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My reactions upon seeing Choose Your Own Adventure #2: Journey Under the Sea mapped out and analyzed: 1. It’s possible to complete the book after only five steps? 2. Now I understand why I never got to that point. (Click here to read more at BoingBoing) (Click here to view the PDF) *Update* Bookshelves of […]
Put this in your “That Doesn’t Happen Every Day” file. Simon & Schuster is distributing Scott Westerfeld’s Uglies as a free PDF. Click the image below to head over to BoingBoing and get in on the action. By the way, do you really have a “That Doesn’t Happen Every Day” file? Seems a little excessive.
I ran across a book recently which struck me as unusual. I had never before seen a story with a built-in finger puppet: It reminded me of an outstanding post on Collecting Children’s Books a while back that focused on another children’s book gimmick – tails. Click the image below to read more.
My life goal of doing a Google search for my name and finding zero results is really going down the tubes here. For those of you who read 100 Scope Notes in an RSS reader, I’ve added links to the two social networks I use right on the main page. It is now easier to […]
Just the Right Size: Why Big Animals Are Big and Little Animals Are Little By Nicola Davies Illustrated by Neal Layton Candlewick Press ISBN: 9780763639242 $14.99 Grades 3-6 In Stores Review copy provided by publisher Is it just me, or does it seem that more and more, nonfiction books are trying to be all things […]
A new trailer for the Spike Jonze directed Where the Wild Things Are film is up and things are still looking pretty good (although I’m not sure about the dog right at the end). The Arcade Fire soundtrack is still there, but this one features much more dialog than the first preview. In theaters Oct. […]
In terms of cover trends, could unoccupied dresses be to ’09 what socks were to ’07-’08? It appears that this may be a situation to monitor. I wrote a couple weeks back about two personless dress-related covers that caught my eye: And today I’m flipping through the Feiwel and Friends Fall catalog and what do […]
The Secret Science Alliance and the Copycat Crook By Eleanor Davis Bloomsbury ISBN: 9781599901428 $18.99 Grades 4-7 In Stores Sept. 1, 2009 Review copy borrowed A humble suggestion: If you see this book, open it up, flip through it. The sheer amount of creativity and inventiveness is stunning. Eleanor Davis (creator of last year’s Geisel […]
Dragonbreath By Ursula Vernon Dial Books 9780803733633 $12.99 Grades 3-5 In Stores Review copy provided by publisher It seems like lately, illustration has been making all sorts of inroads into what was once text-only territory. You can’t go very far in a library or bookstore these days without coming across some new-fangled marriage between these […]
Thoughts on Redwall, courtesy of webcomic XKCD: Click here to read more XKCD.
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