OFFICIALLY FUNNY

A Fuse #8 Production is up to something. A grassroots award for funny books she’s calling the Danzinger Awards. I am in full support of this idea. Click here to find out more.

POOH

The A.V. Club is not a fan the new Winnie-the-Pooh movie. Click here to read.

VIOLA DAVIS WRITING NEW CORDUROY CHILDREN”S STORY

Real head line alert! Click here to read.

I have outsourced all book buzz to Mile High Reading, who recently released not one but two collections of 2018 picture books to look for. A lot of good-looking stuff here:

Coming Soon: 2018 Picture Books Part Four

Coming Soon: 2018 Picture Books Part Five

If you’re a writer or aspiring writer looking for some voyeuristic pleasure, look no further than Writing Middle Grade – A Look at the Numbers, over at author Hannah Holt’s website. She polled a bunch of middle grade authors on all sorts of topics and has the charts and graphs to prove it.

Thanks to @ErinDealey for bringing this to my attention. Jolie will voice Stella.

Exclusive: Angelina Jolie to voice star in 'The One and Only Ivan' https://t.co/h6ZCkatXL0 pic.twitter.com/6iCSITT7ef

— Hollywood Reporter (@THR) October 16, 2017

Straight outta 1976! Picture book making with Steven Kellogg: