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Merry Christmas Weirdest Holiday Picture Book of All Time!
This is a reprint of a Christmas related post I did about two years ago. I cannot tell you how often I think of this book. Eventually I’m just going to cave and buy it. In any case, Merry Christmas! In the past I’ve done posts about Weirdo Picture Books and others on Out-of-Print […]
Press Release Fun: Collecting the Mocks
In preparation for the SLJ Pre-Game / Post-Game Show each year I try to collect all the Mock elections for Newbery or Caldecott or Printz or Sibert or Coretta Scott King or really anything that’s out there. It’s mildly exhausting and you’re always bound to miss someone somewhere. Last year I dutifully collected the Mocks […]
Guest Post: Melissa Stewart and Diversity in Thinking
I don’t often do much in the way of guest posts on this site. Aside from the occasional Walking and Talking episode by Steve Sheinkin it’s almost always a one-woman show over here. That said, when someone presents me with something particularly interesting and asks if they can post it on my site, I can’t […]
Press Release Fun: Shortlist for an Early Literacy Development Award
This is the kind of award librarians should know about and don’t tend to. For anyone searching for good picture book readalouds, this list is invaluable. Read on: Colorado Libraries for Early Literacy Announces 2016 CLEL Picture Book Awards Shortlists Denver, Colorado, December 15, 2015 – Colorado Libraries for Early Literacy (CLEL) announces the Shortlist […]
Why This Book? The Conundrum of Virality and A Fine Dessert
Friends, Romans, Countrymen. Lend me your ears. I come to discuss A Fine Dessert, not to praise it or denigrate it. Not to really talk much about the book itself at all except as a recent phenomenon. A phenomenon unique to our particular day and age and that remains relatively mysterious, despite (or perhaps because […]
Review of the Day: A Great Big Cuddle by Michael Rosen
A Great Big Cuddle: Poems for the Very Young By Michael Rosen Illustrated by Chris Riddell Candlewick Press $19.99 ISBN: 978076368116 Ages 0-4 On shelves now. Did you know that, generally speaking, Europeans have absolutely no interest in the works of Dr. Seuss? It’s true. For years his works have been untranslatable (though great inroads […]
NYPL Releases Their Annual Lists (Plural!)
Each year New York Public Library produces what I seriously consider to be the most beautiful Best Books list of them all. Encompassing 100 books in total, it breaks all children’s books written in different categories to the following: Picture Books, Early Chapter Books, Middle Grade Fiction, Poetry, Folk and Fairytales, Graphic Novels, and Nonfiction. […]
What Is a Social Script?
Oh, the librarian and the teacher should be friends Yes, the librarian and the teacher should be friends One job invokes all new terms The other hears them and they squirm But that’s no reason why they can’t be friends Literary folks should stick together Literary folks should all be buds Teachers want some Core/STEM […]
Review of the Day: The Perilous Princess Plot by Sarah Courtauld
Buckle and Squash: The Perilous Princess Plot By Sarah Courtauld Feiwel and Friends (an imprint of Macmillan) $14.99 ISBN: 978-1-250-05277-3 Ages 7-10 On shelves now. Considering that I will never but EVER write an early chapter book or, for that matter, an easy book for new readers, it’s funny how often I sit around contemplating […]
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