Horn Book alum Alvina Ling helps kick off the Children’s Book Council’s new blog CBC Diversity (And thank you, Shelftalker, for pointing me to it.)
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What Would Mickey Do?
February 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment
At a preconference in Anaheim this June, ALA is offering you tips on how to turn your library into a Magic Kingdom™. No, you first, I insist.
This is a very strange list
February 16, 2012 By 8 Comments
Ebooks, schmeebooks
February 16, 2012 By 7 Comments
After wrapping up our March special issue on books in the digital era, a meeting about Horn Book web strategy, and another meeting to tour the virtual space that will host an upcoming SLJ event about YA books (this summer; I’ll keep you posted), I’m feeling completely pixelated. I recognize that I have an imagination [...]
A name to drive the Hooked on Phonics people crazy
February 14, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Fuse Eight suggests lots of possible presents for my new granddaughter. And who can tell me the name of that great chapter book about one girl bragging to another about being on first-name terms with their teacher, “Chillow”? If Fuse is onto something there, that book might not be possible anymore . . . . [...]
Here she is, world . . .
February 13, 2012 By 6 Comments
Our granddaughter Chloe was born last Thursday night. Miles seems just fine with her. Have you guys heard about “The Baby’s Gift”? It’s where the dethroned only child goes to hospital and gets a present from the newborn. Retail doesn’t miss a trick. (At least it’s better than The Diaper Game. I am never going [...]
Finding your way
February 8, 2012 By 1 Comment
In which I reveal a taste for trash
February 3, 2012 By 2 Comments
I mean, beyond all the Judith Krantz I’ve been quoting from memory over on Twitter. Wendy at Six Boxes of Books interviews me about the Scott O’Dell Award.
Whaddya SAY to taking chances?
February 1, 2012 By 19 Comments
Checking a fact about Joan of Arc, I found myself on the Wikipedia garden path, cruising through various manifestations of the saint on stage and screen. That led me to The Miracle of the Bells starring Italian actress Alida Valli, who, it turns out, was once married to Oscar de Mejo, a painter who did [...]
March/April Horn Book Magazine Starred Reviews
January 31, 2012 By 4 Comments
The following books will receive starred reviews in the March/April issue of The Horn Book Magazine (incidentally, Z Is for Moose made me wish I were still doing story hours): Z Is for Moose, by Kelly Bingham; illus. by Paul O. Zelinsky (Greenwillow) The Obstinate Pen, by Frank W. Dormer (Holt) The Hero of Little [...]
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