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Welcome to the Digital Wild West, where the fate of e-books seems completely up in the air. Rules are made on the fly. Agreements are broken, patched up, and broken again. While I’m optimistic about the future of e-books in public and school libraries, it’s clear that there’s going to be a lot of flailing […]
One of the more interesting video finds I’ve recently had is the Vintage Pop Up Book Video Library from childrensbookstore.com. The collection weighs in at just five titles, but where else can you can go virtually hand-on with a pop up Micky Mouse from 1933 or a pop up Star Wars from 1978? Nowhere, I […]
SLAP A ROALD DAHL… …stamp on that letter. The children’s lit legend has just been given the UK postage treatment (with Quentin Blake illustrations) and things turned out nicely: Click here for more. (Thanks to Cheryl Rainfield for the link) PEACE OUT, NATURE Are Caldecott-winning books moving away from nature? A recent study suggests so. […]
Giants Beware! By Rafael Rosado Illustrated by Jorge Aguirre First Second (Macmillan) ISBN: 9781596435827 $14.99 Grades 2-4 In Stores April 10, 2012 Find it at: Schuler Books | Your Library One part Asterix, one part Jeff Smith’s Bone, one part Scrappy-Doo, Giants Beware! takes the classic “friends on a quest” adventure and outfits it with […]
Here we go again. Time to round up the ten titles for the upcoming season that I can think of when I say to my reflection in the rear view mirror (with sunglasses tipped down), “the future is looking good…real good.”, before peeling out of the library parking lot. While I continue this obviously well-realized […]
I started this little exercise in redoing the covers of every Newbery-winning book because some could use an update. Today we have a book sporting a cover that seems to be perfectly back in style. In fact, it’s the 50th anniversary of Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time and the new commemorative edition is just […]
About a year or so into my Cover Curiosities run, I came across Pop Culture Junkie, a blog I would come to know as the Champion of Stock Photo Book Cover Lookalikes. Seriously, I don’t even know how she does it. Puts my “heh, hey – these books vaguely resemble each other” pairings to shame. […]
We’re going high interest today. Adjectives like “subtle”, “timeless”, or “quiet beauty”? Check them at the door. Plain and simple, here’s a selection of recently purchased books that I don’t think I’ll see back on the shelf until the end of the year. 1. The Science of Sports series Play Like the Pros series Few […]
WHERE ARE THE LADIES, CALDECOTT? If you look at the numbers, men have won Caldecott far more often than women. A recent post at the blog One Minute Book Reviews asks, “What the?!” With the insanely provocative title “American Library Association to Little Kids: Women are Second Best”, you know there’s going to be some […]
Looks like a normal paining, right? Wait until the camera moves and things get all “whooooaaaaaaa”. 33 seconds of book distraction.
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