Publications about books for children and young adults
Here I am wandering amidst the wonder that is Diane Landry’s Knight of Infinite Resignation (which made me a lot happier than it did the artist if the title is anything to go by), on display at Mass MoCA as part of their “Oh, Canada” exhibition. I don’t think I’ve ever been in a [...]
>The listservs are ablaze this morning with talk about a children’s knitting club being banned from the library. I’m guessing the ban will be lifted by the end of the day; meanwhile, I sure wish I could knit–it would be great to make myself useful while watching the synchronized diving, and, since we’re currently reviewing [...]
>This idea of the internet as a solipsistic wonderland–oh wow! You’re reading my blog!–really gained ground this weekend with two of our leading internet magazines–Salon and Slate–each using the premier of The Golden Compass as a springboard for people to talk about themselves while pretending to do otherwise. I have a lot of respect for [...]
>(photo courtesy of CNW Group) Longtime Horn Book contributor (I swear, she must have started writing the “News from the North” column when she was twelve) Sarah Ellis has won the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award for Odd Man Out. And, in an oh-let’s-be-vulgar shout out to any civic-minded U.S. banking corporation, she gets 20,000 [...]
>Gail Gauthier has a link to a valuable article about book reviewing. What interests me most about Alex Good’s piece is that much of what he says about the particularities of Canadian book reviewing speak also to children’s book reviewing: both often default to defensive postures re their respective embattled territories: Do these factors – [...]
