Morning Notes: Unpleasant Blockbuster Edition
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GREAT MINDS
Fans of great conversations, take note. Jacqueline Woodson just had one with Jimmy Carter, and the New York Times was there to capture the whole thing. Click here to read.
BUTTERFLY IN THE SKY (AND NETFLIX)
Reading Rainbow will be available on Netflix in August. You need to know this. Click here for more info.
FUNNY BOOK
Look out – A Fuse #8 Production is musing again. Best muser in the biz. The other day she was musing about funny books winning Newbery Medals/Honors. There are more recent examples than I realized. Click here to read.
SO FAR SO GOOD
Amazon has a list of their favorite books of 2015 so far. Click here to see it.
If you want to be that annoying person who says “Oh, yeah – I saw that was coming out.” Whenever someone tells you about an upcoming book, this is the link for you us. Publishers Weekly recently released their Spring 2016 Sneak Previews and it’s loaded with interesting-sounding stuff from all sorts of folks you know (and don’t, yet). Click here to read.
The Today Show talks about the new book from Seuss:
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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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