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Cover Reveal: Counting Thyme by Melanie Conklin
Folks sometimes ask me if I’ll ever do cover reveals of debuts. It’s an interesting question. Often the books that I’m doing cover reveals of are by authors or illustrators that I admire. If I’m doing a review of someone new, how do I know they’re any great shakes? I don’t, of course, but sometimes […]
Buttocks — Fiction
Full credit (or blame, depending on how you look at it) goes to MK Eagle and Gretchen Kolderup on this one. It’s a pretty simple post. Hardly worth mentioning . . . except that at heart I think we’re all 10-year-olds. And it’s completely librarian related, so I don’t even know if you’ll be as […]
Review of the Day: Hilo by Judd Winick
Hilo: The Boy Who Crashed to Earth By Judd Winick Random House Children’s Books $13.99 ISBN: 978-0-385-38617-3 Ages 9-12 On shelves September 1st Relentless cheer. You can use it for good. You can use it for evil. You can use it in the name of humor too, but that’s a trickier game to play. I’m […]
Gary Soto, the Art of Not Writing for Children, and the Public Shame Theater
I was flipping through my most recent copy of Horn Book feeling pretty special since I’ve an article in there (“Apples to Elephants: Artists in Animation”) and when I get to the back I see a mention of a book I’ve never heard of before: Why I Don’t Write Children’s Literature by Gary Soto. If […]
Review of the Day: Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer
Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer By Kelly Jones Illustrated by Katie Kath Alfred A. Knopf (an imprint of Random House Children’s Books) $16.99 ISBN: 978-0-385-75552-8 On shelves now The epistolary novel has a long and storied history. At least when it comes to books written for adults. So too does it exist in […]
Press Release Fun: The Summer Camp You Deserve (Highlights!)
As I have in the past, I’ll be speaking at the Highlights Foundation roundabout July 16th, and it really is just the nicest place to be. With that in mind, here’s a cute little infographic the folks made about their summer camp. Come by, come by!
Day of Dialog 2015: Putting the Chaotic Past Into Some Kind of Order
Book Expo’s a funny beastie. For years it existed for the booksellers of America. Librarians? Sure, they could go but we weren’t exactly encouraged to attend. We had our ALA Conferences and that was nice and well and good. But times, they change. The internet appeared. The bloggers congealed (I’m trying to find a better […]
What Makes a Picture Book Mega-Hit?
It’s not that it’s impossible to predict the “next big thing” in children’s literature, but it’s also not exactly a hard science. Indeed, whenever a publisher starts spending beaucoup de bucks on a given title (hardcover f&gs, a serious marketing campaign for a debut author, etc.) I cringe a bit. They’ve made their bets and […]
Five Questions with Kids Comic Authors: Dan Santat!
I’m so pleased to be participating in the Kids Comics Q&A Blog Tour. Today I’m happy to also announce that our interview is coming to us via the multi-talented Jorge Aguirre and Raphael Rosado (they of the books Giants Beware and this year’s Dragons Beware). They’re coming over here to chat with a fairly well-known […]
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