Kayla Cottingham
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The Adventures of Poco Eco: Lost Sounds app review
The Adventures of Poco Eco: Lost Sounds (IAMYANK/Possible, 2015; iOS and Android) is a companion app to the ambient album Lost Sounds by artist IAMYANK. This adventure follows its hero's journey through a brilliantly rendered, dreamlike world influenced heavily by sound (appropriately, given its musical provenance). The journey begins at...
How to Make Electricity (Lite) app review
How to Make Electricity (Crayon Box, 2015; iOS only) invites you to experiment with various objects to explore how electricity works. The app offers four “labs" covering different electricity-related topics: "Battery," "Hydroelectric Generator," "Thermal Power Generator," and "Solar Panel." Battery is available for free in the "Lite" version; the full...
YA Passport with Rosalyn Eves and Heidi Heilig
Trident Booksellers & Café continued its YA Passport event series with Rosalyn Eves, author of Blood Rose Rebellion, and Heidi Heilig, author of The Girl from Everywhere and its sequel The Ship Beyond Time last week. The talk, hosted by fellow author Mackenzi Lee, centered on the interaction between fantasy...
How Many Saturdays? app review
What if we measured our lives in units other than hours, days, months, and years? Would life "feel shorter? Longer? More absurd? More precious?" The Exploratorium's app How Many Saturdays? (2015; iOS only) considers this idea by comparing the number of Saturdays in one’s lifespan to other, less common measurements...
"All YA Need Is Love" panel
On the heels of Valentine’s Day, I attended an event sponsored by the Boston Teen Author Festival aptly called “All YA Need is Love.” The panel, which discussed all kinds of love in YA fiction, featured Kim Savage, author of After the Woods and Beautiful Broken Girls; Rebecca Maizel, author...
Snow day reading
Most of New England has been buried in snow over the past few days, and many schools and workplaces are closed today. It's a perfect excuse to cuddle up on the couch with a hot drink and a good book. Here are some suggestions for chilly reads to warm the heart...
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