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Good ol’ Jules Danielson. Now only does she provide the world with one of the most consistently remarkable picture book related blogs, Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast, she also posts for Kirkus Reviews. Recently, Jules wrote about a batch of upcoming fall picture book favorites. Some Stead, some Small, a bit of Klassen – it […]
CAUTION: BROAD GENERALIZATION TIME Children’s authors and illustrators are typically a pretty diplomatic lot. They tend to have such respect for others in their field that asking them to put one book ahead of another might seem futile. Maybe this is why I like the recent Caldecott/Newbery Matching Game at the Horn Book website. They […]
I’ve never been to Book Expo America (BEA), but I’d like to go. In my opinion, any time billboards of kid’s books are involved, you have yourself one fine exposition. (Thanks to Abrams for the photo) It’s been fun reading the various dispatches from BEA, but my favorite is from Publishers Weekly and focuses on […]
In the name of humor, let’s take a look at how the genius blog Better Book Titles chose to rename the modern children’s lit classic, Knuffle Bunny. Click the image below to read.
I guess if you’re going to make a list of the “10 Weirdest Children’s Book Authors of All Time” (as Flavorwire did), it is appropriate that the list itself is weird. Pinkwater, Coville, Scieszka? I’m with you. Things get a bit hit or miss from there. Click below to read.
In the ever-worthy interest of “hey, why not?”, see of you can determine which children’s lit figure has the following leg tattoo: That’s right, it’s a connect the dots tattoo. Here it is filled out: And the clues: This person is female. This woman creates graphic novels. She writes a graphic novel series. This series […]
Want to make things interesting at your next gathering of teachers or school librarians (F.Y.I.: a group of teachers is known as a “quiz”, school librarians, a “bun”)? Slowly and clearly utter the words “reading level” and watch what happens. The role of educators in guiding student reading has always been a matter of debate […]
All-around children’s book genius Mo Willems made an appearance on NPR’s Morning Edition this week to talk about his latest release, The Duckling Gets a Cookie!?, and engage in a little discussion about picture books. As usual, the results are very much worth checking out. Click the image below to listen.
While I could post about the craziness that is the banning of The Dirty Cowboy, I’ll instead focus on an excellent post by Letters of Note about the controversial In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak. The post includes a letter from the editor of Night Kitchen, the legendary Ursula Nordstrom, to a librarian who […]
I’ve mentioned it in these pages before, but the strangest bookmark story I have is when a student came up to me, holding a picture of me, explaining that he had found the photo in his library book. It turns out I had checked that book out the previous summer, marked the page with what […]
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