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What Do Toy Animals Read at Night?

One of my students thinks it must be her favorite book.

Meanwhile in Space…

via Vulture.

Among the Boldface

Last night's book launch for Rick Riordan's The Red Pyramid at the Brooklyn Museum was awesome in the true sense of the word. It began with a reception in a spectacularly gorgeous Beaux Arts Court where we heard readings from Katherine Kellgren and Kevin R Free and saw Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz honor Rick.  Then we headed off with Rick on a tour of the Egyptian galleries.  Many boldface names were in attendance including Betsy Bird, Jennifer Hubert Swan, Karyn Silverman, a

The Vegetarianism Conundrum

So what I am suggesting is that if you love children's literature, you cannot kill animals just because they taste good on a bun. There's more than a bit of hypocrisy involved in urging children to empathize with pandas and polar bears and bunnies and ducks in books and at a distance and then feeding them hamburgers and sliced deli meats.

Jennifer Armstrong's "Eating Reading Animals" in the latest Horn Book will make many sit up and take notice.  She makes a good case for vegetarianism on ...

How to Tell a Joke

This promo video for the forthcoming Guys Read: Funny Business is quite, er, instructive.

The Art of the Joke

This promo video for the forthcoming Guys Read: Funny Business is quite, er, instructive.

The Intriguing James Proimos

I was introduced to this picture book at a Little Brown publisher's preview some time back and was instantly charmed.  It is indeed seven-year-old Paulie Pastrami's efforts to achieve world peace. Starting small by being kind to animals, reading to trees, and apologizing to his sister, Paulie aims higher and, after discovering the peaceful properties of cupcakes, takes off with a van full of them to achieve his goal.  It works wonderful well with fourth graders who relish the theme as...

Patrick Ness's Chaos Walking Book Trailer

I cannot wait for Monsters of Men! (Just out in UK, but we in the USA have to wait till September.  Sigh.)

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All Things Moomin

I am so very excited about Macmillan's reissue of the Moomintroll books.  Just got the first four and plan to take them along to reread tomorrow on a l-o-n-g bus ride with a lot of fourth graders to Cape Cod.  For those who have only vaguely heard about this series do check out Tor's Moominweek.  They've many wonderful posts going up every day this week. Too too fun!