MORE POSTS FROM JANUARY 2012
The time seems right (in my opinion, it’s never really wrong) to check back in on how the Newbery and Caldecott races are shaping up. I’ve already shared my 2012 Caldecott predictions, but this time out the scrutinization tools of choice are the 2012 Newbery and Caldecott lists on Goodreads. If you’re not familiar, Goodreads […]
OUR NEW AMBASSADOR Allow me to be the 7th person to tell you that the new National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature is Walter Dean Myers. An excellent choice. The New York Times did a nice piece on Mr. Myers. Click here to read it. YE OLDE HIGH END BOOK SCULPTURE SHOP Have you reached […]
Want to see what author/illustrator Kevin Henkes was painting at 16? Want to see an early draft of his Caldecott-winner Kitten’s First Full Moon? These are the sorts of things you can find by watching the video below. Tune in if for no other reason than to see a master at work. Oh, and the […]
Spurred on by John Schumacher (of Watch. Connect. Read. fame) and his relationship with Anderson’s Bookshop and author/illustrator Matthew Cordell’s recent call to reawaken your love for the picture book, I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how I support independent bookstores. As a school librarian working at four elementary schools, I’m in the position […]
Some Books I Bought: If you happen to find yourself in Petoskey, MI, be sure to stop in at McLean & Eakin. They know how selling books is done. My haul was sort of a hodgepodge of books that I missed picking up earlier in the year and some that I found on the spot. […]
We’re back on the Covering the Newbery wagon. Each week I attempt to redo the cover of a Newbery winner. Every Newbery winner. This is going to take a while. Click here for the Covering the Newbery gallery. 1958: Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith Original Cover: My Redo: Side by Side: Verdict: This one […]
New year, new stuff. Here’s a quick rundown of what caught my eye over the holidays. Cybils Finalists Announced! January 1st is New Year’s Day, sure, but it’s also Cybils finalist day. Let’s try to make that catch on, okay? There’s a whole mess of shortlists to peruse over at the Cybils website, including the […]
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