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After some fierce competition — including a first-round heartbreaker storming back from the dead! — Jonathan Stroud’s The Ring of Solomon won School Library Journal’s Battle of the Kids’ Books. To get the inside scoop, we caught up with Battle Commentator Jonathan Hunt.First things first: Did the best man win?...
Rick Detorie’s The Accidental Genius of Weasel High (Egmont, April) comes hot on the heels of the latest movie adaptation of Jeff Kinney’s popular series, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (currently in theaters). This paperback original will appeal to Wimpy Kid fans in both its format and its...
from Adam Rex's "Abraham SuperLincoln"Venerable-yet-irreverent multimedia publisher McSweeney's recently announced a new project: "The Goods," a weekly newspaper insert offering "a gallimaufry of games, puzzles, comics, and other diversions" created by children's authors and illustrators. Looking at their line-up — headed by such heavy hitters as Mo Willems, Laurie Keller, Lane...
Thanks to everyone who conspired in our little April Fool's prank, especially Travis Jonker of 100 Scope Notes who created the images (and some of the funniest titles), Elizabeth Law of Egmont (whose author Allen Zadoff came up with Enwraptured) and Kitty Flynn and Katie Bircher of here for pulling...
Higher! Higher!by Charlie SheenAt the playground, young swinger Charlie gets so high that he breaks through Earth's atmosphere and high-fives a fellow rock star from Mars.Mommy Loves You More than Your Grades (I Promise)by Amy "Tiger Mom" ChuaA tiger cub is herded through a jam-packed day of school, homework, violin...
I just reviewed Salvatore Rubbino’s nonfiction picture book A Walk in London (Candlewick, March) for the May/June 2011 issue of The Horn Book Magazine. A follow-up to A Walk in New York, Rubbino’s new book is equally engaging, informative, and beautifully illustrated — and had me longing for a plane...
Children's Technology Review is a monthly Consumer Reports-like PDF newsletter "designed to summarize the latest products and trends in children’s interactive media." They review lots of children's apps, of course, and they've ventured into book app territory, as well. Their focus, natch, is on the quality of the technology rather...
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