>but I guess she’s also gone Hollywood. From a Little, Brown press release heralding Cornelia Funke’s Reckless, forthcoming in September: This sweeping story, which will delight Funke’s legion of fans and garner her new ones, was inspired by Grimm’s Fairy Tales and developed with film-maker Lionel Wigram, executive producer of the Harry Potter films and [...]
>Let’s not forget that the gal had a good point, but
October 29, 2009 By 7 Comments
>The discussion/flamewar over at Betsy’s place about the Amazon Vine program reminds me yet again of the best way to get people to leave comments on a blog post: write something about blogging that implies in even the tiniest way that some practices might be better than others. People love to go all meta on [...]
>Don’t call me "Baby."
June 17, 2009 By 11 Comments
>Elizabeth Bluemle has a great lament up about not trusting–and feeding–children’s imaginations. The saddest line: “It used to be that naming your new stuffed animal was practically a sacred rite of passage in plush parenting; now, if the tag on the creature doesn’t provide a pre-fab name, we’re seeing kids at a loss, calling their [...]
>"The fanboys can be merciless."
June 13, 2009 By 64 Comments
>This Times article about the gypsies invading the castle of professional film criticism has a lot of import to the kidlitosphere as well, as amateur (I use the word in a strict sense) and independent critics join the established professional players in reviewing new books for children. I like what A. O. Scott has to [...]
>Starring Adam and Kris!
May 22, 2009 By 5 Comments
>Why aren’t they called adults’ books
February 20, 2009 By 43 Comments
>And would Jane Eyre Twitter?
January 9, 2009 By 15 Comments
>Winnie lives
August 6, 2008 By 8 Comments
>In my new fascination with readers-as-fans, I’ve been visiting fanfiction.net, where readers become writers, choosing their own adventures for Harry, Hermione, and Bella (is that name an hommage to Mr. Lugosi?). While the site has more than 350,000 Harry Potter stories and 32,000 Twilights, who would have thought that Tuck Everlasting would have 182? Here’s [...]
>Actually, should you even be here?
July 27, 2008 By 4 Comments
