has recently been answering a lot of questions about their Children’s Choice Book Awards recently. More specifically, the fact that their Author of the Year category includes one Rush Limbaugh. I’d first heard about this on the child_lit listserv where questions and concerns were [...]
Review of the Day – Firefly July: A Year of Very Short Poems selected by Paul B. Janeczko
Firefly July: A Year of Very Short Poems Selected by Paul B. Janeczko Illustrated by Melissa Sweet Candlewick Press $16.99 ISBN: 978-0-7636-4842-8 Ages 4-8 On shelves now Is reviewing works of poetry essentially a ridiculous thing to attempt? I’m not trying to be facetious or anything, I honestly want to know. It took me a [...]
Newbery / Caldecott 2015: Spring Prediction Edition
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Yes, folks, it’s that time of year again. Just when you had a spare moment to catch your breath after all that award craziness, I come in with my wheelbarrow of 2015 predictions ready to dump them on your proverbial lap whether you want them or not. And on a holiday [...]
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