Winner: Caldecott Medal by Susan Marie Swanson, Illustrated by Beth Krommes From the Reviews A spare, patterned text and glowing pictures explore the origins of light that make a house a home in this bedtime book for young children. Naming nighttime things that are both comforting and intriguing to preschoolers—a key, a bed, the moon—this […]
The winners of the 2008-9 Cybils (The Children’s and YA Bloggers' Literary Awards) have been announced. They include The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman and The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins in Fantasy and Science Fiction, Rapunzel’s Revenge by Shannon and Dean Hale in Graphic Novels, and The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. […]
With more than 1 out of 3 adults in the US (70 million) taking OTC or prescription pills for digestive disorders and the pain associated with them, as a nation, we have serious health problems. And we're spreading our problems around the world. What most people are frustrated with is that even if they eat […]
Ignore everybody. The more original your idea is, the less good advice other people will be able to give you. Read on ... Tag: creativity
Elizabeth Bird The Children’s Literary Café at the new Children’s Center at 42nd Street is pleased to announce our event on Saturday, March 7th at 2:00 p.m.: What makes a book so good that it gets reviewed by The New York Times? How are the reviewers selected? What goes into writing a review for “the […]
Universal is negotiating for screen rights to "The Parsifal Mosaic," a Robert Ludlum espionage thriller that shapes up as the first major project for Captivate Entertainment, the company that controls screen rights to Ludlum novels. Captivate made an overall deal with the studio last year. http://adjix.com/vr22
British historian and spy novelist Len Deighton -- the author of such familiar works as The IPCRESS File (1962), Funeral in Berlin (1964), and XPD (1981) -- turns 80 years old today. http://adjix.com/e24u
Novel by Philip K. Dick Gets an Ending Philip K. Dick’s last wife has reworked the novel he was working on when he died in 1982 and is publishing the book herself, The Guardian reported. http://adjix.com/e24r
Are you looking for a marketing tool that is both effective and inexpensive? Then pull out your microphone and do some speaking! Why should you consider 'public speaking' as a way to obtain new customers? Because it doesn't cost anything, except your time, and it is effective. http://adjix.com/4q58
Many teachers and librarians still don’t recognize the power of graphic novels in learning—and three librarians from the Buffalo-Erie County Public Library in New York are hoping to change that. Meg Cheman, Britt White, and Peggy Shotnicki are the incredible minds behind Get Graphic: The World in Words and Pictures, a Web site designed […]
