Politics in Practice
September 30, 2015 by Travis Jonker
NO GOOD VERY BAD BOOK In the New York Times, cartoonist Grant Snider brings us The Very Bad Picture Book. Click here to read. THE SPORTIEST OF SPORTY I haven’t mentioned one of these lists in a while, but Booklist keeps on releasing Top 10 lists to keep an eye on, like this one: the […]
September 29, 2015 by Travis Jonker
I’ve been doing Preview Interviews for a while now, but one thing I’ve never done is conducted one over the telephone. This phoneless streak cannot not stand, I say! So a couple weeks back, I called publisher Claudia Zoe Bedrick to chat about the fall/winter releases from Enchanted Lion Books, purveyor of some of the […]
September 28, 2015 by Travis Jonker
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it. – Michelangelo Among the people who follow the Youth Media Awards awards closely (and specifically the two oldest awards, The Newbery and Caldecott), I think there are two extremes. On one end are those who […]
September 26, 2015 by Travis Jonker
The nice thing about our school sign is that both sides have an announcement spot. This week, we needed it. On the opposite side, we welcomed Linda Urban, who visited on Tuesday (I talked about that visit here). On Wednesday Katherine Applegate stopped by. We did our best to make her feel welcome. One of […]
September 25, 2015 by Travis Jonker
It’s been a busy week around here. By a fortuitous stroke of luck, this week our school hosted two authors in two days. Linda Urban came Tuesday. She’s on a tour for her brand-new book, Milo Speck, Accidental Agent: It goes without saying (yet I’m saying it, what’s my problem?) that author visits go best […]
September 23, 2015 by Travis Jonker
BACK ON THE BUS The Number Five Bus Presents…, one of the coolest children’s lit interview projects ever is up and running for Season Two. First up, Matthew Cordell and David Ezra Stein. Click here to read. THE PRICE IS RIGHT FOR BOOKS Over at Bookends, Cindy details a thrift store find that ended up […]
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September 21, 2015 by Travis Jonker
Imelda & the Goblin King By Briony May Smith Flying Eye Books ISBN: 9781909263659 $17.95 Grades PreK-2 Out October 20, 2015 Find it at: Schuler Books | Your Library There has maybe never been a time in human history when we are more focused on “new”. I’m guilty of it. It seems like with all […]
September 17, 2015 by Travis Jonker
*Sniff* *Sniff* You smell that? It’s the aroma of pumpkin spice. Whenever that scent hits my nostrils, I know that it’s time. Time to look at fall books. Here are the titles coming out in September, October, and November that I have my eye – nay, nose – on. Picture Books Robo-Sauce by Adam Rubin, illustrated […]
September 15, 2015 by Travis Jonker
Calling Caldecott, the Horn Book-housed blog all about the most prestigious award in picture books, is back up and running (click here to visit). Over the coming months they’ll examine a bunch of books that are knocking collective socks off. It reminded me of a conversation I had with an illustrator at the most recent […]
September 14, 2015 by Travis Jonker
The longlist for the 2015 National Book Awards: Young People’s Literature was just announced. Here are the books:
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