MORE POSTS FROM NOVEMBER 2010
In honor of the just-released Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, I bring you the cast of the film trying out their best American accents. Boo-yah! Movie Trailers – Movies Blog
Cooking with Henry and Elliebelly By Carolyn Parkhurst Illustrated by Dan Yaccarino Feiwel and Friends (Macmillan) ISBN: 9780312548483 $16.99 Grades K-2 *Best New Book* (Click to enlarge) Review copy from publisher. Watch the book trailer for Cooking with Henry and Elliebelly: Also reviewed by A Fuse #8 Production, Kids Lit, Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast, […]
Of the National Book Award finalists in the category of Young People’s Literature… We have a winner… Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine. Click here to see all of the National Book Award winners, along with pictures and video of the event.
NBA: IT’S FAN-TASTIC The National Book Awards will be handed out tonight (Wedneday, November 17), including the award for Young Peoples Literature (click here to see the nominees). I’m throwing my full support behind One Crazy Summer. In a bit of tech-related brilliance, you can experience the awards via Twitter by following @nationalbook. BROTHER, CAN […]
Educating Alice recently wrote about the sometimes misunderstood popularity of Newbery-winning books (quoting Betsy Bird’s interview at From the Mixed-Up Files). It’s a nice post and a good reminder to never underestimate a book’s potential audience. This inspired me to do some investigating at the 5th and 6th grade school where I work. I checked […]
Every Monday, I’ll redesign the cover of a Newbery Medal-winning book – starting with the first winner, The Story of Mankind, and working up to today – and post the results. To keep from over-analyzing, here are my rules: I’ll use FlickerCC to search for Creative Commons-licensed images using keywords related to the book being […]
I couldn’t decide which link to go with today, so here are all the contenders presented in a hastily thrown together list: Great Literature Retitled to Boost Website Traffic If you spend time on the internet, you’ve probably noticed that there are certain writing gimmicks used to draw attention. This list from McSweeney’s applies these […]
Balancing Act By Ellen Stoll Walsh Beach Lane Books (Simon & Schuster) ISBN: 9781442407572 Grades PreK-2 In Stores *Best New Books* Review copy from library. Find this book at your local library with WorldCat.
Snook Alone by Marilyn Nelson Illustrated by Timothy Basil Ering Candlewick Press ISBN: 9780763626679 $16.99 Grades 2 and Up In Stores *Best New Books* Higher-level picture books can have a hard time getting love from the masses. While critics often praise them for breaking out of rigid age constraints with sophisticated artwork and text, reaction […]
LET THE BESTING COMMENCE Best books of the year season is sort of like Christmas season – it seems to begin earlier every year. While I’m not a fan of Christmas music in November, you can give me all the best-of lists you got. Hear that world?! Two lists you should definitely check are the […]
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