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>Join editors Jennifer Brabander and Kitty Flynn for their take on Curious George. My last motion picture experience was Cache, and I'm getting the feeling that George might have been more my speed....
>The recent challenge in Colorado to a video introducing Gounod's Faust (featuring Joan Sutherland and puppets) and our upcoming article by Vicky Smith regarding adaptations of Shakespeare both came to mind last Saturday morning. Richard generally keeps the radio going nonstop in the kitchen, always tuned to WCRB, Boston's classical...
>I'm getting quite enthusiastic about Mark Abley's Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages, which has been around for a few years but has only recently appeared in paperback. Not only is its theme--why the extinction of a language matters--important, but Abley has a good eye for detail and anecdote in...
>The question is, what literary character could make you see stars, complete your life, take you dancing and love you forever?I'll go first. When I need to feel highbrow, I go with Emma's Mr . Knightley. But my heart truly belongs to John Sandford's Lucas Davenport, who can cook, shoot,...
>I think these were their names; years ago my colleague Anne Quirk came back from observing a Best Books for Young Adults committee meeting and said, "It's become the Tom and Daphne Show." Tom and Daphne were young people known to one of the librarians on the committee, who was...
>from the forthcoming Rosy Cole's Memoir Explosion by Sheila Greenwald (Kroupa/FSG):"Writing a memoir is not the assignment," Mrs. Oliphant reminded me. She opened the dictionary on her desk and turned to the page for memoir. "'A memoir is a narrative from personal experience and memory,'" she read. Then she closed...
>Warming up for their annual email-go-round re the Red Sox (and why does the person who lives two miles from Fenway Park care the least?), my scattered cousins and siblings have all been swapping variants on the chocolate bread pudding we were all served as children. Heeding SheWho's suggestion that...
>The March issue's focus on graphic novels has me thinking again about how we do/should/shouldn't define YA literature. Graphic novels, like comics before them, have done just fine outside the frame of traditional children's book publishing. Thrived, even. But now it seems like every children's publisher is adding graphic novels...
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