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Everything reminds me of Phantom Tollbooth
This is the most beautiful piece of art I’ve seen in a long time: Tyree Callahan’s chromatic typewriter. Unfortunately there doesn’t seem to be a video, so I can’t see how it works. The sense I get is...
View ArticleDownton Abbey read-alikes
If you are like me and a great many of my friends, you are currently obsessing over Downton Abbey. (That’s the PBS link, because that’s where Americans can watch streaming episodes, but of course it’s...
View ArticleReading a lot, aww yeah
This video combines two of my favorite things: children reading library books and “Party in the USA.”
View ArticleSendak: “It is a miracle that I have lived this long without having destroyed...
Ladies and gentlemen, I just listened to two of the most hilarious interviews with children’s authors ever in the world. Please, if you know what’s good for you, watch: Maurice Sendak on the Colbert...
View Article“Ask her about the Dewey Decimal System.”
From Awful Library Books: Runaway Bride Returns! This librarian is not a bunhead shusher. She’s a hottie in black knee-high boots who gets married in Vegas and ditches her new husband the morning...
View ArticleTreating doctors like teachers
I found this HuffPo column, What If We Treated Doctors The Way We Treat Teachers?, pretty compelling (in a preaching to the choir sort of way, of course). It begins with: We must begin to hold all...
View Article“The Invisible Dystopia”
Paolo Bacigalupi, who has my endless respect for telling hard truths about YA science fiction, writes about LGBTQ relationships as “the invisible dystopia” for Kirkus: When I was recently asked why...
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YA book deal infographics
Kate Hart just posted a fun series of infographics about the YA book deals of the past year, as reported in Publisher’s Weekly. Because I’m a giant data nerd, I want to look at all the numbers. (ALL...
View Article“The angel of progress has been sent away”
In The Lost Conspiracy, a colonial power expanded centuries ago to the island where the book takes place. The impetus for their expansion was more land — not for the living but for the dead. Their...
View ArticleDelaware: more wizards than Rhode Island
On Friday night I attended a party at Porter Square Books for the young reviewers of their Fresh Ink program, featuring M. T. Anderson as the guest speaker. About this I have two things to say: Porter...
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