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The Diversity List: Picture, Easy, and Early Chapter Books of 2015
So I’m going to confess something to you. All year long, from January onward, I’ve been keeping track of any picture book, easy book, or early chapter book I’ve seen containing some kind of diversity. Have I missed books? Of course I have! You cannot make a list like this without missing something. Books from […]
The Strangest Pinocchio I Know
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about illustrated books for children (as opposed to picture books) in all their various forms. And since I’ve a penchant for nostalgia, I often think of my youth and the illustrated novels I read then. The mid to late 1980s were an odd time for illustration in general. For […]
Review of the Day: Emu by Claire Saxby
Emu By Claire Saxby Illustrated by Graham Byrne Candlewick Press $16.99 ISBN: 978-0-7636-7479-3 Ages 4-7 On shelves now. Alas for poor emu. Forever relegated to be consider a second rate ostrich, it encompasses all of the awkwardness and none of the stereotypes. Does anyone ever talk about burying your head in the sand like an […]
Press Release Fun: Picture Book Summit Yields Big Rewards for We Need Diverse Books
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Emma Walton Hamilton picturebooksubmissions@gmail.com Picture Book Summit 2015 Raises Over $7000 for We Need Diverse Books Event Featured Mac Barnett, Peter Brown, Andrea Davis Pinkney and Other Top Children’s Authors New York, NY – The first annual Picture Book Summit, an international online conference for children’s […]
Fusenews: “He’s a person and people don’t eat people”
It’s funny how you can start something and never see how that thing might be used in the future. When I created the Top 100 Picture Books Poll and the Top 100 Children’s Novels Poll back in the day, I figured they could be useful books insofar as they take the pulse of those books […]
Something Old, Something New: Reprinting Beyond the “Canon”
It’s that time of year again when Best Of lists start cropping up left and right, front and center. First Publishers Weekly begins the process and then everyone else follows suit. It’s a time of year I enjoy, particularly since I’m desperately trying to figure out what I should be reading before the New Year […]
Interview in Cardboard: A Talk with Dana Sheridan
Good morning, everyone, and thank you for attending yet another edition of the A Fuse #8 Production interview series. I am, as ever, your host Betsy Bird and before we go much further you might have noticed something a little different about me. Is it my hair? The fact I have my contacts in? Or […]
Book Trailer Premiere: The Tiara on the Terrace by Kristen Kittscher
So. Book trailers. I’ve seen my share. They are good. They are bad. Do they sell books? Probably some of them do, and considering how relatively cheap they are to produce it’s no wonder folks are encouraged to make them. But when you face facts, not all of them are winners. Very few, in fact, […]
Press Release Fun: A New Scholarship, Packed Full of Literary Goodness
SIMMONS COLLEGE AND LEE & LOW BOOKS ESTABLISH NEW SCHOLARSHIP November 1, 2015—New York, NY—The Center for the Study of Children’s Literature at Simmons College and publisher LEE & LOW BOOKS have established a scholarship to increase diversity in the world of children’s literature. The new Lee & Low and Friends Scholarship will provide […]
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