Arts + crafts with Ivy + Bean
May 14, 2012 By Leave a Comment
I’m a big fan of the Ivy + Bean series, so when the Ivy + Bean Button Factory (Chronicle, March) arrived in the office, it made its way to my desk (thanks, Katie!). For $12.99 you get enough materials to make fifteen buttons, featuring illustrations of Ivy and Bean by Sophie Blackall plus such quotable [...]
Press Here…the app
April 20, 2012 By 6 Comments
If you were like me, you applauded Press Here, the ingenious book by Hervé Tullet, for its anti-app bravado. If the news that there is now an app version (Chronicle, April) of the book disgusts you, please don’t be too quick to judge. The first thing to realize is that Press Here was translated from [...]
In memoriam
April 13, 2012 By 1 Comment
Brave and determined intern Ariel tackled a project of massive proportions: building a 27-inch paper model of The Titanic in honor of this week’s centennial. The model pieces and instructions are included in The Titanic Notebook: The Story of the World’s Most Famous Ship by Claire Hawcock (Insight Editions, March). Though the browse-worthy Notebook is [...]
Apps to explore
March 30, 2012 By Leave a Comment
We’ve just put up a brief list of recommended apps for kids and YA. What apps and ebooks are you sharing with your children, students, or young library patrons?
Here’s lookin’ at you
March 16, 2012 By 1 Comment
Intern Ariel gave Juliet Marillier’s forthcoming Shadowfell (Knopf, September) and A. C. Gaughen’s just-published Scarlet (Walker, February) a makeover. Now they’re fashion-forward for summer 2012.
Mash-up, indeed.
March 15, 2012 By Leave a Comment
In a sort of coloring book meets Diary of a Wimpy Kid meets Choose Your Own Adventure, Nosy Crow’s new Mega Mash-Up series by Nikalas Catlaw and Tim Wesson (December) combines marginally true information about, say, Roman gladiators, with dinosaurs (or, in another volume, aliens vs. mad scientists and—well, you get the idea) into an [...]
Sticky Fingers
March 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Chloe (left) is a month old today so I’ve been perusing the new board books for some likely presents. I’m thinking she might (eventually) like two new Noodle books by Marion Billet, Noodle Loves to Eat and Noodle Loves the Beach, both published by Nosy Crow/Candlewick this month. Noodle is an ungendered panda-toddler who in [...]
