Book Reviews
>Here's ours. I'm getting a jump on the season with War and Remembrance, just perfect for a lazy rainy afternoon sitting on the porch of the old Cape Cod cottage I do not possess. In cleaning out the basement this weekend, I also found my forty-year-old copy of Nicholas and...
Claire has a big list and it's all about fun. Let's hope not too much compulsory reading gets in its way....
>My old friend Brian Alderson and Books for Keeps editor Rosemary Stones are going to be conducting a five day course about Philip Pullman in France this June. If that is not enough, listen to this from the course brochure: "Le Verger is a beautifully renovated complex of farm buildings...
>. . . as we talk about some of our favorite new summer reads for kids. A list of the books we discuss on the podcast can be found here....
Recommended by Roger Sutton and Martha Parravano in the Horn Book podcast.FictionBasketball Bats and Goof-Off Goaliewritten by Betty Hicks, illustrated by Adam McCauley (Roaring Brook)Grade level: 1–3Airman by Eoin Colfer (Hyperion)Grade level: 4–8The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd (Fickling)Grade level: 4–8Go Big or Go Home by Will Hobbs (HarperCollins)Grade...
>The June issue of Notes from the Horn Book should be in your inbox right now (if not, see it and sign up here). Included in this issue: Roger interviews Alexandra Day (Good Dog, Carl's mistress), recommends some picture books for dog and pony lovers, holds forth on some eagerly...
>Richard and I are off to Napa today for the wedding of his adorable son Dorian to the lovely Julie, so I won't be posting for a week or so. Kitty tells me she'll keep you informed of any especially juicy gossip.Plenty of reading is coming along--the last quarter of...
>The new Notes from the Horn Book should be in your inbox.And Claire's latest list--Summer Reading--is up on our site. I think I should confess that I am hooked on Beach Blondes, wherein Summer has three hot dudes vying for her attention and a possible fourth who may be her...
>I just picked up Katherine Applegate's Beach Blondes: A Summer Novel (Simon Pulse) and boy are my arms tired. This sucker is 721 paperback pages long, and first in a series to boot. I'm guessing it's so fat for some strategic marketing reason, or perhaps I just haven't yet gotten...
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