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Review of the Day: Wild by Emily Hughes
Wild By Emily Hughes Flying Eye Books $16.95 ISBN: 978-1-909263-08-6 Ages 3-7 On shelves now. There lives in every child an animal. A wild, untamable creature that will emerge without fail at the worst possible moments, rendering its parents helpless and hopeless all in one swoop. There also exist in this world picture books that [...]
Review of the Day: The Silver Six by AJ Lieberman
The Silver Six By A.J. Lieberman Illustrated by Darren Rawlings Graphix (an imprint of Scholastic) $22.99 ISBN: 978-0-545-37097-4 Ages 9-12 On shelves now Ambition. It’s not a term I usually associate with children’s graphic novels. Your average everyday children’s comic is not particularly ambitious. There are so few of them out there that you can’t [...]
2014 Kids of Color: Things Are Looking Up
What is Betsy Bird anticipating in the New Year? "It is, in fact, the plethora, the godsend, the sheer number of books with kids of color on the middle grade covers coming out in 2014."
Fusenews: “The Axl Rose Hair Metal hair of picture book cover cupcakes”
The best of the "best of" lists, The Fault in Our Stars is coming! Will the new Disney film throw P.L. Travers under the bus? Catch up on the week's news via Fuse 8.
100 Magnificent Children’s Books 2013
Well, every year I like to put out my list of 100 Magnificent Children’s Books from the publishing year. So far I’ve done this in 2010 and 2011 and 2012. And every year the list looks suspiciously similar in some spots to the 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing list that NYPL produces. Little wonder, but I always like [...]
The Mocks Thus Far: Caldecott, Newbery, Printz, & Geisel
A roundup of what's happening in several libraries on the blog a Fuse 8 Production. "You're sure to see some trends emerging," says Betsy Bird.
Video Sunday: The 12 Days of Christmas (Bookstore Style)
Today we are doing one and only ONE video because it was sent to me by approximately 500 people and on the strength of that alone I think it deserves to be our one and only video today. Et voila, Mike Jung and Co.: It’s got a beat and you can dance to it. Good [...]
Press Release Fun: Crowdfunding for Books
This appears to be very smart idea. Sort of like a Trigger Street Labs for books. Sort of surprised nobody thought of it before now. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information, contact: Ayanna Coleman, ayanna@quillshift.com, (585) 902-8548 New Digital Literary Agency Utilizing Crowdfunding Now Open for Author Submissions Quill Shift Literary Agency LLC asks readers to decide [...]
Meet the Strangest Christmas Picture Book You’ll Ever Love
In the past I’ve done posts about Weirdo Picture Books and others on Out-of-Print Crimes Against Humanity. Today’s featured book could have fallen into both categories, were it not for the fact that there is justice in the universe. Previously out of print, 1997′s A Small Miracle by Peter Collington is back by popular demand and [...]
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