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Press Release Fun: Groundwood Books launches new logo/brand identity
A New Look for Groundwood Books The thirty-five-year-old publisher of beautiful, thought-provoking, and necessary books for young people updates its logo and reinvigorates its brand. To ring in 2014, Groundwood Books is proud to share a new logo. After more than three decades with the meadow mouse logo, Groundwood sought a fresh look for the [...]
Can Re-Illustration Ever Be Justified?
I was sitting down with a colleague the other day and the conversation turned, as all conversations are wont to do, to the subject of William’s Doll by Charlotte Zolotow. I won’t bore you yet again with my theory that the book would sell like hotcakes if they just bothered to re-illustrate the darn thing [...]
Video Sunday: Mind you, it DOES make me want to read The Olde Tobacco Shoppe . . .
Gather round me, little children, and let me tell you of a magical time when the Newbery and Caldecott winners were interviewed on NBC the day after their win in a regular annual segment. Then twas the coming of Snookie and suddenly children’s book awards weren’t considered newsworthy any longer. I’ve searched the airwaves to [...]
Review of the Day: Hi, Koo!: A Year of Seasons by Jon J. Muth
Hi, Koo! A Year of Seasons By Jon J. Muth Scholastic $17.99 ISBN: 978-0-545-16668-3 Ages 4-8 On shelves February 25th I have a colleague who is mighty careful when regarding haiku. She’s Japanese-American herself, and one thing she simply cannot stand is when someone takes a set of words, slaps them into five/seven/five syllable lines, [...]
Fusenews: Boom!
It’s always the filler. I have this little file where I jot down ideas for posts on days when my brain is mush, and most recently I jotted down the old “casual diversity” question a friend asked me once. Figured it would make for a good quickie blog post and then I’d be on my [...]
Press Release Fun: New Children’s Book Group in NYC Alert
Keeping a bookgroup alive for kids can be difficult, but its not impossible! I like to keep my finger on the pulse of what’s out there, and now I’ve just heard of the latest bookgroup for the literary kiddos. Take note, parents of NYC! One of these days I’ll do a round-up of all the [...]
“Casual Diversity” and the children’s book
A friend of mine turned new mom had an interesting request the other day. She’d been talking with her friends and they decided that what they’d really like would be a list of children’s books in which diversity is just a part of everyday life. To illustrate her point she called this “casual diversity”, a [...]
Review of the Day: The Riverman by Aaron Starmer
The Riverman By Aaron Starmer Farrar Straus & Giroux (an imprint of Macmillan) $15.99 ISBN: 978-0-374-36309-3 Ages 11 and up On shelves March 18th When a book has worked its way into your cranium and is making a home for itself within the darker recesses of your very soul, the natural inclination is to talk [...]
Press Release Fun – This Censorious World: Books for Children and Their Challenges
My Children’s Literary Salons at NYPL continue unabated. This Saturday’s event? Well, we’ve some primo talent that I’m sure you would like to know better. So if you aren’t prepping for the Super Bowl, come on down! We’d love to have you. New York Public Library’s Children’s Literary Salon is pleased to announce our upcoming [...]
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