We Don’t Make Fuzzy-Bunny Books (the end)
Get Your Children's Picture Book Published
Audio books chosen for the Guardian’s 40 Best Audiobooks
New Twilight Photos: Bella and Edward Sitting in a Tree…
The 2008 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards for Excellence in Children's Literature have been announced. The winners are: for Fiction and Poetry, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie (Little, Brown); for Picture Books, At Night by Jonathan Bean (FSG); and for Nonfiction, The Wall by Peter Sís (FSG/Foster). The Arrival by Shaun Tan (Scholastic/Levine) was awarded a special citation for excellence in graphic storytelling.
Carol Chittenden, owner of Eight Cousins Children's Books in Falmouth, Mass., and children's buyer for BookStream, talks about a fall title.
Reading Together in the Lone Star State
Carol Chittenden, owner of Eight Cousins Children's Books in Falmouth, Mass., and children's buyer for BookStream, talks about a fall title.
Author and illustrator Tasha Tudor died at the age of 92 yesterday in her Marlboro, Vt. home.
Web-Book Initiatives Prominent at Licensing Show
Tricycle Offers Food for Thought
Waldo Turns 21
Stephenie Meyer... in Concert?
Holton Announces New Venture, Teams with HarperCollins
Swapitshop have Friday 13th Special: Nighttrap by Tom Becker
Not Much Variety in June 08 Fiction Bestsellers List. New Moon, Twilight and Eclipse were three Stephanie Myers books there, along with two Diary of a Wimpy Kid books.
From the Manchester Evening News: A profile of Lauren Child, creator of Charlie and Lola and Clarice Bean.
From the Oregonian: A school in Portland, Ore., has been renamed after its famous alumna, Beverly Cleary.
From WABC: Authors Jane O'Connor, Scott Westerfeld and MAC appeared on a segment on New York City's ABC affiliate last Sunday, discussing their latest books and ways to encourage kids to read. Watch a YouTube video of their appearance here.
From the New York Times: In the waning months of the Bush administration, Education Secretary Margaret Spellings is travelling the country defending the much-criticized No Child Left Behind initiative.
From National Public Radio: Last Saturday Daniel Pinkwater chose the picture book A Visitor for Bear by Bonny Becker (Candlewick) for his children's book segment.
Also from NPR: J.K. Rowling gave the commencement address at Harvard University last Thursday; while some Harvard students were thrilled, others were apparently less so ("I think we could have done better," was how one computer science major put it).
Last Saturday (Saturday 7th), American Art Museum held a baseball event where children could make their own baseball cards (see my latest blog entry for my opinion on Top Trumps) could make their own baseball cards. Present were authors Gene Fehler and Charlie Manning.
Universal Studios has optioned the film rights for Dragonology by Dugald A. Steer. Screenwriter Leonard Hartman is attached to the project and has begun work on a treatment; Hartman is also adapting Water for Elephants for the big screen. A release date has not been set.
Last week, Cliffwood Elementary School in Cliffwood, N.J., entertained author Betty G. Birney, after nine-year-old student Richard Roberts Jr. won a national drawing contest run by Penguin.
New York City's Bank Street Books hosted a launch party last week for mystery/thriller writer Chris Grabenstein's first book for children, The Crossroads
Mem Fox does book signing at Once Upon a Time in Montrose
Barbara's to Launch Children's Bookstore Online
The Blossom Family Returns
Feiwel and Friends' First Paperback Series Is a Go
Chronicle and MoMA to Bring Modern Art to Kids
Scholastic Report: Kids Still Read for Fun—Teens, Less So
Life, Sex, Art—Whatever
Writer Todd DePastino discusses Bill Mauldin's WWII classic, Willie & Joe,
from Fantagraphics.
A MoCCA/NYU symposium explored comics as a serious cultural paradigm shift.
Post-Bang Covers New World of Graphic Novels
Comics Keep Their Cool in the Heat at MoCCA
Another Daily Jaunt through the Planes - Tony DiTerlizzi -
About.com children's books on Papa, do You Love Me?
A Daily Jaunt Through the Planes (Githyanki)
Exit Music wins CrimeFest audio award
Film blogs and Web sites have been abuzz with rumors that Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers' feature film adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are is being re-shot this month.
Breaking News for Breaking Dawn
Happy Birthday, Maurice Sendak!
New Store to Open in Arlington
U.K. Authors Protest Age Ranging Plan
Friday Fan art
BEA in Los Angeles: A Good Place for Kids' Books
New novel from cult SF writer Greg Bear
Book Expo 2008 this Weekend.
Tuttle Mines Backlist to Mark Its First 60 Years
New: A Summer Adventure for Carl
Lerner Publishes Holocaust Tale
'Bad' Girls on the Road
RL Stine and Scare Your Kid at Work Day
Disney has announced a
multi-year deal with Ahmet Zappa, Harris Katleman and Christian Beranek to
oversee Kingdom Comics, which will develop graphic novels for film
adaptation and turn past live-action pics into comic books.
Audio books chosen for the Guardian’s 40 Best Audiobooks
New Twilight Photos: Bella and Edward Sitting in a Tree…
We Don’t Make Fuzzy-Bunny Books (the end)
CBI Bisto Book of The Year Awards
CBI Conference - very limited number of place still available
Storytelling - Serious Art or Child's Play
Storytelling, Learning and Education
A 'Mysterious' Path to Success
Dilys Evans Shines Spotlight on Children's Illustrators (by the way, by coincidence, I did this aswell in my second post which you can see here.)
A New Class of Grad Gifts
Interview with Elvis & Olive author NOT AT WWW.BESTBOOKS4EVER.COM
From People: Former Destiny's Child singer Kelly Rowland is writing a children's book. THIS IS A RUMOUR AND SHOULD NOT BE TREATED AS A NEWS STORY. BESTBOOKS4EVER ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE NEWS STORIES ON THE SITE BUT THAT'S NOT IN LAW OR ANYTHING CUZ THAT'S TOO COMPLICATED FOR ME SO IF YOU MANAGE TO HURT YOURSELF BY, SAY, BASHING YOUR HEAD AGAINST THE COMPUTER SCREEN OR FAINTING WHEN YOU READ SOMETHING OR OTHER WE CAN'T BE RESPONSIBLE BTW: HAVE YOU SEEN THE SIMPSONS????????????????