Book Reviews
>Off to San Francisco to talk about ebooks with the children's librarians, have dinner with Nina Lindsay, catch up with college friends, and see the kids. Miles is getting Miles to Go (Candlewick) by Jamie Harper, and Sofia, daughter of my friend Georgie I met in an anthro class, is...
>Interesting discussion on the ALSC-L listserv: they are discussing what to do with Judith St. George and David Small's So You Want to Be President, which, last revised in 2004, includes the statement that "no person of color has been President." On the one hand it is dated and inaccurate;...
>I review Allen Say's latest book in the Times today. I had been hoping that book, along with Anita Lobel's Nini Lost and Found might figure in the ALA lists and awards but do they listen to me? In any case, we've made a beautiful cover from Nini's art for...
>If you have any interest in the Tweetchat Mitali Perkins so kindly organized for me and A Family of Readers, I think you can find the archive here. Mitali asked some great questions and I will follow up on some of them here once I've had a chance to do...
>I'm late to the discussion re the New York Times article about picture books but enough people have now asked me for my thoughts that here they are. Fewer picture books are being published because a) the profit margin on them is not as good as it is for novels...
>When people ask me why the Magazine doesn't review many best-selling picture books, I can now just point them over to J. L. Bell's place....
>Cynsations interviews illustrator Nicole Tagdell, who credits a Horn Book article by our reviewer Susan Dove Lempke with inspiring her career....
>We have just uploaded some five hundred new reviews to the Horn Book Guide Online, check it out.And I've just finished proofreading the preschool section of the forthcoming (print) edition of the Guide. Lots of go-to-sleep books, along with the apparently unstoppable flood of Mommy/Daddy-Love-You-More-than-Anyone-Has-Been-Loved, Ever (and you had better...
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