Read%20roger
>The following books will receive starred reviews in the July-August issue of the Horn Book Magazine:Emily’s Balloon(Chronicle)written and illustrated by Komako SakaiClay(Delacorte)by David AlmondThe Black Room:Book Two of the Dark Ground Trilogy(Dutton)by Gillian CrossZelda and Ivy:The Runaways(Candlewick)written and illustrated by Laura McGee KvasnoskyWhite Time(Eos/HarperCollins)by Margo LanaganThe Poet Slave of Cuba:A...
>Picking up on our theme of yesterday, the NYT today publishes an article about swag and the Tony Awards, yet another area in which children's books lag behind the other arts. I did get a "Camp Green Lake" baseball hat when I was on the 1999 Newbery Committee, but it...
>Sue Corbett has just posted to Childlit that Kate Thompson has won Ireland's CBI Bisto Book of the Year Award. Again--the award for The New Policeman marks the fourth time Thompson has taken this prize, with its 6000 euro check and a "perpetual trophy" that gets passed from winner to...
>It warmed the cockles of my show-queen heart (and made my holiday weekend) when a gift arrived in the mail from Elizabeth: an advance (and autographed) copy of I Could Have Sung All Night: My Story, by Marni Nixon with Stephen Cole (Billboard Books, September). Nixon most famously dubbed the...
>While I have a grip on the ins, outs, and constants of the ALA annual conference, I've been to BEA just twice, the first time ten years ago when it was called something else. So forgive me if I infer too much from limited observation. When I was perusing the...
>Although I've written here or elsewhere that I don't like to have children's-book art hanging in my house (because it reminds me of work and because I don't think much sequential-style illustration works on the wall) I was very pleased to acquire, at the ABC silent auction at BEA, a...
>We're editing the book review section of the July/August issue this week, and I'm astounded and consternated (a word I learned in said editing) by the number of reviews that end with some variation of "readers will look forward to/have to wait for/be left hanging until the third/fourth/fifth book of...
>And by that, I don't mean books that bridge between readers and chapter books, I mean books that move readers from one genre to another. Case in point is Mary Downing Hahn's Witch Catcher, which I'm reviewing in the July/August Horn Book. I've enjoyed Hahn's books, both gothics and historical...
>. . . Opportunity knocks but once--And don't come back no more."(from "Snatch and Grab It," sung by Julia Lee)The SRA/McGraw Hill folks have responded to Patricia Polacco's charges; their full statement can be found in the comments on yesterday's post, but I'll repost it here: SRA/McGraw-Hill welcomes the opportunity...
1,911 articles
ALREADY A SUBSCRIBER? LOG IN
We are currently offering this content for free. Sign up now to activate your personal profile, where you can save articles for future viewing.
ALREADY A SUBSCRIBER? LOG IN
Thank you for visiting.
We’ve noticed you are using a private browser. To continue, please log in or create an account.
