If you had to rank your Top Five illustrated versions of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, what would you choose? My choices are fairly standard, all things considered.
Newbery / Caldecott 2020: Spring Prediction Edition
March 18, 2019 by 1 Comment
This is roundabout the time of year when I start stretching the old award-season muscles. I’m going to pull out the books for you that I think have a darn good chance. At the very least, they’re contenders, if not outright winners. Something to guide your reading then.
10 in 2019: Upcoming Picture Book Titles
March 14, 2019 by 5 Comments
Tooling about the internet yesterday, I ran across Travis Jonker’s recent blog post 10 to Note: Spring Preview 2019. Here then is my own list of upcoming 2019 titles that I simply adore. All of these are Picture Books. Thank you for the idea, Travis!
Review of the Day: The Happy Book by Andy Rash
March 13, 2019 by Leave a Comment
You have other books about emotions that you love, I have no doubt, but seriously consider supplementing them with Rash’s latest. A loving little book unafraid to be happy, sad, angry, scared, and supremely good.
Walking and Talking with . . . Jerry Craft!
March 12, 2019 by Leave a Comment
As Steve wrote me, “Jerry Craft came to our local bookstore last week to talk about New Kid, and I nabbed a quick interview for the comic.” Perfect! I don’t know about you but we’re all big time New Kid fans at my library. Haven’t seen it yet? I recommend you remedy this situation, pronto. In the meantime, here’s Jerry.
Fuse 8 n’ Kate: Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile and The House on East 88th Street by Bernard Waber
March 11, 2019 by 4 Comments
You see, there’s a bit of a problem with old Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile. Most people remember the title of the second book in the series, but are we to ignore Book #1? I gave Kate the chance to decide which one to do, so what did she decide? To do both, of course!
Press Release Fun: The 2019 Mathical Book Prize Winners Announced!
March 8, 2019 by Leave a Comment
From the inspiring true stories of the Apollo 8 astronauts and a pioneering woman mathematician to tales of a middle school girl struck by lightning and a young elephant who loves to build towers of wooden bricks, this year’s Mathical Book Prize winners offer young readers a glimpse of the exciting—and sometimes unexpected—ways that mathematical ideas fit into the world around them.
Review of the Day: Sweet Dreamers by Isabelle Simler
March 6, 2019 by Leave a Comment
Simler has previously wowed American audience with such books as Plume and the magnificent The Blue Hour. Now, thanks in part to the elegant translation by Sarah Ardizzone, she has crafted a new kind of bedtime book. One rooted in poetry, dreams, seasons, fuzzy noses, lilting words, and a type of scratch art never before made possible.
Guest Post: “… doing our very best only.” Marc Aronson and the Global Cooperation of the Thai Cave Rescue
March 5, 2019 by 2 Comments
Today I am pleased to be hosting Marc Aronson, the writer, editor, publisher, speaker, and historian. This post discusses his new work Rising Water: The Story of the Thai Cave Rescue which, in a starred review, Kirkus said his, “Solid writing preserves the natural rising suspense and astonishing details of this rescue.”
The Quintessential Librarian Stereotype: Wrestling With the Legacy of Anne Carroll Moore
March 4, 2019 by 10 Comments
Folks, it’s time to have a reckoning when it comes to Anne Carroll Moore.
Cover Reveal – King of the Tightrope
February 28, 2019 by 4 Comments
First off, there’s a book about Charles Blondin? Yes indeed. As of October 2019, you’ll be seeing Donna Bowman and Adam Gustavson’s King of the Tightrope: When the Great Blondin Ruled Niagara.
Review of the Day: Pie in the Sky by Remy Lai
February 27, 2019 by Leave a Comment
Gracefully switching between text and comics, comics and text, author Remy Lai feeds breadcrumbs (or, more accurately, cake crumbs) of humor and sequential art to kids, luring them towards a storyline with a deeper, darker meaning. For the kid that avoids serious stories like the plague, Pie in the Sky is the perfect gateway drug.
Book Chat: Eliza Wheeler on When You Are Brave
February 26, 2019 by 1 Comment
Victoria Stapleton (of Little, Brown & Co.) interviews the illustrious artist Eliza Wheeler in a casual “Book Chat” about her upcoming book, WHEN YOU ARE BRAVE.
Fuse 8 n’ Kate: Harry the Dirty Dog by Gene Zion, ill. Margaret Bloy Graham
February 25, 2019 by 11 Comments
Kate got a dog! A doggy dog of her very own. And you know what goes together well, like peaches and cream? Dogs and picture books. So I had to figure out a classic dog picture book. And lo and behold I realized that in spite of its relative fame we had never done a book about this particular dirty dirty dog.
The Birth of Les Maîtres de l’Imaginaire and the Vast Importance of International Children’s Book Art
February 21, 2019 by 2 Comments
“A country needs ideas from everywhere, just like mushroom rhizomes help the forest to grow. Below the surface.” I speak with artist Étienne Delessert about his show of international children’s illustrators.
Recent Comments