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Press Release Fun: The Launch of Read Quarterly!
Folks, I don’t post a lot of Kickstarter projects here, but this one’s a little different. It’s an idea that’s near and dear to my heart and . . . well, I’ll let the title speak for itself. Gaiman Kickstarter Video and Colfer Original Fiction Help Launch The Read Quarterly. The Read Quarterly (TRQ), […]
Finding MORE Children’s Literature in Unexpected Places
Not long after starting my new job with the Evanston Public Library system I wrote a post called Unexpected Jolts of Children’s Literature in Rather Adult Places. The impetus came from the fact that within the capacity of my new job I see quite a bit more adult literature than I ever did back at […]
Walking and Talking With . . . Tim Federle!
Steve Sheinkin returns once more to write up and illustrate his “Walking and Talking” series. As with other posts in the series, Steve will have a conversation with an author or illustrator and then pluck out and bring to life the parts that really define something about the process. Part of the reason I love […]
Review of the Day: The Hired Girl by Laura Amy Schlitz
The Hired Girl By Laura Amy Schlitz Candlewick Press $17.99 ISBN: 978-0763678180 Ages 12 and up Bildungsroman. Definition: “A novel dealing with one person’s formative years or spiritual education.” A certain strain of English major quivers at the very term. Get enough Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man shoved down your gullet and […]
Body Parts Blog Tour: Mara Wicks and Her Human Body Theater
Oh, I’m so very pleased today. It’s not every day when you get to be part of a blog tour AND feature a distinctive portion of the human anatomy. Thanks to Mara Wicks, now you can have both. As you may know, a certain graphic novel by the name of HUMAN BODY THEATER is sweeping […]
When Getty Images Attack
I was walking the stacks yesterday, minding my own business, when this book catches my eye: I stare at it for a moment. It looks remarkably familiar for some reason, though I know I’ve never seen it before. Then it hits me: Barbara O’Connor fan that I am, I remember really adoring this cover when […]
Cult Picture Book Favorites
Not to be confused with picture books about cults. *shudder* There’s a genre we needn’t plumb. No, today I’m talking about those picture books that are released, do moderately well, or maybe not well at all, fall out-of-print, and then long after their demise accrue a kind of cult following. The fans swell, demand that […]
Who Was Beatrix Potter? by Ellen Handler Spitz
Today I am pleased to introduce to you Ms. Ellen Handler Spitz. Author of Inside Picture Books (Yale University Press, 1999), Ms. Spitz currently holds the Honors College Professorship of Visual Arts at University of Maryland. She is, as you can see, a smart cookie. She is also a Beatrix Potter fan. Indeed, amongst her […]
Fusenews: Saving the Second Penny
The problem with this Fusenews feature is that if I don’t do them regularly then the news out there builds up, builds up, builds up, until there’s so much of it out there that I’m almost embarrassed to do anything with it. Such is the case today! And, as per usual, I’ll say that I’m […]
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