Beloveds, you must indulge me. My blog is moving to a new format and in order to do so I will be unable to blog for the next few days. New blog content will go up June 1st. Until then, I shall have to try this interesting not-blogging-every-day notion out. Be well! I’ll be back.
Fusenews: Sleepytime
May 27, 2010 By 4 Comments
After the excitement of yesterday’s post (which I still haven’t spell checked, and I’m a little afraid to do so at this point) combined with last night’s Kidlit Drink Night and Suzanne Collins event . . . well, I’m pooped. Good thing there’s a little Fusenews to get me through. Not a lot. But a [...]
Librarian Preview: Simon & Schuster (Fall 2010)
May 26, 2010 By 10 Comments
Press Release Fun: June Children’s Literary Cafe
May 25, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The Children’s Center at 42nd Street is pleased to announce our Children’s Literary Cafe for Saturday, June 5th at 2:00 p.m. The Picture Book Made New: Margaret Wise Brown, Her Illustrators, and Her World In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Goodnight Moon author Margaret Wise Brown (1910-1952), biographer Leonard Marcus offers [...]
Review of the Day: Meanwhile by Jason Shiga
May 25, 2010 By 9 Comments
Meanwhile By Jason Shiga Amulet (an imprint of Abrams) $15.95 ISBN: 978-0-8109-8423-3 Ages 8 and up On shelves now Quantum physics, parallel worlds, probability, entropy. Yes it’s all in a day’s work for your average everyday choose your own adventure book. Now just substitute the words “average” and “everyday” in that previous sentence for “extraordinary” [...]
Nontraditional Review of the Day: Pop! by Meghan McCarthy
May 24, 2010 By 15 Comments
Fusenews: Out-Niffenegger Niffenegger
May 22, 2010 By 10 Comments
First my husband recommended Kate Milford’s new book The Boneshaker as having vast film potential. Then I reviewed it myself. But yesterday, however, Matt said to me, "She doesn’t need us anymore". BoingBoing has reviewed the book, thereby guaranteeing it a brilliant debut. You’ve hit the big time, Kate! And in a bit of perfect [...]
Review of the Day – Wiff and Dirty George: The Z.E.B.R.A. Incident by Stephen Swinburne
May 21, 2010 By 4 Comments
Wiff and Dirty George: The Z.E.B.R.A. Incident By Stephen Swinburne Boyd Mills Press $17.95 ISBN: 978-1-59078-755-7 Ages 9-12 On shelves now Once in a great while I get a little bored with the usual children’s book tropes. Another new kid in school who meets a seeming outcast and bonds with them? Whoopie. A foster kid [...]
SBBT Interviews of the Day: Friday
May 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment
We close out today with just the biggest of the big, darn, bangs. Check out the marvelous interviews prepared just for you! You lucky dog, you. Julia Hoban at Chasing Ray Stacy Kramer at A Chair, A Fireplace & A Tea Cozy Nancy Bo Flood at Finding Wonderland Paolo Bacigalupi at Shaken & Stirred Sarah [...]
SBBT Interview: The Incomparable Jennifer Finney Boylan
May 20, 2010 By 4 Comments
I don’t often host folks who’ve appeared on Oprah, Larry King, The Today Show, and a Barbara Walters Special (just to name a few). Few of the authors I speak to in my interviews have been portrayed on Saturday Night Live by Will Forte. And fewer still are on the judging committee of the Fulbright [...]
SBBT Interviews of the Day: Thursday
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SBBT Interview: A Quick Sighting of the Elusive Nick Burd
May 19, 2010 By 5 Comments
Time to highlight my favorite homonym. Tipping just the slightest toe in the waters of teen literature I know relatively few YA authors when all is said and done. Nick Burd, however, is the exception to the rule. Active in PEN (an organization to which I belong) Mr. Burd has written the teen novel Vast [...]
SBBT Interviews of the Day: Wednesday
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