A nice list, if I do say so myself. THE CBC ANNOUNCES FINALISTS FOR THE SECOND ANNUAL CHILDREN’S CHOICE BOOK AWARDS Kids pick Jeff Kinney, Stephenie Meyer, and Christopher Paolini as some of their favorites of 2008. NEW YORK, NY February 26, 2009 – The Children’s Book Council (CBC) in association with Every [...]
Fusenews: Say My Name, Say My Name
February 28, 2009 By 6 Comments
A sad farewell to Mimi Kayden at Harper Collins who has worked at everything from Harper & Row to Dutton to Penguin, as well as a consultant for North-South Books. Mimi has always been good to this little blogger, and I shall miss her egg timer sorely. From Cynopsis Kids: Warner Bros. and production companies The [...]
Review of the Day: 10,000 Dresses by Marcus Ewert
February 28, 2009 By 8 Comments
10,000 Dresses By Marcus Ewert Illustrated by Rex Ray Seven Stories $14.95 ISBN: 978-1-58322-850-0 Ages 4-8 On shelves now. For all intents and purposes Cookie magazine is not the kind of publication I read regularly (in that I make less that $250,000 a year). However, a year or so ago this periodical carried a story [...]
Why I Like Working in New York
February 27, 2009 By 10 Comments
Fusenews: Well, There’s ONE Childhood Nightmare Explained Away
February 27, 2009 By 5 Comments
Vintage Kids’ Book My Kid Loves does a lovely tribute to a wonderful William Steig book The Amazing Bone. TBA is remarkable for a variety of reasons, but if you hear it mentioned today it’s usually because someone’s trying to ban it. You see the robbers in the book (the creeeepy creeeepy nightmare-inducing robbers) are [...]
Fusenews: We Thought He Was a Goner, but the Cat Came Back
February 26, 2009 By 2 Comments
A fair amount of my friends here in New York own rescued feral kitties. Some may have even have gotten their pets from the Anjellicle Cats Rescue in New York City (your call; a T.S. Eliot-inspired name or no?). Now that shelter has inspired the ‘Art for Cats’ Online Auction, where a multitude of hip [...]
Press Release Fun: Share a Story – Shape a Future
February 25, 2009 By 2 Comments
Review of the Day: Wonderland by Tommy Kovac
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Wonderland By Tommy Kovac Illustrated by Sonny Liew Disney Press (an imprint of Disney Book Group) $19.99 ISBN: 978-1-4231-0451-3 Ages 9 and up On shelves March 17th It’s amazing how many artists, authors, filmmakers, poets, and creative personalities feel a need to put their own distinctive stamp on Alice’s Wonderland. From creative stage productions to [...]
Project Cicero: Librarians Doing Fabulous Work
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Fusenews: Squeezing Some Mind Grapes
February 24, 2009 By 15 Comments
Review of the Day: Fortune’s Magic Farm by Suzanne Selfors
February 23, 2009 By 3 Comments
Fortune’s Magic Farm By Suzanne Selfors Illustrated by Catia Chien Little, Brown and Company $14.99 ISBN: 978-0-316-01818-0 Ages 8-12 Roald Dahl was a troublemaker of the first degree. Did he really have to be so original? So interesting? Did his books have to fall into such a distinctive age range? And did he have to [...]
Video Sunday: A Brighton Beach Memoir
February 22, 2009 By 2 Comments
Fusenews: A Long Island Po-tah-to
February 21, 2009 By 5 Comments
Galleycat always reports on the goings on in the adult literary world, but recently they made a children’s literature connection that I had missed. You are aware, I am sure, that a cartoon in the New York Post was recently considered hugely offensive. Well apparently its creator wrote a picture book not too long ago. [...]
The Book What I Wrote
February 21, 2009 By 15 Comments
Fusenews: Pixel Hunger
February 20, 2009 By 28 Comments
A former co-worker of mine liked to point out that if you were to look at children’s book stories as your sole reference point for the state of the world today, you would be under the distinct impression that after WWII all the Jews died out. True enough, finding a children’s book, particular middle grade [...]
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