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Gender Politics and Construction Equipment: The Eyelashening
File this one under the category: Stuff Parents Notice But Don’t Discuss You have a child. The child is quite young, let’s say two years of age. The child loves books about tools, ladders, and banjos (and you would be shocked just how many books for kids contain at east one of those three items). […]
Fusenews: The occasional “unruly pleasure”
I’ve done it again. Delayed my Fusenews too long and now this post is going to overflow with too much good stuff. Forewarned is forearmed, as they say. Me stuff for the start. And in fact, there just so much Me Stuff today that I’m just going to cram it all into this little paragraph […]
Spotted at BEA: Upcoming Goodies
A light smattering of things that caught my eye at BEA. Here’s the thing about Book Expo America. As conferences go it yields less love amongst librarians than our own, beloved American Library Association conferences. And that just makes sense. BEA is about the business side of books. Booksellers are the primary focus and they’re […]
Day of Dialog 2016 Recap: Chicago Edition!
I feel like it’s been a long time since I “reported” on anything. It isn’t just the move to the Chicago area. It’s more that subtly over the years I’ve pulled back from the rote typing that I used to engage in so often. Blame Twitter. Blame aging. Blame my left pinkie finger which, even […]
The Children’s Literary Salon: Full Video Showcase
As you may or may not know, this past Saturday I conducted a Children’s Literary Salon at my library with panelists Travis Jonker, Mr. Schu, and Colby Sharp. And, as ever, I recorded a live feed of the event. That’s fairly snazzy, but before I post that video here I want to take a moment […]
Walking and Talking with . . . Kate DiCamillo!
Recently I hosted a Literary Salon where an attendee asked at the end whether or not it was true that Kate DiCamillo deleted every draft she wrote, right after finishing it, so that she could rewrite it again. As it turns out, this isn’t exactly the case, but it did lead a lot of us […]
Can Adult Authors Be Taught?: Considering the Alternative Celebrity Children’s Book
The title of the New York Times piece is Masters of Prose Warm Up to Children’s Picture Books. Innocuous enough. Inside, the article looks at the current spate of authors who normally write for an adult audience but have recently switched their focus to our youngest readers. Jane Smiley, Sherman Alexie, and Calvin Trillin are […]
Default: White
Alternate Title: The Call Is Coming From Inside the House So yesterday at lunchtime I trotted out my neat little stack of periodicals to read while I munched a ham sandwich. I picked up the latest Kirkus (1 May 2016) and there I saw the Vicky Smith article: “Unmaking the White Default”. As many of […]
Interview Time! John Patrick Green in Conversation with Eric Colossal
Who? What? Where? When? Why? It’s a blog tour, kiddos! A tour of bloggy goodness. More than that, it’s a graphic novel blog tour done to celebrate Children’s Book Week in all its fancypants glory. The subject of today’s interview is none other than Eric Colossal. Colossal, if the name is new to you, is […]
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