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Morning, folks! I do believe my comments feature is busted at the moment, so please don’t be alarmed if you can’t get anything to go through. It’s frustrating for me as well. Feels like an echo chamber in here. Hm. Well, as you may have heard, A Chair, A Fireplace, and a Tea Cozy will [...]
Remember back in January when I hosted the ALA Media Awards Pre-Game / Post-Game Show with my partner in crime Lori Ess? Well, the dynamic duo/gruesome twosome is back, baby! Thanks to the good people of Scholastic, Lori and I are tackling summer reading. Granted, we’re doing it in a typing/chat like setting and not [...]
The Most Magnificent Thing By Ashley Spires Kids Can Press $16.95 ISBN: 978-1-55453-704-4 Ages 3-7 On shelves now I was at a conference of math enthusiasts the other day to discuss kids and the state of math related children’s books. Not my usual scene but I was open to it. Despite what some might fear, [...]
There is a certain element of mystery that accompanies each and every librarian preview here in New York City. When the larger publishers gather the librarians to their proverbial bosom, those same librarians walk in with just one question in your mind: How long is this going to take? If you’re lucky you’ll be out [...]
It's World Book Night, an annual celebration 'dedicated to spreading the love of reading, person to person.' Each April 23, thousands of volunteers distribute half a million free World Book Night paperbacks to light and non-readers. "If you do nothing else today, just give somebody a book," says Betsy Bird.
I don’t always blog the auctions I see online, but sometimes the cause is good and the timing is right. Recently the right good honorable LeUyen Pham emailed me about an auction of children’s book art that sounds, in a word, fan-freaking-tastic. Said she: Fellow illustrator and artist-who’s-work-i-totally-love CARSON ELLIS has put together an online [...]
The Glorkian Warrior Delivers a Pizza By James Kochalka First Second (an imprint of Roaring Brook) $17.99 ISBN: 978-1626721036 Ages 7-11 On shelves now James Kochalka has always had a penchant for the outright silly. If nothing else his Johnny Boo series of books have said as much. He’s not afraid to go for the [...]
You know when you make a friend who works in a different field than you and then, in time, your mutual interests come together? Years ago my friend Katie married a talented composer by the name of Haddon Kime. Haddon was kind enough to create the opening music of my short lived podcast and then [...]