>In the most recent Booklist, Michael Cart wonders why “curriculum-related nonfiction” hasn’t “migrated more or less completely to the Internet by now.” Me, too: hardcover series books about countries of the world, mammals of Asia, rocks and minerals of the fifty states, etc. still proliferate like crazy, even though the information they contain is available [...]
>There’s a thousand library trustees just like her.
September 4, 2008 By 19 Comments
>I wouldn’t elect Sarah Palin to anything, but this old censorship charge is really reaching. As far as we know, as mayor of Wasilla she asked the public library director three times about the possibility of removing “objectionable” books from the collection. Three times the director said no. (Positively biblical!) Then Palin tried to fire [...]
>Listen to the Children When They Are Holding Sharp Sticks!
August 18, 2008 By 1 Comment
>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 [...]
>"Moore being Moore"
August 12, 2008 By 15 Comments
>Yikes
August 8, 2008 By 28 Comments
>Listen to Grandma
July 22, 2008 By 23 Comments
>In reading Jill Lepore’s New Yorker account of the battle between E. B. White and Anne Carroll Moore, I couldn’t help finding my sympathies more with the old lady. Lepore seems to favor E. B. and Katharine White because they’re more sophisticated, the cool kids. Moore’s the earnest, humorless battle-axe, given to such pronouncements as [...]
>In lieu of a gift
May 10, 2008 By 20 Comments
>Bye, Bear
March 14, 2008 By 5 Comments
>Hard books and awards
March 13, 2008 By 10 Comments
>Australian Sonya Harnett has won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, an honor that speaks to the discussion we’re having about Nina Lindsay’s comments about “shelf-sitters.” Completely deserving of the many awards her writing has won, Hartnett is, however, no crowd-pleaser. While as a culture we are used to the fact that adult fiction with a [...]
>More on the Love That Won’t Shut Up
March 9, 2008 By 17 Comments
>I’m very interested in a comment Nina Lindsay made on the “oh, grow up” thread. Nina said, in part:To take this in another direction…I’m someone who reads both adult and children’s literature recreationally, but I do find often that my recreational response to children’s literature gets in the way of my professional response. On a [...]
