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Fusenews: Let the wild (mind the gap) rumpus start!
Sometimes I do a little ALA Youth Media Awards wrap-up after all is said and done, but since Lori Ess and I were able to have our say immediately following the awards announcements, I feel like I’ve covered my bases. Moving on! Lest one be so caught up in the thrilling hullabaloo of the ALA [...]
Press Release Fun: 2014 NYLA YSS Spring Conference Early Bird Registration Open
Early birds can now register for the 2014 New York Library Association (NYLA) Youth Services Section (YSS) Spring Conference scheduled for Friday, April 4, 2014 at the Crowne Plaza White Plains – Downtown, 66 Hale Avenue, White Plains, NY 10601. Early bird registration must be postmarked by Friday, February 21, 2014. Standard registration then continues [...]
The ALA Youth Media Awards are announced: Predictions and Reactions
"Well THAT was exciting!," writes Elizabeth Bird in her recap to the day's announcements. "Exciting and fun and not a single winner of today’s awards made me bang my head on a table at any point."
Review of the Day – Lindbergh: The Tale of a Flying Mouse by Torben Kuhlmann
Lindbergh: The Tale of a Flying Mouse By Torben Kuhlmann Translation by Suzanne Fitzgerald Levesque NorthSouth $19.95 ISBN: 978-0735841673 Ages 4-8 On shelves May 1st The mouse, as hero, is an easy children’s book hero. With its diet so nearly identical to that of humans, its cute and cuddly face (sorry rats), and the sense [...]
Video Sunday: “The chopper was a softie, though…”
No, as you can probably tell I am not in Philly this weekend for the American Library Association’s Midwinter Conference. I am okay with this. Yes, it would remarkably easy for me to attend. Heck, I could probably go and sleep at home every night, but all told I wasn’t quite up for a conference [...]
Mock Lists – The Ultimate Round-Up
Phew! She did it. Elizabeth Bird of Fuse #8, has "searched and strived and sought out every possible available Mock Newbery, Caldecott, Printz, you name it." They're all here, results listed.
Video Trailer Debut: Saving Baby Doe by Danette Vigilante
Not too long ago I wrote a post called 2014 Kids of Color: Things Are Looking Up. I wasn’t kidding. The number of book jackets with kids of color on them in 2014 puts 2013, and pretty much every other year up until now, to shame. Yet even with this strong beginning, it’s hard not [...]
Librarian Preview: Blue Apple Books (Spring 2014)
Last one of the season, folks! But I figure what with the approaching ALA Conference in Philly, there’s no harm in letting people know last minute about some of the fine and fancy titles that may or may not be available to peruse at the event. Today we focus on small, gutsy, rather lovely little [...]
The Fairytales and Folktales of 2013: An Accounting
If you’ve sat in the audience during one of my talks of 2013, any of them really, then at some point during my presentation I probably mentioned that my deep and abiding love for small publishers is due, in no small part, to the rise in the fairytales and folktales in the marketplace. It’s not [...]
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