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>I've just spotted what could be a nice addition to the bookstore for baby Nazis; I know, I know, good intentions and all that but please:It's not the little straight-armed sideways heil on the cover that bugs me so much; it's the text inside: "We follow the rules. We line...
>I was very saddened to learn tonight that my old friend Gerald Hodges has died. Gerald was most recently Associate Executive Director of the ALA but I met him when he was still a library school professor, specializing in services to teens and schools, and active in what was then...
>I notice that the publisher of A Million Little Pieces, while ostensibly sticking by the embattled James Frey, is starting to cover its own ass, as in harrumphing that Frey "represented to us that his version of events was true to his recollections."Second, ALA has inserted itself into Audible.com's "Don't...
>Nina Lindsay has just announced the results of her mock Newbery discussion, and the winner is Criss Cross, by Lynne Rae Perkins. Honor books (and do let's someday have a discussion as to exactly why Newbery [or Caldecott] Honor Books cannot, upon pain of banishment from all that is good...
>I'm enjoying the juicy exposes of James Frey and JT Leroy, despite not having read a word by either. (Running with Scissors is my sole acquaintanceship with the sordid memoir genre, and I didn't believe it for a minute.) Anyone else here old enough to remember Alleen Nilsen's "The House...
>Subscribers should have the January/February issue of the Magazine by the end of this week; as usual, we've posted selected articles on our website. I thought the blog-reading kind of people might find illustrator Jean Gralley's article, "Liftoff: When Books Leave the Page," of particular interest, and the online version...
>Back last night from New York; no sooner were we in the door when the dog started pestering me for his own book deal. Actually, Buster will be more than sufficiently happy when his rambunctious cousin Boomer finally goes home this week to his own daddies after a month's visit.New...
>So after a fabulous trip on the Limoliner, Richard and I are looking at the glamorous Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree from Elizabeth's office. We are here for my Christmas present, seeing Souvenir, Sweeney Todd, and Doubt, tickets courtesy of Richard, and accommodations courtesy of Elizabeth's sparest spare room. See you...
>The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, headed by the formidably (forbiddingly?) intelligent Deborah Stevenson, has released its best-of-the-year list, Bulletin Blue Ribbons. It's a good list, but the inclusion of William Bee's Whatever does cause me to recall Dame Nellie Melba's remark about upstart soprano Frances Alda: "In...
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