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>In Betsy Bird’s SLJ article “This Blog’s for You” (and I thank her for including Read Roger in the list of “Ten Blogs You Can’t Live Without”), she asks a bunch of swell questions: Do kids’ lit bloggers influence publishing decisions? Are library systems basing their purchasing decisions on our recommendations? Should they? And to [...]

>The Magic School Bus Visits the Bowels of the Unconscious

>The Horn Book offices will be closed this afternoon as the staff is making a field trip to see Where the Wild Things Are.

>See Baby Miles. See Baby Miles Read.

>(I take it as a mark of long-delayed maturity that I now find holding a baby more rewarding than playing with a puppy.)

>From Cape Cod to Christmas

>My mini-break at the Cape was lovely for all kinds of reasons, most notably the best ice cream I’ve had in a long time, at Four Seas in Centerville. I tried the chocolate, peppermint, peach and butter crunch–all sublime. Closes September 13th for the winter so hurry on down. Richard and I stayed just a [...]

>Some enchanted evening . . .

>“Once you have found him, never let him go. Once you have found him . . . “

>Who would YOU like to meet?

>Thanks to the Horn Book, Lisa Yee finally got to meet her favorite author.

>Happy New Year

> With our best girls Charlene and Lori at Lorraine’s in Provincetown last night. Ptown was hit by a blizzard yesterday so it was something of a haul getting to the restaurant but the streets sure looked pretty with the Christmas lights twinkling against the snow. I’ve discovered a problem with bringing lots of books [...]

>Practicing for grandchildren

> Mads seemed content and Julia politely waiting until we got to something with princesses in it.

>The happy couple

>Aren’t they bee-yoo-ti-ful?

>Yeah, I only have the one suit

>The fathers-of-the-groom walking up the aisle at Ethan and Becca’s wedding in Sedona last Saturday. The monsoon took down the chuppah but we all soldiered on, and there was nary a drop during the ceremony. The officiant said that there was an ancient Sedona tradition (uh-huh) that rain on a wedding day was good luck, [...]