MORE POSTS FROM OCTOBER 2014
Hot off the presses! Jon Klassen and Mac Barnett made an appearance on the Milwaukee area Morning Blend show.
The Guardian children’s books blog busted out a bit of a treasure trove this week. They captured ten top UK illustrators doing their thing via Vine (the six-second video service). Here’s Axel Scheffler (The Gruffalo) drawing a character from his latest book with Julia Donaldson, The Scarecrow’s Wedding: The rest are just as cool (I […]
Over at Bookends, Cindy and Lynn are doing something fun. In honor of one of their favorite out-of-print gems, The Writer’s Desk by Jill Krementz, they’ve shared where they do their blogging. While no one can outdo Cindy’s Tiki bar, they’re encouraging others to share where they get their work done. Here’s my annotated downstairs […]
Shh! We Have a Plan By Chris Haughton Candlewick Press ISBN: 9780763672935 $15.99 Grades PreK-2 Out Now *Best New Book* Find it at: Schuler Books | Your Library Admission: I’ve edited books on the fly. In a school library setting, the clock is king, and I’ve had to trim a sentence or paragraph when running […]
Can you guess the classic children’s book by its scathing one-star review on Goodreads or Amazon? I don’t understand why this book is a classic or well-liked. It’s actually about a horrible boy, who therefore has a horrible day. He’s a brat. I don’t think its a good book for kids to read and I […]
This Librarian Finally Looked at His Copy of ‘In the Night Kitchen’. What He Discovered Shocked Him
|(Someone’s been working on their Upworthy-esque headlines) Sometimes I don’t know if I should post certain things on this blog. Things that are sort of embarrassing fall into this category. Today I had one of those, but I’m posting it anyway. I was in the stacks when I passed by our Maurice Sendak section. I’ve […]
SOCIAL ME-DIA I had a good time writing and article for School Library Journal this month about social media. They sneakily went and added an illustration (by Tom Richmond) of me where I’m sporting my favorite green sweater. Click here to see the sweater (oh, and read the article). As a sidebar, I listed five people […]
Food Trucks! By Mark Todd Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 9780544157842 $16.99 Grades K-3 Out Now Find it at: Schuler Books | Your Library Who thought up this whole food truck trend? ‘Cause it’s perfect fodder for a kid’s book. It combines food, which people seem to like, and trucks, which scores of kids love to […]
Tales of Bunjitsu Bunny By John Himmelman Henry Holt (Macmillan) ISBN: 9780805099706 $13.99 Grades 1-4 Out October 28, 2014 Find it at: Schuler Books | Your Library In a children’s literature landscape where “lesson” has become a bad word, books that overtly seek to impart wisdom have become more the exception than the rule. Mention […]
In September… …I shared 10 books I’m excited about for fall. It’s always so difficult to narrow down. …we took a long hard look at the American Girl series. Should they stay or should they go? …we talked about cursive in picture books. Kids often can’t read it, but is that the only thing that […]
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