Richard Michelson and Raúl Colón (As Good As Anybody: Martin Luther King, Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel's Amazing March Toward Freedom, Knopf), Karen Hesse (Brooklyn Bridge, Feiwel and Friends), and Valerie Zenatti (A Bottle in the Gaza Sea, Bloomsbury), have won the Sydney Taylor Book Award. Additionally, six honor books were selected: Engineer Ari and […]
The topic at hand recently seems to be women superhero movies—as in, whether they should exist. Thera Pitts started things off with her Silicon Rope article "Why the Comic-Book Movie Industry Needs a Female Superhero," in which she takes film makers to task for their uninspiring takes on female characters in superhero movies. Citing oft-repeated […]
Youme Landowne, a white woman artist, met Anthony Horton, a black homeless artist, on a subway platform and the result is Pitch Black, a children’s graphic novel. read more
"Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul." -- Henry David Thoreau
"What activities, behaviours, or decisions have been most responsible for your success in life? Do more of them." -- Brian Tracy …………………………………………………………………… Resource for the Week Hypnosis will provide you with a release from the prison of obesity. Hypnosis can help you if you want a healthy relationship with food, with an end to constant […]
Michelle Magorian has won the 2008 Costa Children's Book Award in the U.K. for Just Henry (Egmont). Just Henry, which is set in post-war Britain and raises issues about patriotism and social class, is Magorian's first book in 10 years. She is perhaps best known for her 1981 novel, Goodnight, Mister Tom. The prize will […]
A technology blogger named Mark Hurst was reading Ken Follett’s Pillars of the Earth on a Kindle e-reader recently, and made a fascinating discovery. It began when he noticed Follett’s repeated use of the phrase “his heart in his mouth.” http://adjix.com/ur9
Spider-Man has already saved incoming president Barack Obama; he’s now poised to save the entire publishing industry. In the midst of the gigantic economic clusterfuck global financial meltdown at the end of 2008, one segment of the publishing industry not only remained solvent, but actually grew: comic books. http://www.quillandquire.com/blog/index.php/2009/01/12/capes-and-tights-save-publishing/
The winner of the 2009 Charlotte Zolotow Award is How to Heal a Broken Wing by Bob Graham (Candlewick). Five Honor Books were named: How I Learned Geography by Uri Shulevitz (FSG); How Mama Brought the Spring by Fran Manushkin, illus. by Holly Berry (Dutton); In a Blue Room by Jim Averbeck, illus. by Tricia […]
"The literary world is debating the Newbery's value, asking whether the books that have won recently are so complicated and inaccessible to most children that they are effectively turning off kids to reading." read more
