MORE POSTS FROM NOVEMBER 2009
Oscar and the Bird: A Book About Electricity By Geoff Waring Candlewick Press ISBN: 9780763640323 $14.99 Grades K-2 In Stores *Recommended* So how’s your electricity section doing? Oh, pretty well you say? Anything in there for the K-2 set? You’ll get back to me? Look, let me save you some embarrassment and just suggest something […]
“I regret to say that the World Wide Web has once again raised its World Wide Head to cause trouble.” – Snicket, L. Is author Lemony Snicket pleased that the first book in his Series of Unfortunate Events has been made available for free online? No he is not. Click below to watch.
Carrying around a list of the All-Time Top 10 Saved by the Bell episodes? Not very useful (I really need to clean out my wallet). A detailed list of 2009 children’s books that have received starred reviews? Now you’re talking. Over at Shelftalker, they have generously crafted such a list. Each and every aught nine […]
The sun has set on Covers Week, but before we get back to regularly scheduled programming I wanted to post all of the cover-related comic strips that graced the 100 Scope Notes banner during the week. For posterity:
The following is a work of fiction. Claiming unfairness in the fact that books with appealing covers get checked out more, the Children’s Literature Commissioner has declared that, beginning immediately, all books must be published with jackets that are “trend-free, novelty free, and good for children”. While the use of expensive jacket materials like foil […]
You voted, and this morning we have ourselves a Most Unfortunate Cover. With a full 23% of the vote, the winner/loser is… In my opinion, an upset. Click here to view the full results.
Few things can build anticipation like a curling wave. Where’s it going? What’s going to happen? Hokusai captured the mood perfectly in his iconic The Great Wave off Kanagawa (above). A trio of recent children’s book covers understand this and in doing so give off a distinctive separated-at-birth vibe. Let’s have a look: Necks out […]
As far as I know, it began in ’07. A close up of sock-covered feet. Pretty memorable cover, right? I would say so. That opinion must have been pretty wide spread, because the socks bandwagon got crowded quickly. Numerous times, I thought the trend had run its course. I wouldn’t see a sock-covered book for […]
If your read 100 Scope Notes in an RSS reader, the link to vote for the most unfortunate cover didn’t seem to work. I think I fixed the problem, so here is the (hopefully) fixed poll: [polldaddy poll=2239426] Click here to view your choices
For the uninitiated: An Unfortunate Cover occurs when a less than appealing cover is wrapped around excellent and/or classic book. Take a look at some of the past Unfortunate Cover selections: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11. Before we do anything else, I have to ask you something: Q: What […]
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