MORE POSTS FROM JANUARY 2012
For one month in the UK, McDonald’s will become that country’s biggest retailer of children’s books, giving out copies of Michael Morpurgo’s Mudpuddle Farm series with Happy Meals. Kinda cool or “cynical marketing ploy” – you be the judge. Personally, I’m down with it.
I just read the USA TODAY list of the 100 Best-Selling Books of 2011. If you enter “youth” into the search box, you can just view the children’s and YA entries. A few things I noticed… 1. Wimpy Kid Trumps Steve Jobs While all three books of The Hunger Games trilogy sold more than Walter […]
What with all the standard weekly commotion, I realized that I didn’t post my weekly attempt to update the cover of a Newbery-winning book. That’s not good – I got a lot of these things to go. Click here for the Covering the Newbery gallery. So, better late than never… 1959: The Witch of Blackbird […]
The year is young, but I think this is going to be the video to beat in 2012. Called The Joy of Books, and created by the fine folks at Type bookstore in Toronto, it’s an awe-inspiring merger of stop-motion film-making and books. File it in the category labeled “great”. Wait, you don’t file away […]
The mood, it strikes. It’s time to give away some books. If you are interested in either of the titles below, send me an email (scopenotes (at) gmail (dot) com) or a tweet (@100scopenotes) before 11:59 p.m. on Friday, January 13. Include the title of the book you have your eye on. Once all the […]
I wrote an article about my first experience with an e-reader for the January edition of School Library Journal. But really, the main attraction is the illustration – an unexpected rendering of me that friends have called “very Count Olaf“. The highest of compliments in my book. Here’s a taste: Aww, yeah. Click here to […]
Here Come the Girl Scouts! By Shana Corey Illustrated by Hadley Hooper Scholastic Press ISBN: 9780545342780 $17.99 Grades 1-3 In Stores *Best New Book* Find it at: Schuler Books | Your Library And now for something a bit different. I’m tag-teaming today’s review with the host of this week’s Nonfiction Monday, Mary Ann of the […]
Facing a book challenge? Just curious about books that have been successfully banned? Librarian.net recently brought the Censored Books database to my attention. Tune in if for no other reason than to be flabbergasted all over again that a school banned the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Click here to check it out.
I recently came across this Illustrated Classic Edition of The Oregon Trail and it brought me back. Did you read these? Published by Moby books, they were abridged versions of all the well-known works of literature for young readers. For a period of time (roughly around my 8th birthday) I was obsessed. My teacher had […]
The Flying Beaver Brothers and the Evil Penguin Plan By Maxwell Eaton III Alfred A. Knopf (Random House) ISBN: 9780375864476 $6.99 Grades 2-4 On Shelves January 10, 2012 Find it at: Schuler Books | Your Library They were nowhere, they suddenly, they’re everywhere. The rise of graphic novels for younger readers is one of the […]
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