At last! I have loved Tomie‘s books since being a children’s librarian (even thirty years ago, he seemed to have picture books about everything), and we’ve worked together on some articles and two Horn Book covers, but we had never met. He looks like he drew himself. And a man of firm opinions: his [...]
Five Questions for Erin and Phil Stead
July 3, 2011 By 1 Comment
>Alex Forrest, at your service
June 17, 2011 By 1 Comment
>In anticipation of the Big Banquet a week from Sunday, I’m giving you an early look at Mind the Gap, our annual list of those books snubbed by the ALA Awards. Okay, snubbed is harsh–overlooked? Dismissed? Ignored? (For the literalists: we know that not all of our choices were eligible, but we’re still coming to [...]
>HB at ALA
June 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment
>Come to the movies
June 16, 2011 By 2 Comments
>On June 25th at 8:00PM at the ALA conference in New Orleans, ALSC is presenting a free screening of The Library of the Early Mind, a documentary about contemporary children’s literature including interviews with many authors and illustrators. I think my favorite segment is the coverage of an attempt to ban Annie on My Mind, [...]
>Live Five Schedule
May 4, 2011 By 1 Comment
>At ALA in New Orleans next month, I will be conducting five-question interviews with the following authors and illustrators at our booth (#939). And we have a NEW sound system! Saturday, June 25: 10:00 AM Rick Riordan 11:00 AM Clare Vanderpool 2:00 PM Erin and Philip Stead Sunday, June 26th: 10:00 AM Tomie dePaola 11:00 [...]
>Live Five early warning
April 20, 2011 By 2 Comments
>I’ve been scheduling our Live Five Questions series for ALA in June, and I’m happy to tell you that the winners of the Newbery, Caldecott, Coretta Scott King, Wilder, Sibert and Printz awards will all be coming by the Horn Book booth to submit to my ruthless interrogations. I’ll put the schedule up next month. [...]
>What did they do, flip a coin?
January 13, 2011 By 19 Comments
>ALA has posted the 2011 Notables and Best Fiction for Young Adults list. I had to laugh when I looked at the latter–YALSA got rid of its supposedly ungainly Best Books for Young Adults list last year to focus on narrower lists this year, but what did we get? A YA-fiction-only list that, with 99 [...]
