The Horn Book » Disney http://www.hbook.com Publications about books for children and young adults Tue, 14 May 2013 13:27:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 >ALA: the Long and Short of It http://www.hbook.com/2008/07/blogs/read-roger/ala-the-long-and-short-of-it/ http://www.hbook.com/2008/07/blogs/read-roger/ala-the-long-and-short-of-it/#comments Sun, 06 Jul 2008 23:44:00 +0000 Roger Sutton http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3084 > The long pants: with Linda Sue Park at the N/C banquet; photo by Tracie Vaughn Zimmer The short pants: with Elizabeth Law and Doug Pocock at Disneyland; photo by lassoed stranger.

The post >ALA: the Long and Short of It appeared first on The Horn Book.

]]> >LSP 726810 >ALA: the Long and Short of It

The long pants: with Linda Sue Park at the N/C banquet; photo by Tracie Vaughn Zimmer

disney 749473 >ALA: the Long and Short of It

The short pants: with Elizabeth Law and Doug Pocock at Disneyland; photo by lassoed stranger.

The post >ALA: the Long and Short of It appeared first on The Horn Book.

]]> http://www.hbook.com/2008/07/blogs/read-roger/ala-the-long-and-short-of-it/feed/ 0 >Lost in the 60s http://www.hbook.com/2008/04/blogs/read-roger/lost-in-the-60s/ http://www.hbook.com/2008/04/blogs/read-roger/lost-in-the-60s/#comments Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:06:00 +0000 Roger Sutton http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3032 >and the 70s I’ve been, listening to Julie Andrews marvelously read her new autobiography Home: A Memoir of My Early Years (Hyperion) and reading Sheila Weller’s Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon–and the Journey of a Generation. Forget the “You’re So Vain” gossip–did you know “Car on a Hill” was about Jackson [...]

The post >Lost in the 60s appeared first on The Horn Book.

]]> >and the 70s I’ve been, listening to Julie Andrews marvelously read her new autobiography Home: A Memoir of My Early Years (Hyperion) and reading Sheila Weller’s Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon–and the Journey of a Generation. Forget the “You’re So Vain” gossip–did you know “Car on a Hill” was about Jackson Browne? And J. T.’s “You Can Close Your Eyes”? Joni.

But, really, it’s been like eating a whole plateful of madeleines. My baby-boomer cohort ( a word Weller uses way, way too often in an otherwise delicious book) will understand.

The post >Lost in the 60s appeared first on The Horn Book.

]]> http://www.hbook.com/2008/04/blogs/read-roger/lost-in-the-60s/feed/ 3 >A different movie http://www.hbook.com/2007/12/blogs/read-roger/a-different-movie/ http://www.hbook.com/2007/12/blogs/read-roger/a-different-movie/#comments Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:11:00 +0000 Roger Sutton http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=2934 >Claire is going to be reviewing The Golden Compass for you all, so let me skip my opinions on that for the moment to recommend what we saw as the first half of our Saturday night double-feature: Enchanted. Pretty hilarious if insidious, too, wrapping a Disney-princess-power theme in so many layers of parody and sincerity [...]

The post >A different movie appeared first on The Horn Book.

]]> >Claire is going to be reviewing The Golden Compass for you all, so let me skip my opinions on that for the moment to recommend what we saw as the first half of our Saturday night double-feature: Enchanted. Pretty hilarious if insidious, too, wrapping a Disney-princess-power theme in so many layers of parody and sincerity that your head spins. Blacks and gays provide comic relief.

The post >A different movie appeared first on The Horn Book.

]]> http://www.hbook.com/2007/12/blogs/read-roger/a-different-movie/feed/ 8