End-o'-the-Week Kid-Lit Roundup
Daniel Handler interview. The Telegraph interviews Lemony Snicket's alter-ego, on being a "Nabokov freak" and his experience with the Unfortunate Events movie: “I was hired to write eight drafts of the screenplay and then I was fired. But I have a policy that I can’t say anything nasty about a movie that bought me a house.”
Cybils winners announced! The 2009 winners of the esteemed Children's and Young Adult Bloggers' Literary Awards (a.k.a. the "Cybils") were just announced. Check out the full roster of winners, including Bad to the Bone for best early chapter book. ("This dog’s eye view of the world is laugh-out-loud funny.")
Mommy & Daddy Hugs & Kisses. Twenty by Jenny celebrated Valentine's last week with a review of the new-ish Mommy & Daddy Hugs & Kisses box set, a collection of some classic, science-sprinkled board books.
Cupcake review. Fuse #8 talks about the new book Cupcake, about "the world's most perfect, most delicious food." ("The result is a book that is smart, funny, and as simple as the vanilla cupcake on its cover. In a word: sweet.")
New Notes from the Horn Book. The February installment of the Horn Book's monthly newsletter is out. The issues leads off with a Matt Phelan Q&A, but it also includes a round-up of recent award-winners. (Best Phelan exchange: "Have you ever seen a ghost?" "No, but maybe I haven’t been looking in the right places. I don’t get out much.")
"Nixing Nightmares." Gina at PBS Booklights passes on a recommendation for a book to help "nix nightmares": Tell Me Something Happy Before I Go To Sleep.
100 Scope Notes has moved. Check out the highly spiffy new digs of the always-great 100 Scope Notes--which is all grown up now and bidding a final farewell to its old Wordpress site.
The Beat has *also* moved. "The Beat," a great comics blog from Publishers Weekly ("The Blog of Comics Culture"), recently moved to a new url. Of related interest to kid-litters: PW Comics Week just launched a new category: "we're teaming up with our colleagues at Library Journal and School Library Journal to launch 'Libraries and Graphic Novels,' a new content category at PW Comics Week that will highlight news and information on comics and graphic novels specifically aimed at libraries."
The making of Here Comes the Garbage Barge! Don't miss this behind-the-scenes video showing how this intricately illustrated book came to be:
--Paul
Scope Notes on February 15, 2010 at 07:10 PM
Paul - Thanks for the link!
Paul on February 15, 2010 at 08:11 PM
Not at all! Best of luck on the new site. You rule.