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Fusenews: “Red Nine doth here stand by”
Me stuff. You have been warned. So the first thing to know today is that this coming Saturday I’ll be speaking at the Eric Carle Museum about Wild Things: Acts of Mischief in Children’s Literature. It will prove to be an amusing talk and if you live in the area I’d desperately love it if [...]
Historical Accuracy in Illustration: Shifting Standards or Stubborn Certainties?
There’s been a lot of talk about accuracy in children’s nonfiction recently (which is just a fancy way of saying that there’s been a lot of talk on this particular blog). Everything from invented dialogue to series that are nonfiction-ish. One element we haven’t discussed in any way, shape, or form though is the notion [...]
Press Release Fun: Honoring William Steig and Atha Tehon
Creating Children’s Books: Collaboration and Change A Symposium in Honor of William Steig and Atha Tehon http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/childrensbooks_symposium.html Creating Children’s Books: Collaboration and Change honors the contributions of William Steig and Atha Tehon to the world of children’s literature during late-twentieth and early-twenty-first centuries. The symposium will explore the creation of children’s books from both the [...]
Columbus Day? Direct Thine Attention Hence
So I’m sitting at a Tri-Library Book Buzz event in NYC the other day, which is basically this massive librarian preview event where publishers of every stripe hock their wares in a lickety-split fashion. I like to go because it lets me see a lot of the little publishers who don’t get a lot of [...]
Video Sunday: Dancing in the Stacks
A veritable plethora of dancing librarians greet you this weekend. Now I’ll be the first to say that if you’re going to have librarians or library patrons dancing in a video then the video has to be pretty darn impressive in some way. Life’s too short otherwise. But thing is, these folks are pretty extraordinary. [...]
Review of the Day: Water Rolls, Water Rises: El Agua Rueda, el Agua Sube by Pat Mora
Water Rolls, Water Rises: El Agua Rueda, el Agua Sube By Pat Mora Illustrated by Meilo So Children’s Book Press (an imprint of Lee & Low Books) $17.95 ISBN: 978-0892393251 Ages 4-8 On shelves now. Sometimes I wonder what effect the televised ephemera I took in as a child has had on my memories and [...]
Press Release Fun: The Grolier Club Presents “One Hundred Books Famous in Children’s Literature”
Susan Flamm Public Relations Consultant to the Grolier Club 212-289-2999 sflamm212@gmail.com One Hundred Books Famous in Children’s Literature A Holiday Presentation at the Grolier Club Powerful narrative, unforgettable characters, illustrations that stir the imagination, and insights that engage the mind and heart—literature for children is forged from the same enduring elements as literature for adults. Children’s books with these qualities [...]
Cover Reveal: Who Was Steve Irwin?
Have a seat, children. Let me tell you a little tale. The year was 2000. I was a recent college graduate making her way in the world, fighting the good fight against an inevitable career in librarianship (a fight that I happily lost in the end). While tooling around Portland, Oregon I came across the [...]
Fusenews: Knowing your funny from your droll
With Comic Con NYC later this week, publisher previews on the rise, and various work-related meetings, talks, and speeches I’m just the teeniest tiniest bit busy this week. But no matter! It is you, dear readers, that give me what for and how to. For you I would forgo all the sleep in the world. [...]
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