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Ten Years Later: The Unforgettable 2008 Newbery/Caldecott
You have those day-to-day checklists, where you’re making sure you buy air filters and take enough naps, and then you have those bigger checklists of things you’d like to do someday if you can manage it. Our latest episode of The Yarn falls into the latter category for me. The winners of the 2008 Newbery […]
Everything Is Upside-Down: The 2008 Newbery and Caldecott Medals
Travis: Before we even made the first episode of The Yarn podcast, we’ve wanted to do an episode on the 2008 Newbery and Caldecott medal winners, and unforgettable year that challenged assumptions about what kinds of books could win the most prestigious awards in children’s literature. In today’s episode, Brian Selznick and Laura Amy Schlitz […]
Results! The Big Ol’ Elementary Book Checkout Survey
On Tuesday, I asked all fellow nosy elementary school librarians to spill the deets on their book checkout policies. 205 nosy people responded by completing my survey. Thank you fellow nosy people! And now . . . the results. (Click to enlarge charts) My Reaction: I was expecting that most school libraries would have […]
Books on Film: Jason Reynolds on The Daily Show
This was great to see. YA literary comet Jason Reynolds appeared on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah to talk about writing for young people. It’s a must-watch, people, so get to it. And if you’re up for more, here’s our interv...
Not on The Yarn: Matt de la Peña and Loren Long
Travis: Matt de la Peña and Loren Long were recently on NPR’s All Things Considered, reading from and talking about their just-released picture book, Love. It isn’t that often that a picture book author and illustrator sit down and talk a...
The Big Ol’ Elementary Book Checkout Survey (That’s Pretty Short)
Admit it – you want to know what goes on in other elementary school libraries. How do they handle check out? How do they handle overdue books? I’m curious too. So I made this pretty short survey to find out how you all are running your libraries. Today we collect data, later this week I’ll […]
“It’s a Book About Nothing”
I’ve recently noticed something about children’s books. Nothing. Nothing has become something. If there’s one requirement for a book, it’s that the book be about something. Because of this, nothing is the ultimate subversion – it makes sense that children’s book creators would want to toy with that. In the past few years, the idea of […]
Name That LEGO Book Cover ! (#6)
I used this website to (virtually) create 3 LEGO book covers. They’re listed from least challenging to most challenging – see how many you can name. #1: Answer #2: Answer #3: Answer How’d you do? Previously . . . Name That LEGO Book Cover! (#1) Name That LEGO Book Cover! (#2) Name That LEGO Book Cover! (#3) […]
Morning Notes: Mike Mulligan Dabbing Edition
AUTHORS CORRESPOND VIA TIME MAGAZINE A good test: see if you can get through the next two links without getting misty-eyed. If you can, then unfriend me. Link #1: Matt De La Peña wrote a great piece about the importance of darkness in children’s book for TIME. In it, he mentioned a question he’d like […]
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