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>Here's a guest entry from J.D Ho, our circulation and marketing manager:In an office full of kids' book reviewers, there aren't many comics readers -- just myself and Alison, the circulation and marketing Assistant. Overflowing with missionary zeal, I undertook to organize a trip to the comic store, a place...
>I once ended a review panning an over-the-top YA novel with the phrase " . . . but melodramatic teens will love it." It soon appeared in the publisher's ad for the book, abbreviated to "teens will love it."Apparently Miramax Books has a similarly free-spirited attitude toward quotation....
>The Association of Booksellers for Children has announced the winners of its E.B. White Read Aloud Awards. They are: for best read-aloud picture book, Chris Van Dusen's If I Built a Car; for best read-aloud chapter book, Deborah Wiles' Each Little Bird that Sings....
>Happy Monday, everyone. Seduced by persuader par excellence Barbara Bader, I spent much of my weekend enthralled in David Copperfield (a la audiobook). Why did I dodge it until now? (Is anyone up for a game of--what is it called?--that reverse-snob competition where you name books you haven't read but...
>On our way to work today, Miss Pod randomly chirped up with Carole King's "The Snow Queen." It's a pretty intriguing song, moving from Andersen's heartless, scornful Queen; to the girl in school who won't let any of the boys near her; and ending up somewhere in "La Belle Dame...
>Last week on childlit, Monica Edinger mentioned Hope Mirrlees's Lud-in-the-Mist, an English fantasy novel for adults first published in the 1920s. I remember this book from my teens in the mid-seventies, a time when lots of long-forgotten "adult fantasy" was being republished in the wake of Tolkien's resurgence. My friends...
>ALA's Public Library Association is convening this week in Boston, and last night I had the pleasure of attending a dinner for Jarrett Krosoczka and Jon Scieszka (where were the pierogies?). A good time was had by all as we enjoyed each other's company and Jon's stories--particularly hilarious was an...
>While the New York Times seems to be pitting artistic expression against the FCC (with the WB network in the middle) let's just hazard a guess as to why the now-excised scenes "that depicted two girls in a bar kissing on a dare and another of a girl unbuttoning her...
>Sorry to have been neglecting you all; I've been trying to wrap my mind and keyboard around my editorial for the May issue (which is looking just fine without me, but nevertheless). Lillian Gerhardt, former ed-in-chief of School Library Journal, once advised me to always keep one speech and one...
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