MORE POSTS FROM MAY 2010
Forgive me while I check my calendar. The Indie Children’s Illustrated Bestsellers this week have a decidedly old-school feel. Take a look at the top five, and click the image to view the entire list.
While I am thrown off by all best-of lists that don’t appear in the months of November, December, and January, I support this one. Booklist continues their top 10 listmaking (see also: historical fiction, graphic novels) with science fiction and fantasy for youth. Plenty of familiar names here, including Catching Fire, Cosmic, and Incarceron. Click […]
Zig and Wikki in Something Ate My Homework By Nadja Spiegelman Illustrated by Trade Loeffler TOON Books (RAW Junior) ISBN: 9781935179023 $12.95 Grades K-2 In Stores In a culture where “mash-up†(the combining of different songs into one whole) has become an recognized genre of music, a similar attitude of line blurring in kids books […]
READING ENDURANCE TO BE TESTED; 48 HOUR READING CHALLENGE COMING SOON Have you been looking for an opportunity to make a serious dent in your to-be-read pile? MotherReader has the solution: 48 hours worth. Click here to learn about the challenge and get in on the action. THE YOUTH HAS SPOKEN; 2010 CHILDREN’S CHOICE BOOK […]
On May 24th I’ll be hosting Nonfiction Monday (click here for a description). I thought it would be fun to call it Nontraditional Nonfiction Monday and challenge bloggers to review a book in a different way. In case you missed it, here’s the video announcement: So, the question arises – how to go about this […]
Well folks, I don’t know how it happened, but we’ve got a bunch of links here. I’ll show ’em, you decide which is right for you. (Click the images to read) Make bridge gripping reading for youngsters – not an easy task. If you’ve been curious to learn more about Louis Sachar’s latest book, The […]
My addition to Nontraditional Nonfiction Monday? A team-up with the blog Hi Miss Julie! for the world’s first book review song. We won’t be riding horses (as far as I know). More details to come…
Reader Misti clued me in to the fact that a trend first unearthed by A Fuse #8 Production seems to be growing. In what could be nothing other than a cost-saving move, more and more book cover photo-shoot crews have chosen to forgo a hairstylist completely, with shockingly unkempt and windblown results. Let’s have a […]
*UPDATE* GOOGLE GETS IN ON THE EBOOK BIZ According to the Wall Street Journal, Google will launch its own ebook store, called Google Editions, this summer. Click here to read about it at TechCrunch. DECEMBERIST WRITES The lead singer of the band The Decemberists went and got himself a book deal. A three book middle […]
Mirror, Mirror By Marilyn Singer Illustrated by Jose Masse Dutton Children’s Books (Penguin) ISBN: 9780525479017 $16.99 Grades 1-6 In Stores *Best New Books* Click on poems to enlarge. Review copy from publisher (via Bookends). Click here to check out the Nonfiction Monday roundup at Bookends. Also reviewed by Bookends, A Year of Reading, Kids Lit. […]
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