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>With award season upon us, I'm beginning to think about just how graphic novels might fare in January's ALA Awards.While I'm sure we'll see them on various Notable and Best lists, the odds are against them when it comes to the Newbery, Caldecott, and Printz.Here's the problem: the Newbery Medal...
>“It’s time we got teenage girls reading comics,” said Karen Berger, a senior vice president at DC Comics. Why? I mean, why not, but why?Berger goes on to say that teenage girls are "about more than going out with the cute guy. This line of books gives them something to...
>I really should apologize for my earlier post suggesting cynicism on the part of HarperCollins' marketing department....
>At ALA last year I screamed intemperately at a perfectly nice young woman from Ten Speed Press for publishing this, now it looks like I'll have to go after HarperCollins for this. If only these books that are funny precisely because they fly over the heads of their putative audience...
>Not to get too personal and therapeutic on you all, but my psychiatrist and I have been exploring the possible long-term effects of the prescription of bronchodilatory inhalants for young asthma sufferers in the 1960s. After years of waiting for ingested medicine to take effect, or enduring the terror of...
>The new PW has an interesting article about the future of the Children's Book Council, and it's something of an eye-opener for those of us nurtured in the institutional end--schools and libraries--of the children's book biz. Take a look.Not online is their end-of-the-book "Soapbox" column, which this week bemoans the...
>Most of my phone call this morning with old pal Betty Carter revolved around gossip, grandchildren and the pleasures of being a Scorpio in an unsuspecting world, but Betty did advance a question that I thought might be of interest here. "Have you noticed," she asked, "that most of the...
>Okay, it's not The Queen, The Departed, or even Marie Antoniette, but you can catch the all-dancing, all-singing Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards ceremony right here....
>The email subject line read "Remember the fairytale about Cinderella?"Inside: "With Ultra Allure Pheromones women will do anything just for your sake."...
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