I’d not heard of the Bunch website until recently, but due to the sheer number of cool children’s literary links they include, you can bet I’ll be heading back again. In the meantime, they’ve a Snicket/Rex hook-up you might be interested in hearing about. In their words: We have an exclusive Halloween interview with Lemony [...]
Press Release Fun: Halloween Treats (and for the record, silverfish scare me too)
October 31, 2009 By 1 Comment
Happy Halloween: Spooky Linktastic Edition
October 31, 2009 By 1 Comment
I posted this once before, but it just gets better with every viewing. Thanks to Jennifer Schultz for the link. Yes! It’s that most wonderful time of the year. And so, without further ado, I begin the wonderful process of presenting to you the links I’ve acquired and accrued over the year in preparation. Ha [...]
Review of Day: Mother Poems by Hope Anita Smith
October 30, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Mother Poems By Hope Anita Smith Henry Holt and Company $16.95 ISBN: 978-0-8050-8231-9 Ages 8-12 On shelves now On shelves now The book had me fooled. I opened it up and had the notion that what I was dealing with here was just a collection of mom-centric poetry. In my defense, I don’t like reading [...]
Children’s Literary Cafe: Cybils Kick-Off
October 29, 2009 By 1 Comment
We’ve a simply magnificent gathering here at the library in November, and it’s all about The Cybils. Join if you can! The Children’s Literary Café at the new Children’s Center at 42 nd Street is pleased to announce our event on Saturday, November 7th at 2:00 p.m.: Cybils Kick-Off: Blogging in Style Pam [...]
Time Travel and Other Useful Activities
October 29, 2009 By 12 Comments
Well! Yesterday was exciting. Any more excitement and I think I’ll drop dead of exhaustion. Today, let’s switch gears and be comparatively boring. Now a couple months ago Molly O’Neill did a post that I thought was just brilliant. It was called The Time-Traveler’s Library/Book Fairy and it was such a good idea that I’m [...]
Said I heard it through the Amazon VINE™
October 28, 2009 By 86 Comments
Where does your average everyday consumer go to find reviews of children’s book? I would love to say they go to their local library and check out their professional reviewing mags, but this is unlikely at best, downright deluded at worst. No no, many folks out there go to one of two places for reviews. [...]
Fusenews: Soldier Bear. Oh My Little Soldier Bear.
October 27, 2009 By 9 Comments
Review of the Day: Big Wolf and Little Wolf by Nadine Brun-Cosme
October 26, 2009 By 2 Comments
Big Wolf and Little Wolf By Nadine Brun-Cosme Illustrated by Olivier Tallec Enchanted Lion Books $16.95 ISBN: 978-1-59270-084-4 Ages 4-8 On shelves now. It’s seems strange to say that different countries produce different flavors of children’s literature, but it’s true. The Dutch books feel one way, the Japanese another. And the French books… well, where [...]
Video Sunday: "Books are not billboards"
October 25, 2009 By 4 Comments
A: It’s interesting that Sterling is the publisher that gets great book trailer experts like Dan Santat and (now I see) Adam McCauley to work for them. B: How did I miss this before? I should probably save it for Halloween or something, but that’s next week anyway and this? This is awesome. Jules over [...]
Fusenews: Another one of those days where I keep mentioning Australians
October 24, 2009 By 1 Comment
Librarian Preview: Chronicle Books (Spring/Summer 2010)
October 23, 2009 By 1 Comment
We find ourselves in a restaurant that bears the name The Red Cat. The weather outside is awful. Gushing torrents of freezing rain and gale force winds intent upon tearing children’s librarians into strips of book-loving confetti. But inside The Red Cat, all is warm. The food alternates between what appear to be deep fried [...]
Poetry Friday: A modest proposal
October 23, 2009 By 6 Comments
Remarkable Reissues: The Man Who Lost His Head by Claire Huchet Bishop
October 22, 2009 By 7 Comments
Children’s librarians have a sneaky tendency to become children’s authors. Tis the natural way of things. There comes a point when the average librarian starts to feel a tug on the old heartstrings, and an overwhelming desire to transition from telling other peoples’ stories to telling one’s own. Here at New York Public Library we [...]
Librarian Preview: Albert Whitman and Company (Spring 2010)
October 21, 2009 By 14 Comments
Fusenews: In which I am so full of wonder I know not what to think
October 20, 2009 By 12 Comments
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