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Review of the Day: Over the Hills and Far Away collected by Elizabeth Hammill
Over the Hills and Far Away: A Treasury of Nursery Rhymes Collected by Elizabeth Hammill Illustrations by Various Candlewick Press $21.99 ISBN: 978-0-7636-7729-9 Ages : All On shelves March 10th Not all nursery rhyme collections are created equal. That is something you discover when you have small children. A parent, even a children’s librarian type [...]
Graphic Novels for Kids: A Year in Review
I like comics. I like ‘em a lot. Always have, and as a librarian I’ve watched with interest the changing mores in my profession concerning their presence in a library setting. Who has two thumbs and a copy of Seduction of the Innocent on her bedroom bookshelf? This guy, that’s who! So with the turn [...]
Video Sunday: “Some tenderness to the tree, Will.”
Over Christmas break I got to go to an Alamo Drafthouse in Kalamazoo to see Into the Woods. The theater? Remarkably fun! The show? Um . . . well there were some problems with it. Enjoyable, sure, but . . . some problems. Problems that I suspect would not be replicated in this fabulous pared [...]
Morning Mailbag: Changes, Rarities, and Surprises
In a given day I dive through gobs of mail. Boxes of books from publishers for myself, my current co-workers, my former co-workers, this blog, you name it. And since I pay attention to what’s being buzzed, I notice oddities. In this new series I’ll show you some of the more interesting fare. The items [...]
Fuse #8 TV: Victoria Jamieson!
I didn’t really plan it this way, but this week is basically just wall to wall videos of me yammering till the cows come home. Fortunately, in the case of the latest episode of Fuse #8 TV I’m at least joined by the lovely and infinitely talented graphic novelist Victoria Jamieson. In this, the latest [...]
KidLit TV: Not Bird, Nor Plane, Nor Even Frog Just L’il Ole Me
This falls directly into the category of “Me Stuff”. That said, some of you may be aware of the presence of Kidlit TV out there. Just to recap, it’s the closest thing we have right now to an all-children’s literature related blog channel. The brainchild of Julie Gribble with host Rocco Staino and a whole [...]
Review of the Day: Cuckoo Song by Frances Hardinge
Cuckoo Song By Frances Hardinge Amulet Books (an imprint of Abrams) $17.95 ISBN: 978-1419714801 Ages 10 and up On shelves May 12, 2015 I was watching the third Hobbit movie the other day (bear with me – I’m going somewhere with this) with no particular pleasure. There are few things in life more painful to [...]
Video Sunday: Meeting All Your Sleer n’ Thneed Needs
2014 marked a distinct increase in attention spent on children’s books with diverse characters. However, this is not to say that all books with diverse characters got the same amount of attention. Take, for example, Saving Baby Doe by Danette Vigilante. It was one of the only middle grade books in 2014 to sport a [...]
Fusenews: Chock full o’ NYPL
Some me stuff to start us off. NYPL turned its handy dandy little 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing 2014 list into an interactive bit of gorgeousness. So as to help it along, I wrote a blog post on the library’s website (I have two blogs, if you want to get technical about it, but [...]
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