Rick Riordan, pointing out where he gets his ideas. Rick Riordan, first up in our Live Five series at ALA, has to be one of the nicest people in the world. When I asked him if he had problems with people worried over “false gods,” he couldn’t even offer me a stern lecture for the [...]
>Real Boy Movie
May 22, 2011 By 3 Comments
>Fingers first
March 11, 2011 By 1 Comment
>I really tried to work it with Miles and the iPad: Ehh, thinks Miles, but now his mother really, really wants one. But, at not-quite-two, he did not seem to understand that touching various spots on the glass would make different things happen. He did go after the one non-virtual button on the iPad with [...]
>Grandchildren are important
March 10, 2011 By 6 Comments
>And THEN I’ll stick FORKS in my eyes.
March 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment
>And no pink sneakers for you, young man
February 10, 2011 By 32 Comments
>Oprah’s pal Dr. Phil offers advice to a mother whose five-year-old son likes girls’ clothes and Barbies: “This is not a precursor to your son being gay,” explains Dr. Phil. He’ll know that in time, but this is not an indication of his sexual orientation. Dr. Phil tells Robby that she has a job to [...]
>Toddler talk
December 16, 2010 By 1 Comment
>One for the boys
December 8, 2010 By 24 Comments
>Peter asks a really good question about the William C. Morris Award for first-time YA writers. I hadn’t realized that fourteen of the fifteen shortlisted finalists thus far have been women. Given the buzz around (and the merit of) Charles Benoit’s You, I was expecting to see that there. [Edited to read: until I discovered [...]
>Book plot #2
May 6, 2010 By 2 Comments
>With the movie starring the next Shia LaBeouf?
April 20, 2010 By 3 Comments
>This whole iPhone leak story sounds like a YA novel. The boy (probably pudgy) lives with his mysteriously unreachable single dad, who runs a bar (this will allow for lots of wisdom from the grizzled regulars). Our computer nerd antihero is completely uncool–until the day he finds a too-cool-to-be-true device made by the most powerful [...]
