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Press Release Fun: The Grolier Club Celebrates Alice
Because you didn’t truly think The Grolier Club would let the 150th anniversary of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland pass without a word, did you? Alice in a World of Wonderlands: The Translations of Lewis Carroll’s Masterpiece A Celebration of the 150th Anniversary of the Publication of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland at the Grolier Club Alice’s […]
Fusenews: And the tree was moderately amused
Here’s your SAT question for the day: “Making fun of The Giving Tree in a parody is to shooting fish in a barrel as . . .” You may put your response in the comments below. I’ve lived long enough to feel that I’ve seen every possible Giving Tree parody man or woman could imagine. […]
The Quintessential Edition: If You Could Choose Only One Version of Your Favorite Classic Books . . .
I think I’m getting the hang of this whole living-in-Evanston thing. All moves take adjustment, but you know the one thing that makes a transition smoother? Finding a great new bookstore. I was wondering the streets of downtown Evanston when I saw this sign advertising a bookstore down an alley. And while alley walking isn’t […]
Review of the Day: Hypnotize a Tiger by Calef Brown
Hypnotize a Tiger: Poems About Just About Everything By Calef Brown Christy Ottaviano Books, Henry Holt (an imprint of Macmillan) $17.99 ISBN: 978-0-8050-9928-7 For ages 9-12 Why do I do this to myself? Let me tell you something about how I review. Board books? Pshaw. I can take one and write a nine-paragraph review parsing […]
Press Release Fun: Middle Grade Twitter Chat!
This week I received the following piece of info: “Mighty Media Press is hosting and moderating a Twitter chat on August 18th, with six middle grade authors to discuss how middle grade fiction can teach readers about creativity and imagination; and how it helps them confront and solve real-life struggles and conflicts. Our hope is […]
Sordid Taglines: Doing Children’s Lit Classics a Wrong
Moving house, home, and family does something to a woman’s brain. If that woman is me, it makes her ponder great intricacies of life, to say nothing of ballsy marketing plans. And today it all began with this book: I suspect that we Americans are generally more familiar with The Secret Garden as our preferred […]
This Bird Has Flown
Bram Stoker had this to say about Chicago: It, “neither fears the devil nor troubles its head about him and all his works.” So in light of my recent move, and in celebration of this (my first day), I offer the following to you: Goodbye Library (With profuse apologies to Margaret Wise Brown, who would […]
Finding the Funny: The Newbery Award and Various Works of Hilarity
Do funny books get short shrift when award season comes ah-knockin’? It’s not a ridiculous notion. After all, the Oscars are notorious for consistently promoting and lauding saddy sad performances and films over their funnier contemporaries. So I took a gander at some of the recent winners of the Newbery Award (and Honors) and determined […]
Summer Reading Lists: Worst Titles Ever
Recently I was admiring two different but certainly related articles online. The first was Mike Lewis’s Non-Required Summer Reading List, which is just the loveliest little PDF of fun summery read titles. A great list in and of itself. The second piece was the infinitely useful article How Teachers Can Create a Summer Reading List […]
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