>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 [...]
>What’s with all the flashbacks?
February 9, 2009 By 8 Comments
>I wish I could find this great example Florence King gave of a sentence filled with clauses and “had”s and “had had”s that indicated that an author “had failed to begin her story far enough back in time.” Flashbacks are ruining my prime-time experience. Lost, Heroes, Damages, even Without a Trace–it seems like they can’t [...]
>I can’t quite put my finger on it.
January 22, 2009 By 40 Comments
>PW has announced its (casually) bookseller-chosen Cuffie Awards, with Mem Fox and Helen Oxenbury’s Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes as the picture book pick. It is a big favorite here, too, getting a starred review and a spot on our Fanfare 2009 list. Every parent I know loves it, and the text and [...]
>Inanimate Alice
June 23, 2008 By 6 Comments
>In lieu of a gift
May 10, 2008 By 20 Comments
>My new Mac is making me do it.
April 1, 2008 By 6 Comments
>Bye, Bear
March 14, 2008 By 5 Comments
