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Morning Notes: News About News Edition
THIS IS NOT MY FUSE NEWS Ok, stay with me here. The other day I noticed that I have a channel called Fuse and that they do a show called Fuse News. This may be funny (alright, mildly amusing) to librarians because the excellent blog A Fuse #8 Production does a weekly children’s lit link [...]
Ye Olde Scope Notes: What’s With All the Exclamation Marks?!
(Waving a rickety old cane in the air) In my day, no one spoke in the library – they couldn’t! Libraries were sealed and the oxygen was pumped out, creating a vacuum! And now look what we’ve come to – every picture book seems to end in an exclamation mark. Librarians, all this merriment is [...]
Kate DiCamillo Live!
Children’s lit living legend Kate DiCamillo kicked off the tour for her latest, Flora & Ulysses, with a long-form (and fascinating) interview in front of a live audience at the Fitzgerald Theater in downtown St. Paul. The fine folks at Minnesota Public Radio put it up for us all to hear. (Thanks to Publishers Weekly [...]
How I Get My Kicks
My students are always excited when a new Pete the Cat book comes out. I think we can all agree that the blue cat is a phenomenon. I too am full of excitement when a new Pete hits shelves – for my students, of course, but for another reason as well. I look forward to [...]
Books on Film: Conservative Children’s Lit with Stephen Colbert
You’ve heard about the Rush Limbaugh children’s book, right? Whether democrat or republican, I think we all can agree to quietly drop our heads into our hands and begin shaking¹. Stephen Colbert recently used Limbaugh’s book as an opportunity to look at some other conservative children’s lit (and also get in on the action himself). [...]
Notes on September 2013
In September… …we number-crunched the Newbery Medal. I broke out the calculator and learned a few things about John’s Bronze (just a new Newbery Medal nickname I’m trying out). So You Want to Win the Newbery (Part I) So You Want to Win the Newbery (Part II) What Are the Chances You’ll Win Another Newbery? [...]
#Holdshelf Over There
In order to see what kids are lining up to read, The Bill Clinton of Children’s Literature (John Schumacher) and I host a monthly gallery of hold shelf pictures. This month the gallery (including my Jane Mount-inspired illustrated shelf) is over at John’s blog Watch. Connect. Read. Click here to hear on over and have [...]
Morning Notes: Green Eggs Edition
WHEN SEUSS AND POLITICS COLLIDE I’m a sucker for seemingly standard news stories where children’s literature unexpectedly pops up. That’s just what happened when Sen. Ted Cruz read Green Eggs and Ham from the Senate floor Tuesday night in the midst of an all-night speech against Obamacare. This seemingly incongruous choice of books (since Green [...]
Squirrels on Skis by J. Hamiton Ray
Squirrels on Skis By J. Hamilton Ray Illustrated by Pascal Lemaitre Random House ISBN: 9780449810811 $8.99 Grades K-2 In Stores Find it at: Schuler Books | Your Library Early readers hold the power to hook kids at a crucial time in their reading lives. But I sometimes find myself reacting to them with hesitation. What’s [...]
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