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July 31, 2014 by Travis Jonker

Morning Notes: ‘Really Big Ball of Twine’ Edition

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SNEAKY, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, SNEAKY

Who’s up for some cheap time travel? Check out the recent Spring 2015 Children’s Sneak Previews from Publishers Weekly. All kinds of eyebrow-raising stuff coming up. Click here to read.

THE DAY THE CRAYONS CAME TO A THEATER NEAR YOU

What I’m experiencing right now is the unexpected and sudden realization that a certain best-selling picture book could make an awesome movie. Which book am I talking about? Click here to read.

(Thanks to Book Bites for the link)

WATCH. CONNECT. ROAD.

Our teacher-librarian pal John Schumacher has kicked off his annual road trip, which is always jam packed with children’s lit. Follow along at Watch. Connect. Read.

A LIST, A LIST!

The latest list is brought to you by Amazon, who shares their 100 Children’s Books to Read in a Lifetime. It’s a pretty good mix of new and old. And over at Goodreads, readers can add to and vote on their own top 100 list.

MY HERO: WILLIAM STEIG

The good ol’ “My Hero” essay. This reminds me of elementary school – it the best way. In case you missed it, Caldecott winner Jon Klassen wrote about his appreciation for William Steig over at The Guardian. Click here to read it.

HUMOR ME

I made a Where the Wild Things Are gif. Here it is:

(It comes from this film)

Return to Auggie Hobble by Lane Smith. Out May, 2015

Lane Smith is doing something different: putting out a novel (a novel that, as you can see above, doesn’t have a cover yet) about a kid who lives at “a cheesy roadside attraction” called Fairy Tale Place. From the description in this article at Publishers Weekly, I can’t wait to read it.

How do agents and editors view the current (and future) state of books for young people? Writing and Illustrating surveyed a batch to find out. Click the image below to read.

@ModernMarion brings us Jimmy Fallon’s take on the new Kindle Unlimited service.

In my next life I’m going to create a YouTube channel called In the Picture Book Studio With… . In this imagined next life, I hope my videos will turn out like this one featuring Oliver Jeffers. Imagista interviews the author/illustrator about his work.

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About Travis Jonker

Travis Jonker is an elementary school librarian in Michigan. He writes reviews (and the occasional article or two) for School Library Journal and is a member of the 2014 Caldecott committee. You can email Travis at scopenotes@gmail.com, or follow him on Twitter: @100scopenotes.

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