>Due to popular demand, we’re posting Lelac Almagor’s And Stay Out of Trouble: Narratives for Black Urban Children from the September/October special issue on Trouble. And to further, er, trouble the waters, we have a response to the article from writer Sharon G. Flake. I’d be interested to hear any comments in the comments. As [...]
>Can we grow the number of readers?
September 7, 2009 By 22 Comments
>Zetta Elliott makes some great points re people of color in books and as authors. Without in any way diminishing the very real problem of the white worldview of children’s book publishing, I am struck by how often and widely charges of non-representation (“why aren’t there more _____ in children’s books?” “where are the books [...]
>Ponyo
August 23, 2009 By 14 Comments
>Wow, what a great movie. I’d gone in expecting another Spirited Away, which I found gorgeous but rambling and portentous and adult, but Ponyo is a true kids’ movie. That’s not to say I didn’t have a fine time playing spot-the-allusion–forget “The Little Mermaid,” Ponyo has The Magic Flute all over it–but the heroes seem [...]
>Not to mention the flaming cheese. Opa!
July 16, 2009 By Leave a Comment
>Back from ALA but barely. Returned to Boston Tuesday evening then spent Wednesday on the phone for a Horn Book board meeting; faced today with two hundred pages of Guide editing and my Simmons class coming over to talk about reviewing in situ. It was a great conference–the author interviews went very well despite some [...]
>Go boys, go!
May 18, 2009 By 21 Comments
>Eric Carle and Walter Dean Myers are USBBY’s nominees for next year’s Hans Christian Andersen Awards. The complete list of nominees is here. The disproportionate number of men, worldwide, nominated for this award this year reminds me to link to Editorial Anonymous’s current discussion of the CSK Who-Can-Win-What question. My thoughts on that have already [...]
>May/June Horn Book Magazine
May 6, 2009 By 3 Comments
>The May/June issue is out, bedecked with a pastelly portrait of Frances the badger digging into her bread and jam. Along with the articles you can read online–an interview with Sarah Dessen, Jack Gantos on booze and books, Janet Hamilton on science books–the print edition includes an essay by Linda Sue Park about food, glorious [...]
>More weeding wisdom
April 7, 2009 By 6 Comments
>From Work with Children in Public Libraries by Effie L. Power (ALA, 1943): “Nationality and race influence mode and type of reading and therefore library selection. Jewish boys and girls are inclined to read serious books on mature subjects, and Italian children who live most naturally out-of-doors under sunny skies read reluctantly but enjoy picture [...]
>Blogging Bolognese
March 24, 2009 By 1 Comment
>Just typing that, I’m hungry. I know things have been quiet ’round here; we’re in the middle of our remodeling/move and my mind is perpetually elsewhere. But I have been keeping with with the Bologna Book Fair via Craig Virden’s excellent posts over at PW; do take a look. And our faithful friend Elizabeth is [...]
>March/April 2009 Horn Book Magazine
March 2, 2009 By 1 Comment
>The Horn Book has a snow day today but our latest issue is out and, partly, up. We’ve posted an intelligently bristling argument from Farah Mendlesohn what’s wrong with contemporary YA SF as well as veteran Joanna Rudge Long’s thoughts on what to look for in a “Three Little Pigs.” The print Magazine also includes [...]
>Maybe it’s all the Ayn Rand I read in high school
February 11, 2009 By 1 Comment
