As we get Calling Caldecott ready to rev today, I must also remind you to keep tabs on Heavy Medal, SLJ‘s blog on the race to the Newbery, run by Nina Lindsay and Jonathan Hunt. Jonathan has just posted on Wonder, a book that got starred reviews just about everywhere but here. So good to [...]
Five Questions for Caroline B. Cooney
July 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Veteran YA novelist Caroline B. Cooney is providing the keynote address for School Library Journal‘s upcoming virtual conference, SummerTeen: A Celebration of YA Books, and I thought this would be a good time to ask her about her electronic life–via email, of course. Roger Sutton: Your latest novel The Lost Songs (Delacorte) relies on [...]
We don’t need no stinkin’ reviews
May 22, 2012 By 2 Comments
The news about Metropolitan Opera general manager Peter Gelb squelching Opera News is pretty juicy stuff. While I can sympathize with the man’s wincing at criticisms of his productions in his magazine, surely he must have known that there’s no way the new policy is going to do any favors for him or the Met. [...]
What about BoB?
March 15, 2012 By 4 Comments
The digital divide
November 11, 2011 By 1 Comment
SLJ Technology Editor Kathy Ishizuka reports on “Zero to Eight: Children’s Media Use in America,” a new study by Common Sense Media revealing an “app gap”: inequities in access to digital devices due to household income. The question of app and ebook accessibility across economic classes came up several times in the Librarians and Digital [...]
New Printz blog
October 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment
SLJ has started a blog about the Printz, so head on over. I was on the first committee (Monster) when the criteria were still being hammered out; as I whine in the comments over there, it doesn’t look like YALSA has managed to finish them even more than ten years later. I editorialized about the [...]
>Where Be There Dragon Ladies?
July 11, 2011 By 6 Comments
>Margaret Tice has an article in the new SLJ, querying what the de-funding of supervisory youth services positions might mean for children’s librarianship. If you missed them, take a look at Barbara Bader’s acute portraits of two of the greats from NYPL: Anne Carroll Moore and Augusta Baker. In the latter, BB also has a [...]
>My New York Social Diary
June 3, 2011 By Leave a Comment
>Contest!
April 27, 2011 By 30 Comments
>I’m always trying to decide just what kind of sister we are to School Library Journal. Are we like Elizabeth and Jessica? Beezus and Ramona? Louise and Caroline Bradshaw? Or, eep, The Silent Twins? In any event, we are going to be totally copying Li’l Sis this fall as we embark on a companion to [...]
>Can we still say Big Kahuna?
April 4, 2011 By 5 Comments
