MORE POSTS FROM DECEMBER 2010
It’s a Christmas miracle (if I get all these posts ready in time)! Next week (December 13-17) brings a wealth of high and low brow year-end offerings, best enjoyed with a cup of good cheer. Here’s the rundown: Top 20 Children’s Books of 2010 Monday-Thursday. Fellow elementary school librarian John Schumacher and I will be […]
AUTHORS THOROUGHLY INTERVIEWED The Winter Blog Blast Tour (see also: interviews with some of the best and brightest in the children’s/YA worlds) is in full swing and is a sight to see. Visit Chasing Ray for the full schedule. THE CREEP CONTINUES: GOOGLE UNVEILS EBOOK STORE Google’s getting in on the ebook game in a […]
Can you guess what’s in the envelope? Aww, yeah! Time for me to bust out my oddly-shaped business cards. That’s right – I’m headed to San Diego for the American Library Association Midwinter Meeting. I’m pumped to take part in, among other things, the live announcement of the ALA Youth Media Awards on Monday, January […]
*Disclaimer* The process described below is one method for informing Cybils evaluating. It is not, I repeat, not how the Cybils shortlists are created. I’m honored to be a panelist on the fiction picture book committee of the 2010 Cybils awards. Since “kid appeal” is part of the award criteria, I though it wise to […]
My goal? To re-do the cover of every Newbery-winning book, beginning way back in the halcyon days of 1922. My rules for this project? Click here. On to the next one… 1925: Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger Older cover: Redo: Side by side: Verdict: Some turn out better than others, and I’d put […]
I just realized that Yoda missed his calling. It turns out that he really should have been a Dr. Seuss character. Cartoonist Adam Watson is working on a project that Seuss-ifies the Star Wars universe, and the results are fun to see. Click the image of “Seuss” Jabba the Hut below to check it out. […]
Let the trend continue! The blog she reads and reads saw my Cover Curiosity post on paper chain people and ran with it, coming up with all sorts of covers that match. Which is the best? I’ll vote with my stomach and go with the gingerbread cover for Beautiful Buttons. *Update* My stomach, as it […]
…and I mean that in a good way. Here’s the hold shelf at the 5th and 6th grade school library where I work: Every color of the Wimpy rainbow (except blue).
PERUSE THIS: MOCK CALDECOTT LISTS Last week it was Newbery, this week it’s Caldecott. Next week I’m hoping the folks at ACPL conduct a mock chocolate-covered pretzel contest. I would also like in on such a contest. Anyway, ACPL has gone and posted their third list of Caldecott contenders. List #1 List #2 List #3 […]
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