MORE POSTS FROM MAY 2011
The Secret Box By Barbara Lehman Houghton Mifflin ISBN: 9780547238685 $15.99 Grades K-3 In Stores *Best New Book* (Click images to enlarge) Review copy from library Also reviewed by Charlotte’s Library, Waking Brain Cells. Find this book at your local library with WorldCat.
I often talk cover trends on this here blog, but rarely do title trends come up. Well, it appears we’re in the midst of one for middle grade books aimed at girls. The equation goes like this: The (insert word ending in -ion) of (insert slightly off kilter first and last name for girls) Have […]
With all the summer catalogs properly pored over, now is the time for the quarterly season preview I call 10 to Note. The following is a highly subjective list of books set to arrive in June, July, and August that are intriguing to my eyes and ears. Fiction Missing on Superstition Mountain by Elise Broach; […]
Leap Back Home to Me By Lauren Thompson Illustrated by Matthew Cordell McElderry Books (Simon & Schuster) ISBN: 9781416906643 $15.99 Grades PreK-1 In Stores Look, I love subversive. I’m a fan of unorthodox. I dig meta. This century’s picture books have been kind to my tastes, with craziness around every corner. But it seems that […]
Sidekicks By Dan Santat Arthur A. Levine Books ISBN: 9780439298117 $24.99 hardcover; $12.99 paperback Grades 3-6 In Stores July 1, 2011 Let us be honest, folks – at this point, you could slap a cape on a coat rack, toss in a few one-liners and our current superhero-crazed culture would eat it up. Give Dan […]
GIVE BOOKS TO A SCHOOL THAT NEEDS THEM The 2011 edition of the Guys Lit Wire Book Fair is underway and I encourage one and all to lend a hand by buying a book for Ballou Senior High School in Washington DC. Let’s help them build a library, folks ! Click here for more information […]
I recently visited New York to meet up with some college friends (see also: playing soccer, watching televised soccer, and watching live soccer) and figured I’d take the opportunity to visit excellent children’s librarian and A Fuse #8 Production blogger Elizabeth Bird. Plans set, I made my way to the main branch of the New […]
Golden Girls research, Girl Scout cookies, and the true story of how a library book (maybe) saved a life. I recently did the Q and A thing with Children’s Books and Reviews and the results are up and running. Click here to read.
Does it seem to you like historical fiction flies under the radar? Seems that way to me. A shame I say, because the genre is in a great place right now, with many of the best books of the year falling under this umbrella. Countdown, Turtle in Paradise, Zora and Me – the list goes […]
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