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Review of the Day: The Meanest Birthday Girl by Josh Schneider
The Meanest Birthday Girl By Josh Schneider Clarion Books (an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) $14.99 ISBN: 978-0-547-83814-4 Ages 6-9 On shelves now. Life is easier when you can categorize it. When you can slot it in a distinct category and reduce everything to black and white terms. Gray is problematic and messy, after all. [...]
Don’t Cry, Darling, It’s Blood All Right
I was recently delighted to find myself a guest of a friend at Martha’s Vineyard this past Labor Day weekend. Not having been before I didn’t really know what to expect. On the whole my family and I found the weekend sublime and tasty, as lobsters are common there and very cheap to eat. The [...]
Librarian Preview: minedition (Winter 2013 / Spring 2014)
I do declare that it has been something like a year since I did a good old-fashioned Librarian Preview. Where has the time gone? For a bit I was so overwhelmed by the sheer amount of work such a preview requires that I cut them out of my diet, cold turkey. Well that ends today. [...]
Special Book Trailer Reveal: Sky Jumpers by Peggy Eddleman
Ah, trailer premiers! They only come along once in a while but they’re often quite nice to see. Today we have the privilege of hosting the world premier of of the book trailer for Peggy Eddleman’s Sky Jumpers. I’m partial to this one, possibly because it feels like Land of the Lost to me, what [...]
Review of the Day: Ben Rides On by Matt Davies
Ben Rides On By Matt Davies A Neal Porter Book, Roaring Brook Press (an imprint of Macmillan) $16.99 ISBN: 978-1-59643-794-4 Ages 3-7 On shelves now. The cartoonist as great children’s book author is not a given. Consider the sad case of Berkeley Breathed, for example. He achieved levels of unattainable brilliance when he penned Bloom [...]
Fusenews: Like a common peasant
They say that there are more children’s book authors and illustrators in Brooklyn than any other city in the nation. How appropriate then that they should be the ones behind the inaugural Atlantic Avenue Children’s Literature Contest. The rules are simple: If you have never written a published children’s book then you are eligible. You [...]
Review of the Day: Farmer Will Allen and the Growing Table by Jacqueline Briggs Martin
Farmer Will Allen and the Growing Table By Jacqueline Briggs Martin Illustrated by Eric-Shabazz Larkin Readers to Eaters Books ISBN: 978-0-9836615-3-5 $17.95 Ages 4-8 On shelves September 10th It shouldn’t be this hard. You walk to a biography section of a children’s room, any children’s room, and you start searching for biographies of living people [...]
The New National Ambassador of Young People’s Literature: Who’s It Gonna Be?
There must be a psychological disorder associated with an extreme preference for speculation over cold hard facts. Or, at the very least, a layman’s term for it. But until I research this fully, let us indulge my proclivities and talk a little about the National Ambassador of Young People’s Literature and all that it entails. [...]
Video Sunday: If I could chose my own cool library name I’d go with “In Transit”
A conservative estimate would say that around seven people sent me this particular video this week. A hat tip to every last person who set out to alert then. I wasn’t necessarily going to make a Video Sunday this week, but after watching this I just couldn’t pass this up. The editing, man, the editing!! [...]
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