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Trailer Premiere: The Ugly Dumpling by Stephanie Campisi
Let play a game. I’ll write out a bit of a professional review from here at School Library Journal and you guess the book. Here goes: “A unique take on the classic tale ‘The Ugly Duckling,’ this is a humorous story of friendship and self-acceptance, set in a dim sum restaurant. … This narrative moves quickly, […]
Fan Art: From Sheinkin to Wicks
Here’s an idea for a series on this blog: Authors and illustrators paying tribute to other authors and illustrators in the form of fan art. Oh, it could work. Why do I think it could work? Because that’s what we’re doing today, folks. Consider the author Steve Sheinkin. You may know him from his award […]
Book Trailer Premiere: Fluffy Strikes Back by Ashley Spires
My daughter is four going on five at the moment. And though she still reads her fair share of picture books, recently she has become enamored of graphic novels. Particularly those with “bad guys” in them. For this reason, I give great good thanks for Ashley Spires. Granted, in her Binky the Space Cat series […]
Eight Recent Children’s & YA Books Collectors Should Grab
The other day I had lunch with a lovely collector of children’s books. Children’s book collectors have always struck me as a the last great unknowable group of people with an active interest in children’s literature out there. Where educators or librarians or even scholars have blogs and annual meetings and newsletters, collectors remain mysterious […]
Ethics in Nonfiction for Kids
I’m not quite sure what it says about me that whenever I need to have a go-to Children’s Literary Salon I inevitably make it about ethics in nonfiction for kids. I think, technically, I’ve done this topic three times and each time it just gets more and more interesting. Case in point, this past Saturday’s […]
What Was the First YA Novel?
Things are ah-brewing and ah-hopping on the child_lit listserv this week! And though my blog is primarily a conduit through which one learns about children’s book news, I couldn’t help but get utterly fascinated by a discussion of origin. Particularly, the origin of the YA novel. Fun with semantics! So what do we mean when […]
Fusenews: “Rich. Famous. That’s all I’ve got”
We’re diving right in today. Check out this killer poster: Now if you’re one of the lucky ducks living in NYC, or will be there on the date of 4/16, you now have your marching orders. This is an event held at Bank Street College of Education and in wracking my brains I can’t think […]
Video Sunday: “A man sits . . . in a setting . . .”
You know that nightmare you have where you’re up on a stage and you suddenly realize you have to give a TED talk but you have absolutely no idea what the subject is and you’re pretty sure you don’t have the little remote that’ll allow you to flip between slides anyway? That one? You don’t […]
Spotted! Author Visits
When I moved to Evanston from New York City I guess I thought my life would calm down a bit. New York City’s all about the publisher previews, the author events, the crazy dinners for big name authors and illustrators, and it is clearly party central. And for the most part Evanston is calm. Quiet. […]
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