In which our hero ostensibly writes about the Newbery/Caldecott Banquet but, in truth, just wants to talk to you about Shrinky-Dinks. Full credit to Rocco Staino at SLJ for the image to the left here. Day Three of ALA and I can say with certainty that lots of interesting things to do abounded. Collection specialist [...]
That’s what Neil Gaiman writes on Twitter whenever he links to one of his blog posts. “Warning: Contains Me.” Well, today’s a nice me-centric post, but let’s start off by looking at a “them” instead. Specifically, a “them” of awesome. Two years ago authors Jim Averbeck and Maria Van Lieshout had an idea. Since the [...]
Each and every year I decide to celebrate the Newbery/Caldecott winners with a bit of old-fashioned body art. In the past this has involved bands of the covers of the winners on either arm. This is fine and all, but this year I wanted to step it up a notch. So it was that I [...]
I’m still wrestling with this new blog format. I worry that a lot of you are checking the old links or the old RSS feeds and are simply under the impression that I’m not updating anymore. Aside from Facebook, Twitter, and various Group updates (social networking has never been so useful) I’m not sure how [...]
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