MORE POSTS FROM MAY 2012
Baby Bear Sees Blue By Ashley Wolff Beach Lane Books (Simon & Schuster) ISBN: 9781442413061 $16.99 Grades PreK-1 In Stores *Best New Book* Find it at: Schuler Books | Your Library The goal of a concept book is clear – teach colors or numbers or shapes or any other basic concept that kids need to […]
Step Gently Out By Helen Frost Photographs by Rick Lieder Candlewick Press ISBN: 9780763656010 $15.99 Grades K-2 In Stores *Best New Book* Find it at: Schuler Books | Your Library Poetry is oh-so-tricky. Go too concrete and rhyme-y, and you end up with stale platitudes. Go too abstract, and you can lose kids in a […]
Jerry Pinkney, everyone. That’s who created the original illustration for today’s cover redo candidate. Can I throw in the towel now? No? Well, here we go… 1977: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor Original: My Redo: Side by Side: Verdict: I’m never a big fan of swapping a photo for an […]
In the ever-worthy interest of “hey, why not?”, see of you can determine which children’s lit figure has the following leg tattoo: That’s right, it’s a connect the dots tattoo. Here it is filled out: And the clues: This person is female. This woman creates graphic novels. She writes a graphic novel series. This series […]
Marty McGuire Digs Worms! By Kate Messner Illustrated by Brian Floca Scholastic Press ISBN: 9780545142458 $17.99 Grades 2-4 In Stores Find it at: Schuler Books | Your Library While I have a hard time remembering, well, a lot of things (truth be told, this blog = my external book memory), I do remember the contest […]
There are two people I’ve been told I look like. 1. Bronson Pinchot Aw, yeah – that’s right. Pinchot is best known as Balki from the late 80s/early 90s sitcom Perfect Strangers. While most people would not take this as a particularly flattering comparison, I used to watch that show like it was going out […]
I was listening to All Songs Considered the other day when the concept of “secret ingredients” came up. The hosts were discussing sonic elements that, if they appear in a song, make them much more likely to enjoy that song. I got me to thinking – when it comes to books, what are my “secret […]
One Special Day By Lola M. Schaefer Illustrated by Jessica Meserve Disney-Hyperion ISBN: 9781423137603 $16.99 Grades PreK-1 In Stores *Best New Book* Find it at: Schuler Books | Your Library Here’s what I will not do in this review: Discuss the saturation of new sibling books out there. Relay my hesitations when approaching such books […]
It’s a sad day. Maurice Sendak, author and illustrator of countless children’s literature classics, has passed away. Here’s one of my favorite videos of Sendak, in younger days, discussing fantasy and reality. Maurice Sendak on the Origins of Serious Fantasy from We Love You So on Vimeo. His work changed the landscape of children’s lit […]
It’s back to the future with this roundup of 10 summer releases that threaten to pull me away from my other favorite warm weather activity – consuming Oreo blizzards. Not a simple feat. June, July, and August – let’s see what you’ve got… Fiction Bink and Gollie, Two for One by Kate DiCamillo, Alison McGhee, […]
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